Brain repair kit - Engineered cells that home in on damaged tissue could one day be used to patch up the brains of heart attack or head injury patients. Alison Motluk reports
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This week's magazine
On the cover
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Editor's picks
Paradox lost
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Catching the wind - A solar telescope concentrates the Sun's fierce heat like a giant magnifying glass, blurring its images. The answer, as Govert Schilling reports, is blowing in the wind
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Playing with fire - Despite international outrage and the terrible toll on public health, the incentives for Indonesian farmers to torch vast swathes of forest are as great as ever. Fred Pearce asks what can be done to stop the burning
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Table of contents
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In brief : One by one
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In brief : Food for thought
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In brief : Light is light
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In brief : No sweat
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Your very good health …
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Four legs bad
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Unnatural environment - Have campaigners for the return of Scotland's forests got it wrong?
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Life after death - New York state moves to keep dead men's sperm in the family
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51¶¯Âþwire : Down but not out
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51¶¯Âþwire : Cold fusion farewell
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Netropolitan : Saintly surfing
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Netropolitan : Saintly surfing
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Dark secrets - Could superheavy particles make up the Universe's missing matter?
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Emerging diseases : Why Uncle Sam feels under the weather
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Emerging diseases : A smoking gun? - Drug resistance in hospitals has been traced to the farmyard
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Emerging diseases : The killer within
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Croon like the King - It's Elvis but he's singing Verdi
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Smooth operators - Mobile suction would be a boon in major surgery
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Heartbeat betrays furry stowaways
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Technofile : Lipstick killer
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Technofile : Solar propulsion
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Technofile : Cold spin
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Technofile : Sky-high eye
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Halting HIV
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Green and seen - Now we can track cancer's lethal little helpers
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Focus : Come the revolution - Medicine based on genetics will transform healthcare and is already turning the pharmaceuticals industry upside down
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Apocalypse postponed
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51¶¯Âþwire : Deadly delay
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51¶¯Âþwire : Plague alert
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51¶¯Âþwire : Potatoes blighted
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Big is better - How sprocket scientists have given cyclists a speed boost
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Why going digital could blur your vision
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Tasty solution - It's safe and biodegradable, and now it's cheap as well
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Patents : Sleep capsule
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Patents : Dragging its feet
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Patents : Model president
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Egg race
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A clockwork pine - Now we know why some trees get so wound-up
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Pure brew - Why mess with beans when you can grow decaffeinated coffee?
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Emerging diseases : Sick platoon syndrome - Dangerous infections lurk everywhere, from military boot camps to bowls of salad. Nell Boyce reports from the International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in Atlanta, Georgia
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Nowhere to hide - America is waking up to the threat of bioterrorism, but is there any real defence?
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Opinion
Features
Brain repair kit - Engineered cells that home in on damaged tissue could one day be used to patch up the brains of heart attack or head injury patients. Alison Motluk reports
Features
Paradox lost
Features
Catching the wind - A solar telescope concentrates the Sun's fierce heat like a giant magnifying glass, blurring its images. The answer, as Govert Schilling reports, is blowing in the wind
Features
Playing with fire - Despite international outrage and the terrible toll on public health, the incentives for Indonesian farmers to torch vast swathes of forest are as great as ever. Fred Pearce asks what can be done to stop the burning
Features
More
Forum : Storm in the mountain - Should two media personalities determine the fate of Scotland's famous Cairngorms, asks Rob Edwards
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Forum : Making the effort count - Targeting HIV-positive people is the best way of stopping the virus's spread, argues Simon King-Spooner
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Review : World apart
Books & Arts
Fire in the Sky: Comets and Meteors, the Decisive Centuries, in British Art and Science by Roberta Olson and Jay Pasachoff
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Review : Collected works - David Tomlinson on the bird books to have and to hold
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Review : Stuff of dreams
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Thistle diary : - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
Forum
Review : What's real?
Books & Arts
Review : The Earth eaters
Books & Arts
Review : Love at first bite
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Review : All in the mind
Books & Arts
Review : Spawning monsters
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