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It’s a jungle out there – Why do the biggest business upsets so often take us by surprise? It all makes perfect sense if you think of the market as an ecosystem, says Roger Lewin

Sounds impossible – Reconstructing a sound source from the waves it produces takes nothing less than a mirror that makes time run backwards. Ilan Greenberg discovers how it’s done

Crystal gazing – Outsize crystals made from tiny plastic beads could play a vital role in applications as diverse as optical computers and biosensors, says Philip Ball

Out for blood – Cooking up an alternative to the red stuff is proving a tough task, says Nell Boyce

Table of contents

News

Uprooting our family tree – Ancient Australian teeth are upsetting cherished ideas about the evolution of mammals

Newswire : Altered groceries

Lies, damned lies… – British air pollution statistics understate the threat to health

Newswire : Breaking the habit

Newswire : Superhighway snarl-up

Light relief for gasping fish

How to stop slip sliding away

Riders on the storm – NASA has plans to probe the Earth’s magnetic weather patterns

Nuts without fear 鈥� A spot of natural chemistry can defeat some of

Hey, good looking – Male horseshoe crabs only have eyes for the females

Rebel virus

A happy medium – One false move and our Universe would have been unfit for life

Patents : Shared illusions

Patents : Dial V for video

Patents : Once bitten

Heavy night, sir? – Every traffic cop knows hungover drivers can kill. Soon they may be able to stop them

Sterile sex conquers sleeping sickness

The cup that poisons – Some potters are still using toxic metals in their glazes

China chokes – The economic boom is taking a heavy toll on health

Technofile : Paper solution

Technofile : Giant attractor

Technofile : Electric tomatoes

Technofile : Mighty micro

You are here鈥� – Satellite images of Earth will soon be available on the Web

Clean cut

Disarming gene is a lucky strike for smokers

Boom time for beetles – Homes that shrink and grow can drive insect populations sky high

Focus : Countdown to chaos – As 170 nations gather in Japan next week to fight over global warming, the future of the planet hangs in the balance

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan : Little weed

Newswire : Dam dispute

Newswire : Spam doesn’t pay

Newswire : Chernobyl shutdown

Newswire : Rabies returns

Bursting the heart of tumours

A sour note – Standards chaos threatens the next generation of hi-fi systems

At the mercy of mink – An alien predator is terrorising the natives across Britain

Toothless greens

Cracking the whip – Did male dinosaurs use their tails to gain control?

And now the weather: rain, rain, here to stay

Titan awakes – Strange things will happen when the Sun turns red

In brief : Fibre power

In brief : Abominable snowballs

In brief : The sweet smell of the north

In brief : Resistance is useless

In brief : Leaden empire

In brief : Not so icy age

Opinion

Editorial : Mission improbable – Can backroom diplomacy in Kyoto ward off the biggest threat to the planet?

Features

It’s a jungle out there – Why do the biggest business upsets so often take us by surprise? It all makes perfect sense if you think of the market as an ecosystem, says Roger Lewin

Sounds impossible – Reconstructing a sound source from the waves it produces takes nothing less than a mirror that makes time run backwards. Ilan Greenberg discovers how it’s done

Crystal gazing – Outsize crystals made from tiny plastic beads could play a vital role in applications as diverse as optical computers and biosensors, says Philip Ball

Out for blood – Cooking up an alternative to the red stuff is proving a tough task, says Nell Boyce

More

Australasian : Robots furnish teak – Bob Johnstone examines the timber trade

Review : Calling the ball

Review : Only divide

Review : Classical heroes

Review : Millennial missing

Review : Dolly’s big adventure

Review : Davy Jones’s locker

Review : Keeping it up

Review : A flower of his age

Review : Real Indianas

Review : Global raiders

Review : Collected works – Gail Vines listens in to the best

Bestsellers : from London

Forum : Apes and gorillas are people too – Let’s have a millennium celebration for humans and our closest relatives alike, argues John Blatchford

Forum : Surfing for the suckers – Snake-oil merchants aren’t the only slippery characters working the Web, warns Mark Ward

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

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