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Bring me sunshine

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Table of contents

News

Arsenic’s fatal legacy grows

High levels of arsenic in groundwater have poisoned thousands of people and may affect millions more. Only now is the true scale of the global epidemic becoming clear

Helmet design flaw may put cyclists at risk

Wildcats and dingoes ‘not worth protecting’

Dispatches

Turbines to get stealthy

Piracy threatens digitised art

Soundbites

Technology

America steels itself to take the nuclear plunge

Technology

Are ageing US reactors safe?

You are what your mother ate

Does doing the twist cause the agony of back pain?

Knowing you are prone to addiction could help you quit

We hear that鈥�

A way to boost metabolism safely and shed pounds?

Blue beetle leads to technicolour fossils

Fires destroyed the only food source of giant flightless birds

Gel puts springiness back into old lenses

Software agents could tackle human genome data explosion

At last we may have a way to fight back against the Ebola virus

Technology

Wet look

Technology

Not-so-plain vanilla

Technology

Cleaner crustacea

Smart glue could spell the end for solder

First cloned horse

Silken clue to ancient spider’s mastery

Extinctions hot up

Your cheatin’ face

Stress for survival

Kernel of health

Opinion

There’s more to inheritance than genes

How much is too much?

Why not just say yes?

Space jewel hunter

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Bring me sunshine

The sun's UV rays cause skin cancer, no doubt about it. But what if they also help ward off other cancers? Celeste Biever finds out what the doctors don't tell you about sunshine

Saturday light fever

The fat controller

The weather profits

Toad in the hole

More

Renaissance man

Sea dog of the Beagle

Poles apart

Figure it out

Spirit of the beehive

Innovate and die

Nanotechnology by Mark Ratner and Dan Ratner

Unbuilt unbuildings

Nobel woman

Fizzy facts

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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