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Portrait of an exploding star: Exactly three years ago, a star blew itself apart in a nearby galaxy. Astronomers have now laid bare the details of the explosion

Who’s a clever parrot, then?: Few people would think it ethical to keep an ape in a cage in their front room, but parrots may be as bright as primates. And trade in parrots as pets is driving many to extinction

Another life for electronics: As our homes fill with conventional electronics, Japanese firms are looking for new ways of selling us their products. And from experience, there is little we can do to stop them

In search of empty space – the Cluster mission: Space is not as empty as it sounds. Four European satellites will take a close look at the Earth’s surroundings in the middle of the 90s, hoping to find out how auroras form. The results could reveal secret

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News

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science: Another ozone hole opens up over New Zealand

Stone flower

Bone marrow baby

Poles’ science axed

Cocom relaxes

Chimp virus

Flood waters dampen researchers’ drive

Plan for whales

Eau fizzles out

Science: Britain must learn to farm in the greenhouse

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science: . . . but medical research foresees the apocalypse

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science: Adapting to global warming will be easy, says archaeologist . . .

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science: Habits of consumption create energy addicts

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science: Estimates of sea level rise cut by half

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science: The days of the kiwi fruit may be numbered

Technology

Technology: Japan puts its money into two-faced materials

Technology

Technology: Electronic camera captures number plates in the fast lane

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Prehistoric people ‘ruined their own environment’

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Supernova pulsar was just a flash in the pan

Canadians accuse US of ‘hysteria’ over drugs

Nerve discovery confuses debate on laboratory monkeys

India helps the Caribbean to exploit its marine wealth

Relief workers move to tackle Romanian AIDS epidemic

Soldiers ‘sacrificed to clean up Chernobyl’

Leukaemia study sparks review of radiation limits

Technology

Technology: Superconductors need impurities to stop creeping current

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Burning questions answered about red hot peppers

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Genome scientists map out details of five-year plan

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Secrecy under the ice frustrates global warming studies

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: American nuclear industry may have a future yet

The American Association for the Advancement of Science: Tropical farmers ‘at risk’ from pesticides

Science: Prehistoric farming caused ‘devastating’ soil erosion

Science: Infrared eye discovers new volcano on Jupiter’s moon

Space agency jogs Giotto towards a new job

File closes on North Sea rig disaster

Inside science: Evidence of the eclipse

Patents: Time for a change

Technology

Technology: Simulator helps doctors and midwives to avoid breakages at birth

Science: Superheavy elements could be more stable than

Technology

Technology: East and West reach for the Open Skies

Technology

Technology: Computers that bend the rules of animation

Patents: Spun out tale

Patents: Money in marks

Patents: The human factor

Technology

Technology: A breath of fresh air turns methane into petrol

Patents: Do-it-yourself searches for patents

Opinion

A climate of uncertainty

Statistical concern

Features

Portrait of an exploding star: Exactly three years ago, a star blew itself apart in a nearby galaxy. Astronomers have now laid bare the details of the explosion

Who’s a clever parrot, then?: Few people would think it ethical to keep an ape in a cage in their front room, but parrots may be as bright as primates. And trade in parrots as pets is driving many to extinction

Another life for electronics: As our homes fill with conventional electronics, Japanese firms are looking for new ways of selling us their products. And from experience, there is little we can do to stop them

In search of empty space – the Cluster mission: Space is not as empty as it sounds. Four European satellites will take a close look at the Earth’s surroundings in the middle of the 90s, hoping to find out how auroras form. The results could reveal secret

More

Forum: Now you see it . . . Now you don’t! – A pathological tendency among astronomers

Forum: If only things had been different .. – Gail Vines talks to Stephen Jay Gould about the role of contingency in evolution

Insight at Wallewerang / Review of ‘Charles Darwin in Australia’ by F. W. and J. M. Nicholas

Mock not to mock a mockingbird / Review of ‘To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles’ by Raymond Smullyan

The ties that bind the Third World / Review of ‘Exploited Earth – Britain’s Aid and the Environment’ by Teresa Hayter

Pick Of The Paperbacks

Chemistry’s driving forces / Review of ‘ Molecular Machinery – The Principles and Powers of Chemistry by Andrew Scott

Forum: A class apart? – How do you define an archaeologist?

Thistle Diary – More Comment From Westminster: Of public health and private plans

Forum: Pennies from heaven – The consequences of working to a budget

Creators not copycats / Review of ‘ The Formation of Science in Japan’ by James R. Bartholomew

As long as he loves his mother / Review of ‘Oedipus in Evolution – A New Theory of Sex’ by Christopher Badcock

Physics

A theory of some gravity

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