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Creatures from primordial silicon – Let Darwinism loose in an electronics lab and just watch what it creates. A lean, mean machine that nobody understands. Clive Davidson reports

A grim reckoning – What has a 16th-century astronomer got to do with the defeat of governments and the possible extinction of the human race? Answers in fractions please, says J. Richard Gott III

Distilled wisdom – Forget all those dreadful hours trying to work out which carbon double bond does what. David Bradley discovers the supersmart software that is freeing chemists to be more creative than ever before

If you go down to the woods today – Trees laden with acorns and lush green grass sound idyllic to us. But for a new breed of disease detectives they are harbingers of doom, warns Karen Schmidt

Table of contents

News

A poisoned inheritance – What does a shocking new study on irradiated rodents mean for humans?

Newswire : RSI for kids

The hunt goes on – Radiation may not have caused Sellafield’s leukaemia cluster

Newswire : Swords into shares

Newswire : Red alert

Fix for furry arteries – Stopping heart disease at its source is the dream of doctors experimenting with a new drug

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From little acorns鈥� mighty software can be grown

Death to the chip – Is the reign of classical computing coming to an end?

Patents : Numbers up

Patents : Some like it hot

Patents : On call

Time to strike camp – Australia must junk its Cold War attitude to Antarctic research

Antibody `cruelty’ to be phased out

Clearing the air – Europe gets tough on the clouds of soot and dust that kill thousands

The curse of open government

Try the needle – An American panel of experts says that acupuncture can relieve pain and nausea

Technofile : Sticky solution

Forest fables – Europe’s trees may be in better shape than anyone thought

Technofile : MASH updated

Technofile : Tidal power

Technofile : Eaten up

Copycat killers could be a shot in the arm for AIDS

New quark on the block – The heavy mob are moving in on the Standard Model

Hacking through the data jungle

Clues for Clouseau – Even the most bumbling detective couldn’t miss evidence that flashes its presence

Clean-living fire – The domestic stove has finally managed to quit smoking

Hungry helpers cheat their charges

Heavenly halo – Our Galaxy is shrouded in gamma rays鈥攂ut no one knows what it means yet

Focus : Friendly fire

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan : Inherit the wit

The history of the world in peat

Drained of life – Is the destruction of peat bogs to blame for dwindling coastal fish stocks?

FBI swoops on Net hijacker

Fur flies in Japan – Many of the country’s mammals are on the verge of extinction

Newswire : Clones out

Newswire : Floating power

Newswire : Gene catchup

Newswire : AIDS relief

In brief : Second chance

In brief : Hot and hotter

In brief : Partners in crime

In brief : Jam making

In brief : Ancestral mammal

In brief : Jupiter’s moon blows its top

Opinion

Editorial : Thin end of the wedge – The effects of radiation exposure may be even more pernicious than we think

Editorial : Privacy rules OK

Features

Creatures from primordial silicon – Let Darwinism loose in an electronics lab and just watch what it creates. A lean, mean machine that nobody understands. Clive Davidson reports

A grim reckoning – What has a 16th-century astronomer got to do with the defeat of governments and the possible extinction of the human race? Answers in fractions please, says J. Richard Gott III

Distilled wisdom – Forget all those dreadful hours trying to work out which carbon double bond does what. David Bradley discovers the supersmart software that is freeing chemists to be more creative than ever before

If you go down to the woods today – Trees laden with acorns and lush green grass sound idyllic to us. But for a new breed of disease detectives they are harbingers of doom, warns Karen Schmidt

More

Growth industry – A new heart for an old, this time from a pig not a human? A pharmacy full of drugs that have been brewed in a vat like beer? And new plants, new foods鈥攁ll this and more are in the pipeline from biotechnologists

Review : A different drum

Review : Out of our skulls

Review : Space Illiads

Review : Out of the egg

Review : Vile bodies

Review : Brilliant show

Review : Beasty boys

Review : Truth and beauty

Review : Freaky show

Bestsellers : from Washington

Review : Collected works – Nick Saunders unearths buried treasure on land and beneath the sea

Forum : Dear Greenpeace . . . – An open letter from Fred Pearce to the eco-warriors in the run-up to the Kyoto climate conference

Forum : The pick of the crop – Switzerland’s “clean” agriculture could become a model for the EU, says Adrian Newton

Thistle diary : – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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