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Crafty metalwork – Armed with teapots, asparagus steamers and a few tips from the worlds of nuclear and aircraft engineering, one artist has taken an ancient Japanese craft to new heights. Hazel Muir reports

The sweet smell of death

Back to basics – Engineers knew all about it until they were seduced by computer control. Now, as Barbara Moran explains, simple mechanics is making a comeback

Digital Diva – Ken Lomax is teaching his synthesiser to sing. He reckons that in a few years, with a little fine-tuning, it will be possible to create a duet between Kiri Te Kanawa and Edith Piaf. Claire Neesham reports

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News

Salmon farmers win licence to kill

Please beware the cassowary鈥�

Space agency should keep its feet on the ground

Australia’s rabbits face all-out viral attack

Court clamps down on anonymous e-mails

If you’re not an American, get out of the class

Chlamydia piles on the pressure

Heart fears plague healthy women

How green is our economy?

Acid test for rotting heirlooms

Briny bacteria pose radiation risk

Mutant fish

R&D scrooge

Lead in water

HIV drug scare

Nerve gas leak

Antimalarial fears

Microwaves peer beneath the clouds

There’s no place like home… – Can South Africa’s homeless hope for anything better than shantytowns with sewers?

Science : Men respond to the scent of a woman

Science : Younger than they look

Science : Two catalysts are better than one

Science : Green plastic goes supercritical

Science : Not so fast, little spinning molecule . . .

Science : The alarm clock that rings every spring

Science : Smog-busters get radical over pollution

Science : Young jays save themselves for the right bird

Technology

Technology : T cell trickery transforms transplants

Technology

Technology : Fantasy landscapes look just like the real thing

Technology

Technology : Solid prospect for 3D images

Technology

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Technology

Technology : Cool cats mean cleaner diesels

Technology

Technology : Perfect sound from thin air

Technology

Technology : Fractals set the pattern for online video

Opinion

Editorial : What price progress? – A RAPID increase in GDP is a sign of a healthy, booming economy, a source of national pride and envy by others. Right? After all, graphs showing GDP always decorate reports from governments and big international agencies

Features

Crafty metalwork – Armed with teapots, asparagus steamers and a few tips from the worlds of nuclear and aircraft engineering, one artist has taken an ancient Japanese craft to new heights. Hazel Muir reports

The sweet smell of death

Back to basics – Engineers knew all about it until they were seduced by computer control. Now, as Barbara Moran explains, simple mechanics is making a comeback

Digital Diva – Ken Lomax is teaching his synthesiser to sing. He reckons that in a few years, with a little fine-tuning, it will be possible to create a duet between Kiri Te Kanawa and Edith Piaf. Claire Neesham reports

More

Antipodes : Make way for the sensitive new-age engineer – Ian Lowe investigates a review of university engineering courses

Scratching the surface

Review : Lives of the stars

Review : Farewell Florence

Review : Orchestral manoeuvres

Review : Going for the jugular

Review : Body blows

Review : Back to the future

Review : Elephant passions

Review : Grounded

Review : Nylon and cyanide

Review : Don’t touch anything

Review : Castaway

Review : Diversions ahead

Review : Savage stereotypes

Review : Politics on the line

Review : Order a scoop

Review : Getting to grips with altered states

Bestsellers : from London

Review : Collected works

Forum : Failing the comprehension test

: Teenage chemists from hell – Mike Holderness wonders where we would be without our rebel geeks

Thistle diary : Time for some capital improvements – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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