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Editor's picks

The master switch

Dark side of the sun

Genomes don’t play dice

Einstein’s Rio requiem

Table of contents

News

Grief on the reef

Maize ‘allergy’ raises hackles

Rosetta blasts off at last

Galileo settled

60 Seconds

Hunting jellies

Pop goes fusion?

Rabies shots help rare dog

Beware the ecotourist

We hear that鈥�

Hope for inherited kidney disease

At last, a ringside seat for viewing birth of planets

Mystery particle floats in from deep space

Thyroid radiation doses are ‘much too high’

Saturn shines in Cassini’s view

Soundbites

Medical editors to take tougher line

DNA chip will catch beefed up chicken

Painkiller linked to rise in overdose deaths

Gold fingerprint to foil forgers

Vestige of vanished oceans will reveal Earth-like planets

Bizarre dinos of the deep freeze

Pig cell hope for diabetes

Tumour fighter

Suntan lotion primes the skin’s defences

What a diamond a day makes

Solar system’s damp start written in asteroid’s rock

Last drink fools forensic test

Technology

Compact fuel cells may oust feeble batteries

Technology

Fighting fire with a steam machine

Technology

Cutting edge

Technology

Aerial view

Technology

Straight and level

Technology

Dry-cleaned blood

Technology

Privacy protector is also a boon for shoplifters

Technology

Cheap 3D scanner coming soon to a desktop near you

Technology

Computer, print me a fuel pump

Technology

The garden where perfect software grows

Opinion

All above board

Openness is the only option if science is to maintain its integrity

Fun for people, hell for animals

In the dark

In the thrall of the Andes

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The master switch

The brain's central circuits were once a no-go area for drug treatments. But not any more, and there could be a medical revolution in the making, as Emily Singer explains

Dark side of the sun

Genomes don’t play dice

Einstein’s Rio requiem

More

New takes on the fossil world

Palaeontologist Douglas Palmer picks out the gems for specialists 鈥� and the rest of us

Forever young

Back in the shops

Get out your waders

Squirm factor

A man of numbers

Island treasures

Dream weaver

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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