Humans
The making of the modern world
Features
This week's magazine
18 September 2004
Issue 2465
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Patch and crash
News
Oxygen hitch on space station
News
Mystery blast
News
Enforcing fairness
News
Warning over toxic stockpile
News
Bonfire of rarities: Restoration begins on 50,000 fire-damaged books
News
Disease detectives
News
60 Seconds
News
Sowing the seeds of starvation
News
Altered trees hide out with the local poplars
News
Wrecked craft may give up its secrets
News
Low risk of alien invasion
News
Soundbites
News
Showing now at the brain’s dream cinema
News
Growth hormone can turn breast cancer into killer
News
Quantum rules cut top speed for information
News
The enemy within that targets genes
News
Mass stellar graves explain quasar mystery
News
Save rare parasites as well as primates
News
Record breaker
News
Bug turns waste to green plastic
News
On-the-spot tests fail to nail clubbers’ chemical cocktails
News
How to regrow lost hearing
News
Ghost of bugs help cut pesticide use
News
Environment
Respect! Egyptians were cool for cats
News
How oil turns to acid sludge
News
Satellites spot glacier meltdown
News
Technology
PC users follow their nose
News
Technology
Cutting edge
News
Technology
Plastics get tough with nanotubes
News
Technology
Home movies get the Hollywood treatment
News
Technology
Double-barrelled syringe combats contamination
News
Technology
TV sets cut to the action
News
Technology
Cracks appear in online security
News
Opinion
Features
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American Flintknappers by John C. Whittaker
Mike Pitts marvels at modern flint knappers
Books & Arts
Naturally patterned
Books & Arts
Cinnamon club
Books & Arts
Rating failures
Books & Arts
The hard stuff
Books & Arts
Drowning the future
Books & Arts
Marcia McNutt, president of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
Books & Arts
Arne Naess, philosopher and ecologist, Norway
Books & Arts
The game is on
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