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Who rules the waves? – Viruses might just be bit players in the drama of the seas. Then again, they could be major actors

Deep sea revolution – It’s tough at the bottom. But now, with the help of robot subs, seafaring ecologists can join the 20th century

Mud, glorious mud

A feel for shells – Ever since his fingers first encountered the drab, chalky shells of the North Sea, Geerat Vermeij has had a passion for the natural world

Mission to Marianas – If Mount Everest was dropped into the world’s deepest trench, it would drown. Kaiko hit bottom . . . and came back to tell the tale

Monster journeys – How does an animal that lives fixed to the spot on one side of the ocean suddenly appear on the other? Can a handbag, a shipwreck and a lab full of monsters give us some clues?

The big thaw – For years, US Navy scientists have been the envy of their poorer civilian cousins. Now the caring, sharing Pentagon is unlocking some of its most closely guarded secrets

Fish TV presents . . . – If you want to understand the tiny plants and animals of the plankton, you need to zoom in for the close-ups

Dirty secrets

Fireball from the deepfreeze

Mouldering monuments

Software, who needs it?

Table of contents

News

Test could pin down `mad sheep’ risk

Room with a reactive view in a rural German pile鈥�

Anticancer drug slows down prion disease

Flood gave birth to world’s oldest religion

Losers show their colours at the starting gate

Piracy lawsuits alarm Internet companies

Nicotine may block formation of Alzheimer’s plaques

Gene treaty promises rewards for unique peoples

Brazil’s caymans succumb to gold fever

Los Alamos faces `bodysnatch’ lawsuit

Chickens could save rabbits from painful tests

Flying sub

Rare beetles follow the plough

Pork with garlic

Lottery loser

Calling all angels

Leukaemia cluster

A plateful of medicine

Science : Why cold turkey is molecular murder

Science : Pain discriminates between the sexes

Science : Odd orbit of a far-flung world

Science : Sunshine sets the sea spinning

Science : Baby sharks shed teeth in the womb

Science : Butterflies keep their bearings

Science : Yes, it’s your legs that stop you falling over

Technology

Technology : Blasting off on the cheap

Technology

Technology : Little tubes have more six-appeal

Technology

Technology : Speeding up production lines in the nanoworld

Technology

Technology : Look at the screen and say `aah’

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Wherever you are, foil will fix it

Technology

Technology : Why it pays to shop late for Christmas

Technology

Technology : Tailor-made vaccine primes body’s defences

Opinion

Editorial : Good news or bad? – DIRECT evidence that humans have been infected by the agent causing BSE finally appeared last week. A new method of characterising the prion proteins that cause the disease in cattle shows that they are the same as those fo

Editorial : Too much too soon – WHO but a group of lawyers could present a draft international convention under the headline “Freedom of genomic expression”?

Features

Who rules the waves? – Viruses might just be bit players in the drama of the seas. Then again, they could be major actors

Deep sea revolution – It’s tough at the bottom. But now, with the help of robot subs, seafaring ecologists can join the 20th century

Mud, glorious mud

A feel for shells – Ever since his fingers first encountered the drab, chalky shells of the North Sea, Geerat Vermeij has had a passion for the natural world

Mission to Marianas – If Mount Everest was dropped into the world’s deepest trench, it would drown. Kaiko hit bottom . . . and came back to tell the tale

Monster journeys – How does an animal that lives fixed to the spot on one side of the ocean suddenly appear on the other? Can a handbag, a shipwreck and a lab full of monsters give us some clues?

The big thaw – For years, US Navy scientists have been the envy of their poorer civilian cousins. Now the caring, sharing Pentagon is unlocking some of its most closely guarded secrets

Fish TV presents . . . – If you want to understand the tiny plants and animals of the plankton, you need to zoom in for the close-ups

Dirty secrets

Fireball from the deepfreeze

Mouldering monuments

Software, who needs it?

More

Antipodes : Bombing raids target Auckland’s unwanted moth – Ian Lowe finds more than he bargained for in New Zealand

Review : Quantum ghosts get real

Review : Big issue

Review : What a relief

Review : Sacks in series

Review : Skull now showing

Review : Fully briefed

Review : Wide-eyed

The Invention that Changed the World by Robert Buderi

Review : Aping culture

Review : Postoperative trauma

Review : A head for hype

Review : Waiting for the weird

Review : The words to think it

Review : Malice in memoryland

Review : Going nuts over numbers

Review : Everything’s going to be alright

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Washington

Forum : Five apples a day . . .

Forum : Footprints in the sandstone

Thistle diary : Poisoned land and playing safe – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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