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The poisonous power of chemical warfare

A whiff of happiness: Can smelling a molecule contained in human sweat ease anxiety and stress? Some scientists think so, and argue that ‘osmotherapy’ may also help people to slim or stop smoking

The changing face of Chiron

A worm at the heart of the genome project: What can we learn about ourselves from a lowly parasitic worm? A great deal, argue molecular geneticists on both sides of the Atlantic

The hurdles to ban chemical weapons

The grim trade that is so hard to control

Life

Sex with a twist in the tail: The common-or-garden housefly

Table of contents

News

Pill briefing

Technology

Technology: Pollutant masks hide risk to city cyclists

Technology

Technology: Sinclair gets on his bike

Technology

Computer modelling makes jet engines less noxious . . .

At the BA: Could salmonella save your life?

At the BA: Flipping oceans could turn up the heat

At tha BA: ‘Wobbles’ rewrite history

At the BA: Modern farming puts small birds to flight

At the BA: Positive posters make the AIDS message stick

At the BA: VDU text is a headache

At the BA: Government ‘distrusts’ the social sciences

At the BA: Americans aim to overhaul science teaching by 2061

Archive threat

Hubble still throws light on the stars

Home for bats

Technology

Technology: Systems design takes an evolutionary turn

Chemical crop

Ovarian cancer study

Ceausescu freed

Hot summer comes up to scratch

Bolivian indians march to save their homeland

Hard sums lose pupils

Company cars drive wedge between ministries

Cancer threat prompts China to curb smoking

Comet Levy at its brightest this weekend

Margarine fails the fat test in Dutch study

Technology

Technology: . . . while recycling could make power supplies soar

Technology

Technology: Dallas becomes quality viewing

Patents: Vanishing paste

Patents: Subscriber scan

Patents: Tangle of wires

Patents: Kamikaze disc

Patents: Rapid transit for patent disputes

Science: Drug eliminates side effects of cancer treatment

Science: How man-made ozone damages plants

Science: Does electrical charge come in smaller instalments?

Science: Plant material may have controlled oxygen in atmosphere

Science: DNA’s ancestors made themselves up

Opinion

Talking Point: Science spending must put people first

Comment: Return of ‘soft’ sciences

Comment: Chemical reactions

Features

The poisonous power of chemical warfare

The escalation of conflict in the Gulf has reminded the world of the gruesome threat from chemical and biological weapons - and the slow progress in banning them

A whiff of happiness: Can smelling a molecule contained in human sweat ease anxiety and stress? Some scientists think so, and argue that ‘osmotherapy’ may also help people to slim or stop smoking

The changing face of Chiron

A worm at the heart of the genome project: What can we learn about ourselves from a lowly parasitic worm? A great deal, argue molecular geneticists on both sides of the Atlantic

The hurdles to ban chemical weapons

The grim trade that is so hard to control

Life

Sex with a twist in the tail: The common-or-garden housefly

More

Forum: Traces of worms – Systems that cover their tracks

Review: Science funding in deep waters

Review: Grand tour of the planets

Forum: The British Disease – In higher education, it’s not who you are but where you’ve been that counts

Forum: A green solution to the green revolution

Forum: Biotechnology: public friend or foe? – What does the public really think

Review: ‘Man on Earth’

Review: Isolated, forgotten and doomed

Review: The tale of the Black Arrow

Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Of wild estimates and whales

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