A snail's pace - What has downloading intricate graphics from the Web got to do with entropy? Whatever you do, don't go surfing for the answer, warns Charles Seife
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This week's magazine
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Editor's picks
Cellwars - It's good, but not good enough, all the while women are dying. Could cervical screening get some much needed help from Ronald Reagan's Star Wars programme, asks Helen Gavaghan
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Life
The Dutch experiment : Vraag een politieagent . . . - Go ahead, ask a cop for dope. The Dutch don't mind
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Special report : Marijuana
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Marijuana : A safe high? - Cannabis faces serious charges from the US government. You are the jury
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Table of contents
News
In brief : Of mice and acorns
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In brief : Scary monsters
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In brief : Sugar junkies
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In brief : How spiders' webs spring into action
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Newswire : Gene business
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Newswire : Longest legs
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Newswire : Cloning ban fails
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Netropolitan :
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Feel that sight
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A far cry - Echoes are arriving from beyond the visible Universe
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Coming up for air - Can diving rats can show us how to treat brain damage?
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Netropolitan : Travelling hopefully
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Netropolitan :
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Reeling in satellites - A return ticket for satellites that have reached the end of the line
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Technofile : Greased lightning
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Technofile : Software sentry
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Technofile : Le bug millennium
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Technofile : Martian music
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Focus : Hidden perils - Coping with risks to public health is fraught with danger. Should governments lay down the law, or publish what they know and let people decide for themselves?
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Two-faced killer - Blocking the paths of twin proteins might put a stop to Ebola
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Bean bag
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Robosurgeon - Aesop never tires or shakes and always obeys orders
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Live wires - The blueprint of life is helping to shrink electronics
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Experts' experts
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Dipping into danger - Fears are mounting over routine exposure to pesticides
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In their jeans
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Lawn menace - Bad light stops growth
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Clean bill of health for particle trap
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Angels with dirty faces - White lead and pollution blackened the pure image
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Technology
Patents : Soft landing
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Patents : Clever clogs
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Patents : Beleaguered beluga
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The fears of a clone - Even the President turned out to hear what's hot at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Philadelphia
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Gaining on pain - Why even the lightest touch can be agony for those with damaged nerves
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Medieval light catches the colours of disease
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Set a virus to catch a virus - Novel treatment may defend the immune system against the worst ravages of HIV
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Clinton rings the changes at the top
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Danger, shrimps at work - Mangroves are at the mercy of shrimp farmers
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High anxieties - What the WHO doesn't want you to know about cannabis
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Opinion
Features
A snail's pace - What has downloading intricate graphics from the Web got to do with entropy? Whatever you do, don't go surfing for the answer, warns Charles Seife
Features
Cellwars - It's good, but not good enough, all the while women are dying. Could cervical screening get some much needed help from Ronald Reagan's Star Wars programme, asks Helen Gavaghan
Features
Life
The Dutch experiment : Vraag een politieagent . . . - Go ahead, ask a cop for dope. The Dutch don't mind
Features
Special report : Marijuana
Features
Marijuana : A safe high? - Cannabis faces serious charges from the US government. You are the jury
Features
More
Review : Must be Aries
Books & Arts
Review : Starry eyed
Books & Arts
Review : Advantage gay
Books & Arts
Review : Which hunts
Books & Arts
Review : A giant among the dwarfs
Books & Arts
Review : Without prejudice
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Review : Mozart and the nightingale
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Review : Remember this . . .
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Review : . . . or not
Books & Arts
Bestsellers : from Oxford
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works - Douglas Palmer digs up three of the best on the fossil record
Books & Arts
Review : The great leap forward
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