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The day time began

Inside the Gene Machine – Having read the genetic blueprint for yeast, researchers are now probing the function of its six thousand genes. In doing so, reports Bob Holmes, they will gain a unique insight into genetics, human health and evolution

Titter ye not . . . – There was this researcher who wanted to find out why we laugh. No really, it’s a serious business says Bob Holmes

Elusive EQ – Emotional intelligence could be one of the big ideas of the 1990s鈥攊f we can work out what it is, how to measure it and what to do with it

What’s behind a crooked smile? How our expressions can hide the truth

You’re wrong, Mr Spock – Human reason only works when emotion is involved. Where does this leave developers of smart machines, asks David Concar

Cherchez la diff茅rence – For years, war has raged over the emotional differences between men and women. Now brain imaging may settle the matter鈥攐r will it? Kate Douglas reports

The big chill – What’s the connection between your kid bawling its head off and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique? Alison Motluk finds out

Act now, think later – Fear not, politicians. That elusive feel-good factor can be created in an instant. Just appeal to our primal instincts, advises David Concar

Life at the interface

Demon farmers and other myths

Between heaven and hell – Evolution freed us from the thrall of hormones but left us craving approval. Gail Vines talks to a Cambridge researcher about the human dilemma

Table of contents

News

Technology

Technology : Key cancer molecule `lost in the post’

Science : Plant bodybuilders take steroids

Science : Ultracool acoustic laser hits the right note

Science : Why it’s good to talk to babies

Science : You take the coast road . . .

Science : Matching proteins raise CJD fears

Technology

Technology : Model alternative to animal testing

Technology

Technology : Will French fork out for digital TV?

Technology

Technology : Laptops break through storage barrier

Technology

Technology : Fatal dose for water parasite

In brief : Save our genes

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Netropolitan

Science : One infection cures another

Technology

Patents : Light wire

Technology

Patents : Diesel fuel

Technology

Patents : Sticky batteries

Technology

Patents : Laser vision

US urged to set example on Antarctic protocol

Iodine first aid is not enough

Nerve pill sapped soldiers’ defences

Mutation rate doubled in Chernobyl’s children

Legless voice gives the game away

Mystery of the canoes’ graveyard

Seed banks fall on hard times

The rise and rise of Pakistan’s people

Blueprint for brewer’s yeast

Technology

Patents : Visiting rites

Soviet immigrants march for jobs in Israel

In brief : Lingering poison

In brief : Firefighters’ fatal error means it can all be over in a flash

Call in the ghost-ant busters…

Aliens dodge Australia’s pest police

Malaria pill stands accused – Lariam fends off malaria more effectively than any other drug, but growing evidence of disturbing side effects may soon land its manufacturer in court

In brief : Foreign organs

In brief : Ebola scare

In brief : Seal hunt resumes

On the vine

How rain stops play

Headed for an accident

Population pressures

Flying high

Poached eggs

Changing places

Fat rats

Parrot puzzle

Call of the wild

Hans Tholstrup … downloaded

Technology

Patents : Get your cat where it hurts

Physics

Science: Glimpses of a mirror world

Opinion

Editorial : Publish and be debated – WHAT is the difference between “suppressing” someone’s ideas and simply not wanting to be associated with them? Normally, the distinction between trampling on someone and ignoring them is fairly obvious, but last week

Features

The day time began

Inside the Gene Machine – Having read the genetic blueprint for yeast, researchers are now probing the function of its six thousand genes. In doing so, reports Bob Holmes, they will gain a unique insight into genetics, human health and evolution

Titter ye not . . . – There was this researcher who wanted to find out why we laugh. No really, it’s a serious business says Bob Holmes

Elusive EQ – Emotional intelligence could be one of the big ideas of the 1990s鈥攊f we can work out what it is, how to measure it and what to do with it

What’s behind a crooked smile? How our expressions can hide the truth

You’re wrong, Mr Spock – Human reason only works when emotion is involved. Where does this leave developers of smart machines, asks David Concar

Cherchez la diff茅rence – For years, war has raged over the emotional differences between men and women. Now brain imaging may settle the matter鈥攐r will it? Kate Douglas reports

The big chill – What’s the connection between your kid bawling its head off and Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique? Alison Motluk finds out

Act now, think later – Fear not, politicians. That elusive feel-good factor can be created in an instant. Just appeal to our primal instincts, advises David Concar

Life at the interface

Demon farmers and other myths

Between heaven and hell – Evolution freed us from the thrall of hormones but left us craving approval. Gail Vines talks to a Cambridge researcher about the human dilemma

More

Washington diary : Tangled talk and behavioural sleuths – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Review : Down and out and nuclear

Review : Mum’s the word

Review : Life, death and the island

Review : Degrees of equality

Review : Not so expert

Climbing Mount Improbable by Richard Dawkins

Review : They paved paradise

Review : Time to build bridges

Review : Mind games

Review : A handful of lives

Review : Fevered words

Review : BESTSELLERS from Oxford

Review : Collected works

Forum : Nobody said we know it all

Forum : Death to deadly doctorates – Iain Barton proposes an alternative to the PhD thesis

Enigma 872 : All move round

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