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Home thoughts from abroad: Oh, to be in Britain! Many of the scientists who have left for Europe and the US would like to come back. First, they told Mrs Thatcher this week, they need to feel wanted

Inside the AIDS virus

Computers weave a new fashion: Textile manufacturers no longer need so many artists to create their wares. Computers are cutting corners in the design process

Particle detectors come out of the laboratory: There is more to a particle physicist than a theoretician working on fundamental research with no practical use. Many are skilled inventors who have developed new kinds of technology that is benefiting indus

Molecular clocks run out of time: The theory that we can date the birth of new species by charting the steady accumulation of mutations over evolutionary time is in serious trouble

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News

East-West cable snagged by technology embargo

Science: Sulphur pools on Earth give clues about Jupiter’s volcanic moon

Science: Erratic pulsar is quaking at its core

Ministers accused of lax attitude to contaminated land

East-West cooperation

Loire reprieve

Secret AIDS unit shut

So long, suckers: it’s flatworms’ turn

Wrong skull

Rice genome

Radioactive erosion

HIV estimates down

Biotechnology call

Methanol use in Brazilian cars ‘would endanger health’

Science: Transplanted eggs can create ovaries

Hello? Is there anyone out there?

Brussels under pressure as Germany fights to keep pollutant

MPs frustrated by sewage scientists’ fallout over outfalls

Drugs giant takes over Genentech

NASA moves to defuse space station row

Bush rejects scientists’ call for action on global warming

Five-year wait predicted for genome project

Pretoria reforms raise hopes on science links

We won’t return until you pay more, say scientists

Crisis looms for science as teenagers abandon higher education

Gene test for cystic fibrosis sparks off screening debate

Technology

Technology: Japan flexes its artificial muscles in the search for new treatments

Technology

Technology: Texas finds fresh fibres for tomorrow’s news

Technology

Technology: Civilians outgunned in race to optical processing

Technology

Technology: Rival company takes a broader view

Technology

Technology: Smart cards hold the key to the scrambled satellite picture

Technology

Technology: The starchiest plastic that leaves no trace

Technology

Technology: Oceanographers make a noise to test the water

Science: Astronomers witness the birth of quasar twins

Science: Population ‘bottlenecks’ enhance a species’ genetic resources

Science: Organic superconductors begin to show promise

Opinion

Will they ever learn?

Poor relations

Features

Home thoughts from abroad: Oh, to be in Britain! Many of the scientists who have left for Europe and the US would like to come back. First, they told Mrs Thatcher this week, they need to feel wanted

Inside the AIDS virus

Computers weave a new fashion: Textile manufacturers no longer need so many artists to create their wares. Computers are cutting corners in the design process

Particle detectors come out of the laboratory: There is more to a particle physicist than a theoretician working on fundamental research with no practical use. Many are skilled inventors who have developed new kinds of technology that is benefiting indus

Molecular clocks run out of time: The theory that we can date the birth of new species by charting the steady accumulation of mutations over evolutionary time is in serious trouble

More

What dark matter means to us / Review of ‘The Stuff of the Universe*’ by John Gribbin and Martin Rees

Forum: A year in a thousand – The debate about when the millennium ends

Thistle Diary – More Comment from Westminster: Crime, cars and vanishing hedgerows

In the name of science / Review of ‘Lyndon LaRouche and The New American Fascism’ by Dennis King

Many faces of Eve’s daughters and sons / Review of ‘Subpersonalities’ by John Rowan

Unearthly sciences / Review of ‘Planetary Geosciences 1988’ edited by Maria Zuber

A brewer’s tale / Review of ‘James Joule: A Biography’ by Donald S L Cardwell

Forum: Where do we go from here? – The break-up of the Nature Conservancy Council

Forum: Western idealism; Third World pragmatism – Reconcile Western scientific thought with the needs of developing countries

Forum: Never say die – Why are doctors so reluctant to admit defeat?

Rocky dwarfs and gassy giants

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