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Editor's picks

The quantum oracle

Fair enough

Tissue transformers

Technology

Star wars hits the streets

Table of contents

News

Cancer scare hits gene cures

A second major setback for medicine's most pioneering treatment has split the scientific community. Could a moratorium do more harm than good?

Retrovirus blamed for giving boy leukaemia

Pago poised to blow its top

Dispatches

Watchdog rejects plan to recover nuclear gas

Technology

Soundbites

Mass exodus curbs urban boom

Red faces as 3G phone demo flops

Official report fails to quell safety fears over Colombian anti-drug campaign

Health

Your very own sequence

Bug plugs keep the oil flowing

Wannabe fathers generate more testosterone for those special nights

Radio gets rubble-rousing

鈥hile concern grows that existing precautions may let infection through

Hopes rise for test to spot mad cow disease in people鈥�

Technology

Shake it up, baby

Technology

Instant brain check

Technology

No more freeloads any more

Weedkillers could wipe out malaria

Climate modellers overlook crucial factor in warming

Huge snowball on outskirts of Solar System puts Pluto in the shade

Massive balancing act pins down big G

Hard evidence left by biggest killer of all time points to death by suffocation

From food scraps to fuel cell

Mercury clock could set the standard

Health

Sloppy studies ‘wasting time’

Health

Pill spares friendly gut bugs from onslaught

I spy with my little octopussy eye

The spider’s stratagem

When life isn’t sweet

Heart of the Planet

Clean, green launch

Post-pill pregnancies

Opinion

Dark side of the genome

Genetic blueprints can hinder as well as speed up medical research

How you are helping to wreck the Planet

Free radical

The word OMZS

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The quantum oracle

Could a droplet of helium hold the secrets of the Universe? Hazel Muir explores a weird new way to do cosmology

Fair enough

Tissue transformers

Technology

Star wars hits the streets

More

Keep these in mind

Steven Rose is sceptical about the fashion for consciousness, yet manages to find some nuggets in the stream

The proof is out there

How to learn

Four legs: good

Student – Bestsellers

An alien abroad

Icy waste

A feast of genes

Regulars

Feedback: the Ig Nobel prizes

FEEDBACK'S favourite prizes 鈥� the Ig Nobels 鈥� were handed out last week at Harvard University.

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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