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Chaos pitch

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News

Megacities plan spurns science

Dutch and Australians at loggerheads over forestry

Stone Age drinkers had a taste for turpentine

False economies breed superbugs

Sick miners pay full price for gold

Rape case ruling undermines faith in juries

Winning the war on ozone eaters

A brave new world for family planning

Secrecy for all, urges US academy

Fears mount for gene scrutiny as watchdog faces axe

Do you really need that aspirin?

Spanish flu’s frozen secrets

Universities lack the tools of their trade

Cluster bombs

Return to the wild

Sick deer

More CJD

Cold cure

Cape fossil shows its softer side

No such thing as a free launch

The sperm that fail to get a grip

Sociable shrimps join the crowd

Strange matter of the early Universe

Physics unpicks a sailor’s yarn

Plants point the way to renewable energy

Don’t write off ‘junk’ DNA

Comets’ origins

Technology

Be still my beating heart

Technology

The sky’s the limit for airborne gamblers

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Puzzling out an uncrackable code

Technology

Engineering healthier vegetable oil

Technology

Netropolitan

Technology

Petawatt laser puts on big squeeze

Technology

Repair kit for damaged nerves

Technology

How a hairpin could jam up the works

Technology

Gamma rays shake pollutants to pieces

Opinion

The Research Experience

IT'S an old joke among visitors to Britain that the only industry that seems to be booming is the heritage industry. There may not be too many shiny new factories around but abandoned quarries and mines or the remains of mills, foundries or potteries have

Features

Chaos pitch

Why would footballers turn to a branch of mathematics that many scientists find tough to grasp let alone agree about, asks Michael O'Hare

Bright light, black hole

Blaze!

Can you catch a heart attack?

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Antipodes

Green package weeds out the possum 鈥� Ian Lowe examines New Zealand plans to tackle exotic pests

Analysis of variance

The nature of the beast

Do not go gentle

Crack of doom

Bear stalking

Down, down, deeper and down

One of the best

Space quest 鈥�

鈥� and Moon shot

Bestsellers from London

Collected works

Yankee bomb busters

Up, up and away

Forum

Your mission, should you accept it 鈥�

Thistle diary : Picking up the tab for pollution

Enigma 878 : A game of cards

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Swingers

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