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Off with its Head: Because the Internet symbolises freedom of information, governments are falling over themselves to rein it in. Argues that they risk destroying the very thing they are trying to control

Lost in space: What could NASA want with fishing tackle and a Soyuz space capsule? Looks at the plans for evacuating the international space station in an emergency

Cosmic changelings: Some of nature’s tiniest particles may flip from one type to another. Now plans are afoot for giant laboratories to catch them in the act.

Seals to the slaughter

Table of contents

News

Plants through the eyes of artists

Technology

I spy with my moulded eye

Technology

Brilliant beacons colour-code genes

Technology

Pure buckyballs at bargain prices

Fungi stand guard at the grass roots

Slow spin points to loose knit asteroids

Orange agent blinds the elderly

Cool volcanoes can blow their tops

Counter-revolutionaries lurk in spiral galaxies

Stuttering gene goes GAA GAA

Plan for bigger goals kicked into touch

Luddites awake to haunt science festival

US bill could give fossil hunters a field day

Government does U-turn over genetics watchdog

Mururoa probe

Nuclear flasks

Optical bullets promise memories of the future

Coffee saves lives

Aid sell-off

Food scare

Exploding China’s dreams: A succession of disasters is underminimg confidence in Chinese rocket launchers and could even jeopardise the country’s entire space programme

Shorebirds to get rest areas for long flight south

Big freeze digs a deeper hole in ozone layer

Don’t just lie there, turn on the telly

Greying population stays in the pink

Long shots give clue to Pluto’s surface

Dope test on the last lap

Cuts threaten space projects

Polluted water forces all hands to the pump

Own goals galore

Technology

On the track of a fast puck

Technology

Mirror, signal, computer …

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Battery giants ready for battle over patent

Technology

Nonstick walls give dirt the slip

Smothering flu with the gentle touch

Opinion

Disaster in the stratosphere

The show gets on the road

Features

Off with its Head: Because the Internet symbolises freedom of information, governments are falling over themselves to rein it in. Argues that they risk destroying the very thing they are trying to control

Lost in space: What could NASA want with fishing tackle and a Soyuz space capsule? Looks at the plans for evacuating the international space station in an emergency

Cosmic changelings: Some of nature’s tiniest particles may flip from one type to another. Now plans are afoot for giant laboratories to catch them in the act.

Seals to the slaughter

More

Battle of the giants: The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, Princeton University Press, 拢16.95/$24.95, ISBN 0 691 03791 4

Life

Keeping in time

The art of survival: Listens to the memories of a man for all seasons

Virtual cops and watery dilemmas: More comment from Westminster

Out of the labs and into the high streets: A preview of this year’s nationwide science extravaganza

Veni, vidi, perdi

Popping pills

Bestsellers from London

Uncle Albert for grown-ups

Collected works

Engineering the changes: Cultural Babbage edited by Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow, Faber & Faber, 拢14,99, ISBN 0 571 17242 3

Sex on the job

Ancient ills

Frozen past

Natural balance

Belts in space

Top guns

Colourful history

A baloney detection kit: The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Hodder Headline, 拢18.99, ISBN 0 7472 1554 5

Regulars

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This Week鈥檚 Letters

Mussel fight

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