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Space – Japan’s new frontier: When Japan launched its first lunar mission in January, other nations feared that they would soon lose their lead in another field of lucrative technology. But for the moment local squabbles, tight budgets and international

Science by degrees: Perhaps Britain suffers from a severe shortage of physicists because it is too difficult to get a degree in the subject. Universities are having to rethink their academic traditions

More room for the woollies: The Monkey Sanctuary at Looe in Cornwall has been so successful that it must now expand and perhaps divide. What lessons does it hold for traditional zoos?

The greening of chemistry

Sex and the single cell: In August, the first babies sexed by testing only one of a tiny cluster of eight cells are due to be born. Their births will prove that it is feasible to screen embryos for genetic diseases

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News

Ministers back research into childhood cancers

Science: Does amniocentesis have a long-term affect on children?

Science: Salty food stays cool to its core in microwaves

Science: Not tonight, darling – it isn’t Christmas

Slime again?

Eggs wanted

Science: Twilight of the frogs

Heavenly foursome

Citations track the fate of cold fusion

Longer life

Tropical poll

China launches bid to recover reputation

Bright future for New Zealander’s comet

Caribbean sunset

Technology

Technology: Satellites stake out the San Andreas fault

Hackers ‘plan revenge’ for police clampdown on computer crime

Soviet villagers fear radar plan may pose risk to health

The forgotten rag that brought down Ariane

Giant meteor shatters Dutch calm

Court challenge looms over Thames development

Colombia calls on rich to fund forest protection

Replanted rainforest could ‘offset’ Dutch coal-fired power stations

Concern grows over health of ‘Chernobyl children’

Romanian physicists plead for Ceausescu’s son

Gene linked with excessive drinking

Uncertainty hangs over future of cell collection

Technology

Technology: Polymer concrete set to toughen tunnels

Technology

Technology: Independent radio takes adverts from space

Technology

Technology: Surprise success for genetic jabs

Technology

Technology: Medical scanning turns to the bright lights

Technology

Technology: Automatic meter readings are coming – down the mains

Science: Chemical clues to the origin of life

Technology

Technology: Cartoon time for holograms

Opinion

Comment: Too much hot air

Features

Space – Japan’s new frontier: When Japan launched its first lunar mission in January, other nations feared that they would soon lose their lead in another field of lucrative technology. But for the moment local squabbles, tight budgets and international

Science by degrees: Perhaps Britain suffers from a severe shortage of physicists because it is too difficult to get a degree in the subject. Universities are having to rethink their academic traditions

More room for the woollies: The Monkey Sanctuary at Looe in Cornwall has been so successful that it must now expand and perhaps divide. What lessons does it hold for traditional zoos?

The greening of chemistry

Sex and the single cell: In August, the first babies sexed by testing only one of a tiny cluster of eight cells are due to be born. Their births will prove that it is feasible to screen embryos for genetic diseases

More

Where the wild things are / Review of ‘The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Sciences of Complexity’ by Heinz R. Pagels, Bantam, New York, pp 352, $9.95

Forum: In search of the ideal student – Stephen Harris on the selection of PhD students

Forum: Communications breakdown – Talk of a global village is premature

Thistle Diary – More Comment from Westminster: Of capercaillie, bees and power stations

Forum: The selfish ugh! – Evolution is child’s play

Forum: The green missionaries of Africa – National parks are endangering the very people who can best preserve the environment

The high cost of preservation / Review of ‘Return of the Whooping Crane’ by Robin W. Doughty, University of Texas Press, pp 192, $29.95

Weaverbirds, the eighth plague / Review of ‘Quelea quelea: Africa’s Bird Pest’ edited by Richard L. Briggers and Clive C. H. Elliot, Oxford University Press, pp 402, Pounds sterling 45

Japanese designs on the market / Review of ‘Between MITI and The Market: Japanese Industrial Policy for High Technology’ by Daniel I. Okimoto, Stanford University Press, pp 260, $27.50 Computers Inc: and ‘Japan’s Challenge to IBM’ by Marie Anchordoguy, H

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