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Worlds apart

Humans

The making of a suicide bomber

The body electric

Paradise lost…and found

Table of contents

News

US may exert rigid control over SARS

Hold the wheat

Technology

Pesky Netsky

Not a whiff of the dark stuff

A licence to spam

Mad cow?

Nuke talks in ruins

60 Seconds

Whales, seals or men in boats. Who took all the fish?

Death on the seas

Guidelines for reburial of old Christian bones

Soundbites

Cloners press on despite UK nay

Can gene therapy beat HIV when drugs don’t work?

Too much testosterone blights social skills

Bamboo seeds its own destruction

Holes in liquid defy explanation

Cell alchemy turns bone marrow into brain cells

‘Mirror matter’ supernovae may explain gamma ray mystery

Solar wind will keep Earth safe

Stellar swelling

Fish transgenes can go wild

Birds head north on chemical cue

Thick-skulled dinos lose their headbutting hard-nut image

Quantum trick defies classical law

Wring more might from your light

Fatbusting drug hits the target

Sperm are packed with RNA extras

Technology

Quantum key makes video spy-proof

Technology

Mapping the path of crime epidemics

Technology

Cutting Edge

Technology

Micro-sculptures give metal the Velcro touch

Technology

Hand-to-mouse existence

Technology

Speakers with more woof

Technology

Security guard in your pocket

Technology

Machines roll in to care for the elderly

Technology

Power play

Opinion

Nuclear bunkum

Disarmament is mired in endless denials and half-truths

All it takes to make a suicide attacker

In memoriam

A way with whales

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Worlds apart

What turns the weirdness of the quantum world into everyday objects you can see and touch? The ghostly flight of the buckyball seems to be telling us the answer, says Michael Brooks

Humans

The making of a suicide bomber

The body electric

Paradise lost…and found

More

Edward Teller: The real Dr Strangelove by Peter Goodchild

Frank Barnaby tackles the "father of the H-bomb"

Capture Dynamics and Chaotic Motions in Celestial Mechanics by Edward Belbruno

Dangerous Garden by David Stuart

Niles Eldredge, palaeontologist

Keith Devlin, mathematician

Quite contrary

Loom and doom

Pangloss, Inc

Playing catch-up

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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