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Calling all Insomniacs… – …beaming radio waves into your head might just help

Sweet delirium – Thousands of people are queuing up for a sleepless night, racked by fever. Why?

Night moves 鈥� Sleep feels like a single state of mind that should have a single, simple

Noises from the cellar – Messages from the gods or the devil. Full of phallic symbols or even darker objects. Dream interpretation has filled countless tomes, but only a few researchers have looked at the brain processes that create them

Get real, Siggi – Freud would have been furious – hard-nosed pragmatists are invading the fabulous dream industry he founded

Dining at the Shuteye Caf茅 – When it comes to sleep, are we gluttons, anorexics or fast-food junkies?

Click on the candidate – In the age of the Net there has to be a better way to run a ballot than putting a cross on a slip of paper, says Alison Motluk

a game of three robots

The famine fungus – Potatoes could feed a billion people, yet the return of an old enemy would turn plenty into disaster. Fred Pearce reports

Crossing the quantum frontier

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News

changing places :

research: in the lab : Food research merger

research: in the lab : Compound interest

scan : Seabird count

scan : Computer dating

research: in the field : Bound to happen

research: in the field : Sex diseases down

bytes : Database for birds

write of reply : Radical ideas

Science : Jim Peacock…downloaded

Alarm greets contraceptive virus

Tax bungle jeopardises Scottish environment

And the winner is鈥n opinion poll that adds up

Canada’s fishermen plunge back into deep water

Beavers decide that finders are keepers

Coded message plan `too complex’

Rogue program that mails itself

Virtual mountaineers scale the highest peak

Tin’s the thing when the heat is on

Young criminals leave no clues

`Fat pill’ strips away the weight

India faces chaos over water rights

US urges routine genetic testing

Salt solution

Virus gets personal

Banking on genius

Do the twist

Giant centaur

Ancestral ape

Life begins on the crest of a calcium wave

Suffering of the lambs – Pioneers of animal cloning have made big claims for the medical benefits of their work. But can anyone reassure the critics who think suffering is inevitable?

Science : Irradiated cells teach immune system to fight cancer

Science : Can protein spring into life?

Science : Superconductor survives mag attack

Science : How insects storm privet defences

Science : Mirror worlds may lurk in the dark

Science : Did comets stir Earth’s brew?

Science : Why it pays to be a natural-born clone

Technology

Technology : Feeling is believing in a virtual world

Technology

Technology : Smart cars steer round traffic jams

Technology

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Technology : Shark chokes human cancers

Technology

Technology : Capsules replace booster jabs

Technology

Technology : Ultrafast modems head for a crash

Technology

Technology : Mapping the mines that maim

Technology

Patents : Keep it short and sweet

Technology

Patents : Smoke signals

Technology

Patents : Vintage brew

Technology

Patents : Cool hand James

Technology

Patents : Spot the ball

Technology

Patents : Send in the clones

Opinion

Editorial : All too predictable?

Features

Calling all Insomniacs… – …beaming radio waves into your head might just help

Sweet delirium – Thousands of people are queuing up for a sleepless night, racked by fever. Why?

Night moves 鈥� Sleep feels like a single state of mind that should have a single, simple

Noises from the cellar – Messages from the gods or the devil. Full of phallic symbols or even darker objects. Dream interpretation has filled countless tomes, but only a few researchers have looked at the brain processes that create them

Get real, Siggi – Freud would have been furious – hard-nosed pragmatists are invading the fabulous dream industry he founded

Dining at the Shuteye Caf茅 – When it comes to sleep, are we gluttons, anorexics or fast-food junkies?

Click on the candidate – In the age of the Net there has to be a better way to run a ballot than putting a cross on a slip of paper, says Alison Motluk

a game of three robots

The famine fungus – Potatoes could feed a billion people, yet the return of an old enemy would turn plenty into disaster. Fred Pearce reports

Crossing the quantum frontier

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Review : Brewery piss-up

Review : First, find your dinosaur flesh

Review : Doctor’s tales

Review : Being there

Review : From first to last

Review : Team spirit

Review : Letting us in on the act

Review : Into Africa

Review : Just fantastic

Review : Bloody botany

Review : Classics reissued

Review : Off our backs

Review : Draw your own conclusions

Review : Pleased to meet you, Mister Why

Bestsellers : from San Francisco

Review : Collected works

Forum : Promises, promises – From extra cash to better access to the Net, all three parties claim to be on the side of science. Here’s how they measure up in New 杏吧原创 ‘s 1997 election call

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