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March of the motes

The fossil files

The cancer revolution

All eyes on Mars

Table of contents

News

Conserving a wild world

Protecting sparsely populated areas is the affordable way to save precious habitat

Heatwave’s warning for the future of farming

Soundbites

Smallpox vaccination plan grinds to a halt

Dispatches

Preventing blackouts will cost billions

Aircraft risk navigation error

Hubble must stay in orbit longer, say astronomers

Fears grow that SARS could make a comeback

How to create and destroy elements in a flash of light

Rabbit-human stem cell claims provoke controversy and doubt

Evolution returns to the same old genes again and again

Why kicking the habit is so hard for addicts

Chinese herb hits malaria where it hurts

Robot spy keeps on slithering

HRT is not a cure-all for male ageing

Tiny pieces of RNA are key players

DNA computer is the champion of tic-tac-toe

Galaxies just don’t glow like they used to

Magnetic nanoparticles to pinpoint viruses in body scans

In-flight vein massage

Foiling the camera wise

Blink and shoot

Lake Vostok is like a giant can of soda

Birth of new species began with a song

Clothes conquer all

Not quite Golgi

Set in their ways

Hello, squeezanova

A life on the boil

Opinion

Behind the blackout

Building more power lines alone won't solve North America's grid problems

Both sides need to come clean over whaling

Enough is enough

Stars in their eyes

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

March of the motes

An unseen silicon army is gathering information on Earth and its inhabitants. It's not an alien reconnaissance mission: smart dust is finally hitting the streets, says Anil Ananthaswamy

The fossil files

The cancer revolution

All eyes on Mars

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Whale of a crime

A battle for hearts and stomachs

Jenny Uglow

Michael Majerus

All about Isaac

In search of us

A bone to pick

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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