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Raising a storm

Biting back

City of dreams

Not just a pretty face

Puppy power

Life’s a sim and then you’re deleted

Full circle

Table of contents

News

Fighter’s laser may blind civilians

A laser weapon more powerful than any ever usedin a war is not covered by the Geneva Convention

For children, depleted uranium shells are the dirty bombs

Diseases

Dispatches

Does it matter if genes can jump from GM food to bugs in human gut?

Patent decision could turn your mobile phone into mobile everything

Insurers count cost of global warming

Soundbites

Walking, talking polio factories jeopardise global eradication plans

Tainted talons could leave you with a nasty taste in your mouth

Mexican salsas teem with food bugs

Suicide bombs leave a trail of disease

Life or death decision

Stargazer takes on grand theory

We hear that鈥�

Bioastronomy

Stress relief

Neutron stars

Neurology

New trials put heart into gene therapy

Origins of life could lurk on the Moon

Wind up the monitor, doc

Extreme laser shedslight on nanoworld

Spookiness is in the brain of the beholder

Technology

Straight down the toilet

Technology

Fighting for breath

Technology

The intelligent way to treat breast cancer

Technology

Clever cash bags

Environment

Why zoo cats lose their cool

Environment

Men die young, even when they’re old

Environment

Giraffe’s elevated view of friendship

Environment

The early bird doesn’t always get the worm

Burst bubble

Stop talking 鈥� I’m trying to walk

Brainy mouse

They shall not pass

Little big bang

Hot pants

Opinion

Hubble bubble鈥�

Table-top fusion has come in from the cold. But it still has a way to go

Making Newton proud

Kayak to the stars

Acknowledgements

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Raising a storm

Born out of chaos, the weather seems a law unto itself. But tweak it at the right time and we can take control, says Justin Mullins

Biting back

City of dreams

Not just a pretty face

Puppy power

Life’s a sim and then you’re deleted

Full circle

More

The ties that bind us

We're obsessed by how the world connects. John Casti discovers that you can have more than one take on networking

Brain tucker

Roach races

Galileo galore鈥�

Eyes on the skies

The other Darwin

In Alice’s world

The hundred greatest stars by James Kaler

Ancient mariner

Live dangerously

Books for beach and bath

Crazier than ever

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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