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Beyond reality – Watching information at play in the quantum world is throwing physicists into a flat spin, says Mark Buchanan

Open wide, we’re going to explore – Fighting tooth decay by annihilating all the mostly harmless bacteria in your mouth is like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Garry Hamilton looks at more subtle ways of stopping the rot

Scramble for space – What do you get if you cross a jet engine with a rocket? Enough power to send NASA’s first space plane into orbit, says Ben Iannotta

The People eaters – After thirty years of fierce controversy, the idea that cannibalism was common is gaining acceptance. And, as Robin McKie reports, the theory is backed up by rigorous analysis of bones from around the world

Table of contents

News

Reaching for the Moon – Does the discovery of water pave the way for lunar colonists?

Rice with everything in the lunar caf茅

Frozen history – The Moon’s poles may hold secrets of the Solar System’s birth

Subtle signals keep menstrual clocks in sync

Humans

Ancient mariners – Early humans were much smarter than we suspected

Suffer the children – The great taboo of gene therapy may have been broken

Newswire : Swords into ploughshares

Newswire : Breathe easy?

Newswire : Woman power

Newswire : Chemical timebomb

Smart stretcher smooths the way

Burnt-out case – Tongues of flame melt down the landmine menace

Patents : Up, up and away

Who’s watching you? – Software thieves beware, your computer could turn you in

Patents : Hole story

Patents : Power to the palmtop

Kentucky delivers TB warning

A catch too far – Scottish lochs are paying the price for farmed salmon

Little lake has greatness thrust upon it

Medicine on a plate – Stricter rules on labelling will help people choose health-giving foods

Cancer killer – A hormone in soya beans starves tumour cells to death

Why Australia was left high and dry

Safety in numbers – For our ancestors, ganging together was the only hope of survival

The Net cost of making a name for yourself

What rotten luck – Keeping landfills wet speeds up decay but risks polluting groundwater

Technofile : Loud and clear

Technofile : Fat little piggies

Technofile : Smart etchings

Look, no hands – Machines could take on the fiddliest assembly work

Technofile : Between the lines

Focus : Undermining our lives? – Radon seeps into the homes of millions of people around the world. Its effects may have been seriously exaggerated

Netropolitan : Heavy metal

Netropolitan : . . .

Any old oil? – Geologists search for black gold at the dawn of time

Hormone history

Newswire : Out in the open

Newswire : Boink goes Windows

Cracked it – An allergy to peanuts may not be a life sentence

Newswire : Tea for three

From a watery grave – Bacteria that feast on whale bones reveal the secret of cool washes

Yellowstone’s bugs land up in court

In brief : Curing the blues

In brief : Death defying

In brief : Io’s ups and downs

In brief : From tiny beginnings

In brief : The future is carbon

In brief : Early learning makes adult owls even wiser

Opinion

Editorial : Giant steps . . . – Despite the hype, there’s a lot more to the Moon than water

Features

Beyond reality – Watching information at play in the quantum world is throwing physicists into a flat spin, says Mark Buchanan

Open wide, we’re going to explore – Fighting tooth decay by annihilating all the mostly harmless bacteria in your mouth is like taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut. Garry Hamilton looks at more subtle ways of stopping the rot

Scramble for space – What do you get if you cross a jet engine with a rocket? Enough power to send NASA’s first space plane into orbit, says Ben Iannotta

The People eaters – After thirty years of fierce controversy, the idea that cannibalism was common is gaining acceptance. And, as Robin McKie reports, the theory is backed up by rigorous analysis of bones from around the world

More

Antipodes : Climate rings in the changes -Ian Lowe talks about the weather

Gravity waves

Review : Take me to your leader

Review : Wet West

Review : Forest green

Review : Net yawns

Review : Green from the grave

Review : . . . other Earths

Review : Alien worlds . . .

Review : Tomorrow the world

Review : Flying tonight

Review : Bright spark

Review : Winging it

Review : Collected works – Wendy Grossman on liberty, taking liberties and the Net

Bestsellers : from San Francisco

Forum : It won’t take a minute – Once they found out what Bruce Durie knows, his phone wouldn’t stop ringing

Forum : Death to Concorde’s sons

Thistle diary : . . . – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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