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Health

What makes you you? Ask your genome

Physics

Superconductivity 鈥� the path of no resistance

Technology

Thwarting the nuclear smugglers

Table of contents

News

Health

Can taxation curb obesity?

Food and drinks high in sugar should be taxed just like cigarettes, say those who believe it is the only way to battle the growing global problem

Health

Is abstinence policy failing to fight HIV?

Earth

Oxygen-starved water creates marine ‘dead zone’

Life

New species of sea urchin found in eBay auctions

Health

Concern over pharmaceuticals’ ‘special offer’ marketing

Health

Potential new ADHD drug hits snag

Humans

How should we treat ancient skeletons?

60 Seconds

Earth

Glaciers heading for point of no return

Health

What really happened in UK drug trial disaster?

Technology

What airports must do to sniff out liquid explosives

Life

Why doesn’t America believe in evolution?

Health

Dogs play host to world’s oldest cancer

Health

Vaccine to fend off HIV moves a step closer

Soundbites

Physics

Flybys may be key to Pioneer anomaly

This week 10 years ago

Earth

Revealing the dawn of photosynthesis

Life

Polygamous possums turn to pairing for life

Health

Time your protein with your workout

Health

Long-frozen male mice father offspring

Earth

US forests face Chinese invader

Earth

Seismic scan of Etna reveals an eruption in the making

Life

Single gene turns fruit flies into fighters

Life

Puppies sniff out their mothers in the womb

Life

Smelly squirrels fool hungry snakes

Health

New brain cells die without a job to do

Technology

Russian guilty of ‘dual-use’ crime

Technology

Gizmo

Technology

Vietnam censors use porn as a smokescreen

Space

At what cost, the saving of satellites?

Technology

Internet search engines go on trial

Health

New device offers ‘sight’ through sound

Technology

How to tell when your data takes the scenic route

Opinion

Technology

Editorial: Stopping the airline bombers

We need all the technological help we can get to deter airline terrorists

Health

Only drugs can stop the sports cheats

Life

Stop television unravelling your reality

Science truth, found in fiction

Features

Health

What makes you you? Ask your genome

Forget introspection 鈥� your genome will reveal secrets about your health, ancestry, personality, sexuality, attitudes, perceptions and intelligence

Physics

Superconductivity 鈥� the path of no resistance

Technology

Thwarting the nuclear smugglers

More

Thereby hangs a tail

Physics

Where mind meets quantum matter

Life

The word: Bat walking

Earth

Human Impacts on Amazonia, edited by Darrell Addison Posey and Michael J Balick

Space

Exhibition 鈥� The Starry Messenger: Visions of the universe

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Jammy dodgers

Minimum requirements

Waste disposal

Tree-wide web

Money bags

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