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Europe prepares for its next step in space: The European Space Agency will have a new director general in October. He will face tough decisions on issues from the funding of space science to the future of the spaceplane Hermes

Why should anyone care about taxonomy?

For good or evil: Genetic tests for the masses

Your genome in their hands: Soon it will be possible to screen people for genetic diseases and predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Who will see this information, and what will they use it for?

Chaos on the trading floor: Economists and speculators would like to be able to predict the ups and downs of the financial and commodities markets. Could chaos theory help?

Counting species one by one

Seeing colours in their true light: The colours we see often depend on how and where we look at them. Psychology, physics and computer science could soon help us to perceive colour more consistently

Life

Palaeontology’s hidden agenda

Table of contents

News

Animal remedy may hold promise for AIDS

Science: Cooking up carcinogens – The chemicals generated in our food

Backup launch

Wrong cholesterol

Hold that tiger

Apnoea kills

Bins and burgers

More circles

Life saver

Sterile release

Sodium nitrate comes to the aid of the Dunhuang Diamond Sutra

Soviet blackout looms as nuclear disquiet deepens

Europe calls for satellite competition

Japanese business counts the cost of aid projects

Science: ‘Safe’ test may spot fetal abnormalities

Bloom boom for Italy’s slimy beaches

America shuts the door on ‘Open Skies’

Europe’s forests fall to acid rain

Iraq’s ‘nuclear’ furnaces stay in Scotland

Protests grow over nerve gas disposal

How Europe keeps the cocaine cartels in business

US approves trials with gene therapy

Innocent victims of the Glorious Twelfth

DNA fingerprinters aim to counter critics

Technology

Technology: Cracks begin to show in modern tanker design

Technology

Technology: Spinning screen TV gives ‘real 3-D’ images

Technology

Technology: Fibres down the tube

Technology

Technology: Industry rediscovers the paper that never forgets

Technology

Technology: Sounds cool – The acoustic fridge from California By LEIGH DAYTON

Technology

Technology: The pump that pips fires to the post

Technology

Technology: Record industry faces up to digital tape

Science: A new tree of life takes root

Science: The switch that turns the brain on to cannabis

Science: Pulsar problems in a multidimensional Universe

Opinion

Comment: No minister

Comment: AIDS – a time for natural justice

Talking Point: New attitudes needed on animal testing

Features

Europe prepares for its next step in space: The European Space Agency will have a new director general in October. He will face tough decisions on issues from the funding of space science to the future of the spaceplane Hermes

Why should anyone care about taxonomy?

For good or evil: Genetic tests for the masses

Your genome in their hands: Soon it will be possible to screen people for genetic diseases and predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Who will see this information, and what will they use it for?

Chaos on the trading floor: Economists and speculators would like to be able to predict the ups and downs of the financial and commodities markets. Could chaos theory help?

Counting species one by one

Seeing colours in their true light: The colours we see often depend on how and where we look at them. Psychology, physics and computer science could soon help us to perceive colour more consistently

Life

Palaeontology’s hidden agenda

More

Forum: We are not inspired – Classroom physics is behind the times

Forum: Holiday ecology – A novel niche for grants

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Questions of heritage

Forum: Technology transfer makes cents – Missionaries and heathens make profits in Japan

Review: Watery graves

Exhibition: A picture of the world

Forum: Fishing for support – A new angle in fish conservation

Review: A world beyond the senses

Review: The origin of Darwin’s despair

Review: Give us our daily plant

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