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Editor's picks

Enigma variations

Gladerunners

Face-off

Going Dutch

The trial of little owl

Table of contents

News

Rainstorms could be the trigger for killer eruptions

Keeping an eye out for downpours may give a vital early warning that the deadliest volcanoes are set to blow

Attacks put tigers in army’ sights

‘Safe’ laser weapon comes under fire

Dispatches

Marijuana still befuddles law-makers

Bangladeshis sue British geologists for ‘largest mass poisoning ever’

World summit

Blue DVD fiasco brings back memories of Betamax vs VHS

Partnerships don’t live up to the hype

Emotional highs and foiled takeovers

Earth

Green energy targets blown away

Quenching the world’s thirst

Plumbing the planet

Water by numbers

Texts that trigger meltdown

Bugs in computer code strike a discordant note

Cotton thread runs unbroken through prehistory

Did blast from below destroy Tunguska?

Driverless cars line up for race to Vegas

Key gene in cleft lip traced

We hear that鈥�

Technology

Underwater messaging

Technology

On the tip of my tongue

Technology

Hopping mad

Sharper scans out of the blue

Anthrax toxin silences immune cells’ alarm call

The best drugs come in small packages

Just how much did a photon weigh?

Qubits spot the difference

With this foolproof flat-pack you won’t even have to read the instructions

Crunch time soon?

Out of the mouths of babes鈥�

Pets train your kids’ immune system

Genetic light switch

Caught red-handed

Don’t eat that, eat this鈥�

Driving down suicides

Crime and punishment

Opinion

The party’s over

Have we got what it takes to deliver on the promises made at Joburg?

On the quest of a wave

The River maker

The word cryptozoology

Humans

Westminster dairy

Features

Enigma variations

Nature's constants may be changing, but nobody knows why. John D. Barrow thinks we could find the answer beyond the fourth dimension

Gladerunners

Face-off

Going Dutch

The trial of little owl

More

Aye, there’s the rubber

Gimme an h! gimme an h!

Human wrongs

Dice and ice

Fighting talk

Out of Africa

Chaos in Camelot

Possessive plural

First person singular

The Blank Slate: The modern denial of human nature by Steven Pinker

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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