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A snail’s pace – What has downloading intricate graphics from the Web got to do with entropy? Whatever you do, don’t go surfing for the answer, warns Charles Seife

Marijuana : A safe high? – Cannabis faces serious charges from the US government. You are the jury

Special report : Marijuana

Cellwars – It’s good, but not good enough, all the while women are dying. Could cervical screening get some much needed help from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars programme, asks Helen Gavaghan

Health

The Dutch experiment : Vraag een politieagent . . . – Go ahead, ask a cop for dope. The Dutch don’t mind

Table of contents

News

Technofile : Software sentry

Experts’ experts

Live wires – The blueprint of life is helping to shrink electronics

Robosurgeon – Aesop never tires or shakes and always obeys orders

Bean bag

Two-faced killer – Blocking the paths of twin proteins might put a stop to Ebola

Focus : Hidden perils – Coping with risks to public health is fraught with danger. Should governments lay down the law, or publish what they know and let people decide for themselves?

Technofile : Martian music

Technofile : Le bug millennium

Dipping into danger – Fears are mounting over routine exposure to pesticides

Technofile : Greased lightning

Reeling in satellites – A return ticket for satellites that have reached the end of the line

Netropolitan :

Netropolitan : Travelling hopefully

Coming up for air – Can diving rats can show us how to treat brain damage?

A far cry – Echoes are arriving from beyond the visible Universe

Feel that sight

Netropolitan :

The fears of a clone – Even the President turned out to hear what’s hot at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia

High anxieties – What the WHO doesn’t want you to know about cannabis

Danger, shrimps at work – Mangroves are at the mercy of shrimp farmers

Clinton rings the changes at the top

Set a virus to catch a virus – Novel treatment may defend the immune system against the worst ravages of HIV

Medieval light catches the colours of disease

Gaining on pain – Why even the lightest touch can be agony for those with damaged nerves

Newswire : Cloning ban fails

Patents : Beleaguered beluga

Patents : Clever clogs

Technology

Patents : Soft landing

Angels with dirty faces – White lead and pollution blackened the pure image

Clean bill of health for particle trap

Lawn menace – Bad light stops growth

In their jeans

In brief : Divide and rule

Newswire : Longest legs

Newswire : Gene business

In brief : How spiders’ webs spring into action

In brief : Sugar junkies

In brief : Scary monsters

In brief : Of mice and acorns

In brief : Grassroots rebellion

Jabs fight death after dinner

Pests with a purpose – Why farmers must offer refuge to their worst enemies

Newswire : Fighting talk

Opinion

Editorial : Let’s be adult about this – Politicians will just have to bite on the bullet鈥攄ope will be decriminalised

Features

A snail’s pace – What has downloading intricate graphics from the Web got to do with entropy? Whatever you do, don’t go surfing for the answer, warns Charles Seife

Marijuana : A safe high? – Cannabis faces serious charges from the US government. You are the jury

Special report : Marijuana

Cellwars – It’s good, but not good enough, all the while women are dying. Could cervical screening get some much needed help from Ronald Reagan’s Star Wars programme, asks Helen Gavaghan

Health

The Dutch experiment : Vraag een politieagent . . . – Go ahead, ask a cop for dope. The Dutch don’t mind

More

Review : Advantage gay

Review : Collected works – Douglas Palmer digs up three of the best on the fossil record

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Review : . . . or not

Review : Remember this . . .

Review : Mozart and the nightingale

Review : Without prejudice

Review : A giant among the dwarfs

Review : Which hunts

Review : Starry eyed

Review : Must be Aries

Review : Shining star

Antipodes : Heavens open for the stargazers – Ian Lowe explores astronomy’s new dawn

Thistle diary : – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Sleaze and disease – Michael Day thinks inspired leadership could do wonders for world health

Review : The great leap forward

Physics

Forum: So far and yet so near

Regulars

The last word

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