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101 things to do with an old oil rig – Melt it down as scrap? Turn it into a casino? Slice it up and use the bits as oil tanks? Fred Pearce sorts through Shell’s options for disposing of Brent Spar

No pain, more gain

Take a deep breath and blow

Think maths

Table of contents

News

Creationism in the dock

Tracks in the snow spell hope for Siberian tiger

Clinics admit they take sperm from dead men

Tuna trounces the town mouse

Danger lurks under the knife

Cancer specialists join the rat race

Darned good science, but is it any use?

Strictly between you, me and Uncle Sam

Junk food ads target the young

Villagers slam ‘Pill for elephants’

Upping the anti

Ozone optimism

Prostate gene

Chernobyl handout

Satellite sees where the wind blows

Earth Centre’s woes

Radiation damages

HRT for dementia

Bridge over troubled waters – India and Bangladesh have quarrelled over rights to water from the Ganges for more than two decades. Can they finally agree a deal that would benefit millions?

Science : Toothy sparkler unearthed in diamond mine

Science : Will a sea change turn up the heat?

Science : Snakes slithered up from the sea

Science : Polar lakes watered down by snow

Science : The odd thing about carbon . . .

Science : Growth blocker stops spinal pain at source

Science : Why it all sounds like rhubarb in the end

Science : Adoring mums raise calmer pups

Science : You must remember Zzzzz…

Science : Sex hormone softens the pain

Science : Bees play tricks with the light to see at night

Technology

Technology : Japan’s winter roads are piping hot

Technology

Technology : Finishing touch for the bionic arm

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Fermenting faster pints

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Nuclear catalyst goes for cool burn

Technology

Technology : Crash diet opens Windows to hand-held PCs

Technology

Technology : For video-on-demand, move to Hull

Technology

Patents : Shattering truth

Technology

Patents : What’s in a name?

Technology

Patents : Cry for help

Technology

Patents : Spitting fire

Technology

Patents : Stolen moments

Technology

Patents : Bubbling under

Technology

Patents : Elixir of life

Opinion

Editorial : Time to come clean on radiation tests – SHOCK reports that the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has been carrying out secret radiation experiments on humans for the past forty years have dominated the British media this week.

Editorial: Where wise men fear to tread

Features

101 things to do with an old oil rig – Melt it down as scrap? Turn it into a casino? Slice it up and use the bits as oil tanks? Fred Pearce sorts through Shell’s options for disposing of Brent Spar

No pain, more gain

Take a deep breath and blow

Think maths

More

AustralAsian : Resource project breaks down Indonesian barriers – Bob Johnstone explores Australia’s role in preserving its neighbour’s biodiversity

Review : Just for the record

Review : Written in the sands

Review : Bon anniversaire

Review : X-tensions

Review : Bright sparks

Review : Visible profit (2)

Review : Sex story

Review : Holy war

Review : Dial-up feature

Review : Gardner’s question time

Review : A look on the small side

Review : Popperama

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Forum : Silence of the experts – Fred Pearce wonders why government advisers never admit they were wrong

Forum : Let’s keep the genie in its bottle

Washington diary : Mudslinging and backpedalling – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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