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Wonderweed

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Fission ships

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On guard!

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Rock music

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Table of contents

News

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Sneak attack

SHARKS stirring up a smokescreen of sediment to trap prey may be the cause of mysterious milky streaks of water around the Bahamas, according to a marine scientist. Clouds of fine white particles known as whitings often appear in the sea off the Bahama Banks. The suspended material forms bright streaks that have been spotted …

News

Whales go crazy for exotic song

News

Bitter pill

News

Choking cancer

News

Mice and men

News

Not so bright

News

Early landing

News

Sound gives pollution a hiding

News

It's a blast

News

Tainted meat

News

Flies to the rescue

News

Bandwidth hoggers

News

Monsters of the deep

News

This is your captain dozing . . .

News

Moon revisited

News

Give it up

News

Unfit for humans

News

Take a rib, a hip and some broth…

News

Technology

Going spare

News

Technology

That doggie in Windows

News

Technology

Nervous link

News

Spy in the sky fights the flab

News

Fat free

News

Pitch battle

News

Don't sweat

News

Pain-free typing

News

Chill out with a jellybot

News

Going for gold

News

Generation game

News

Off the rails

News

Shrink to fit

News

Is it a heart attack?

News

Mad to deny it

News

Genetic vox pop

News

Less talk

News

Earth

Glad to be green?

News

Earth

Why the world must stop and count its carbon

News

Earth

Grim prospects

News

Earth

A broken pact

News

Opinion

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Humans

Westminster Diary

IN THE ongoing wrangle over genetically modified food, sifting fact from propaganda can be difficult. John Krebs, chairman of Britain's Food Standards Agency, suggests that the country should have an independent scientific panel to do the job (New Scientist, 5 August, p 49) . His suggestion prompted me to ask agriculture minister Baroness Hayman if …

Opinion

Investing in knowledge

Opinion

Take one egg…

Opinion

Total control?

Opinion

Time to come clean

Opinion

Features

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Wonderweed

IT COULD be a case of mass delusion. But plant geneticists say that before the decade is out, they could understand absolutely everything about how plants tick. Everything—every gene, every molecule, in every cell. And the key? A humble weed called Arabidopsis, or thale cress. Crack the weed, they say, and the secrets of the …

Features

Fission ships

Features

On guard!

Features

Rock music

Features

More

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Weather report

"Onto a winner," was how reviewer Fred Pearce greeted Mark Monmonier's Air Apparent (10 April 1999, p 46). Now out in paperback, it reveals the science behind the weather map—debates, disagreements and all. Published by University of Chicago Press, £11/$17, ISBN 0226534235.

Books & Arts

Modern war

Books & Arts

Nothing to it

Books & Arts

Tower of power

Books & Arts

More last words

Books & Arts

Mary, Mary

Books & Arts

Everyone's a winner

Books & Arts

Bad apple

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

LOOKS like Hollywood is cutting off its nose to spite its face. To prevent films released in the US being played on DVD players in other countries, Hollywood studios put regional coding on DVDs. When British supermarket chain Tesco publicly called on Time Warner to stop doing it, the studios stuck to their guns and …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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