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Out of this world

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You can’t beat experience

Table of contents

News

A nightmare revisited

An affliction last seen in the 1950s has struck again

Warming to carbon cuts

First for GM food

Global bug alert

Cut the bull

Turned on itself

Pretty poor privacy may lurk inside processors

Escape from Earth

The one to watch

Technology

Magic marker

Technology

The mains man

Technology

Violence blackout

I spy with my duck’s eye

Against the grain

Cherry aid

It’s catching

The female gene

Mixed feelings

Getting it taped

Bright idea

Aw, shucks

Chainsaw massacre

The secret of zone 14

Knocked out in the quarter finals, but still they get the trophy

Great shakes

Floppy snaps

Technology

Underdogs up in arms

Wrong number . . .

Last orders

Wind breakers

Send in the clouds

Earth

The company of wolves

Growing problem

Space station blues

Caesareans are safer

Painful choices

Poisoned seas

Healthy mouth, healthy baby

To the rescue …

Give them credit for some brains

Iced bugs

Sour taste

Borrowed time

Stars burst

Butterfly effect

Chimp version of HIV finally linked to human epidemic

Opinion

Half the story

HIV may have started there, but Africa shouldn't bear the burden

Features

The Lopsided Universe

Cunning plumbing

Out of this world

Eco-nomics

You can’t beat experience

More

Gene switch bowls a bumper crop

Ian Lowe explores a research link with Belgium

Blithe spirit

Mind on paper

Hounded to death

For cable guys

Fly by the century

The truth about Tibet

The lion king

from San Francisco

Faraday did it with a candle

Don’t let it die

A long time coming

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