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Decisions, decisions - Could it be wedding bells for Josie and Adam or has Hugh got his sums wrong? Robert Matthews hopes they do the right thing

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Knock knock who's there? - Stephanie Pain. And has she got bad news for deathwatch beetles . . .

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Christmas quiz

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Reckless raccoon's big day - It was just a lil ole piece of prairie before them there particle folk moved in. Now the critters are fighting back, says Marcus Chown

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Dying to know - Would you lay your life on the line for a theory? Marcus Chown meets a man who's thinking about it

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Drunk as a skunk - If hangover research ends up with people falling over in the lab, how on earth can we ever find a cure? Our man down the pub, Andy Coghlan, forced himself to find out

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Stranger by the moment... - The kids are in a zero-calorie trance in front of the TV. Mum's crawling with demodex mites. And baby's eating chalk and wallpaper paste. Don't you just love Christmas, says David Bodanis

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Sleepy heads - There's no better way of being out of it during the cruel winter months. Gail Vines lays down stores and prepares to turn into a dormouse

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

A mouldy old vintage - First lice, now black goo. Sounds like California's vine growers should just jump in a vat of Chardonnay and pull the lid down, says Lewis Perdue

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Space attack! - There's a war going on in Deep Space for the hearts and minds of Earth's children . . . as they decide which space toy their poor parents will have to buy. Scott Lafee reports from the front line

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Âé¶¹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Palaces of memory - Poussin's all over the place, the Mona Lisa's probably a fake and they won't let you into the caves at Vallon. Don't worry, Bruce Durie has a cunning plan

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All God's children got...

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Let a thousand flowers bloom . . . - They're heavy metal's biggest fans—and they hang out in the seediest of places. Amy Adams gets a lesson in 90s-style flower power

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Movers and shakers - Can the sound of one snowflake stop a plane from crashing into a mountainside? Ian Stewart puts his ear to the ground

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Table of contents

News

Focus : Damage limitation - How can scientists work in sensitive ecosystems without harming them? A new set of Australian guidelines could help

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Herbal remedies win respect

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A deadly passion - How to lure wood-crunching termites to their doom

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Exotic planet is gone with the wind

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Gut feeling - A stomach ulcer vaccine is on the cards

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Technofile : Life savers

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Technofile : Sun farm

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Technofile : Cancer crop

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Technofile : Babel fish

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Where's Rudolph? - The lichens have died back, so reindeer herds must be slashed

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In brief : Diabetes plant

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In brief : Big freeze

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In brief : Wet outlook for mutant salamander

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Gel makes go-faster chips

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Bolt from the blue - There are bigger hazards than noise for people living under a flight path

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Beavers will be back, if Scots want them

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Nature's way - Ancient inks will clean up desktop printers

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Newswire : AIDS behind bars

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Newswire : Cybercops unite

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Newswire : Killer scratch

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Netropolitan : Festival fever

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Comprenez?

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Video for the People - Tit-for-tat royalties will help spread the word in China

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Whisky galore - Reconditioned casks are the key to a more mature flavour

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Wolves out

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Earth

Dirty dealings - A coup at Kyoto allows the US to buy the right to pollute

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Peace in the forest - A remarkable discovery offers hope for the red squirrel

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Patents : Food for fish

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Patents : Novel or not

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Patents : Grab that tree

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In mint condition . . . - Metallic mist saves Europe's oldest treasure-trove

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Will Europe let C5 pump up the power?

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Newswire : Bird flu spreads

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Newswire : Observatory doomed

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Newswire : Good blood

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The drying of a continent - Earthquakes devastated early civilisations, scientists told the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco—but settlers elsewhere did some damage of their own. Âé¶¹´«Ã½ reports

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How the ancient world came to a shaky end

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Germ warfare - Household cleaners help bugs dodge antibiotic weapons

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The cold light of day - Britain's culture of scientific secrecy could soon be swept away

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Viral magic - Crops become biofactories

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Opinion


Features

Drunk as a skunk - If hangover research ends up with people falling over in the lab, how on earth can we ever find a cure? Our man down the pub, Andy Coghlan, forced himself to find out

Features

Stranger by the moment... - The kids are in a zero-calorie trance in front of the TV. Mum's crawling with demodex mites. And baby's eating chalk and wallpaper paste. Don't you just love Christmas, says David Bodanis

Features

Sleepy heads - There's no better way of being out of it during the cruel winter months. Gail Vines lays down stores and prepares to turn into a dormouse

Features

A mouldy old vintage - First lice, now black goo. Sounds like California's vine growers should just jump in a vat of Chardonnay and pull the lid down, says Lewis Perdue

Features

Space attack! - There's a war going on in Deep Space for the hearts and minds of Earth's children . . . as they decide which space toy their poor parents will have to buy. Scott Lafee reports from the front line

Features

Palaces of memory - Poussin's all over the place, the Mona Lisa's probably a fake and they won't let you into the caves at Vallon. Don't worry, Bruce Durie has a cunning plan

Features

All God's children got...

Features

Let a thousand flowers bloom . . . - They're heavy metal's biggest fans—and they hang out in the seediest of places. Amy Adams gets a lesson in 90s-style flower power

Features

Movers and shakers - Can the sound of one snowflake stop a plane from crashing into a mountainside? Ian Stewart puts his ear to the ground

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