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Taming the fourth dimension

Health

The shapeshifters

Don’t call me clever

Physics

Mass hysteria

Table of contents

News

Tangled in a mobile safety net

Bush ‘science’

Computer gambit

Wild birds caught in flu flap

60 Seconds

Attitude corrected

Health

BSE downer

AIDS furore

Is the green dream doomed to fail?

Babies get hands-on with language

Soundbites

The superfast way to find cures

Rotavirus vaccines will save millions of poor children

Amazing talent of the bird that doesn’t sleep

Space

Hawking cracks the paradox

Plutonium cancer risk questioned

Cold waters leave whales washed up

Neurons line up to detect edges

A cool technique for copying DNA

Trace chemical sows seeds of plant resurrection

Stem cells get to the heart of it

Health

Third HIV front

Spider baits its web with whiff

Surgery beyond the keyhole

Red faces for red fish gourmets

Belated peer review shows Ptolemy cheated

Seismic answer to golden riddle

Technology

Looking for space junk? Then blow up an egg鈥�

Technology

Polite computers win their users’ hearts and minds

Technology

Cutting edge

Technology

Smarter sim cards cut waste

Technology

Diodes at nine o’clock

Technology

TV from a vending machine

Technology

Satellites deliver the global disaster forecast

Technology

Always on, always under attack

Technology

Let the PC entertain you

Earth

Hungry for change

Opinion

Health

Broken promises

What hope is there of stopping AIDS if rich nations won't pay up?

The Prince and the particles

Give carbon a decent burial

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Taming the fourth dimension

Almost 100 years ago Henri Poincar茅 encapsulated the way we think about space in a famous mathematical conjecture 鈥� now there's a possible proof

Health

The shapeshifters

Don’t call me clever

Physics

Mass hysteria

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From kit to cat

Hans Kruuk, zoologist

Stephen Baxter, science fiction writer

Handy knowledge

Ex nihilo

Stellar art

Time to think smart

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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