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Diamond curls

Cars that grow on trees – Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds Stephen Hill

Birds do it . . . did dinosaurs?

Cutting out stuttering

Table of contents

News

Technology

Technology : Safe alternative to banned bananas

Liquid lunch

Science : Losers get an attack of nerves

Science : Atom laser offers ultimate control

Science : HIV drugs cannot revive extinct cells

Science : Canada’s cracking plate feels the Earth move

Science : Quantum computers perk up with a cup of tea

Technology

Technology : Seal for Chernobyl’s cracked tomb

Science : Pouting whales are suckers for squid

Technology

Technology : Starch strips bombers bare

Muddy waters

Technology

Technology : Plants gobble up waste explosives

Technology

Technology : Black box’s brainy helper could solve air crash riddles

Technology

Technology : Flux helps metals achieve a touch of glass

Technology

Technology : Balloons lift skiers out of danger

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Space weather forecasters get it right

Don’t believe the AIDS cure hype

Knowing where you are with military precision

The Net benefits of learning from home

Striking a blow for France’s past

US plan complicates the climate equation

Family planning by example

No end in sight in the `human’ mouse war

No need to panic about polio vaccine

Small furry animals bounce back

Alzheimer’s scare casts cloud over gene therapy

Science : Dawn raid on the ozone layer

Surf jam

A cow called Cindy

French beef

Space

Barren space wheat

Scan : from bears to beagles

AustralAsian : Karl Kruszelnicki…downloaded

Bytes : Genie on the Web

Research: in the field : The pull of the pokies

Research: in the field : Many a tear

Research: in the field : How fires spread

Bytes : Genes on the Web

Changing places :

Random samples : Astronomy on ice

Scan : butterfly bounty

Thirsty meals that suck the world dry

Dementia drugs hasten mental decline

Space

Lost in space

Opinion

Editorial : HIV down but not out – A TIDE of optimism has swept over AIDS researchers and people infected with HIV in the past six months. New “combination therapies” that attack the virus on two or three different fronts have worked well in clinical tria

Features

Diamond curls

Cars that grow on trees – Cheap, light, strong and easily recycled. Natural fibres could turn up in everything from cars to golf clubs, finds Stephen Hill

Birds do it . . . did dinosaurs?

Cutting out stuttering

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Specialist books : What is thought?

Specialist books : Japanware

Specialist books : Monkey tales

Specialist books : Winter warmer

Specialist books : Battle lines

Specialist books : Count the cost

Forum : Million-dollar pie in the sky

Bestsellers : from San Francisco

Specialist books : Collected works

Antipodes : The night of the green turtle – Ian Lowe finds nature is hard at work along the Queensland coast

Thistle diary : Digital democracy and fluoride voters – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : India’s roads to ruin

Specialist books : Joint effort

Specialist books : Talk about techno

Specialist books : Hot date

Specialist books : The root of all evil

Specialist books : Benighted galleries

Specialist books : Size is everything

Specialist books : Knots landing

Specialist books : Test it and see

Specialist books : Hear soup

Specialist books : Old cognition

Specialist books : The Great British

Specialist books : A passage to America

Specialist books : Method acting

Specialist books : Must try harder

Specialist books : See through culture

Specialist books : Mad histories

Specialist books : Take a look in the mirror

Specialist books : Tooling up the human mind

Specialist books : Spherical bricks and noodle soup

Specialist books : Mores, moors and madwomen

Specialist books : Stuffed guru

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