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Splat!

‘There was zero we could have done鈥�’

Ensnared

The big catch

Table of contents

News

US gambles on a ‘smart’ war

The military is relying on precision weapons to both win the war in Iraq and help prevent politically damning civilian casualties. But the technology is far from fail-safe

A struggle for nuclear power

Dismay over call to build more dams

Flesh-eating pests unleashed

Dispatches

Soundbites

Identity of killer pneumonia eludes experts as it attacks more victims

Technology

Every species has a ‘barcode’

Tougher laws on US pharm crops ‘not tough enough’

Kyoto changes may drive deforestation

Undercover genes slip into brain

Humans

Early chefs left indelible mark on human evolution

Rising clouds leave forests high and dry

Crystal swims like a fish to escape from laser light

The Maya’s arid end

Internet traffic cops could foil website hacker attacks

Spiders weave a web of light

Laser triggers drug release any time, any place

Technology

Car cam catches crooks

Plant labels get toned up

Technology

Musical separates

Water fleas learn from the family

Vaccine destroys plaques in Alzheimer’s disease

Lockstep neurons caught in the act

Synapse chip taps into brain chemistry

Blue swirls reveal secrets of the ocean

Muscle trouble

New moons rising

Crucial snooze

Cooking up nanolight

Vulnerable vampires

Opinion

Diseases are the new world travellers

After Iraq鈥�

Bleeding the planet dry

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Splat!

We have the technology to wipe out the mosquito forever. Should we use it, asks Oliver Morton

‘There was zero we could have done鈥�’

Ensnared

The big catch

More

Lost in limbo

Jon Turney on a discredited idea that just won't die

Modern classics the secrets of staying power

Intelligent Life in the Universe by Peter Ulmschneider and other books

Hanging on in there

The A list

Get your clicks here

A Field Guide to Dinosaurs: The essential handbook for travelers in the Mesozoic by Henry Gee and Luis V. Rey

Big and fierce

Sky for all

We are stardust

On the bookshelf

Cracking puzzles

For the enlightened

La madeleine de Proust

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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