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Not-so total recall

The final countdown

Atomic buffet

Secret paths

England’s El Dorado

Table of contents

News

Test blunders risk needless abortions

Two years after the US began nationwide screening for cystic fibrosis, confusion over the test results may mean that healthy fetuses are being terminated

A warning that must not be ignored

Dispatches

Soundbites

Iraq clean-up team being kept out

Environment

Race against time to rescue undersea cables

U-turn over radiation safety

Did Einstein and Newton have autism?

Mangrove plantations pose threat to coral reefs

East Africa eyes up hot rocks for fuel of the future

A bitter-sweet row

The fast route to a longer, healthier life

Does a hook hurt a fish? The evidence is reeling in

Technology

No smart card, no drugs

Technology

Terrorist tankers turned away

Oldest known Chinese script discovered

Technology

Moths get mothballed

In a desert far, far away

Rock and ice vie for credit for complex life

Ban on growth promoters has not increased bacteria

Poor diet leads to premature birth

Going, going, gone鈥or the max

Physics

Watch out for bad vibes

Physics

Big cat uses infrasound to keep rivals at bay

Physics

Conference Round-up

Young turkeys gobble up powdered grubs

Flying fossils

Seen in a good light

Secrets of a superbug

Record nanotubes

Exploding meteorites

Opinion

Beware the grey goo

Nanotech scare stories are blinding us to more pressing perils

Gene testing is easy, it’s the next bit that’s hard

Sweet and sour

Life after Man

The word logotechnics

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Not-so total recall

Once a memory is formed, it's there to stay. Or is it? John McCrone investigates

The final countdown

Atomic buffet

Secret paths

England’s El Dorado

More

Back to your routes

A path through the coral maze

Time travel

World health

Brute absence

Let there be might

Burning issues

Park life

Sex Wars: Genes, bacteria and biased sex ratios by Michael Majerus

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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