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Health

The strains of the HIV war

Is anyone out there?: NASA researchers have started to search the Galaxy for signs of intelligent life. What sort of life do they hope to find?

Where the wild plants are: Ecologists have just completed the largest ever survey of Britain’s vegetation, paving the way for a radical new approach to plant conservation

Saving mud monuments: Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust – the words sum up the fate of buildings made from earth. But experiments in the New Mexico desert are bringing ancient adobe back from the dead

Designer solvents for clever chemistry: Fluids designed to act as ‘universal solvents’ can bring together molecules that otherwise would never meet and react

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News

Jailed Soviet reactor is homeward bound

Promising Down’s syndrome test .. at a price

Hunt is on for the last of the ‘fossil’ fish

Legal loophole allows altered organisms to travel by post

White House changes rules for genetic engineering

Polytechnics to join research elite

Teeside takes on industry over local health

French ‘super-ministry’ will take on US and Japan

Luxury research

Call for independent forensic advice

Power companies fight Green law

Villagers will have a stake in Indian forest

Indians cheer halt to Canada’s giant hydro scheme

Tree wise men

Sex prints

HIV increase

Bubble people shoot at northern lights

Chauvinists in space

Sky spies

Abortion pill in US

Mission to sell

Science: Chemists mimic energy molecule

Science: Hole at the centre of the Galaxy

Second gene for epilepsy mapped

Science: Hepatitis gene is shown to cause liver cancer

Science: Satellite sees rectangular cloud in space

Science: Algae help to clean up contaminated water

Science: Vitamin E could reduce heart risk

Science: Did methane curb ice ages?

Technology

Technology: This is your hip joint calling

Technology

Technology: Neural network takes the twinkle out of stars

Technology

Technology: Sunny future for solar voltaic cells

Technology

Technology: Mini CD jogs into the recording race

Technology

Technology: Pocket encyclopaedia

Technology

Technology: Chaos equations pack more images into computers

Technology

Technology: Computer juggling act provides happy landings

Technology

Technology: Commercial satellite receiver beats Pentagon at its own game – Brett Wright reports from the International Aerospace Congress in Melbourne

Patents: Farewell to fraud

Patents: Chilled out

Patents: French battle to outsmart Amstrad

Patents: Posture alarm

Patents: Greener fridges

Patents: Virus protection

Patents: Patent Information

Opinion

Comment: Dissolution of a giant?

Comment: An end to a horrible menace

Features

Health

The strains of the HIV war

Another salvo has been fired in the battle over the origin of the first known HIV strain. Six years after the row began, are scientists defending their integrity or indulging in farce?

Is anyone out there?: NASA researchers have started to search the Galaxy for signs of intelligent life. What sort of life do they hope to find?

Where the wild plants are: Ecologists have just completed the largest ever survey of Britain’s vegetation, paving the way for a radical new approach to plant conservation

Saving mud monuments: Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust – the words sum up the fate of buildings made from earth. But experiments in the New Mexico desert are bringing ancient adobe back from the dead

Designer solvents for clever chemistry: Fluids designed to act as ‘universal solvents’ can bring together molecules that otherwise would never meet and react

More

Talking Point: Making equality work for women

Review: How good is technology’s weather eye?

Review: Bones talking

Review: An American eye in the sky

Review: The nature of purpose

Review: Britain’s inventions of the past

Review: Pick of the Paperbacks

Review: Maternity and the marketplace

Forum: When science should be a humanity – Bruce Charlton calls for a revision of the ways we teach science

Forum: A plague of planets – Ken Croswell wishes astronomers would stop crying wolf

Forum: The orphan bears of Romania – Christine Laurent reports on the bears Ceausescu left behind

Forum: If it’s not saving, it’s not working – Kenneth Mellanby is unconvinced by the low-energy bulb

Thistle Diary – Comment From Westminster: It’s the supercomputer that counts

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