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Happiness is a magnet

All wired up and raring to go

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

Bonding on the molecular building site

Table of contents

News

Tough treaty to police global fisheries

Doomed Somalis saved with special diet

Cutbacks in aid rebound on US

Observations face yet another review

Tobacco giant ‘studied addiction’

‘Miracle’ jab makes fat mice thin

The mysterious case of the wobbly possum

Last chance for Scotland’s shrinking bogs

Smart traffic spies have US covered

Could Parkinson’s patients get help at the brain bank?

The day the aliens failed to land 鈥�

Missing sperm

Shuttles grounded

Guiding missiles

May the best robot win

Funding falls

Monterey mystery

Will Saint Michel’s tide ever turn?

Little Foot stumbles into the crossfire

Cosmic burps solve heavy problem

Humpback whales lean to the right

Indian Ocean floor cracks up under the strain

Antarctic glaciers keep their cool

Viral double whammy triggers cancers

TB epidemics bring a hundred years of suffering

Technology

Making semiconductors out of thin air

Technology

No more hanging on the telephone

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Mad science

Technology

Poisoners enlisted to fight plague

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Terrorism

Technology

Say cheese 鈥� the camera’s listening

Technology

Rocket shocks bolster rig against North Sea

Technology

Go play in the virtual traffic 鈥�

Technology

Is that a hanky in your pocket?

Enigma: No. 834 Square root of seven

Opinion

Peace on the high seas?

Features

Happiness is a magnet

Regular doses of magnetic pulses stimulate the brain and may cure depression, so could the treatment be used to change mood in healthy people?

All wired up and raring to go

Mosquitoes that kill malaria

Bonding on the molecular building site

More

Down in the woods, something stirs

Space balls

See the deeps

When once we were fish

Ovay? Ovee? Oover?

Happy 60th

Bestsellers from London

Collected works

Flash that shield

Reality really

The sea, sea

If it’s so damned safe, test it in Paris

We shall not be moved 鈥�

Engineers tap water as greatest problem

Ozone, sand and oral histories

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Questions and Answers

Porthole paradox

Sparkling effect

Bouncing rice

This week’s questions

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