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No surrender in Sarawak: In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, protests against logging are a matter of life and death, not only for those who live in the rainforest but also for those who campaign to save them

Earth

Climate Change: Global warming, back to the future

Plastics, waste not, want not: Unless we can reclaim more plastics from waste, recycling will never be worthwhile. But this has not stopped manufacturers from trying to develop better recycling methods

Environment

Pigeons, pests and people

The Galactic empire

Table of contents

News

Technology

Technology: Ice-breaker tipped to make waves on Tyneside

Rules for fishing

Nuclear power sails down the river

Radio survey

Painless smoking

Science: Dinosaur count reveals surprisingly few species

Science: Deep-sea fishing dries up the gene pool

Science: ‘New men’ hold sway among tamarins

Technology

Technology: Roadside detector brings mobile polluters to light

Rebates on rubbish

Technology

Technology: ‘Sensitive flowers’ of British hi-fi may be trampled

Science: Why women aren’t men

Science: Structure of HIV receptor laid bare

Science: Birds with a talent for applied chemistry

Science: Isolating the chemicals that cause cancer

Technology

Technology: Twenties flapper motors back into fashion

Technology

Technology: Optical boost for underwater phone links

Cash crisis threatens ‘big science’

One small scoop for media kind

Logging agreement fails to protect Sarawak

Bleak future for British conservation

Queensland tops world skin cancer league

The mercury the physicists left behind

Women, AIDS and survival

A flake of film foiled Hubble

CERN dips into pension fund

Technology

Technology: Sludge disposal becomes a burning issue

American pressure thwarts studies on ‘abortion pill’

Czechs push ahead with Danube dam

Nuclear plans divide Baltic neighbours

Mad breeding

Copernicus lives

Sjogren’s virus

French government comes clean over radioactive contamination

Tokyo wins support for intelligent factories

Opinion

Comment: The nuclear red herring

Comment: The Thatcher effect

Talking Point: Animal patents, lawyers call the tune

Features

No surrender in Sarawak: In the Malaysian state of Sarawak, protests against logging are a matter of life and death, not only for those who live in the rainforest but also for those who campaign to save them

Earth

Climate Change: Global warming, back to the future

Plastics, waste not, want not: Unless we can reclaim more plastics from waste, recycling will never be worthwhile. But this has not stopped manufacturers from trying to develop better recycling methods

Environment

Pigeons, pests and people

The Galactic empire

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Forum: Let me through, I’m a lawyer – A worrying trend in medicine

Review: The autumn yields it crop of greenery – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Wet, wet, wet – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Work it out for yourself – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Visitors of mystery – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: An 18th-century eye on nature – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Cultivate a weather eye

Review: Gasps of wonder – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Forum: Inside the postgraduate poverty trap – It’s not just undergraduates who have a raw deal

Go in the machine

Review: Stars of wonder, stars of light – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Forum: Don’t count it, audit – A warning for environmental scientists

Forum: The perils of impure speculation – It’s easy to set off on a wild goose chase

Thistle Diary: Luck holds for albatross – Comment from Westminster

Forum: An approximate view of the world – It doesn’t always pay to be exact

Review: There I was, nothing on the clock – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Stalk the wild trajectory – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: They never yet could find my measure – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Tales of the weird and wonderful – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: A frabjous book – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Blow, blow, thou winter’s cold – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Just wild about bats – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: There was a jolly miller – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Bend it, break it, build with it – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Chaos from Cornwall – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Videos

Review: Mandelbrot’s set on a mug – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese birds and British bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents – Dudley Moore

Review: Botanical treasures from the tomb – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

Review: How can you draw a crater on the Moon, sketch a glowing nebula or photograph a constellation? – Flights of fancy for Christmas begin with puzzles for the mind, soar with Balinese bats, then descend to the tomb and chaotic presents

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