This week's magazine

Technology

Technology: Superconducting cables power on

Technology

Technology: Networks provide the right connections for jobseekers

Technology

Technology: When and where to pile 'em high

Technology

Technology: Tagging system sees the wood from the trees

Patents: Transparent greeting

Why biodiversity begins at home

NASA probe goes for speed

Talks to save the planet break down

Second thoughts on research degree

Poll yields hard data about penile implants

Genome mapped

True service

Mystery bird's desert legacy

Alpine deadlock

Locking up flu

Thorp reaction

A fragile case for screening?: Children with learning problems are being screened for the gene that causes fragile X syndrome. Some doctors believe these tests do more harm than good

Science: Goodness, gracious, great balls of fire

Science: Distant rendezvous for cities on the move

Science: Humble spuds sniff out drugs

Science: An antidote for all snake bites

Science: Soft soap turns the worm

Science: Tourists from the future remain a possibility

Chocolate gene pool melting away

A tale of fraud and Frobisher's gold

Superconductivity comes further in from the cold

Russian rocket deal relaunched

Four women infected with HIV during surgery

Pentagon tests released fallout on towns

Going, going . . . gone: A 70-million-year-old fossilised tortoise and an exquisite gilt astrolabe are among the innocent newcomers to the cut-throat world of the top auction rooms

Did you hear the one about . . .: Intimate Moments in the Lives of Great Scientists

Dying swans?: Audiences expect their ballet dancers to be wraith-like graceful creatures. But the price may be too high

Real Australians eat roast roo: Forget the traditional plum pudding and intensively reared turkey when there's healthy, ecologically sound bush tucker to hand

See-through beer: In the world of quantum movie making, your stars are either reeling around drunk or about to float off

It may be quantum, but is it art?

Toughest bridge in town: In the 1890s, spanning the Thames east of London Bridge was a political and engineering triumph

The everyday world of Einstein: What did Albert want with a cup of sweet coffee, a cement mixer and a dirty cloud?

A mother's place is in the wrong: Bookshops are full of manuals on motherhood exhorting women to take control of their lives. But Victorian values are lurking beneath those shiny covers

Miracle on Oxford Street: Is the annual nightmare of Christmas shopping just a way of proving to ourselves that we can create a 'family' in a world of money?

Infected with science: If religion is a cultural virus, where does that leave science?

Review: Verdant verses and verbal sneezes

Review: The antiproton's forgotten hero

Review: Build a molecule, tote an atom

Review: Darwin's cousin and other animals

Review: Christmas reading for the science minister

Science Fiction: A round up of virtual suspects, future feuds, generation ships and a new society

Review: Running hard to explain sex