Issue 2469 | Magazine cover date: 16 October 2004

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16 October 2004

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This week's magazine

16 October 2004

On the cover

Bean there, dung that

Alchemy in birdland

Life

Glad to be A

Total recall

Liquid universe

The bigger picture

New art or new threat?

Picture this

The next generation

Table of contents

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Stem cells can heal from afar

Not a killer but a protector

Life

Sniff, and you want to make babies too

Small star or giant planet?

Trees implicated in air pollution

Soundbites

How to turn a superbug into an ordinary bug

A bioweapon like no other

Flu crisis need not cost lives

Milky way's radiation shows up a dark centre

Not in the blood

The light way to control computers

Zap! Some more bacteria are genetically modified

Dinosaurs died out at height of success

The people who are sure they've seen it all before

Were volcanoes creation's crucible?

Initial results of eco-audit

Nobel peace prize

Life

Gay genetics

Nuclear booty

60 Seconds

The great American voting experiment

Genghis Khan's grave in sight

CO2 jump triggers climate panic

Hit the uploaders

Opinion

Voice of the people

Life

Westminster diary: selecting babies' sex

Hunt the bomb

Life

Editorial: The complexity of sex

Farewell film, and thanks for all the pics

Features

Bean there, dung that

Alchemy in birdland

Life

Glad to be A

Total recall

Liquid universe

The bigger picture

New art or new threat?

Picture this

The next generation

More

Gloom and boom

Mind

Brainstorming

Eating apes by Dale Peterson

What if?

Fit mother

In praise of pigs

Heavyweight beasts

Before the flood

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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