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Table of contents

News

GM row delays food aid

Despite the famine, Zimbabwe is refusing to accept thousands of tonnes of genetically modified maize offered by the US. Is the decision based on science or politics?

Drought hits India

Natural high helps banish bad times

Soundbites

Fertility hope for chemo patients as doctors grow eggs outside the body

Dispatches

Test to monitor fin trade

Row over in-car alerts for emergency vehicles

Doctors still push myths about IUDs

Ancient smiths forged to last

We hear that鈥�

Technology

Ecological hotspots named as latest casualties in Colombia’s drugs war

Truck trains to fight own fires

You must remember this鈥�

Armageddon postponed鈥ntil 2060

Do tumours thrive on morphine?

The bright idea that could replace your flickering fluorescents with a cool glow

We hear that鈥�

Sound unlocks the brain

If it’s going to blow, we’ll know

Stem cells could save sight

They can run but they can’t hide, and that’s bad news for growing chicks

Pufferfish helps unlock secrets of human genome

North Sea crash site mirrors craters on Jupiter’s icy moons

Technology

Webbed goalies

Technology

Guessing game

Technology

Private view

Secret lives of dogs

Why not run your car on a greenhouse gas?

The underdog might win the day

Technology

Robots will learn like we do

Technology

The forget-me-not bot keeps people on time

Technology

Chat to the chat room on your cellphone

Breath of fresh air

Bristling dinosaurs

No clock in the knees

Gift of life

Landsat turns 30 and celebrates with style

The end is fly

Opinion

When myths kill

Who's really to blame when a starving country rejects food aid?

Apocalypse? not now thanks

Their hands on your genes

How theother half live

Bliss

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Never say die

Can the human race live forever? Yes, says Philip Ball, but only if Einstein was wrong about our Universe

Wallaby nations

Juice on the loose

The golden meme

Eau de toilet

More

How you’ve changed

George dons the bloodstained purple

And river run

Star performances

Never trust an expert

Beyond the clock face

Whatever the weather

Past polymath

Early netheads

Mapping Human History by Steve Olson

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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