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The facts of life

Death and destruction

The antiproton cure

Uncharted territory

Arsonist by appointment

Table of contents

News

BSE crosses the Atlantic

The US and Canada were warned that some of their cattle might have mad cow disease. But neither country has been testing enough animals to rule this out

Vehicle fumes increase asthma risk in children

Name change fails to mollify critics of anti-terror plan

Iraq to get digital replicas

Dispatches

America’s home-grown radio revolution stalls

Don’t read this if you are one of life’s worriers

Soundbites

An eye for gaming

Back to their roots

Everest’s rocks reveal their secrets

Coated implants protect against scanner dangers

The Geiger counter within us

Mimicry turns computers into everyone’s best mate

Molecular scissors make their point

Gloves off in war on sharps

We hear that鈥�

Technology

Honey, I shocked the bees

Technology

Its a wrap, folks

Technology

Medicinal wonder-wand

The tortoise is dead, long live the tortoise

The thermal history of life is revealed

Space

Universe comes unstuck

Space

Origin of planets remains elusive

Space

Conference round-up

How infected mozzies live la dolce vita

Learning to talk鈥�

鈥nd walk

Enter the seven dwarfs

Flutter-free lifestyles

Safe from smallpox

Opinion

Whose bones are they?

We are at a turning point over the fate of ancient human remains

It’s mad not to come clean on BSE

Enslaved by free trade

The longest journey

The word sinkhole

Humans

Washington diary

Features

The facts of life

What is the smallest set of genes that can provide the elusive spark of life? There's only one way to be sure, says Claire Ainsworth, and that's to build up a set from scratch

Death and destruction

The antiproton cure

Uncharted territory

Arsonist by appointment

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Don’t let the numbers get you down

Garage Kubrick

The Universe: 365 Days by Robert Nemiroff and Jerry Bonnell

Paul Nurse

Trevor Pinch

Hail, Marie

A cow on the roof

First Flight: The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Airplane by T. A. Heppenheimer and other books聟

Venturing out

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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