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Plague of plenty

Genes can come true

You are what you speak

The liquid telescope

Darkness at noon

Table of contents

News

California poised for disaster

All the latest studies point to the same chilling conclusion: the San Andreas fault will rupture sooner rather than later, unleashing a catastrophic quake

How big tobacco manipulated the black civil rights struggle

Accusations fly over ‘green’ timber

Modified crop breeds toxic hybrid

Oz broadband hitches ride on mobile network

Biomass project burns out

Soundbites

Dispatches

When is an oil spill an environmental disaster?

Sweet genes help rice in a drought

Artists turn DNA into the ultimate personalised gift

Life

Take one genome鈥�

Why artificial microbes may be just a solution looking for a problem

Warblers are born to sing

Fraud detection system catches eye of Pentagon as way of beating terrorism

Early warning of bad heart

When did dogs become our best friends?

Strum the Internet if you want a safer connection

Moon’s shadow stirs up eclipse wind

Technology

Audible icons

Technology

Don’t phone and drive

Technology

Fighting movie piracy

One at a time on the astroscales please鈥�

Quick test targets illegal traders

Making tissue that just keeps growing

Green light for grafts

Physics

Qubits turn up trumps

Wily whales flash their bellies to petrify prey

DNA’s best friend

Road-kill turtles

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Battle of the black holes

Older father risk

Opinion

Give science a chance

Even if war breaks out in Iraq, we'll still need weapons inspectors

Let sleeping bats lie

Still hard to be a woman

A study in conflict

The word zettabyte

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Plague of plenty

A rising tide of carbon dioxide could spark an epidemic of malnutrition in a world overflowing with food, says Graham Lawton

Genes can come true

You are what you speak

The liquid telescope

Darkness at noon

More

Espresso, prego

Colour me purple

Shads of revolution

Hominids, hominids

Sturt W. Manning

Gordon Rintoul

One flea or two

Lord of the rings

Lethal invaders

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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