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Ready, steady, evolve

Let the river run

Stolen code

Red alert

Marriage of equals

Table of contents

News

‘Act now’ plea on bioterror threat

The Red Cross is calling for curbs on sensitive research before lethal germs fall into the wrong hands

African states betray World summit pledges by launching mega-projects

‘Bad blood’ kills hundreds

Dispatches

Soundbites

Genetically engineered fungus bites back at the crops it’s meant to save

Navy pilots can set stray missiles back on course

Mars lander ‘will beat snags’

Sign up to watch the night sky

The fatal attraction that sends men to an early death

We hear that 鈥�

Race is on to stop human cloning

Technology

Story of early Universe unfolds

Drugs to stop drink from harming baby

Body gets a healing boost from its inner electric fields

Venus may surprise us and emerge as a haven for life

Did living on Mars build up a microbe’s resistance to radiation?

Supercrop thrives on saline soil

Bring on the T cells

Ancient eye resurrected

Technology

You show me yours鈥�

Technology

Milk cream skin infections

Technology

Jammers beware

Not such close cousins after all

See-thru chip creates code that’s far from transparent

Laser treatment strips away the grimy ravages of time

Cleaner, greener rice

Slowly but surely

No succour in liquor

How many will get vCJD?

Cheaper charges

Sinister parallels

Opinion

The hand of God

The shortcomings of science are no basis for a spiritual faith

How not to save the world

Secrets from the grave

The word cosmogonist

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Ready, steady, evolve

Evolution is a slow, painstaking process. But haveplants and animals found a way of seizing the throttle to get them out of a tight spot? Bob Holmes reports

Let the river run

Stolen code

Red alert

Marriage of equals

More

Spot a finch

Machine Nature by Moshe Sipper

Genius at large

Joseph LeDoux

Robert Sapolsky

Whims on wheels

Count on it

Blowing hot and cold

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The Last Word

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