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News

Blast wakes ghosts of nuclear past

Cheese please but don’t chill it

Hospital errors are number three killer in Australia

High-scoring crickets return for a second innings

Rich nations squabble over future of Chernobyl

Biological warfare down on the farm

Whale hunts are ‘irrelevant’ for research

You never know where you are with the Pentagon

Building boom destroys Israel’s delicate dunes

E-dole for Berlin’s Cybervolk

Jurassic giants saved from rust

Mayors and mosquitoes vie for votes in France

Japan comes clean on leprosy policy

Dirty water

Genetic abuse

Lab at risk

Butch algae besiege castle

Sticky situation

Best foot forward

Techno police

Tokyo wages war on waste

‘Velcro’ spiders let rip to warn off predators

Designer DNA silences cancer gene

Seaside volcano spouts fire and ice

Puny proteins predict breast cancer risk

Cosmic ‘snooker’ pots gamma rays

Ice age turns one species into two

Sea creatures give up their crystal secrets

Technology

Hormone cuts grass down to size

Technology

Hard grafts cuts out bypass surgery

Technology

Childhood protein rescues adult teeth

Technology

Pouring oil on polluted waters

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Summertime

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Environmental Role

Technology

Airline gambles on mile-high video

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

South Africa sprays over the cracks

Technology

Telltale flashes catch bombers

Enigma: No. 826 Crescents

Opinion

Real-life drama

All you need is 鈥� wisdom

Features

Nanoworlds are made of this

Imagine a wind farm smaller than a microchip. Interview with the man whose molecular construction kit could be the first step

Making a monkey of human nature

Simulated cities: the game grows up

Time to dig up the I鈮ay

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Statistical sampling

When statistics are used to sell cat food or to forecast the results of a national election, we are entitled to ask whether they can be trusted. How can we tell when the numbers should be questioned? Statisticians start by looking at the samples on which

Countdown to a powerful revolution

Always look on the bright side of life

All the world from A to Z and back again

Blood, sweat, tears 鈥� and snot

Memories are not made of this

How the West won the war against polio

You can’t have your quantum cake and eat it

20 000 visitors under the sea

So whose side are the angels on?

How to add value to dinosaurs

Prevention is better than cure

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