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The heat is on 鈥� As theorists cross swords over how high-temperature superconductors work,some researchers think the answer may be under the combatants’ noses. MarkBuchanan and Bennett Daviss investigate

An inside story

Where did you get your brains? 鈥� Baby mice may inherit their mother’s wits and their father’s basicinstincts, but what does this mean for us, asks Gail Vines

A drop in the ocean – Does cleaning up birds after oil spills make good conservation sense, or is it an expensive, face-saving exercise that merely prolongs their agony? Karen Schmidt reports

Table of contents

News

Burning plastic raises a stink

Data police warn corporate Web miners

Chinese biotech woos the West

Superbug spectre haunts Japan

Space monkeys `were put at risk’

Net lobby praises German bill

Troubled TV station seeks help from space

You won’t want to tangle with the NYPD

Killer fungus swarms all over locusts

`Laundered’ birds fly out of New Zealand

New view of death could save thousands of lives

Heirs of the Vikings cash in on their heritage

Treaty triumph

Domain dispute

Salt of the sea

Three-tailed comet

Acid future

Young hearts

The longest number ever crunched

Sucked dry

Secrets and lies in Europe

Science : Did ancient gases inspire powers of prophecy?

Science : Chimps beat HIV with loop vaccine

Science : Heroin habit linked to gene

Science : Galaxy points `finger’ of antimatter

Science : Pigeons play follow my leader

Science : Scorpius star is twinned with Sun

Science : Mighty mountains grow in hot climes

Science : Toxic chemistry turns air acid

Technology

Technology : Human cells make `perfect’ proteins

Technology

Technology : Radiation beams de-ice planes

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Smart window spells curtains for blinds

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Technology

Technology : Twisted base makes better chips

Technology

Technology : Hot assignment for software `agents’

Technology

Technology : Pushing the boat out with penguin power

Opinion

Editorial : Survival of the very dumbest

Editorial : Naked truths about the Net

Features

The heat is on 鈥� As theorists cross swords over how high-temperature superconductors work,some researchers think the answer may be under the combatants’ noses. MarkBuchanan and Bennett Daviss investigate

An inside story

Where did you get your brains? 鈥� Baby mice may inherit their mother’s wits and their father’s basicinstincts, but what does this mean for us, asks Gail Vines

A drop in the ocean – Does cleaning up birds after oil spills make good conservation sense, or is it an expensive, face-saving exercise that merely prolongs their agony? Karen Schmidt reports

More

AustralAsian : When the company engineer meets the lab scientist – Bob Johnstone talks to a physicist working with Sony

Review : Into the deep blue yonder

Review : Do you feel lucky?

Review : God and sex

Review : Crypto debate

Review : Happy daze

Review : Birth of reason

Review : Stalin rules

Review : Festival times

Review : Magnetic south

Review : Animal rights, beastly wrongs

Review : A hundred years young

Review : Pills and spills

Review : Tick-tock, tick-tock

Bestsellers : from London

Review : Collected works

Forum : The big, the small and the average

Forum : Cruelty at the hands of the critics

Washington diary : Icy moons and leaky secrets – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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