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Swimming for dear life

Chemical slippers

Cybercrash

Mind-altering bugs

Table of contents

News

The enemy within

Cars earn their keep

Radioactive attics

Reviled drug goes into rehab

Sex and violence

Bird on the brink

In hot water

Double standard bedevils video disc

Voices from the past

Birth calls for a cool head

Chip shops thieves

Time’s squares

Net gains

Reduced charge

Relaxing company

Cosmic coincidence

Taxi service

Computers just say no

Wise monkeys hear evil

That’s torn it for Cassini

Hunt the puncture

Methane monitor

Insider dealing

Net speak

Ground hogs

The Mall, where’s that?

Cancer catch

Freak frogs

Older mums age more slowly

The power of cool

Light steps for tiny computers

Sorry, the mutton’s off

Martian arts

Will compost cleanse rusty rivers?

Pride and prejudice

Gold fillings

The buzz on climate

Subterranean blues

Science fails career women

The great escape

Exotic debut

Grass roots

Persistent rain

Bug blueprint

Blindness creates extra sensory perception

Opinion

Editorial : A long life and a fertile one

Editorial : No divine right – The days are gone when the man in the white coat always knew best

Features

Swimming for dear life

Chemical slippers

Cybercrash

Mind-altering bugs

More

Antipodes : Flour power

Photography

Review : Ada’s daughters

Review : Greening cities

Review : Hindsight’s failure

Review : Fixed star

Review : Numbsense and blindsight

Review : Them bones

Review : Ancient feats

Review : Storm warning

Review : Statistics undamned

Viral Sex: The Nature of AIDS by Jaap Goudsmit

Review : One way ticket

Review : Infinite wisdom

Review : Mind-blowing

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Washington

Forum : What’s up, doc?

Forum : Publish or be damned

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6 September 1997