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That’s amazing, isn’t it ? – Why is intuition worse than useless when it comes to spotting real coincidences? Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart investigate

Pastures new – The crops that feed us today give up their grain and die, leaving the soil exposed to wind and rain. But what if the plants lived on from one year to the next, asks Meg Gordon

Praying for Silence – Imagine living with deafening noises that only you can hear. Fortunately the hell of tinnitus is finally getting the research attention it needs, says Saffron Davies

The legend of big G – Measuring gravity may be more than an intellectual exercise for trainspotters, says David Kestenbaum. It could be the loose thread that unravels the whole of modern physics

Table of contents

News

So who exactly is Richard Seed?

Crossing the line – Richard Seed may not win a place in history for cloning humans, but someone probably will

Talking point – Chimps’ gestures may have more meaning than we realised

Mercury’s ghostly glow reveals its secret

He’s making eyes at me – When they meet a male, female stalk-eyed flies are only interested in one thing

Newswire : E-mail for free

Newswire : Muscleman tragedy

Newswire : Dolly’s baby

Newswire : A raw deal

Good for nothing – Genes that seemed useless are working in subtle ways

Stars of the small screen

Patents : Smuggling chips

Patents : Dial V for video

Patents : Beer mat deluxe

Going with the flow – Quick-fire pulses keep track of an expensive commodity鈥攕ewage

Piles of plutonium blow up big bomb fears

Blind prejudice – “Hard” scientists believe they are immune to bias

The dragnet closes in – Tobacco sleuths have put a biotech company in the dock

Price of pet freedom – Quarantine rules protect Britain from more than just rabies

A cure in sight – Pinning down the cataract trigger could help millions of sufferers

Technofile : In the groove

Technofile : Light on leaks

Technofile : Power modems

Technofile : Keeping tabs

Jet-setting black holes bare all

Make do and mend – Meet the supercomputer cobbled together on a shoestring from obsolete PCs

Coming soon…the disposable desktop computer

Tricky light – They may look like exploding stars to amateur astronomers, but the truth is more mundane

Earth

Focus : Paradise postponed

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan : Lone wolves

Could algae save the world?

The future in tow – Old waterways are coming into their own again with the revolution in communications

Newswire : Homegrown fly

Newswire : Dioxin disclosure

Newswire : Own brand

Living colour – It’s not your imagination鈥攖hose old films really were more vivid

Earth

Coast to coast – Eastern invaders threaten Canada’s native salmon

Dementia linked to faulty RNA

In brief : Common grammar

In brief : Prime candidates

In brief : Auroras light up Saturn’s poles

In brief : Smell-binding

In brief : Reclusive stars

In brief : Saliva thwarts HIV

Opinion

Editorial : A force of nature? – Human need could prove too much for any ban on cloning

Features

That’s amazing, isn’t it ? – Why is intuition worse than useless when it comes to spotting real coincidences? Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart investigate

Pastures new – The crops that feed us today give up their grain and die, leaving the soil exposed to wind and rain. But what if the plants lived on from one year to the next, asks Meg Gordon

Praying for Silence – Imagine living with deafening noises that only you can hear. Fortunately the hell of tinnitus is finally getting the research attention it needs, says Saffron Davies

The legend of big G – Measuring gravity may be more than an intellectual exercise for trainspotters, says David Kestenbaum. It could be the loose thread that unravels the whole of modern physics

More

Antipodes : Government opens the door to technology – Ian Lowe assesses the new science advisory structure

Recycling the Earth

Review : Roar of the surf

Review : Uncertain light

Review : Nietzsche was here

Review : Survival guide

Review : Doctors’ orders

Review : Pest wars

Review : Rainforest quest

Review : Peacock’s tale

Review : World about us

Review : Diamond life

Review : Religious greens

Review : Law for green activists

Review : The global symphony

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : Collected works – Wendy Grossman connects to the wild, wired future

Earth

Forum: Playing dirty in Kyoto

Forum : Let’s hear it for the woodworm – Why don’t we treat our fellow creatures more consistently, asks John Stonehouse

Thistle diary : – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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