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Mutants, one and all

Twisting the light away

Environment

Animal minds

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Animal minds: Not just a pretty face

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Animal minds: Can you guess what I’m thinking?

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Animal minds: Don’t call me bird-brain

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Animal minds: Here’s looking at ewe

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Animal minds: Trait spotting

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Animal minds: It’s good to bark

Table of contents

News

US to slash nuclear arsenal

Digital pollution

Glaxo lawsuit

Civilian space shot scheduled

Crisis in Sudan

60 Seconds

U-turn on goo

Eco-blockade

The rush to pick a perfect embryo

Black holes drive speedy particles to new highs

Soundbites

And the forecast for AD 17,004 is鈥�

Flame retardant shows up in Arctic

Spinal trial raises hopes

Higgs hunt gets heavy

DNA in action coming soon to a screen near you

Memory fails you after severe stress

First stars born to the tune of a deafening hiss

Pterosaurs went for the soft shell

Stars conceived out of thin air

Complexity first

Naked approach to gene therapy

Javan ash rises from flightless bird

Aerosols form in a cocktail of smoke and fumes

O jellyfish, where is thy sting?

Hard lessons, sound sleep

Incinerators linked to twin births

Technology

Mars rovers set to scale heights

Technology

Cutting edge

Technology

Liquid crystals spill beans on anthrax

Technology

Can implants run on body heat?

Technology

Go on, spoil their fun

Technology

That double click will cost you

Technology

Fighting the tide of dangerous fakes

Technology

Vigilantes on the net

Opinion

They seek Higgs here鈥�

It would help if physicists were looking for the particle in the right place

Boy or girl? Best leave it to chance

Missile defence misses

Features

Mutants, one and all

One way to understand human development is to look at the grotesque forms that arise when things go wrong. Developmental biologist Armand Marie Leroi explains

Twisting the light away

Environment

Animal minds

Environment

Animal minds: Not just a pretty face

Environment

Animal minds: Can you guess what I’m thinking?

Environment

Animal minds: Don’t call me bird-brain

Environment

Animal minds: Here’s looking at ewe

Environment

Animal minds: Trait spotting

Environment

Animal minds: It’s good to bark

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Blockbuster challenge

A drought of new medicines is forcing the world's largest drug companies into a tight corner. Can they bounce back with a new crop of multibillion-dollar earners, or are the days of the "blockbuster" drug numbered? Andy Coghlan investigates

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