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Heavenly visions – Are Jesuits astronomers? Is the Pope Catholic? Hazel Muir discovers one of the Vatican’s intellectual treasures

Think trivial – You may have been told that only Big Questions can lead to Big Answers. But it ain’t necessarily so, says Robert Matthews

Beastly discoveries – From a pickled frog to a rat on a stick, 1996 has seen a fine crop of new species

Here’s one we blew up earlier…

Tragedy in toytown – Teddy’s gone gooey, Barbie’s broken out in green blotches and there’s snow all over your favourite videos. What’s going on, asks a traumatised Andy Coghlan

Vile body – Why, oh why, do our animal natures always make themselves felt or smelt only at the most embarrassing moments, ponders our agony aunt Jess Toppit

Mush! Mush! You tekkies!

my best friend’s a Brussels sprout – Of course your mother was right about those evil-smelling greens being good for you. But it’s not just because of vitamins and minerals, says a hungry Gail Vines

Physics

The Ultimate trip

Christmas Quiz

Not cooking but warming – Serious researchers are turning themselves into living radiators by walking into giant microwave ovens. Pete Moore wonders why

Skipping Christmas

Hold the turkey… – Forget the Christmas roast, get out and round up those yummy little mopane worms, says Our Woman in the Veld, Ellen Bartlett

1996 and all that – Sometimes only a picture will do. Ben Crystall chooses the images behind some of the top science stories of the year

One from the heart – Genuine four-leafed clovers and a paperweight with your own DNA in it. Rosie Mestel sifts through the daft presents dreamt up by people who should be grappling with universal truths

Multimedia is the message

Table of contents

News

Death knell for Martian life

No peace on Earth near London’s airports

Simple E. coli test shows red for danger

Europe pushes to ban antibiotic down on the farm

Hope springs from the Sea of Galilee

Gulf War studies may be too late

Strapped for cash at the final frontier

Judge pulls plug on polluting shrimp farms

Sun worshippers pay with their skin鈥�

鈥ut could low-fat food keep tumours at bay?

Court victory for keyboard victims

Tomatoes menaced by alien insects

Bumper crop of sons at Sellafield

River timeshare

Dirty business

Space wheat

Waste stays put

Eggs for sale

Tribal cells

Smokers’ sperm

Self-portrait leads to cancer diagnosis

Crumbling away 鈥� Is dredging the villain in the drama of Britain’s eroding coasts?

Science : One sniff and you’re in chocolate heaven

Science : Ancient humans found refuge in Java

Science : How a restless Sun fuels the solar wind

Science : We’ve looked at clouds from both sides now

Science : Even worker bees do it in summer

Science : Oxygen is the stuff of memories

Science : The secret of ice’s slippery character

Technology

Technology : Green cars go farther with graphite

Technology

Technology : Up, up and around the world

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Coming soon, the musclebound nerd

Technology

Technology : White Christmas for blue diodes

Technology

Patents : On target?

Technology

Patents : Quiet tyres

Technology

Patents : Kiss of life

Technology

Patents : Drug dilemma

Technology

Patents : Diminishing returns

Technology

Patents : Icy stare

Opinion

Editorial : One small step for worldkind – IT WOULD be wonderful to be celebrating Christmas in the knowledge that those amazing claims of life on Mars were about to be confirmed. Unfortunately, it now looks certain that this is one present that Santa Cla

Features

Heavenly visions – Are Jesuits astronomers? Is the Pope Catholic? Hazel Muir discovers one of the Vatican’s intellectual treasures

Think trivial – You may have been told that only Big Questions can lead to Big Answers. But it ain’t necessarily so, says Robert Matthews

Beastly discoveries – From a pickled frog to a rat on a stick, 1996 has seen a fine crop of new species

Here’s one we blew up earlier…

Tragedy in toytown – Teddy’s gone gooey, Barbie’s broken out in green blotches and there’s snow all over your favourite videos. What’s going on, asks a traumatised Andy Coghlan

Vile body – Why, oh why, do our animal natures always make themselves felt or smelt only at the most embarrassing moments, ponders our agony aunt Jess Toppit

Mush! Mush! You tekkies!

my best friend’s a Brussels sprout – Of course your mother was right about those evil-smelling greens being good for you. But it’s not just because of vitamins and minerals, says a hungry Gail Vines

Physics

The Ultimate trip

Christmas Quiz

Not cooking but warming – Serious researchers are turning themselves into living radiators by walking into giant microwave ovens. Pete Moore wonders why

Skipping Christmas

Hold the turkey… – Forget the Christmas roast, get out and round up those yummy little mopane worms, says Our Woman in the Veld, Ellen Bartlett

1996 and all that – Sometimes only a picture will do. Ben Crystall chooses the images behind some of the top science stories of the year

One from the heart – Genuine four-leafed clovers and a paperweight with your own DNA in it. Rosie Mestel sifts through the daft presents dreamt up by people who should be grappling with universal truths

Multimedia is the message

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Review : Complex made simple

Review : Are you sitting safely?

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Review : Dead famous

Review : Talking bestseller

Review : Sayings of Uncle Albert

Review : Bag a dino today

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Review : Right values

Review : Fine fungi

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Melbourne

Forum : Strutting their way to power

Forum : Surplus to requirements…

Forum : A case of angry reactions

Washington diary : Rumours and whispers on the way to the Moon – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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