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SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

Blazing chainsaws – If loggers gave up their neat and tidy ways and let rip like a forest fire, nature would reap the benefits, says Bob Holmes

The Internet strikes back – When one computer in cyberspace sneezes, software round the world can catch a cold. So is it time to provide computer networks with immune systems that kill viruses? Kurt Kleiner reports

Thank heavens for black holes – Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. David Concar meets a visionary physicist

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News

research: in the field : Sourcing the smog

research: in the field : Sniffing out a growth industry

changing places :

research: in the lab : The shape of the future

scan : language layout

scan : essence of innovation

Antipodes : Derecke Palmer…downloaded

When baking bread is bad for your health

Sex bias study shocks world

Wild dogs: handle with care

Physicists’ plans go up in flames

Radioactive barge `can be made safe’

Biowar tests did not harm public

Sheep dip clue to broken bones

Dinosaur doctor diagnoses the disease of dukes

What am I bid for this T. rex?

Save the planet and get rich

Space station delay hits experiments

Internet dealers evade drug controls

Pollsters fume over invasion by fax

Can cutting out the trauma keep AIDS at bay?

Mighty mite saves Africa’s staple food

Missing link

Return to the fold

Elusive particle

Hepatitis hope

House hazards

Orion and its young bright stars light up astronomers’ world

Water fight

Seeing the wood for the trees – A dearth of information could sabotage attempts to save the world’s forests. Can a radical solution help?

Science : Mice unwind the body clock

Science : Doom star may be heading our way

Science : Migrating birds choose fast food

Science : Vera shows which way is up

Science : Lung cancer team tracks yeast clue

Science : Why crunching crystals makes them glow in the dark

Science : Does lust for sex kill males in their prime?

Technology

Technology : Monkeys boost meningitis hopes

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : The plane truth about holes

Technology

Technology : Wind gauge is a hot number

Technology

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Technology : T-rays spell sharper, safer images

Technology

Technology : Tuned in for a good night’s sleep

Technology

Technology : Net searches with a human touch

Opinion

Editorial : Naming the game

Features

SAND CASTLES and cocktail nuts

Innocent-looking piles of seeds, sand or powder are liable to drive grown men and women to tears鈥攐r even to the extreme edges of theoretical physics. David Kestenbaum explains why

Blazing chainsaws – If loggers gave up their neat and tidy ways and let rip like a forest fire, nature would reap the benefits, says Bob Holmes

The Internet strikes back – When one computer in cyberspace sneezes, software round the world can catch a cold. So is it time to provide computer networks with immune systems that kill viruses? Kurt Kleiner reports

Thank heavens for black holes – Why are we here? Because our Universe is the fittest, most fecund of a huge population of competing universes. David Concar meets a visionary physicist

More

Antipodes : Research spared the axe, for now… – Ian Lowe reviews the fate of science in the Australian Budget

Business in space

Review : Bubbles and butterflies

Review : Down to the sea again

Review : Two worlds embrace

Review : Shifty lights

Review : Venus in clouds

Review : Hunt the Martian

Review : Hold the scalpel

Review : Green who’s who

Review : All over now

Review : Mining the past

Review : Delicious, nutritious and litigious

Bestsellers : from San Francisco

Review : Collected works

Forum : Are we all conservatives now?

Forum : Trawling for votes – Elections always spell bad news for fish, says Debora Mackenzie

Thistle diary : Prolonging life after death – Tam Dalyell comments from Westminster

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