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Lab coats in Tinseltown

Artistic Licence

A virtual shoulder to cry on

Shaken to the core

Table of contents

News

Runaway rabbit virus kills millions

Budget blues for worn-out labs

Rich and poor split over ozone

Earth

Global warming ‘jury’ delivers guilty verdict

Ocean ear beats whale watchers

FBI collars hot Moon rock

Time to prune the dead US projects

Everyday poisons take their toll in Third World

Nuclear plots for sale in seabed graveyard

Satellites wage war on disease

Prejudice is price of AIDS awareness

The good life is killing America’s fat rats

Phoney secrets

Deadheads in space

Sun exclusive

How does your garden glow?

Comet duster

Cadillac cleanup

Will it get any worse?

Doomsday bacteria thrive on radiation

Shy brown dwarf turns up in Lepus

Meandering rivers keep themselves in check

Cellular vandals wreak havoc in a good cause

Shark’s-tooth molecule stops fungal infections

All-singing, all-dancing manakin gets his girl

Does spacedust make the Earth blow hot and cold?

Technology

Improving the view from here

Technology

Tokyo traffic heads for the bright lights

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� where to find us

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Monopoly games

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Institute for Fiscal Studies

Technology

How to stop ceramics cracking up

Technology

Every wound needs a silver lining

Technology

Feel those secondary vibrations

Technology

Miserly chip skimps on power

Technology

Keyhole surgeons enter new dimension

Opinion

Australia’s best shot

Daylight robbery

Features

Lab coats in Tinseltown

The research served up by Hollywood in its latest blockbusters may be fantasy, but movie makers take great pains to make labs look like the real thing

Artistic Licence

A virtual shoulder to cry on

Shaken to the core

More

Structure of the Earth’s atmosphere

A thin layer of gas covers our planet like the skin covering an apple, making life possible within a "thin green smear". But, thin though it is, that layer of gas contains a great deal of structure

What’s art got to do with it?

Blown away

Where are they now 鈥�

Death is no end

Airborne killer

Murderous ways

Fiction and the man

Spies are us

A bridge too far

Essential evolution

Yeti on

Bike feast

Bestsellers from Oxford

Collected works

It’s not always bunk, honest

Down in the forest something stirred 鈥�

Enigma: 852 Sheep Pens

The PM pulls some rabbits out of the hat

Nuclear waltz on the shores of the Danube

Correction

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Cross examination

Ice surprise

Questions and answers

This week’s question

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