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Sugaring the pill

Unwisdom of the Solomons

Virtually real, really sick

Faith, hope and rocketry

Table of contents

News

Vitamin pill fails to fend of cancer

Live rock is hardest on the ears

Furry submarines embarrass Swedish navy

The high cost of saving life on Earth

Industry ‘not consulted’ on cash for labs

Probe finds Jupiter short of water

Something nasty in the steak tartare

Where have all the neutrons gone?

Russia’s uranium too tempting to resist

Stowaway wrecks island’s crops

South African army behind ivory trade

Winter of discontent blows across Antarctica

Explorers blaze trail for the builders

Cave find

Tomato teaser

Redundant stars

Safe grazing

Woodlouse wins beauty contest

AIDS slip-up

The fifth horseman

Can we make supersalmon safe?

Alien worlds boost search for life

How immune cells know the enemy

Ancient plants mark climate blip

Two noses are better than one

Hot on the trail of the Sun’s bow wave

South America buckles under the pressure

Meet Brer Rabbit and Sister Hare

Technology

Mince meter sorts the fat and the lean

Technology

Murdoch brings off TV patent coup

Technology

Bio-diode could lead to superchip

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Laser zaps problem bacteria

Technology

The cool way to destroy CFCs

Drivers see red

Running on algae

Heavy weather

Words and pictures

BBC catches TV firms on the hop

Light fantastic

Oh Lucky Day!

Opinion

Down and out in 1996

Living with the gene genie

Features

Sugaring the pill

Placebo may be a dirty word for many doctors, but there could be enormous benefits for their patients. Talks to an Australian psychologist with a cunning plan

Unwisdom of the Solomons

Virtually real, really sick

Faith, hope and rocketry

More

An awfully big adventure

The body at war

Atomic history

Beat bullying

On the move

A maths must

Creative disorders

Einstein pictured

What worms?

Industry’s disaster

Collected works

Fictional history

Poison water

From Troy to Tasmania

Try, try, try again

I’ll second that emotion

Bestsellers from London

Invasion of the nanomachines

Triumph of dogma over reason

Grab the money and run

Regulars

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