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Space

Comet tails of the unexpected

Earth

Your Top 10 ways to take on global warming

Earth

How to defeat (and eat) invading species

Technology

Cellphones at 35,000 feet

Table of contents

News

Health

Toxins transferred to unborn children

Before we are even born, our bodies may be riddled with pollution, including a range of household chemicals, new research finds

Space

Mystery glitch prompts Mars orbiter shutdown

Health

BSE may have come from dead people

Earth

International meeting sparks hope for great apes

US nuclear weapons labs poorly protected

Space

Ocean floor simulates lunar conditions

60 Seconds

Earth

The day New Orleans’ luck ran out

Earth

Rebuilding New Orleans’ natural defences

Life

Television shows scramble forensic evidence

Earth

Dental records beat DNA in tsunami IDs

Health

Reports tallies the true fallout from Chernobyl

Earth

Siberian blast led to mass extinction

Health

Dose of worms may ease asthma

Earth

Himalayan snow may save China from typhoons

Life

Bug commits suicide to save its buddies

Space

Squashed asteroid has planet-like qualities

Life

Grasshoppers brainwashed into suicide by a worm

Technology

Criminals foiled by quartz in soil

Health

Common viruses have Achilles heel

Health

‘Backwards’ DNA may play significant role

Health

Safer wheats could ease gluten grief

Space

Gyro-juggling extends Hubble’s life

Technology

London-based social workers go wireless

Technology

Gizmo

Space

Ant logic makes sense in space

Technology

ID revolution 鈥� prepare to meet the new you

Health

Polymer breakthrough to boost smart drugs

Opinion

Earth

Editorial: Disasters are always in the making

Tragedies like New Orleans are inevitable 鈥� taxpayers and politicians worldwide must change their thinking about the cost of disaster prevention

US science under political siege

Life

The glamour of evolutionary psychology

Features

Space

Comet tails of the unexpected

Humans have engineered four close encounters with comets, but each of them has thrown astronomers onto their collective back foot. Why?

Earth

Your Top 10 ways to take on global warming

Earth

How to defeat (and eat) invading species

Technology

Cellphones at 35,000 feet

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Life

Designs on Nature: Science and democracy in Europe and the United States by Sheila Jasanoff

When the big debates in biotech are driven by vested interests, it's no wonder growers around the world are wary of industry's promises, says Calestous Juma

Technology

The Fruits of War by Michael White

Space

The Planets by Dava Sobel

Physics

Coincidences, Chaos and All That Math Jazz by Edward Burger and Michael Starbird

Earth

The word: Danakil

Northern lights

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Shapes in the sand

Game for a smell

Expect pain in knee area

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3 September 2005