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Brazil, where the ice cream comes from: The way to save the rainforest is to ignore the trees and sell the other fruits on offer. What effect will a conversion to capitalism have on the forest dwellers?

When the body takes the strain: Working may be bad for your health – especially if it involves making repetitive movements for hours on end

Teaching by bad example: Britain’s history of erosion

Earth

Nigeria’s home-grown dust bowl: Conservation and development

Ancient faults and modern earthquakes: Britain’s recent earthquake happened on a fault that was active hundreds of millions of years ago – Faults of similarly ancient lineage could be the sites of future tremors

Art on the rocks

Ailing after Alvey: The Alvey programme was Britain’s big chance to compete in information technology – Brian Oakley, a former director of Alvey, reflects on what went wrong

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News

Technology

Technology: Pink powder protects concrete from the damp

Technology

Technology Panels for pedals

Technology

Technology Circuit boards that fix their own faults

Technology

Technology: New X-ray source makes fine line in chips

Technology

Technology: Metal ions mobilised to defeat legionnaires’ disease

Technology

Technology: Europe’s high-definition TV catches the match

Science: Solar outbursts startle observers

Technology

Technology: Portable phones ring the globe by satellite

Science: Primitive slug sported skeletal armour

Bends come to the aid of polluted rivers

Science: Another brown dwarf bites the dust

Science: How Lockerbie data may help to find meteorites

Science: Step-wise extinctions preceded demise of dinosaurs

Science: Buzz-bomb beetle bares all

Museum meeting

Lung cancer hope

Trabi pushes for a place in the sun

Skis on the run

France’s don’t-knows

Cop-out

Waiting for squirrels

Owl spotted

Science: Molecule X – the other key to HIV?

Science: Gold in sea water 鈥� not enough to get rich

CFC clampdown eases pressure on the ozone layer

Chlorine continues to divide Balkan states

AIDS epidemic moves south through Africa

Design flaw cripples Hubble telescope

Burial mounds planned for over-the-hill reactors

Britain bans ‘natural’ food supplement after health fears

Brussels hits opposition to cuts in basic research

Lice licence

Goodbye China, hello Cambridge

Norway sharpens harpoon for minke whale

Fuel tank leaks force NASA to ground shuttle fleet

Opinion

Comment: Framework and the foundations

Comment: The trouble with Hubble

Talking Point: Playing roulette with the atmosphere

Features

Brazil, where the ice cream comes from: The way to save the rainforest is to ignore the trees and sell the other fruits on offer. What effect will a conversion to capitalism have on the forest dwellers?

When the body takes the strain: Working may be bad for your health – especially if it involves making repetitive movements for hours on end

Teaching by bad example: Britain’s history of erosion

Earth

Nigeria’s home-grown dust bowl: Conservation and development

Ancient faults and modern earthquakes: Britain’s recent earthquake happened on a fault that was active hundreds of millions of years ago – Faults of similarly ancient lineage could be the sites of future tremors

Art on the rocks

Ailing after Alvey: The Alvey programme was Britain’s big chance to compete in information technology – Brian Oakley, a former director of Alvey, reflects on what went wrong

More

Forum: When the chips are down – How scientists fare in business

Thistle Diary: More Comment from Westminster – Reconciling the irreconcilable

Review: The dark side of the Universe

Review: Puzzles that please the mathematician

Forum: An eye for the ball – The beauty of sport is that it shows how wonderful we really are

Forum: How I became an astronomer – Some people really have to work for a degree

Forum: Spare a thought for the invertebrates – Variety is the spice of life

Review: Back to the future, part 2

Review: In search of the roots of genius

Review: Tales of cities and megalopolises

Review: The overgrowth of the human population

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