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Robo Roach is born

Who’s suffering now? – Does an animal dread being chased by a predator? Not necessarily, say two British biologists, because they are only doing what comes naturally. Gail Vines reports

No way out 鈥� Young Chinese women are killing themselves at an alarming rate.Understanding why could upset Western notions about suicide. Phyllida Brownreports

Striking the solar shock wave

Table of contents

News

Lamb’s liver with cadmium garnish . . .

Explosion rocks trust in nuclear power

Japan may finally swallow the Pill

NASA told how to avoid Mars attacks

Research sacrificed to refurbish South Pole

Spent nuclear fuel festers in Serbia

Dating row divides rock art experts

Seabirds’ dirty diet spreads disease

Washington sued for hitting delete key

Respite promised for North Sea fish 鈥�

… as alarm sounds over slaughter of sharks

Dinosaur nursery becomes a museum

Cindy unmasked

Cloning Copito

Lonely electron

Megastar

Breathtaking

Nirex thwarted

End of tether

What colour is innocence? – Lawyers are using brain scans to defend their clients’ behaviour. Not so fast, say some scientists

Science : Catalyst banishes deadly mirror molecules

Science : Heavenly Bronze-Age traveller returns

Science : This is not my beautiful wife鈥�

Science : TB vaccine `must have larger trials’

Science : Earthquakes drag the North Pole south

Science : How nectar lovers find their feast

Science : Small is beautiful inside a cell

Technology

Technology : Digital TV sparks interference fears

Technology

Technology : Coffee snobs learn from the Andes

Technology

Technology : X-ray vision for mere mortals

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Technology : Hardy marsh plants gobble up weedkiller

Technology

Technology : How to get drugs to the point without a needle

Technology

Technology : Net profit from small change

Technology

Technology : Green fuel set for takeoff

Opinion

Editorial : Time to bury Nirex?

Editorial : Inadmissible evidence

Features

Robo Roach is born

Japanese scientists are wiring up creepy crawlies so that they can control them with electronic commands. But who wants a remote-controlled cockroach, asks Peter Hadfield

Who’s suffering now? – Does an animal dread being chased by a predator? Not necessarily, say two British biologists, because they are only doing what comes naturally. Gail Vines reports

No way out 鈥� Young Chinese women are killing themselves at an alarming rate.Understanding why could upset Western notions about suicide. Phyllida Brownreports

Striking the solar shock wave

More

Antipodes : Key factor in drug industry boom faces the axe – Ian Lowe investigates the debate over the future of Factor (f)

Review : The first of the faithful

Review : Surfing companion

Review : Bones and bulbs

Review : Planet suite

Review : Universes like grains of sand

Review : Queen of the night

Review : Our kind of people

Review : High life

Review : Raising the dead

Review : A plague on the human race

Review : Heavenly horror

Review : Bloom’s day

Review : Four-and-twenty tagged birds

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from London

Forum : Pity the poor Banabans . . . – Fred Pearce considers some unfinished business in the Pacific

Forum : Seven days that shook the world

Thistle diary : Noxious fumes and mistaken identities – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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