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Nice engine, shame about 鈥�

Death of a mother tongue

A day in the life of a year

Green circus comes to town

Table of contents

News

Antiworld flashes into view

End of the road for safety research?

Picking a pet with a perfect personality

US could get tough over Japanese whaling

Altered salmon grow by leaps and bounds

Chinese pirates target CD police

Desperately counting crocodiles

Satellites talk among themselves

‘Chemical condom’ could protect women from HIV

Lead lurks in Hebron’s ancient mills

Will Kew collect after lottery win?

Botched cover-up outrages Japan

Stroke risk

Hot secrets

Electric dream

Return to China for rare rhododendrons

Space moves

Fresh air

Sellafield’s Trojan horse

Foam turns locusts into party animals

Bacteria give their neighbours a wake-up call

How hepatitis keeps its self control

Copycat molecule could turn cars green

Jumping gene threatens medflies

Seabed sediments force climate rethink

The ultimate in eating disorders

Technology

Lasers win out in glaucoma trial

Technology

Code crackers have time on their side

Technology

Making light of satellite link ups

Technology

Aphids give snowdrop gene the cold shoulder

Technology

Antibodies teach computers to learn

Technology

Stay cool with smart skis

ENIGMA No 856: Royal birthdays

Opinion

The rage over roads

Features

Nice engine, shame about 鈥�

It sounds like a dream machine 鈥� a car that squeezes more power out of less petrol, but it could have a fatal flaw

Death of a mother tongue

A day in the life of a year

Green circus comes to town

More

Interference threatens woofers and tweeters

Tools of the trade

Getting netted

Hubble bubble

People unpowered

Scary monsters, risky business

China story

Animal Crackers

Death of a green

Enduring symbols

Dusty answer

Tree time

A dream of gazelles

Collected works: A natural history ramble

Beststellers from London

Publish and be applauded

Going for green in France

Antipodes

Time to tread warily and celebrate a little: Thistle Diary

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

This week’s question

Sticking doors

The living dead

Tank madness

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