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DESTRUCTION 21ST-CENTURY
THERAPY CODE BREAKERS Life on Mars
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Q&A
How to get the best from
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Issue guide
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COVER STORY Amazing images from
the surface of the Red Planet
The fi nest home
modern technology
Update 13
can provide
All the news and views making waves
in science over the last month
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The perfect high-tech home,
and how you should go about getting it
Evolution in action 37
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Darwin 200 Darwin’s bicentenary section opens
with a look at modern pioneer Richard Lenski
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Is evolution dead? 44
IBRAR Darwin 200 Steve Jones and PZ Myers discuss
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natural selection: has it come to the end of its run?
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Richard Dawkins 46
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Darwin 200 You’re down the pub and a creationist is
holding forth. Richard Dawkins knows how to reply
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Cryptology 49
GRAPHIC
COVER STORY The constant battle raging
ER between the code makers and breakers
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Destruction therapy 55 55
COVER STORY
How bashing the bejesus out
of things can make you a less violent person
Taking a sledge
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hammer to crack
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Q&A 60
your problems
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The Guide 71
Gadgets, games, books and DVDs reviewed.
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Brain training 92
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Practise fl exing your IQ with our cerebral workout
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