Off with its Head: Because the Internet symbolises freedom of information, governments are falling over themselves to rein it in. Argues that they risk destroying the very thing they are trying to control
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Lost in space: What could NASA want with fishing tackle and a Soyuz space capsule? Looks at the plans for evacuating the international space station in an emergency
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Cosmic changelings: Some of nature's tiniest particles may flip from one type to another. Now plans are afoot for giant laboratories to catch them in the act.
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Seals to the slaughter
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Table of contents
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Technology
Nonstick walls give dirt the slip
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Smothering flu with the gentle touch
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Optical bullets promise memories of the future
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I spy with my moulded eye
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Brilliant beacons colour-code genes
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Pure buckyballs at bargain prices
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Fungi stand guard at the grass roots
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Slow spin points to loose knit asteroids
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Orange agent blinds the elderly
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Cool volcanoes can blow their tops
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Counter-revolutionaries lurk in spiral galaxies
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Stuttering gene goes GAA GAA
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Plan for bigger goals kicked into touch
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Luddites awake to haunt science festival
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US bill could give fossil hunters a field day
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Government does U-turn over genetics watchdog
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Mururoa probe
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Nuclear flasks
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Plants through the eyes of artists
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Coffee saves lives
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Aid sell-off
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Food scare
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Exploding China's dreams: A succession of disasters is underminimg confidence in Chinese rocket launchers and could even jeopardise the country's entire space programme
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Shorebirds to get rest areas for long flight south
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Big freeze digs a deeper hole in ozone layer
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Don't just lie there, turn on the telly
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Greying population stays in the pink
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Long shots give clue to Pluto's surface
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Dope test on the last lap
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Cuts threaten space projects
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Polluted water forces all hands to the pump
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Opinion
Features
Off with its Head: Because the Internet symbolises freedom of information, governments are falling over themselves to rein it in. Argues that they risk destroying the very thing they are trying to control
Features
Lost in space: What could NASA want with fishing tackle and a Soyuz space capsule? Looks at the plans for evacuating the international space station in an emergency
Features
Cosmic changelings: Some of nature's tiniest particles may flip from one type to another. Now plans are afoot for giant laboratories to catch them in the act.
Features
Seals to the slaughter
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Popping pills
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Bestsellers from London
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Uncle Albert for grown-ups
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Collected works
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Engineering the changes: Cultural Babbage edited by Francis Spufford and Jenny Uglow, Faber & Faber, £14,99, ISBN 0 571 17242 3
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Sex on the job
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Ancient ills
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Frozen past
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Battle of the giants: The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking and Roger Penrose, Princeton University Press, £16.95/$24.95, ISBN 0 691 03791 4
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Natural balance
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Belts in space
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Top guns
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Colourful history
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A baloney detection kit: The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Hodder Headline, £18.99, ISBN 0 7472 1554 5
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