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This week's magazine
7 April 2007
Issue 2598
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Earth
Canada’s seal pups in double trouble
Drowning at birth or being clubbed to death are not the best of outcomes for a young mammal, but global warming is making life even harder for harp seal pups
News
Health
HIV cash misspent on abstinence education
News
Health
Ewes get pregnant after uterus transplantation
News
Physics
Particle collider setback as magnets fail
News
Earth
Fatal tsunami strikes the Solomon Islands
News
Health
Stem cells create human heart-valve tissue
News
Earth
Energy auditors to lead green initiative
News
60 Seconds
News
Earth
Billions at risk from wheat super-blight
News
Health
Man’s pig-cell implants still active 10 years on
News
Health
Don’t know your blood group? Doesn’t matter
News
Soundbites
News
Earth
Snow goose invasion points to Arctic thaw
News
Physics
Superconductors inspire quantum test for dark energy
News
This week 50 years ago
News
Earth
‘Safe’ heavy metals hit fish senses
News
Life
More IVF keeps the birth rate up
News
Health
Ecstasy really does unleash the love hormone
News
Earth
Scallops off menu after rise of rays
News
Life
Wasps’ good bacteria could help us
News
Health
Fight a flu pandemic by keeping people apart
News
Life
Bonobos join forces to outdo chimps
News
Life
How to give a rat a death wish
News
Life
Beetle’s beauty lies in imperfection
News
Earth
Global warming will make Earth spin faster
News
Life
Computer-vision sees animals like humans do
News
Space
Space, the final war zone?
News
Earth
Bigger is dirtier, even for hybrid vehicles
News
Technology
Gizmo
News
Health
Tireless, reliable physio-robots take on stroke paralysis
News
Health
A slimming treatment for artificial lungs
News
Technology
Electronic threads weave smarter fabric
News
Opinion
Earth
Editorial: Rusting defences in the battle for wheat
Our complacency has put global food security on the line
Opinion
Health
Editorial: What shall we do with cells today?
Opinion
Life
Genocide: When compassion fails
Opinion
Earth
Interview: Feral and free
Opinion
Health
Turning point: A secret garden
Opinion
Features
Life
How many things can you do at once?
Is it really possible to multitask? New 杏吧原创 drops everything to find out
Features
Space
Cannibal star: first sighting of a celestial glutton
Features
Earth
Packaging 鈥� unwrapped
Features
Health
Turn genes on, turn diseases off
Features
Life
Histories: Have prodigy, will travel
Features
More
Space
Review: Sunshine, directed by Danny Boyle
If a film is going to butcher scientific facts, at least do it for the sake of great drama, says Marcus Chown
Books & Arts
Life
Evolution for Everyone, by David Sloan Wilson
Books & Arts
Physics
The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Books & Arts
Life
The Deep: The extraordinary creatures of the abyss, by Claire Nouvian
Books & Arts
Space
The word: Iridium flare
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