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Cheaper alternatives for CFCs

The bike built to win: Next week sees the start of cycling’s premier event, the Tour de France. With the sport’s professionals at peak fitness, race teams look to the bike designers to give them the best chance of winning on the most efficient machines

Where did the AIDS virus come from?: Biologists studying HIV

Chaos on the circuit board

‘The great lake is in great peril’: Siberia’s sacred sea, bigger than Belgium and older than any other lake, Baikal is threatened by pollution from industry and agriculture

Table of contents

News

AIDS: What makes the virus so virulent

‘Lenient’ Hong Kong

Expat victory

Winning swamp

‘Primatological find of the century’

Cold fusion retirement

Tropical disease

Fang free

Dam dropped

Science: American Indians recorded ‘guest star’

Science: Mathematician discovers a more complex form of chaos

Science: Caterpillars tap-dance for an ant audience

Science: A new type of genetic disease

Science: Did galaxies form gradually, or in a single burst?

Technology

Technology: Sky unscrambles the snow-filled shadows on its movies

Technology

Technology: Clicks, crackles and pops get the chop from recordings

East Germany struggles to save its science academy

Code-cracking claim splits mathematicians

Soviet Union reopens Chernobyl inquiry

AIDS: A vaccine ready ‘by the end of the decade’

The AIDS debate moves to the streets: The Sixth International Conference on AIDS held in San Francisco last week

Mystery of the dead king penguins

Only huge investment will bring universities back from the brink, say teachers

Technology

Technology: Plastic horseshoes challenge iron in the sole

Amended Embryo Bill faces last hurdle

Airy crop circle theory faces its critics

MPs accuse nuclear industry of distorting costs

杏吧原创s warn of perils posed by substitutes for CFCs

Nations approach unity on measures to protect ozone

Unprecedented damage as earthquake occurs close to the surface

Modern materials heap extra tragedy on Iran

Patents: Bible banned?

Technology

Technology: Robot scales heights

Technology

Technology: Destroy-it-yourself treatment for toxic waste

Science: Galaxy clusters hold magnetic attraction

Technology

Technology: Solar activity wreaks havoc in heaven and earth

Technology

Technology: American firm demands ban on Japanese cameras

Patents: British patents lose out to Europe

Patents: Timely endgame

Patents: The video’s the thing

Patents: Patenting life

Opinion

Talking Point: The global lesson of AIDS

Comment: Rethinking AIDS

Comment: Uneasy partners

Features

Cheaper alternatives for CFCs

Industrialised countries are being asked this week to help to pay for the Third World's efforts to protect the ozone layer. But need it really cost as much as some are claiming?

The bike built to win: Next week sees the start of cycling’s premier event, the Tour de France. With the sport’s professionals at peak fitness, race teams look to the bike designers to give them the best chance of winning on the most efficient machines

Where did the AIDS virus come from?: Biologists studying HIV

Chaos on the circuit board

‘The great lake is in great peril’: Siberia’s sacred sea, bigger than Belgium and older than any other lake, Baikal is threatened by pollution from industry and agriculture

More

Software Review: The medium is the footnote

Software Review: Hypertext reaches the student

Software Review: More than a match for most

Software Review: A quantum world on the small screen

Software Review: Software and the neural network

Forum: On being a bit green – A couple of suggestions for saving the Earth

Forum: Coloured vision? – The pharmacological history of Van Gogh

Forum: Playing by the rules – People and machines have much in common

Forum: End of the university as we know it – A dire consequence of the cuts

Software Review: A modem that guards your privacy

Software Review: Delete cliches and sexism

Software Review: Bibliography made cheap

Thistle Diary: More Comment from Westminster – Medical shortcomings and Soviet doubts

Forum: Floppy thinking – 10 uses for a dead disc

Software Review: Mathematics beyond the pocket calculator – This year’s crop of software includes the pick of packages for mathematics, games that use advanced programming, modelling in the quantum world and how to teach hypertext

Software Review: Games of power, pleasure and wit

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