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Earth

Is weather getting wilder?

Health

The skull doctors

Love That Fat

Space rescue

All fired up

Table of contents

News

Who started it?

Polio vaccine seems in the clear, but the HIV debate rages on

Dangerous apes

Sea change

Killer cure?

Why humpbacks sing high in winter

A bridge with backbone

Caesarean foils virus

MEPs take a stand

A hole lot bigger

Cooling off

Build your own spaceship

Piercing brilliance

Technology

Dial `M’ for money

Technology

Deep-dyed guilt

Dig for life on Mars

How to sunbathe without getting wrinkles

Egg stopper

Storms in paradise

Whispering atoms

It’s a dog’s light

Virtual fighting

Barcode bonanza

War of the bugs

Stop that infernal racket

Leaning tower

It takes a killer to stop a killer

Relax, then do it

Jet-propelled ship makes cargo fly

After the earth has moved

Breaking asthma’s downward spiral

The secret of spring

Look, no fillings

Sleep tight with melatonin

Rough stuff

Wake-up call

Nellie’s on the pill

Wipe out

Feeling better

Super cables

Purple Earth

Copper cleans up

Opinion

A changing climate

Ian Lowe surveys the greenhouse scene

Save us from another HIV

A good, clean fight

Drug buster

Digging and dreaming

Humans

Westminster Diary

Features

Earth

Is weather getting wilder?

Hold onto your hat. Gabrielle Walker consults the long-range forecast and finds that we're heading for a rough ride

Health

The skull doctors

Love That Fat

Space rescue

All fired up

More

Origin of planetary systems

Until 1995, astronomers wondering how planets form had just one solar system to study-our own. But everything changed when skywatchers began to discover planets orbiting distant stars

Grab an axe

Life and letters

Prince of tides

No X are Y

Robo sapiens: Evolution of a new species by Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio

Regulars

Feedback

The last word

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