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The weirdest link

Take a deep breath

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Table of contents

News

US choice of mad cow test questioned

Ivory crackdown

Designer baby

Saddam’s rule of terror

Great balls of tar

It’s life, Jim鈥�

Dope law eased

60 Seconds

Bird flu’s ticking time bomb

Less bite, more brain

Not mind-reading, but it comes close

Psst, wanna safe bet鈥�

Go for gold, not a bad case of swimmers’ itch

Scene set for next mass extinction

Pop a pill to fend off the bends

Space

Acidic, salty and perfect for fossil hunting

Ancient hunters let off the hook over mammoths’ demise

Wayward asteroid circles Earth

Heart failure

Penguins pal up for a safer dive

Did butterflies flutter around Tyrannosaurus rex?

Warning over bushmeat virus

Oceans kick-started dusty decade

Narrow escape for comet probe

Technology

Electronic circuit ‘evolves’ from liquid crystals

Technology

Soya-powered planes fly greener

Technology

Cutting Edge

Technology

Unfit for flowers

Technology

Clam up if the water’s dirty

Technology

Underwater lumberjack harvests flooded forests

Technology

Photon-powered nano-motor does the twist

Technology

All you need is hum

Technology

Rudderless ships get under way

Technology

A mirror to cool the world

Opinion

Vive la weirdness!

Feeling lucky?

DNA approach to Mars

Fire man

Humans

Washington diary

Features

The weirdest link

That spooky connection between tiny particles is appearing everywhere, and its consequences are even affecting the world that we experience. It seems to unravel the past, and may be what keeps us alive. Quantum entanglement just got a whole lot weirder, s

Take a deep breath

Save the rhino maggot!

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Volcanism by Hans-Ulrich Schmincke

Whole World on Fire: Organizations, knowledge, & nuclear weapons devastation by Lynn Eden

Sharp thinking

Just don’t complain

Good, bad and muddled

Carl Zimmer, science writer

Tim Low, biologist and writer

Getting it together

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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