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The high life

Eat your crusts

Renegade code

Lethal impact

The talented Mr Hooke

Table of contents

News

Elite athletes are born to run

A single gene may identify future gold-medal winners before they have even left the starting blocks

Electricity grids left wide open to hackers

Soundbites

Dispatches

Trawlers threaten ocean’s biodiversity

Nuclear plant may face legal action over ‘hot beach’

NASA culture led to Columbia crash

Health

Biocontrol arms race looms

The listening game

T-rays see the cancers that others miss

Life on Mars bites the cold, dry dust

Right kind of fat gives body the edge over TB

Why stealthy bullets are good news for sheep

Honeybee sex mystery solved at last

Houston, we have a weight problem

Drug use dulls brain’s response to novelty

Don’t eat me, I’m covered in thorns鈥�

Surfing cells get a health check

We hear that鈥�

Nanoparticles have health benefits too

Why watching waterfalls makes the earth move

Origami helps mobiles to focus

Technology

Coin-op TV studio

Technology

Loud and clear

Technology

Decisions, decisions鈥�

Organic chips

Cool eggs

Dope and dementia

Keep on spinning

Fewer boys are born during hard times

Opinion

After Columbia

Amid the gloom and soul-searching, don't forget NASA's successes

A conflict of interest

Power to the patients!

Humans

Washington diary

Features

The high life

Fancy a vacation where you can take the weight off your feet and leave the world behind? With the US government now taking it seriously, says Greg Klerkx, space tourism is getting ready for lift-off

Eat your crusts

Renegade code

Lethal impact

The talented Mr Hooke

More

What shapes science?

When economists ask why science happens the way it does, an 'invisible hand' guides them, says Steve Fuller

More than mummies

Bestsellers – Cambridge

Educated fleas do it

Spirits and bogies

Father of fossils

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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