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A sporting chance – What’s visible only through a microscope, makes testosterone and can keep a runner out of international athletics? Jeremy Webb reports on a case that claims to challenge the textbooks

Snap-together Satellites – Remember those model kits from your childhood, with sheets of push-out parts? Substitute carbon composite for balsawood and you have a revolution in satellite manufacture. Leonard David reports

Safety in Diversity

Physics

Planes, trains and wormholes

Table of contents

News

Technology

Technology : Strong-yarn tactics make tissues come clean

War on starvation

Controls evaporate

Helium myth

Fishy business

Science : Pebbles that did for the dinosaurs

Science : Stardust brought down to Earth

Science : Bats and bees love the sweet smell of decay

Science : By Jupiter, it’s a ball of metal

Science : Dyslexia’s broken bridge

Orange alert

Science : Viral genes made variety the spice of immunity

Science : It’s the healthy bird that fathers more sons

Science : Red cells reduce blood pressure

Technology

Technology : Bit tax threatens European net users

Technology

Technology : Coming to a screen near you

Technology

Technology : The mystery of the appearing diamond

Technology

Technology : The shape of swims to come

Technology

Technology : NETROPOLITAN

Technology

Technology : Seeds of destruction for deadly snails

Back to basics for AIDS research

Chernobyl floods put millions at risk

Tiny robots could take space by storm

Humid homes are fit for fleas

Fear of foreigners holds back biotechnology

Pentagon hot shots take aim at asteroids

Return of the lost cranes

Earth

Lead blights the future of Africa’s children

France takes steps to turn down the volume

Top-level protest over French budget cuts

Misplaced fears put patients off their pills

Rubber gloves no barrier to HIV

Clean, green and not so smelly

Clouds gather over weather services

Bending the rules on toxic fuels – Campaigners say Britain’s air pollution watchdog relaxed safety limits to allow chemical wastes to be burnt in cement kilns

Opinion

Editorial : Unbatten the hatches

No one can doubt that the US leads the world in commercialising biotechnology. At the last count, for example, it had around 1300 biotechnology companies to the paltry 500 or so registered in Europe.

Editorial : Thanks for the praise, but . . . – THEY all agree. British politicians of every hue speak of the overwhelming importance of science, however violently they may argue on other matters. Hosting a party at 10 Downing Street this week to “celebrat

Features

A sporting chance – What’s visible only through a microscope, makes testosterone and can keep a runner out of international athletics? Jeremy Webb reports on a case that claims to challenge the textbooks

Snap-together Satellites – Remember those model kits from your childhood, with sheets of push-out parts? Substitute carbon composite for balsawood and you have a revolution in satellite manufacture. Leonard David reports

Safety in Diversity

Physics

Planes, trains and wormholes

More

Student Books : Take a left

Student Books : Mind builders

Student Books : Logically speaking

Student Books : Rubble rousers

Forum : Hearing their voices

Student Books : Who are you calling Neanderthal?

Forum : We are only human – Ian Hughes ponders the limit of what we can know

Student Books : BESTSELLERS from Paris

Student Books : Collected works

Student Books : Pattern spotting

Student Books : Ancient killers

Student Books : They made it

Student Books : Radio days

Student Books : I spy strangers

Student Books : Stressed out

Student Books : Living, breathing chemistry

ENIGMA 867 : Eurosums

Thistle Diary : Dirty discharges and genetic storms – More comments from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : The CSIRO pins its hopes on alliances – Ian Lowe examines the latest upheavals at Australia’s national research organisation

Student Books : Frozen north

Student Books : What is written in the stars

Student Books : What am I?

Student Books : That’s life

Student Books : Pain threshold

Student Books : Sweet reason

Student Books : The legacy of Noah

Student Books : Ghost aches

Student Books : OK, Newt

Student Books : It’s your life, Galileo

Student Books : Slippery words

Student Books : Unreliable witness

Student Books : Crown jewels of physics

Student Books : Genetics makes the big time

Student Books : A shoat? No, a geep

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