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Quantum tricks that read your thoughts

The cycling speed freaks of Battle Mountain

The killer with no name

Observing evolution in test tubes

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News

Fruit-pesticide threat to the ozone layer

US strawberry and tomato farmers are given permission to increase their use of a major ozone-depleting chemical, and want to use even more

Inflatable space module gets permission to launch

Critics slam Bush’s space initiatives

Companies could be sued for climate change

US drugs agency accused of hindering Vioxx report

Cannabis use linked to psychotic experiences

60 Seconds

Iris Murdoch’s early signs of decline

Ancient genes rise from the dead

Hope for the world’s forgotten rabies victims

Teenagers fail to see the consequences

Mountain history hidden in fossilised leaves

Violent stars aid planet formation

Soundbites

Doubts sown over safety of GM crops

US Congress slashes nuclear spending budgets

Some people are ‘immune’ to exercise

Stem cells muscle in on bladder control

Detection kit battles trade in bear parts

Life

Giant squid to be ‘plastinated’ for posterity

Tricked human eggs divide without sperm

Learn faster by not trying too hard

Star’s pulse of radiation is strongest ever

How to predict a volcanic eruption

High stress damages your DNA

Climate may have decimated ancient mammals

Forests flourish under carpet of dead cicadas

We cannot slim on liposuction alone

Coalescing cavities bring water to boil

Sun gives Mars a halo of X-rays

Cold turkeys have fewer female chicks

Skin protein cripples E. coli’s defences

Technology

Cyber detective links up crimes

Technology

Catching the moment on digital cameras

Technology

Green pesticide is irresistible to ants

Technology

Ultrasound gets radical

Technology

Diamond-based chips for hardcore duties

Technology

Is this curtains for concrete?

Opinion

Editorial: Political problems delay fusion reactors

The dream of limitless energy with no carbon emissions will slide further away if countries cannot agree on where to build a major new reactor

Editorial: The art of reconstructing ancestral genomes

How big scientific ideas are born

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

Quantum tricks that read your thoughts

The weird world of quantum entanglement This could change the way the world does business, says Mark Buchanan

The cycling speed freaks of Battle Mountain

The killer with no name

Observing evolution in test tubes

More

The day after tomorrow

Frozen Earth: the once and future story of ice ages by Doug Macdougall

Be your own god

On the streets of LA

Big Bang by Simon Singh

A picture book feast for the eyes

Digital birding

Heavenly advice

Going birding

Extreme irony

Measure of a man

Brain twisters

Founding mother

The Xmas Files: The philosophy of Christmas by Stephen Law

What the past did for us

Six of the best 鈥� Pick your present

Top 5 children’s science books

Present Philosophy

Thinking big

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

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