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Warriors of the woodlands: The summer of ecological discontent may be made inglorious if the ecowarriors of the US decide on violent confrontation with loggers to defend ancient forests

Forest saviours follow in the footsteps of Gandhi

Genetic markers put pigs on the map

The all-conquering weed reveals its secrets

Biology looks to yeast for genetic insights

Everything for nothing: Some audacious new physics based on the fluctuations of empty space may unify the forces of nature, explain why quantum theory works and where the Universe comes from

Life

Death on the steppe: The case of the frozen bison

Britain and the human genome: As Americans with megabucks gear up to unravel the secrets of human genetics, can British scientists do anything useful with a relatively modest sum?

Physics

Flight of the Frisbee

Why bricks have lift but cannot fly

Table of contents

News

Gravity grant

Environment set to win in Japan’s budget stakes

‘Personal development’ machine could trigger epileptic fits

Treasury accused of short-changing British research

Tragedy highlights case for new paracetamol drug

Return of the predator

Teams join forces to resolve Alzheimer controversy

Doctor’s suspension stirs French debate over euthanasia

Antiquities sold to fund new research centre

Britain on trial

Japan bows

Manchester’s best

Chemical funding

Science: Natural ‘Valium’ found in human body

Science: Organic magnet confounds the theorists

Technology

Technology: West sceptical over Japan’s factory of the future

Ministers object to blighted land register

US criticised over nuclear waste plans

‘Sluggish’ response to cleaning up Britain’s beaches

MPs deal blow to fast breeders

Czechoslovakia launches a great cleanup

Technology

Technology: Sound comes to the aid of lip-readers

A call from Britain, a prize in Australia

New ministers

Separate sciences

Space station hitch

American army ignores toxic warning

Germans start search for Soviet chemical weapons

Soviet science heads for ‘disaster’

Patents: Giving the nod

Technology

Technology: Osmosis and the art of growing crystals

Technology

Technology: Plastic trees may turn the deserts green

Science: Synthetic molecule may stop spread of HIV

Science: Biologists pioneer ‘reverse genetics’

Science: Busy bacteria may reduce the risk of a runaway greenhouse

Science: Miniature brains are wired more efficiently

Patents: Germany beats the language barrier

Patents: Funnel vision

Patents: Talking pictures

Patents: Home for marks

Technology

Technology: Genetic probes sort out the good wood from bad

Technology

Technology: A workplace wired for robots

Opinion

Comment: University blues

Talking Point: Why caution is wrong on global warming

Comment: Eastern connections

Features

Warriors of the woodlands: The summer of ecological discontent may be made inglorious if the ecowarriors of the US decide on violent confrontation with loggers to defend ancient forests

Forest saviours follow in the footsteps of Gandhi

Genetic markers put pigs on the map

The all-conquering weed reveals its secrets

Biology looks to yeast for genetic insights

Everything for nothing: Some audacious new physics based on the fluctuations of empty space may unify the forces of nature, explain why quantum theory works and where the Universe comes from

Life

Death on the steppe: The case of the frozen bison

Britain and the human genome: As Americans with megabucks gear up to unravel the secrets of human genetics, can British scientists do anything useful with a relatively modest sum?

Physics

Flight of the Frisbee

Why bricks have lift but cannot fly

More

Review: Science and engineering al fresco

Review: The subversive elements of evolution

Review: No news may be good news

Review: In praise of a famous man

A tale of vanishing links – The government should leave well alone

Review: The murkier reaches of psychology

Review: More thoughts from a green shade

Forum: People in glasshouses . . . . . . could save the biosphere by thinking nuclear

Forum: A nasty case of white lice – Which is the worst of two evils

Forum: How green was my neighbour – The problems of environmentally sound consumerism

Thistle Diary – More Comment from Westminster: Stunning, holes and circles

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