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Trust me, I’m an expert – Would you allow a machine to play the stock market with your life savings? Well, the people in the know are doing just that, says Clive Davidson

The Vanishing Point – When soldiers disappear before your very eyes and battleships hide at twenty paces, the camouflager’s art has reached its peak. Justin Mullins dons his cloak of invisibility

On the trail of the lonesome pine – They should have died out with T. rex, but their seedlings are alive and well in nurseries around the world. Wilson da Silva reports on the ancient trees flourishing on Sydney’s doorstep

Here’s one I prepared earlier – Rustling up the perfect chemical sandwich has never been so easy鈥攁nd they even glow, says Michael Judge

Table of contents

News

Dishonest brokers – Two of the worse offenders in the greenhouse stakes stand to make a killing at Kyoto

Newswire : Cutting cancer

Newswire : Blow up

Newswire : Just awards

Newswire : Landmine detector

That’s us stuffed then – People living near turkey farms harbour drug-resistant bacteria

Shaking all over – Even a puny little galaxy can generate enough energy to fuel a quasar

Mean little killers play sweet tricks

Sounding off

Caterpillar’s revenge – In the fight to protect crops, some pests may have the last laugh

Flying bug

White bread is green – Surprisingly, processed food is easier on the planet

Patents : Ladder of hope

Patents : Living doll

Patents : Funny ha-ha

CAT spots worm in ageing violin

The view at dawn – New Zealand is laying a strong claim to the first sunrise of 2000

Anatomy of a crash – Tokyo police are using film to cut car accidents

Floppy’s days are numbered

Flower power

Death of a dream? – The spectre of addiction could burst the Prozac bubble

Technofile : Beat that

Technofile : Recipe for life

Technofile : Braille breakthrough

Russia’s toxic shocker – Bomb factories created the most radioactive place on Earth

Technofile : The last straw

Publish on the Net and be damned

An ill wind – Watch out South America, there’s an epidemic of malaria coming your way

Sex `n’ drugs `n’ serotonin

Ticking over nicely – In fruit flies and humans, myriad clocks seem to mark time

Baby bashers – Mistreat a macaque and she may abuse her young

Focus : Too big for its boots – Consumer fury and a raft of court cases over Microsoft’s trading practices鈥攈as Bill Gates’s baby overreached itself?

Netropolitan : In the money

Netropolitan :

Sleep easy in Sydney – How to keep aircraft out of the bedroom

Supermouse liberates its pals from the lab

Newswire : Healed brains

Newswire : Pill poppers

Newswire : DNA Europatents

The plastic six-pack – Artificial muscle can be built from layers of polymer film

In brief : Round numbers

In brief : Unlucky Irish

In brief : Rhythm of life

In brief : Fishy affliction

In brief : Caught in the act

In brief : Gymnastic caterpillar makes a quick getaway

Opinion

Editorial : A global nightmare

We must all help Russia deal with its staggering fallout from the Cold War

Editorial : Fasten your seatbelts . . .

Features

Trust me, I’m an expert – Would you allow a machine to play the stock market with your life savings? Well, the people in the know are doing just that, says Clive Davidson

The Vanishing Point – When soldiers disappear before your very eyes and battleships hide at twenty paces, the camouflager’s art has reached its peak. Justin Mullins dons his cloak of invisibility

On the trail of the lonesome pine – They should have died out with T. rex, but their seedlings are alive and well in nurseries around the world. Wilson da Silva reports on the ancient trees flourishing on Sydney’s doorstep

Here’s one I prepared earlier – Rustling up the perfect chemical sandwich has never been so easy鈥攁nd they even glow, says Michael Judge

More

Antipodes : What will go west? – Ian Lowe finds cuts in store at universities

Review : Where do I fit?

Review : New wave, old guff

Review : Too far out

Review : Purple rain

Review : Global guide

Review : Weatherman speaks

Review : Wood folk

Review : A man of ideas

Review : The smartest Germans

Review : Greek roots

Review : In the beginning

Review : Work unfair

Review : Collected works – Fred Pearce meanders down some of the world’s mightiest rivers

Bestsellers : from Melbourne

Forum : Wouldn’t mind a go on that! – Michael Cross hacks his way through the confusion of the techno jungle

Forum : Whistling in the dark – Saving the world takes more than just one summit, say Mike Hulme and Martin Parry

Thistle diary : – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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