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Time off in loo 鈥� What went wrong?

Eaten alive – Midnight feasts take on a whole new meaning when you are the only thing on the menu. Martin Brookes fights off the insects

Welcome to Camp Chaos – The swimming pool has been built on a slope, the dance floor is a weird shape and the golf course is plain crazy. Ian Stewart challenges you to salvage the holiday camp before the first coach arrives

Torque of the devil

Chateau Lafeet

Are you looking at me? – A mysterious sixth sense may be easier to spot than you think

Lick and learn – When I grow up I want to be an ice cream scientist, says Justin Mullins

And God said… Let there be levitating strawberries

Take sixteen elastic bands

Daddy, look what I found – What do you do when you’ve had enough of Jackie Collins and sunbathing has lost its sex appeal? Jeff Hecht gets out his hammer and chisel

Yes, but where’s the beach?

Table of contents

News

On a knife edge

Spare the mice

Drugs watchdogs enter rat race

Stand by to receive landing party, Chief O’Brien

Physics

Warp factor zero

Patenting life

No charity

Breathe easy

Apes going spare

Flying start

Fasten your seat belts for a smooth ride

Chinese whispers

Suspect loads

Killing time

Frozen chips

Ring of confidence

Dam the Mediterranean

Traumatic paralysis is all in the brain

Is lead really that bad for you?

Surf’s up!

The ultimate donor

Playing safer

Cancer diagnosis

Asbestos detector

TV nanny

Sounds alarming

Tomatoes with a pinch of salt

The longest hour

Caught with their cuticles down

Spud gun targets disease

Carry on reprocessing

Danger zone

Mars brought down to Earth

For the low jump

Blowing hot

Deadly muck

What’s in a name . . .

Woolly jumpers

Steamy Sun

Eye spy

Germ wars

Here’s looking at you, kid

Raining ants

Breast cancer risk

Opinion

Editorial : . . . for a thousand dinosaurs on a pinhead

Editorial : Trade you one T. rex . . . – Be afraid, be very afraid, those mad scientists are at it again

Features

Time off in loo 鈥� What went wrong?

You had your injections, you didn't drink the water, but you still came down with something nasty on holiday. Rosie Mestel expects the worst

Eaten alive – Midnight feasts take on a whole new meaning when you are the only thing on the menu. Martin Brookes fights off the insects

Welcome to Camp Chaos – The swimming pool has been built on a slope, the dance floor is a weird shape and the golf course is plain crazy. Ian Stewart challenges you to salvage the holiday camp before the first coach arrives

Torque of the devil

Chateau Lafeet

Are you looking at me? – A mysterious sixth sense may be easier to spot than you think

Lick and learn – When I grow up I want to be an ice cream scientist, says Justin Mullins

And God said… Let there be levitating strawberries

Take sixteen elastic bands

Daddy, look what I found – What do you do when you’ve had enough of Jackie Collins and sunbathing has lost its sex appeal? Jeff Hecht gets out his hammer and chisel

Yes, but where’s the beach?

More

Australasian : Sun rises on weather forecasting – Bob Johnstone explores Australia’s supercomputing links with Japan

Review : Breaking the time limit

Review : Wellcome news

Review : Down river

Review : Zap gunners

Review : Power search

Review : Filling in space

Review : Captain, I love you

Review : The cheque’s in the post

Review : Material worlds

Review : Common history

Review : Ovid is free

Review : Sick but safe

Review : Tarantulas and other friends

Review : Ideas to amaze

Review : Not for sale

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : Collected works

Review : Futures imperfect

Review : Albert and the saucers

Review : All that jazz

Forum : Swallowing the myth

Forum : Return to darkness

Forum : Washington Diary – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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The last Word

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