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The world turned inside out

Bad or mad?

Running on empty

The storm king of Philadelphia

Table of contents

News

Spotlight on caviar controls

Bye-bye munchies

No cold shoulder

French protest at science cuts

60 Seconds

What’s in a nano?

Bottled hot water

Stem cell sidestep

Preparing for the worst

Making bomb-building harder for terrorists

Ivory sale fuels illegal trade fears

Soundbites

Cheap blood test heralds speedy stroke diagnosis

Best-ever view of early Universe

Splitting continents turned Earth into ice

We hear that鈥�

A new planet or queen of comets?

How the moon gave life on Earth its first big break

Stem cells generate hair and hope for the bald

Farm run-off sparks invasion of coral crunchers

Diamonds flowed on early Earth

Bog butter test

It’s what cows eat that counts

Droplet plumes from oxygen masks may have helped spread SARS

X-ray snap of Saturn reveals a polar puzzle

Pink salmon see blue when they get in deep

Spiders’ saga of sex and sacrifice

How green tea can combat cancer

Technology

Software agent targets chatroom paedophiles

Technology

Vibrating pedal says ‘ease off gas’

Technology

Cutting edge

Technology

Rocket fuel kicks transistor speeds through the roof

Technology

Voicemail tickets, please

Technology

A cleaner cup of tea

Technology

Bird-proof poisons

Technology

Record nanofibre teased from smoky suspension

Technology

The dating game goes wireless

Space

Lost in space

Opinion

Big deal

How high must the death toll rise before we take obesity seriously?

Natural designs

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The world turned inside out

Was the big bang the start of everything? Far from it, reports Amanda Gefter, it may merely have been a portal from a looking-glass universe

Bad or mad?

Running on empty

The storm king of Philadelphia

More

Highs and lows of Earth’s crust

Martin Ince is moved by the history of mountains

Three Mile Island by J. Samuel Walker

Is accuracy alarmist?

Pip, pip, pip

The Long Summer: How climate changed civilization by Brian Fagan

Stories with bite

The word geodiversity

Soya processors go moo

Now there’s a thing

Periscopes for cars

The forgotten front

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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