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How Europe is winning its war against rabies: Within a few years, vaccination could eradicate rabies from the wild in western Europe through a combination of classic techniques and genetic engineering

The princess and the pots

Streetwise to the dangers of ozone:

On the trail of the snow leopard

The physics of muesli:

The case of the lookalike jackals: How can three virtually identical species of jackal share the same habitat? Molecular biologists and ecologists working together have explained the mystery

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News

Green ministers agree to act despite ‘scientific uncertainty’

Science: The nitrogen molecule that shouldn’t exist

Science: Variable gravity solves a cosmological conundrum

Science: Geologists challenge asteroid theory of extinctions

Science: Promising AIDS drug may be marred by side effects

Global warming ‘may distort carbon cycle’

Britain’s birds face ‘alarming’ decline

Sumitomo’s coils

Houston’s bars

The nit-picking pharaohs

Space delays

Unsafe Britain

Nein, vielleicht

Big science for kids

Clear as urine

Science: Killer sparrows

Superpowers work for better cooperation

Commons begins emergency inquiry into BSE

Britain to test whether drug can prevent breast cancer

French plans for major increase in science graduates

Britain spends millions to find missing teachers

Largest trials of AIDS drug start in Britain

Japan heads for world’s largest civil R&D budget

Canadian warning for Australian research centres

Setback for squirrels

Embryo Research: Embryo Bill faces rocky ride in Commons

Design faults sank Soviet submarine

Patents: Silent tape

Patents: Mini-tape tangle

Patents: Europe may extend drugs patents

Patents: Diamond diaphragm

Technology

Technology: Japanese cars learn to navigate by satellite

Technology

Technology: Synthetic molecule mimics photosynthesis

Technology

Technology: Insulin is still a hard act to swallow

Technology

Technology: Philips challenges Japanese over CD decoders

Technology

Technology: Industry holds back on hiss-free tape

Technology

Technology: Britain to test American ‘bomb sniffer’

Science: The ins and outs of star formation

Science: Why watchful males are more attractive

Opinion

Comment: Put the money in the POST

Comment: Investment in education

Features

How Europe is winning its war against rabies: Within a few years, vaccination could eradicate rabies from the wild in western Europe through a combination of classic techniques and genetic engineering

The princess and the pots

Streetwise to the dangers of ozone:

On the trail of the snow leopard

The physics of muesli:

The case of the lookalike jackals: How can three virtually identical species of jackal share the same habitat? Molecular biologists and ecologists working together have explained the mystery

More

Forum: The sponge gallery I knew – The evolution of the Natural History Museum

Forum: The elements so mixed – The language of science

Forum: Combating the human factor – The conflicts of interest in Indian conservation

Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Peat, cetaceans and hospital waste

Review: A spotter’s guide to the deep sky

Review: The risks of computing

Review: Fire in the heavens

Forum: Save the animals, feed the world – The two goals are by no means incompatible

Review: Paradigm shifts and animal trials

Review: Beyond the barriers of time

Review: The stigma of sex

Review: Through the looking glass with Alice

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