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Editor's picks

Blades at the cutting edge

How to measure a million red shifts

Risky business

Truly, madly, deeply parallel

Table of contents

News

Poison rains down on rare plants

Stowaway drives fish to brink of extinction

Frustrated researchers diverted to Net’s fast lane

Dounreay could push locals over the limit

Diamonds are an engineer’s best friend

‘Wrong needles’ do addicts more harm than good

Good vibrations make violins sing

Fish drug snagged in politics

Kids in space

Fishy finding

Chilled strokes

Virtual crime

Net goes East

Maneless wonder snapped on safari

Tiny killers bloom in warmer seas

Hothousing toddlers makes teenagers smarter

New Agers cast a spell on science

Seizures may have triggered murders

Bone protein reverses gum disease

Dentists’ probing reveals new muscle

West bows to psychology’s cultural revolution

How the brain minds its peas and bees

Eye in the sky needs help on the ground

There’s one born every minute 鈥�

Robotic insects tread where humans fear to go

Sherpas’ sweet hearts prepare them for the mountains

Canadian lakes suffer triple blow

How blood puts on the brake

The subtle side of killer cells

Good connections, quantum style

Fat story gains weight

Good vibrations help jumping spiders to hunt

Why small black holes are just hippies

Technology

Pregnancy provides clue to arthritis vaccine

Technology

Gene saves tobacco from salty death

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Immature eggs seed a revolution

Technology

Trick of the light fools forgers

Technology

Dialysis leaves wine clear of crystals

Signed in blood

Who hears what?

Sticky fingers

Europe joins the information cul-de-sac

Blast them

Light-hearted choice

Opinion

Give me a child before five 鈥�

A very comforting illusion

Features

Blades at the cutting edge

There is a special hell for people who design turbines and pumps. It's called fluid flow. But one man is planning a revolution

How to measure a million red shifts

Risky business

Truly, madly, deeply parallel

More

Women and animals first

Desparately seeking certainty: Fire in the Mind

Caves, man

Exit Gradgrind

Rich pickings

Perfect prose

Despoliers all

Dialogue sans pedagogue

Return to the soft machine

Safe in the digital playpen

Who did what

Collected works: Rounds up the birds

Bestsellers from London

Sign up now for the Space Experience

Papering over the cracks

Ghosts in the machinery

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Breaking the mould

Cleaning up

Frying problem

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