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Little waves, big squeeze

Bloodless crusaders

Unnatural evolution

Nattering on the net

Table of contents

News

A disaster by any other name

Black tide engulfs marine reserves

British inventors go unarmed into US patent battles

Gene giants hold key to big bucks

The short exciting life of element 112

Hot ice could contaminate fish

Sugar pill holds promise for male contraceptive

Private agencies could speed drug approval

Captain Birdseye plans award for friendly fisheries

French greens do battle over leaky dump

Is your rubbish too hot to handle?

Conquering hero couldn’t see straight

Condom concord

Genetic rights

Organ shortage

End of NASA’s tether

Plutonium fears

US frost chills polar stations

Pulsating surprise at the heart of the Galaxy

Monkeys make the grade in maths

Flexing hydrogen bonds help water bend the rules

Self-building molecule wins place in the record books

Tiny umbrella keeps drugs safe

Sea change theory faces rocky ride

Jumping genes reveal the secrets of flower power

Avian divas sing for their lovers

Technology

Microwaves target beating hearts among the rubble

Technology

Sinking feeling could save Pisa

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

How to turn paper into fuel

Technology

Noisy dilemma over how to beat pirates

Technology

Tougher materials mimic shellfish secrets

Technology

Chips last longer with heavy hydrogen

ENIGMA 864

Opinion

The devil’s in the detail

Coming clean about oil tankers

Features

Little waves, big squeeze

A mathematical zoom lens for stripping out unwanted layers of detail is making waves in forensics and medical imaging, and is even cleaning up old music recordings.

Bloodless crusaders

Unnatural evolution

Nattering on the net

More

In the beginning was the word

Pricey terror

Apocalypse postponed

Sixth Extinction: Biodiversity and its survival

Counting on fiction

And the answer is 鈥�

Spirit and place

Wildlife special

Salty tales

Women on the edge of time

Outwitting the dinosaurs

Bestsellers from Washington DC

Collected works: Takes a look at fiction

Up a creek without a paddle?

Down with placebolatry

An exercise in political licence

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Flat stoned

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