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China’s silent summer: Many scientists are leaving China in the aftermath of the massacre in June last year in Tiananmen Square. Those that remain face cuts in student numbers and funding – not to mention political re-education and military service

Greening of Industry: The Consumers are not so Green – Last year many people said they would buy environmentally friendly goods. This year, such products are left on the shelves. What went wrong?

Greening of Industry: Checks on environmental pollution

Greening of Industry: A chip off the old expert – People with the expertise to manage the environment are in short supply. Computers, equipped with the experts’ know-how, can act as stand-ins

Greening of Industry: The Green Wave Heads East – Large areas of Eastern Europe are heavily polluted from antiquated, badly run factories. How much will increased trade with the West change that?

When scorpions ruled the world: Scorpions took the big step onto solid ground about 300 million years ago. Scottish fossils reveal how they evolved to leave the seas and become the first predators on land

Earth

The race to heal the ozone hole

Ancestral voices at war: Linguists in the US are engaged in a bloody battle over the origins of American Indian languages – and the ancestry of the people who speak them. The science of archaeology and molecular biology may settle the dispute

Earth

Last days of the old night bird

Table of contents

News

A look back at the Solar System

Tough physics

AIDS conference

West removes more bricks from the technology wall

Science: Uranium dating delves deeper into the past

Technology

Technology: Budget squeeze puts the heat on early-warning system

Physicits drop Brazilian bombshell

Zoos ‘must join forces’ to save threatened habitats

Britain’s bats come out for the count

Europe’s space science short of money

‘Mystery’ illness claims French cattle

American detective finds fresh clues to Piltdown mystery

Gene culprits

Overseas study

Science: Worm gives clues to the destruction of nerve cells

Nuclear Japanese

CFC warning

East meets West

AIDS vaccine shows promise in humans

‘Selective’ TV documentary attacked by AIDS researchers

Bombings set back animal welfare campaigns

Gunfight at the cold fusion corral

Vets targeted in bombing attacks

Science: Arthritis sufferers avoid Alzheimer’s disease

Technology

Technology: Where there’s muck, there’s glass

Technology

Technology: Sound probe peers inside the arteries

Technology

Technology: Robots take over the petrol pumps

Technology

Technology: Semiconductor laser gets the blue light

Technology

Technology: The long, sharp shock for contaminated land

Science: Hunting ladybirds need a helping hand

Science: A simple model for planets’ magnetic fields?

Science: The day the Sweet Track was built

Science: Bronchitis drug may help AIDS sufferers

Opinion

Comment: AIDS on television

Comment: Animal matters

Features

China’s silent summer: Many scientists are leaving China in the aftermath of the massacre in June last year in Tiananmen Square. Those that remain face cuts in student numbers and funding – not to mention political re-education and military service

Greening of Industry: The Consumers are not so Green – Last year many people said they would buy environmentally friendly goods. This year, such products are left on the shelves. What went wrong?

Greening of Industry: Checks on environmental pollution

Greening of Industry: A chip off the old expert – People with the expertise to manage the environment are in short supply. Computers, equipped with the experts’ know-how, can act as stand-ins

Greening of Industry: The Green Wave Heads East – Large areas of Eastern Europe are heavily polluted from antiquated, badly run factories. How much will increased trade with the West change that?

When scorpions ruled the world: Scorpions took the big step onto solid ground about 300 million years ago. Scottish fossils reveal how they evolved to leave the seas and become the first predators on land

Earth

The race to heal the ozone hole

Ancestral voices at war: Linguists in the US are engaged in a bloody battle over the origins of American Indian languages – and the ancestry of the people who speak them. The science of archaeology and molecular biology may settle the dispute

Earth

Last days of the old night bird

More

Forum: Sniff it and see – Horse sense in the laboratory

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Of Chinese wisdom and British cuts

Forum: Mystery of the missing biography / A look at the life of Alan Blumlein

Review: Beauty in miniature

Review: Stronger Shades of green

Review: Damming the paper flood

Forum: As seen on television / Where are his experts are coming from

Review: Safe homes for the endangered

Review: Star Trails

Review: The fur brigade

Review: Science proposes, politics disposes

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