>>>The Word
Traumatised by the latest terrorist outrage? Try a disaster psychologist <<<
The latest thinking might be a switch from intensive counseling back to denial,retreat and regression.'shell shock' could be an essential part of the mental healing process .
>>>Histories
Levi Hill invented a revolutionary technique in colour photography. Why did he keep it to himself for so long?
Books
How to Dunk a Doughnut: The science of everyday life by Len Fisher
Science Literacy for the Twenty-First Century by edited by Stephanie Marshall, Judith Scheppler and Michael Palmisano
Asteroid Rendezvous: NEAR Shoemaker's Adventures at Eros by edited by Jim Bell and Jacqueline Mitton
The Man Who Touched the Sky by Johnny Acton
The Golden Ratio by Mario Livio
Dead Cities by Mike Davis
Politics
Westminster Diary: Tam Dalyell on the future of green cement, and Britain and India in scientific partnership
Engima
Feedback
Feedback competition: can you evolve an explanation?; Biological menace to US Air Force; An explanation that's poles apart; If you can read this, you're confused; A very private spam;
Last Word
Animals have a point of clinical death. Do plants, and if they do, how is it determined?
Why don't we remember much about our early childhood?
Jobs
More than 1500 science, technology and academic vacancies in Europe and Australia every week. A searchable archive of the current four weeks' jobs is also available.
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>>>GET IT OFF YOUR CHEST
Cough medicines have barely changed in 50 years and they're starting to show their age. But thanks to some nifty neuroscience, new drugs are just around the corner. Laura Spinney reports
EVERYTHING MUST GO
TV viewers are becoming increasingly adept at skipping commercials. How do you persuade them to watch, and part with their cash? Make the ads vanish, says Vivien Marx
STAR STRUCK
Space sickness is a small price to pay for seeing the stars spring to life. Bruce Schechter is mesmerised by the latest way of doing astronomy
INSIDE SCIENCE: TUBERCULOSIS
Secrets of a microscopic mass murderer.
Regulars
Comment and Analysis
China and other countries are censoring the Net with software bought from Western companies. Time to act, says Oxblood Ruffin
Letters
Focusing on gravity; Dust reduction; Coloured for the cold; Worth the risk; PCs on planes; Caring about krypton; A bit of understanding; Need not to know; For the record; Dolphins can't see themselves;
Interview
Steve Sillett is often found 90 metres up studying the ecology of one of California's 2000-year-old redwoods
