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Far from the madding cows . . . – Don’t throw away that gunk at the bottom of the tube鈥攊t could turn prions into the good guys after all. Jonathan Knight reports

Boiling fridges – Forget heavy compressors and noxious gases. New-generation fridges may use hot chips that only need electrons to keep them cool, says Michelle Knott

There’s an ant in my phone鈥� – Would you let ants run the digital superhighways of the future? Even if they were smart little programs and getting smarter all the time? Mark Ward wonders

Family feuds – Reconstructing life’s evolutionary tree is tough enough without warring researchers trying to cut the branches away from under each other, says Roger Lewin

Table of contents

News

Technology

Roadblocks ahead

If you want to ease traffic congestion, there's a simple solution. Shut a few roads

Newswire : Lunar sacrilege

Newswire : Space for all

Change of heart on pig transplants

Crunch time – Could cloning rescue pandas from extinction?

Newswire : Confused fish

Newswire : Hormone hearings

A brilliant way to protect outdoor art

Grow your own arteries – Cultured blood vessels are stronger than the real thing

Designer tunnel

Chain reaction – What do warehouses and chaotic systems have in common?

Work-outs keep the brain in shape

Patents : Guide lines

Light relief – How your skin could help beat the winter blues

Patents : Tuned in

Patents : Flying twins

Royalties row upstages digital TV launch

Consuming needs – Neglected but key food research is now on the cards

The perils of PVC – Plastics are implicated in one of the commonest male cancers

Fractal cancer

In the beginning – It’s hard to grasp, but the Universe may have made itself

Technofile : Fish market

The great divide – Even chopped up chromosomes can replicate like a dream

Technofile : Colourful smoothie

Technofile : Fragrant sludge

Technofile : Brittle bone detector

City dwellers dying for a breath of fresh air

Tube travel – Inflatable cylinders could house space voyagers

Focus : On stony ground – The erosion of science within Britain’s conservation agencies is having dire consequences for wildlife

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan : Shiver your timbers

Any day now . . . – West of Tokyo, the ground is shuddering ominously

There may be a future after all

Death wish gene – Suicidal depression seems to run in some families

Newswire : Green continent

Newswire : Clean break

Newswire : Two into one

Switching satellites – BSkyB is going to extraordinary lengths to stay in the digital TV race

Barking up the wrong tree

In brief : Ancient bones

In brief : Eternal life

In brief : HIV’s accomplice

In brief : There ain’t no cure for the baby blues

In brief : Flying high

In brief : Down to Earth

Opinion

Editorial : Sans everything – Are telomeres a vital part of the quest for a cure for old age鈥攐r mere hype?

Features

You could be on the wanted lists!

Far from the madding cows . . . – Don’t throw away that gunk at the bottom of the tube鈥攊t could turn prions into the good guys after all. Jonathan Knight reports

Boiling fridges – Forget heavy compressors and noxious gases. New-generation fridges may use hot chips that only need electrons to keep them cool, says Michelle Knott

There’s an ant in my phone鈥� – Would you let ants run the digital superhighways of the future? Even if they were smart little programs and getting smarter all the time? Mark Ward wonders

Family feuds – Reconstructing life’s evolutionary tree is tough enough without warring researchers trying to cut the branches away from under each other, says Roger Lewin

More

Review : Babies without sex

Review : 2001: an oddity

How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker

Review : Monkey business

Review : Hidden treasure

Review : Art of science

Review : Spirit world

Review : Writers live

Review : Watch this space

Review : Closer encounters

Review : Stargazers

Review : Human interest stories

Bestsellers : from Washington

Review : Collected works – David Barrett picks out the weird but worthy among the alien detritus

Forum : Bald today…hair tomorrow – Video conferencing discriminates against the follicularly challenged, complains Michael Cross

Forum : A canny way with whales – Limiting catches to coastal waters should kill off the commercial trade, says Kieran Mulvaney

Thistle diary : – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : Study uncovers a new carbon sink – Ian Lowe explores a business environment venture

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