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Editor's picks

The top-down Universe

Cutting edge

Golden goals

The anatomists’ farewell

Pipped to the positron

Table of contents

News

The contraceptive plague

Australia has genetically engineered viruses that could provide a humane way to control alien pests such as rabbits. Now it must decide if it's safe to release them

Triggering mini-crashes could help stock markets ride out tough times

Soundbites

Jury still out over the Vinland Map

Shuttle repairs are go

Dispatches

Clue to how power lines could increase the risk of cancer

Environment

Britain’s smallpox vaccine should work just as well as the US version

Robotic warrior goes into action in the hazardous caves of Afghanistan

Peace deal could fuel mineral plunder

Hand-helds are a hacker’s best friend

US rejection of nuclear test treaty ‘unjustified’

Future of corals is going down the pan

Download and multiply

New schizophrenia theory

Cosmic rays and newborn clouds explain one of the mysteries of global warming

Now embryonic stem cells comewithout the risk of animal diseases

Secrets of a long life revealed

Roaming farmers cultivated civilisation

We hear that鈥�

Toxic alga eschews the use of poison

Killing cancer in a hail of bullets

Families not fashion blamed for anorexia

Technology

Hot lips

Technology

Shocking appetite

Technology

See it, buy it

Pictures that hide your true identity

Wasps sniff out danger

Record labels to take ‘viral’ approach to PR

Grey-sky theory puts stargazers in shade

How to flip a galaxy

Middle-aged spread

Calling the tunes

Blooming cold

Jets blanket the Earth

Smoking can seriously harm your cat’s health

Opinion

A tale of two youngsters

Two boys, two diseases. One will be treated, one won't. Why?

Viruses can run wild too

There’s no pill for curinga hellish upbringing

In the line of fire

Eridug

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The top-down Universe

When subatomic particles are in thrall to distant galaxies you know someone has just rewritten all the rules. J R Minkel explores a weird new world

Cutting edge

Golden goals

The anatomists’ farewell

Pipped to the positron

More

Golden opportunity

Discovering discovery

I enclose an SAE

Found it

Bestsellers – Berkeley

Why oh why oh why?

The man who made maps

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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