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Not just a pretty shape

Beyond steroids

If only they could think

Please keep your seat

Table of contents

News

Norway’s fish plan ‘a recipe for disaster’

Dead dolphins contaminated by toxic paint

Life, liberty and the pursuit of vegetables

Extra HIV test ‘a waste of money’

Environment

Baboon man leaves hospital

Slowed down speech may help dyslexics

Floating golf balls swim off in search of food

Patent battle could hold up tests for cancer gene

Can a few green cars keep the smog police at bay?

Old bombs dumped miles off target

Breakdown freezes ice core project

Nuclear power? No thanks

Sun never sets on balloon telescope

Desperate library slashes science to pay for paint

Green squeeze

Fast-breeder freeze

Nature knows best after oil spills

Earth control

Zander and chips

Otzi goes home

Eye in the sky

The ones that got away

Jurassic birds earn their wings

Fighting the battle of the bulge

Did cancer kill the dinosaurs?

The gene that closes the X files

Trapped antimatter holds on to life

Sneaks win the salmon sex raffle

You can’t keep a good crystal down

Technology

Groovy colour for tiny screens

Technology

Space catalyst tames lethal gas

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Musical ‘mollusc’ is fifty years late

Technology

Row over video CDs shifts to sound

Technology

Marine enzyme launches attack on nerve poisons

Technology

Sky-high tower of power may ride the waves

Technology

How viruses betray their makers

Four cubes

Opinion

Watery grave for Norway’s big idea

Health

Food, glorious food

Features

Not just a pretty shape

More than just a plaything for chemists with time on their hands, carefully crafted molecules are shaping up to sense pollution and monitor the safety of aircraft wings

Beyond steroids

If only they could think

Please keep your seat

More

Fuelled for life

Energy is the common currency that makes life tick. All organisms are driven by a need to acquire energy. Plants trap the energy contained in sunlight, but most organisms stay alive by oxidising foodstuffs

Environment

Life with the baboons

Tall order

The ice age shapeth 鈥�

Tree fans

Buried bodies

Plague and pestilence

Inspected Morse

Treacle time

United art

Down to the last detail: Journeys in

Trust me 鈥�

Bestersellers from Sydney

Collected works: Surfs the bookshelves

Manual labour and nasty nightmares

Where the wild plants are

Antipodes

Thistle diary: Not a happy new year for little NEL

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Paddle puzzle

Perpetual motion

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