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The sun catcher

Little house of horrors

The way we were

Secrets of the dead

Iron rations

The collector

Grime fighters

Reality cheque

Table of contents

News

Landmark report aims to lay Frankenfood scares to rest

Are genetically modified crops and foods safe? A report out this week gives the most comprehensive answers yet, and sets the agenda for a new level of discussion

Dispatches

Soundbites

Digital movies knock out film in London screen duel

Extinction looms for Caribbean ‘rainforest of the oceans’

Earth watchers keep an eye on the big picture

Pirates put sea life in peril

No nanotech ban, says Greenpeace

Health

Death in the sun

Steering at the speed of thought

Baby black holes have a tough life ahead of them

How genes bring you down

Technology

Sift your snaps by mood

Technology

Little ‘copter, big charge

Technology

Stung into safety

Hunt is on for cells’ master switch

From greenhouse gas to precious gem in one easy step

We hear that鈥�

Black Sea bore the brunt of two gushing neighbours

Poetry website goes from bad to verse

Radon leaks could reveal water on Mars

How animals learned to stick together

Was simple TNA the first nucleic acid on Earth to carry a genetic code?

Space

Metal key to planet birth

Space

Dark gassy galaxies’ arrested development

Space

Polar telescope maps the neutrino sky

Saving athletes from a watery grave

Earth’s carbon cache

Innocent rays

Pouchful of power

Love at perfect pitch

Heads it’s zero

Opinion

Genetics discovers the right stuff

The vital questions

Small stuff, big questions

Humans

Washington diary

Features

The sun catcher

Take one Hollywood stuntman, a spacecraft and a death-defying helicopter chase and you have the makings of a great movie 鈥� or simply NASA's most daring mission yet. Hazel Muir bags a front-row seat

Little house of horrors

The way we were

Secrets of the dead

Iron rations

The collector

Grime fighters

Reality cheque

More

Changelings in question

Elizabeth Sourbut visits worlds with other science, inhabited by other, altered, humans with strangely resonant concerns鈥�

Built on sand

Great ball of ice

Beware the death worm

Pocketful of larks

Play among the stars

High tomes

Prize books winning reads

Shark bites and fish

Up close and personal

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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