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In search of a mammoth fraud

Fog, wind and heat – life in the Namib desert

Sun, surf and sewage: While Australia’s national tourist board urges foreigners to visit Sydney, local environmentalists struggle to persuade the city’s authorities to clean up the urban coastline

Is the Universe a computer?

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News

East German research faces testing time

Technology

Technology: Cost of retuning could kill Channel 5

Technology

Technology: European chip makers seek safety in numbers

Technology

Technology: Low-speed motor finds power in ceramics

Technology

Technology: ‘Smart’ lifts take Japan’s managers upmarket

Americans allowed to hitch a ride on Soviet rockets

Britain warns of problems over North Sea cleanup

Oil giant hives off research unit

Eastern activists win pollution pact

Donana manana

Cholesterol tests

Soviet Medvedev

Freon free

Flushed sewers spell the end for Parisian fish

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‘Youth’ hormone tainted by link to cancer

New angle on Pythagorian origins of science

Rich countries fail to support Third World wetlands fund

Dutch go greener

Government rethinks stand over altered organisms

Poisoned dolphin prompts Britain to monitor life in the seas

Whaling nations threaten unilateral action

BSE report will add to calls for cattle register

Spare mirrors may throw new light on Hubble flaws

Japan uses summit to bid for the big time

Some enzymes may work by ‘negative catalysis’

Horseshoe bats sound out the choicest prey

Technology

Technology: Broadcasters plan ‘piggyback’ radio services

Science: ‘Earliest’ AIDS case may offer clues to virus

Science: Neutrino loss makes young pulsars spin faster

Science: A demon blow to the second law of thermodynamics?

Science: Changes in ocean currents could accelerate global warming

Technology

Technology: Tokyo talks fail to resolve patents row

Technology

Technology: Medium wave makes space for stereo in Britain

Too hot to fly

Opinion

Talking Point: Cooperation in a fractured global order

Comment: Good hunting?

Features

In search of a mammoth fraud

Did a North American from the Stone Age carve the image of a mammoth on a bit of shell? Or is the so-called Holly Oak pendant yet another archaeological fake?

Fog, wind and heat – life in the Namib desert

Sun, surf and sewage: While Australia’s national tourist board urges foreigners to visit Sydney, local environmentalists struggle to persuade the city’s authorities to clean up the urban coastline

Is the Universe a computer?

More

Review: There is always an alternative

Review: Pick of the paperbacks

Forum: Fair play, please – Isn’t it time that science was applied to soccer?

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Of forests, frogs and taxpayers

Forum: Playing with fire / Firewalking with the Wessex Skeptics

Forum: A disaster for science education – The National Curriculum undoes much of the excellent work of the 1960s and 1970s

Review: Adventures in the stratosphere

Review: Definitions of biology

Review: The perfection of offspring

Review: Rainbows, Halos and Glories

Review: The hip bone is connected

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