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Burgers on the brain

Heavy weather

Fragile minds

Soft machine

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News

Hungry for the right advice

Famine-struck Zambia is still rejecting food aid. And all because of a policy drawn up years ago in Britain

Ecoterrorists target rarest of birds

Lobbying on asteroid threat finally pays off

Gene engineers move into the dairy

World’s poor may get cheaper drugs

Dispatches

Movie pirates will have field day after DVD security lapse

Technology

Researchers’ links with biomed industry lead to bias in clinical trials

Lake to lose its silent killer

Arctic faces toxic time bomb

Space

Mission impossible

Regenerating the retina

The meek shall inherit the Earth, provided they can survive long enough

Worms beaten back in the battle for the banana

How to flick the switch that makes liver cells produce insulin

No secret will be safe from quantum code breakers

Double whammy destroys mouse tumours

Marrow cells offer hope for nerves ravaged by disease

Steam fires underwater jet engine

Technology

So that’s what it was for鈥�

Technology

Zip up your flat-packs

Technology

No fear of crashing

Getting to grips with mystery space bugs

Eat more, weigh less, live longer

We hear that鈥�

Bugs’ breathy secrets revealed

Termites tackle the plastic bag menace

Blind fear

Tougher with tusks

The milky way

Desert devastation

Cracks appearing

Opinion

A high with your fries?

Even if fast food is not as addictive as tobacco it still merits a health warning

Healthcare by numbers

Eyes wide open

The word ethnoclimatology

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Burgers on the brain

Can you really get addicted to fast food? The evidence is piling up, and the lawyers are rubbing their hands. Diane Martindale reports

Heavy weather

Fragile minds

Soft machine

More

Let’s get fizzical

Deforesting the Earth by Michael Williams and other books

Catch up on evolution

Up, up and away

Far out

Cook’s tour

Secret treasure

Spirited stuff

The other heroes

The rape of science

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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