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Editor's picks

Let’s hear it for the pea

Life, The Movie

Bubbles hotter than the Sun

When planes fall out of the sky

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News

Technology

Cherry red and very dangerous

"Red mercury", a uniquely powerful chemical explosive which has been dismissed by many experts as a myth, could be real, and it could pose a serious threat

Spiders on speed get weaving

Humming horse puzzles vets

Can the coelacanth be saved?

No turning back to leaded petrol, says MPs

Sea diet makes for tastier trout

Survey plumbs depths of international ignorance

Arizona fights for the right to stay cool

Literate women make better mothers

Floodwaters threaten to topple India’s dams

Russia and France ‘to save space plan’

Why low cholesterol can get you down

Long arm of the law nets butterfly poachers

In orbit

Bell sale

Good citations?

Journey into the inner ear

Eurocash

More, please

Clampdown on the rust buckets

First vertebrates went in for the kill

Minoan farmers were muckspreaders

Gravitational constant is up in the air

Fruit flies achieve total recall

Early plants pinned down by their reproductive organs

Model lenses reveal hot and cold Universe

Do WIMPs dominate MACHOs?

How to survive when defenders turn traitor

Technology

Plastic and protein forge an alliance

Technology

Great leap forward for superconductors

Technology

Dust monitor sizes up an airborne killer

Technology

Chewing over the secrets of tasty food

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Drivel on the Net

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Acceptable Behaviour

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Genetics

Technology

Hidden weapons give themselves up

Patents

Opinion

Written in the stars

The colour of danger

Features

Let’s hear it for the pea

peas have never had the attention they deserve. But, that's about to change for one remarkable species

Life, The Movie

Bubbles hotter than the Sun

When planes fall out of the sky

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Dystopias and other futures

Through the black hole

Where the best brains are

Incredible shrinking visions

Big bangers and biscuits

Tribute to the infinitesimal

An eye for Munchausen

Towards a single carbon currency

Vive la diff茅rence

In charge and dressed to kill

Enigma No. 820 Hard Cheese

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Questions and Answers

Scarper flow?

Getting the drift

Hard edges

This week’s question

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