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Highway to hell

What doesn’t kill you

Earth

Last chance for Kyoto

Henry’s little pot of gold

Table of contents

News

Setback for Europe’s nuclear safety plan

Fish farm danger

Crop violations

The final countdown

60 Seconds

Humans

Tabs on teens

Designer steroid

Forests plundered

Confident China joins space elite

Soundbites

Why do the Chinese want to conquer space?

Facial tumours kill a third of all Tasmanian devils

Fast foods trick the body

Legal ivory did not help black market

The power to pick the best embryo

We hear that鈥�

The sweet way to make cells do what you want

Microwave cooking zaps nutrients

Why destroying antibiotics makes them work better

Life

Veggie monsters

Life

Ancient birds legged it to take wing

Life

Agile amphibians

Obesity harms men’s fertility

Memory affected by single gene

Rogue refraction

Bees simply turn tail to find their way back home

Dead could help the living see

More Stonehenge carvings come to light

Power up with squeezed water

Carbon conundrum cracked at last

Technology

‘Cellphone radar’ tracks traffic flow

Technology

Cutting edge

Technology

Cyber-astronomer scours the skies

Technology

Tricky tracker

Technology

Tea at the speed of espresso

Technology

Chamber of secrets

Technology

Robot skin stretches to the task

Technology

Will jamming be the new texting?

Technology

Trouble and strife in wireless homes

Technology

The animation game

Opinion

A victory for reason

An astonishing ecology experiment has blown the lid off farming practices

The next great superpower

Farming 1, wildlife 0

Taking the long view

Humans

Washington diary

Features

Highway to hell

From the moment they are born, they are falling to their death. Life is nasty, brutish and short for the universe's most unfortunate stars, says Marcus Chown

What doesn’t kill you

Earth

Last chance for Kyoto

Henry’s little pot of gold

More

Entertaining Mr Chicken

Roman family values

May the first be with you

Rita Colwell

Carol Greider

Dual purpose

The Smithsonian Atlas of the Amazon by Michael Goulding, Ronaldo Barthem and Efrem Ferreira

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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