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Mars – is it mission impossible?: President Bush wants to see an American Flag flying on the surface of Mars by 2019. But no one knows what the biological effects would be on the astronauts undertaking such a trip

Climate Change: Energy answers for North and South – Planners in Sweden think their countries can meet their energy needs, cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and get richer, by the end of the century

Climate change: The first steps out of the greenhouse – From fridges to cars, we already have the technology we need to curb the greenhouse effect. What stops us taking the first step and using it?

An unlikely civil servant: Michael Peckham is the first person to take on the task of directing the research effort of the National Health Service. Next month he will be telling ministers what his plans are

The malleable microbe: Just how different is a bacterium from an elephant? The answer lies in the flexible genes of the lowly microorganism

Standing up to earthquakes: An earthquake destroys buildings by shaking them to pieces. Engineers are finding ways to keep them standing when the ground moves

Table of contents

News

South Africa wakes up to the threat of AIDS

Science: How much does a smell weigh?

Science: Ice telescope could detect cosmic neutrinos

Environment

Science: Well-fed baboon babies become best reproducers

In Brief: Suspect virus

In Brief: Weighty problem

In Brief: Sorry, no cyclotron

In Brief: Birmingham Six

In Brief: French link-up

Legal, decent and patently untruthful

Spinning satellite

What’s wrong with French literature?

The well runs dry for California’s farmers

Dutch plan to take toll on road traffic

The cup that cheers environmentalists

Science: Summing up the ninety-eight ways from A to B

Dengue fever grips Brazil as officials wrangle over blame

In Brief: Salyut shower

In Brief: Sinking ships

In Brief: Fish’s future is a bit of a mouthful

‘Black gold’ obscures green vision in US

Secret report exposes fears for British science

MPs condemn government record on funding

US feels heat on global warming stance

Health hazards that lurk in ‘inert’ gas

Judge backs case against passive smoking

Science: Supernova ‘ring’ helps to size up the Universe

Technology

Technology: Atoms pop up to get switched on

Technology

Technology: Free genes for sweet potatoes

Technology

Technology: Reinventing the wheel

Science: A tunnel driven through the Galaxy’s fog

Technology

Technology: Ceramic chip could write off discs

Technology

Technology: Yeast brews up artificial blood

Technology

Technology: Mechanical arm guides the surgeon’s hand

Technology

Technology: Britain abandons power from hot rocks

Science: Quantum theorists hit the boredom threshold

Opinion

Comment: Statistics damned statistics

Comment: Frozen lines

Features

Mars – is it mission impossible?: President Bush wants to see an American Flag flying on the surface of Mars by 2019. But no one knows what the biological effects would be on the astronauts undertaking such a trip

Climate Change: Energy answers for North and South – Planners in Sweden think their countries can meet their energy needs, cut emissions of greenhouse gases, and get richer, by the end of the century

Climate change: The first steps out of the greenhouse – From fridges to cars, we already have the technology we need to curb the greenhouse effect. What stops us taking the first step and using it?

An unlikely civil servant: Michael Peckham is the first person to take on the task of directing the research effort of the National Health Service. Next month he will be telling ministers what his plans are

The malleable microbe: Just how different is a bacterium from an elephant? The answer lies in the flexible genes of the lowly microorganism

Standing up to earthquakes: An earthquake destroys buildings by shaking them to pieces. Engineers are finding ways to keep them standing when the ground moves

More

Talking Point: A lesson in defence from the Gulf

Forum: They can’t say they weren’t warned – Thistle diary, comment from Westminster

Forum: What’s so special about the centre? – It is time for a little post-Copernican thinking

Forum: The Ppound in your pocket – Ian Stewart has finally sorted out his millions from his billions

Forum: Per Astra ad ardua – Barry Fox tries to rescue high-definition TV from the Sky/BSB merger

Forum: The rise and fall of the British bog – History in the unmaking

Arts: Mind dances

Review: The ant’s tale

Review: Public understanding of technology

Review: God’s aims

Review: The colour of the future

Review: Gender engenders science

Review: Minamata and the search for justice

Water from the ground

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