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It takes two to tangle – In the quantum world, distant particles can be bound by a ghostly tie. Physicists are now putting this effect to work in quantum computing and communications, reports Ben Stein

Born to be gay?

No cause for alarm

Deep sea views – Noise is not always a nuisance. As Gabrielle Walker reports, one physicist has found a way to build up meaningful images from the sounds of fish, marine mammals and waves

Table of contents

News

Secrecy destroys faith in drug safety

`Tainted’ oil greases the wheels of industry

Rich pickings from Russia’s polluted soils

Ozone levels tumble to record low

First catch your koala鈥�

Poor must find cash for vaccines

Japanese challenge heart transplants

Tough guidelines for xenografts

Mission to Mars makes do with robots

Protein bank opens with `free offer’

Millennial gloom descends on science

British polluters let off lightly

Arctic accord

Green paperchase

Engineered food

Hardy elms fend off killer fungus

Iron rations

Take five

Better than it looks on paper

Science : Do shattered spines need a cleanup?

Science : Ambidextrous molecule learns to read and write

Science : Cells inherit a sense of timing

Science : Meet your cousin, the mushroom

Science : Brainwaves reveal migraine cycle

Science : Gamma rays on a stormy day

Science : Mind control ads `don’t sink in’

Science : Good food boosts finches’ sex appeal

Technology

Technology : Frozen heart comes to life

Technology

Technology : Global village that fits in a notebook

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : How to breed `dead’ viruses

Technology

Technology : Hopping electron promises superfast switch

Technology

Technology : Silver alloy boosts memory of recordable CDs

Technology

Patents : Lose your marbles

Technology

Patents : Spinning jet breaks records

Technology

Patents : Wired for sound

Technology

Patents : On and on

Technology

Patents : Zzzzzzzz . . .

Technology

Patents : Fighting back

Opinion

Editorial : A millisievert a day . . . – WHEN Marie Curie made a whistle-stop tour of the US in 1921, interest in radium surged. Americans were soon flocking in their thousands to buy bottles of radioactive water, believing it would cure their aches and p

Features

It takes two to tangle – In the quantum world, distant particles can be bound by a ghostly tie. Physicists are now putting this effect to work in quantum computing and communications, reports Ben Stein

Born to be gay?

No cause for alarm

Deep sea views – Noise is not always a nuisance. As Gabrielle Walker reports, one physicist has found a way to build up meaningful images from the sounds of fish, marine mammals and waves

More

Student books : Trimmer figures

Student books : Book of numbers

Student books : Strong shapes

Student books :

Student books : Rock solid, crystal clear

Student books :

Student books : Build a better engineer

Student books : Crumbling spires

Student books : Happy families

Student books : Me first

Student books : Bayes means finds

Student books : Fields of change

Student books :

Student books : Last gasp

Student books : Reality check

Student books : Deep thought

Student books : Blast furnace of creation

Student books : Wronged rats

Student books : Animal crackers

Student books : Let’s get philosophical

Student books :

Student books : Blind faith?

Student books : Collected works

Student books : Fishy fossils

Student books : Spineless

Student books : Set in stones

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Forum : Testing time for weapons treaty – Rob Edwards fears we may rue the hypocrisy of the five nuclear nations

Forum : May she rest in peace

Washington diary : Carnivorous vegetables and digital sweatshops – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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