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Editor's picks

Bless their cotton genes

Oracle of the oceans

Resistance is useless

Far out forecasting

Table of contents

News

research : in the lab

Scan : Daniel Ford …downloaded

Science : Changing places

Research : in the field

Scan : The full story

Scan : On the job

Scan : Cutting edge

Scan : What a relief

Bytes :

Extra iron makes blue deserts bloom

Britain’s sea walls too low to stop floods

Pentagon anthrax plan `sends the wrong message’

Simple twist of fate leads to Nobel prize

Frozen clouds accelerate ozone destruction

The decline and fall of academe

One leak too many for Dounreay

Power station failure adds to Delhi’s woes

Spy technology joins the fight against breast cancer

Long dry spells, outlook gloomy

Fish imports are `absolute lunacy’

Australia abandons asteroid watch

African nations sow seeds of hope

Don’t fight nature to save endangered species

Tied to the hand that feeds – For years, the West thought it was good for business. Now many countries want to end the practice of forcing poor nations to buy goods from donor countries in return for aid

Science : Fresh angle on dead dinosaurs

Science : Crafty virus turns down the heat

Science : Cool honeybees don’t get in a flap

Science : Gut bacteria recycle rivals’ waste

Science : DNA detectives quiz liver virus that stole our gene

Science : Strange brew may lurk in pulsating stars

Science : Frantic courtship leads to an early grave

Technology

Technology : Shapely vaccine targets chlamydia

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Rosy future for red aspens

Technology

Technology : Buckyballs make a point

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Skinny speakers break all the rules

Technology

Technology : Green glow tags escapee genes

Technology

Technology : Cells line up for a complex future

Technology

Technology : Smart, but not that smart

Opinion

Editorial : Just add iron and stir . . . – FOR the researchers, it felt like watering the desert for the first time. When British and American marine scientists poured ferrous sulphate onto a large patch of ocean west of the Gal谩pagos Islands in Ma

Features

Bless their cotton genes

Bless their cotton genes - Bacteria could revolutionise the way we produce cotton and paper. Laura Spinney looks at efforts to `grow' cellulose

Oracle of the oceans

Resistance is useless

Far out forecasting

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Contaminated lands

Antipodes : Has the culling of in-house expertise gone too far? – Ian Lowe finds Telstra is cutting back on research

Review : Hot under the crust

Review : One man and his bucket

Review : Forest idyll

Review : Moral maze

Review : Designer universe

Review : Magnetic charms

Review : See through

Review : Whither weather?

Review : Lost in transit

Review : Horseman of the Apocalypse

Review : Express delivery books

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : Collected works

Forum : Fatal attractions

Forum : Clean cars will power the country – Oliver Tickell foresees the end of giant electricity generators

Thistle diary : Villains of the air and sea – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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