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Paradox lost

Catching the wind – A solar telescope concentrates the Sun’s fierce heat like a giant magnifying glass, blurring its images. The answer, as Govert Schilling reports, is blowing in the wind

Playing with fire – Despite international outrage and the terrible toll on public health, the incentives for Indonesian farmers to torch vast swathes of forest are as great as ever. Fred Pearce asks what can be done to stop the burning

Brain repair kit – Engineered cells that home in on damaged tissue could one day be used to patch up the brains of heart attack or head injury patients. Alison Motluk reports

Table of contents

News

Nowhere to hide – America is waking up to the threat of bioterrorism, but is there any real defence?

Newswire : Potatoes blighted

Newswire : Plague alert

Newswire : Deadly delay

Apocalypse postponed

Why going digital could blur your vision

Big is better – How sprocket scientists have given cyclists a speed boost

Patents : Dragging its feet

Patents : Model president

Patents : Sleep capsule

Tasty solution – It’s safe and biodegradable, and now it’s cheap as well

A clockwork pine – Now we know why some trees get so wound-up

Egg race

Pure brew – Why mess with beans when you can grow decaffeinated coffee?

Emerging diseases : Why Uncle Sam feels under the weather

Emerging diseases : Sick platoon syndrome – Dangerous infections lurk everywhere, from military boot camps to bowls of salad. Nell Boyce reports from the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia

Emerging diseases : The killer within

Emerging diseases : A smoking gun? – Drug resistance in hospitals has been traced to the farmyard

Croon like the King – It’s Elvis but he’s singing Verdi

Technofile : Sky-high eye

Technofile : Cold spin

Technofile : Solar propulsion

Technofile : Lipstick killer

Heartbeat betrays furry stowaways

Smooth operators – Mobile suction would be a boon in major surgery

Green and seen – Now we can track cancer’s lethal little helpers

Halting HIV

Focus : Come the revolution – Medicine based on genetics will transform healthcare and is already turning the pharmaceuticals industry upside down

Netropolitan : Saintly surfing

Netropolitan : Saintly surfing

Dark secrets – Could superheavy particles make up the Universe’s missing matter?

Your very good health 鈥�

Unnatural environment – Have campaigners for the return of Scotland’s forests got it wrong?

Four legs bad

Newswire : Cold fusion farewell

Newswire : Down but not out

Life after death – New York state moves to keep dead men’s sperm in the family

Newswire : Gene pips Dolly

Calves are dining on blood . . . don’t tell Oprah

Vive le clone! – A French calf answers some of the questions about cloning

In brief : Food for thought

In brief : No sweat

In brief : Light is light

In brief : One by one

In brief : Rise and fall

In brief : Southern pigeons know their place

Opinion

Editorial : Strike at will – The more we prepare for bioterrorist attacks, the worse it all seems

Features

Paradox lost

Nature abhors a paradox, which is just as well. Otherwise you might bezapped by a naked singularity or go back in time and kill your own grandmother. Paul Davies opens a can of worms

Catching the wind – A solar telescope concentrates the Sun’s fierce heat like a giant magnifying glass, blurring its images. The answer, as Govert Schilling reports, is blowing in the wind

Playing with fire – Despite international outrage and the terrible toll on public health, the incentives for Indonesian farmers to torch vast swathes of forest are as great as ever. Fred Pearce asks what can be done to stop the burning

Brain repair kit – Engineered cells that home in on damaged tissue could one day be used to patch up the brains of heart attack or head injury patients. Alison Motluk reports

More

Review : Stuff of dreams

Review : Love at first bite

Review : The Earth eaters

Review : Spawning monsters

Review : World apart

Review : All in the mind

Review : What’s real?

Fire in the Sky: Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science by Roberta Olson and Jay Pasachoff

Review : Collected works – David Tomlinson on the bird books to have and to hold

Review : Liar, liar

Review : Debatable

Review : Round up the usual suspects

Review : Midwives to the stars

Bestsellers : from Rome

Forum : Storm in the mountain – Should two media personalities determine the fate of Scotland’s famous Cairngorms, asks Rob Edwards

Forum : Making the effort count – Targeting HIV-positive people is the best way of stopping the virus’s spread, argues Simon King-Spooner

Thistle diary : – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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