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Inside the San Andreas

Physics

Rider on the shock wave

After the Falklands bonanza

Don’t touch that dial 鈥�

Table of contents

News

Are pylons and radon a lethal cocktail?

Snail fans join Newbury bypass protest

Poorest women die ‘needlessly’ in childbirth

Uncle Sam’s roaring trade in plutonium

Getting to grips with the perfect chopsticks

Environment

Baboon bone marrow fails to take

French smog smothers hundreds

Spent fuel store may break the law

Water, water everywhere 鈥�

Long slow march to a stable population

‘Dead fish’ lands in hot water

Treasures lost in reef madness

Cold comfort for a broken heart

Space array could find alien worlds

Chimps rise above law of the jungle

Signs point to the language instinct

How to hide your poverty behind Net curtains

A strategy for survival?

Quake warning comes in blue and red

Sound breaks the rules on speed

The secret heart of a quark

How plants guzzle heavy metals

When fidelity is hard to fathom

Squeezed light doubles the quantum leap

Triplex spells trouble for DNA

Technology

Grease-guzzling bacteria keeps sewers clean

Technology

Two-in-one vaccine saves Kenyan cattle

Technology

We can’t get no satisfaction 鈥�

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Toxic tannery sludge made as safe as houses

Technology

Lasers help patients get their breath back

Technology

Cameras that go infrared in the night

Technology

Satellite on a string rides again

ENIGMA 862: Distances

Opinion

A woman’s right to life

Pay attention in the back row 鈥�

Features

Inside the San Andreas

There is no shortage of theories about the workings of California's notorious fault, will one of them make accurate earthquake forecasts a reality 鈥� or are they an impossible dream!

Physics

Rider on the shock wave

After the Falklands bonanza

Don’t touch that dial 鈥�

More

Versatile coatings

From cave paintings and other simple beginnings, technology has created a vast range of paints to provide colourful protective coatings and numerous innovative ways of applying them to a host of strange surfaces

From here to Milton Keynes

Flighty writing

For cosmoholics

Latin lovers

Will you pick up the tab?

Buffalo dance

Noble observer

Of matter 鈥�

鈥� And of mind

Sperm, sperm, sperm, sperm

Our flexible friends

Collected works: Scans the sites of archaeology

Bestsellers from San Francisco

We’ll be back after the break

Troubleshooting by numbers

Return of Dr Strangelove looms large again

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Midday madness

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