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Sixth-formers find their true vocation: Ministers are planning a big shake-up of post-16 education in Britain. After years of debate, there is to be a challenge to the academic ‘gold standard’ of A levels

Making water work: Myth 1 – The Himalayan forest are everywhere being destroyed

Making water work:

Making water work:

Mountain building under the microscope

The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: You can’t square a circle using a ruler and compass. But a pair of mathematical scissors will do the job by cutting the circle up into a huge but finite number of pieces

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News

Disease strikes Canada’s elk ranches

Unfriendly physicists

Go, GRO, go

Silicon spheres soak up the sun

NCC successor

Very old Universe

HIV pregnancies

Dolphins in danger

Rainforests saved by satellite

Thailand’s evil trade

Calls for heads to roll after Daresbury closure

European electronics research moves away from basics

Throw away the salt cellar

‘Performance’ plan threatens Australia’s academics

Science: A triple helix to cripple viruses

Time to prepare for a warmer world

A new life for the sea that died?

Obstacle race to clear a path to well fires

Ozone cancer risk rises

Japan chips away at Chile’s forests

Asbestos found in Antarctic waste dump

New Zealand at risk from nuclear rocket test?

Volcanoes on Venus leave their mark

Outrage over live HIV treatment

French AIDS researcher cleared over vaccine trials

Technology

Technology: Let them eat holograms

Technology

Technology: . . . others last longer

Technology

Technology: Digital recording method beaten to the tape

Science: Copper and cholesterol make a lethal cocktail

Science: Eggs urge sperm to swim up and see them

Technology

Technology: How pilots avoid volcanic clouds

Technology

Technology: Some light bulbs are less green than they seem . . .

Science: How straw in the pond keeps algal slime at bay

Science: Has the Milky Way formed stars in bursts?

Science: ‘Unstable’ molecules find their feet

Technology

Technology: A distorted route to the perfect beam

Opinion

Comment: Closing the learning gap

Comment: No fixed Euro-address

Features

Sixth-formers find their true vocation: Ministers are planning a big shake-up of post-16 education in Britain. After years of debate, there is to be a challenge to the academic ‘gold standard’ of A levels

Making water work: Myth 1 – The Himalayan forest are everywhere being destroyed

Making water work:

Making water work:

Mountain building under the microscope

The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: You can’t square a circle using a ruler and compass. But a pair of mathematical scissors will do the job by cutting the circle up into a huge but finite number of pieces

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Talking Point: In defence of Christian Zoos

Thistle Diary: An end to errors of judgment? – Comment from Westminster

Forum: A land doomed by nature and humans – A letter from Micheal Cross, off South Georgia, on board Gondwana

Review: Science beside the Mersey

Arts: The age of industry on display

Forum: Death in the nuclear family – Michael Kenward recalls happier days for nuclear physics, and fears for the future

Review: Shining nights

Forum: The great Brownian motion swindle – A case of mistaken identity

Forum: Going for gold – Adventuring with profits in the wilds of Quebec

Review: Cetacean crusades

Review: Reefs of tyres and junk replace trawlers

Review: A ramble around psychiatry’s history

Review: Pictures are taking over the story

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