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Editor's picks

The creativity machine

Red or dead?

Downhome technopia

Stardust to catch a comet by the tail

Table of contents

News

Boxers’ brains at risk from round one

Size is all in the Lone Star State

Wrong laugh leaves chimps speechless

Pretty good result for free speech

Take me to your microwave

Why cholera blooms in the spring

Sit tight for 30 years, argues climate guru

Pyramids broke the backs of workers

Financial scandal rocks French cancer charity

Watchdog steps in over NHS data

Andes flower is champion pestkiller

South Pole neutrino trap languishes in the snow

Dirty oil makes a feast for soil bacteria

Farmers’ victory

Genetics watchdog

Make polluters pay

Innovation squeeze

Nuclear shutdown

Green kitten keeps the vet guessing

Someone to watch over me

Search for ET continues after ozone let down

Why English is hard on the brain

Ancient plants with modern plumbing

Will El Ni帽o become El Hombre?

Lost limbs show up in the brain

Stone me, those crows make tools

Killer protein links AIDS to heart failure

Rare gene means NO smoking

Merging stars are quick-change artists

Doped crystal kills off the unwanted chemical twin

Technology

How to get a more moving performance

Technology

‘Kinder’ cancer drug goes on trial

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Freezing out brackish water

Technology

Morse users send out an SOS

Technology

鈥� and a gene for resisting flooding

Technology

An enzyme for surviving in the desert 鈥�

A matter of degree

Opinion

Final bout for young boxers

Every move you make 鈥�

Features

The creativity machine

It writes music, invents soft drinks and dreams up hard materials. The man who built it points the way to immortality

Red or dead?

Downhome technopia

Stardust to catch a comet by the tail

More

Slimy things that crawl

All the maths you’ll ever need: Five Golden Rules

Mental workout

No limits

Lead on

Law unto itself?

Needham’s legacy

Collected works

Bestsellers from Oxford

Charles reprinted

Chart topper

Star site

High class chat

Life after Schr枚dinger

Back to the garden

Chemists are people too: Creations of Fire

First you see it, then you don’t

Scan, annotate and pass on 鈥�

Thistle diary

Too hot to handle?

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Cleaning up

Rising cold

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