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Korea wakes up to the environment: South Korea’s economy has been seen as a model for developing countries. Now the Koreans are being forced to question the environmental costs of rapid industrialisation

Stone Age psychedelia

The burning issue of Australia’s toxic waste: Environmental protests have so far prevented the construction of Australia’s first high-temperature incinerator. But government authorities are still determined to build one

Arthritis and the collagen connection: Collagen, the body’s most abundant protein, breaks down in arthritis. A better understanding of the cocktail of enzymes at work may lead to more effective drugs

The fires that cracked a contintent: Rivers that run the wrong way, enormous eruptions of lava and the break-up of the continents could all have a common cause: plumes of hot rock in the depths of the Earth

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News

Telltale ‘swarms’ warned of Japanese eruption

‘Green Cross’ to protect environment in wars

America hoists the white flag in HIV war

Patent battle over AZT heats up

Bush backtracks on AIDS immigration

Whalers spurn plans for ‘scientific’ quotas

Asthma deaths force official inquiry

Eclipse in sight of world’s best telescopes

America’s conspiracy to buy world uranium stocks

Life-threatening latex prompts medical alert

Research project fails to build links

Equal rights for experimental octopuses?

Environmentalists condemn Japan’s Olympic plans

Not all pit bulls are killers . . .

. . . but can you tell from their genes?

Palladium promises cheaper route to cleaner cars

Anglo-French talks

Dealer dealt with

Legacy in milk

Iraqi uranium

Trade bans lifted

Moses the moth hides in rushes

Filling that hole

Not rising yet

Science: ‘Altruistic vaccine’ boosts hopes for halting malaria

Science: Earth’s ice hangs in the balance

Science: Sexes battle over size of their offspring

Science: Handy way to a more effective painkiller

Science: Damaged teeth put the horse before the cart

Science: A slow start for the Milky Way

Technology

Technology: Alarm sounds when blood rushes to the brain

Technology

Technology: Dutch ‘phone phreaks’ dial world for free

Technology

Technology: Digital paparazzi

Technology

Technology: Europe joins battle for future TV

Technology

Technology: 3-D video doubles up on tape

Technology

Technology: Coke with pores cleans emissions from dirtiest coal

Technology

Technology: ‘Intelligent newspapers’ build up data on their readers

Opinion

Comment: Whaling leads the way

Comment: A fair wind from France

Features

Korea wakes up to the environment: South Korea’s economy has been seen as a model for developing countries. Now the Koreans are being forced to question the environmental costs of rapid industrialisation

Stone Age psychedelia

The burning issue of Australia’s toxic waste: Environmental protests have so far prevented the construction of Australia’s first high-temperature incinerator. But government authorities are still determined to build one

Arthritis and the collagen connection: Collagen, the body’s most abundant protein, breaks down in arthritis. A better understanding of the cocktail of enzymes at work may lead to more effective drugs

The fires that cracked a contintent: Rivers that run the wrong way, enormous eruptions of lava and the break-up of the continents could all have a common cause: plumes of hot rock in the depths of the Earth

More

Talking Point: A plea for more European reserch

Review: A journey without answers

Review: Where no birds sing

Review: An exhibition of serendipity

Review: Tropical tragedies

Review: The Sun in History

Review: Leonardo’s bequest

Forum: Excuse me for being alive – Jeremy Burgess is in danger of being overwhelmed by his guilty environmental conscience

Forum: Have you got what it takes? – Marc Nicholls wonders about the root of scientific genius

Forum: The truth about telephones – Barry Fox has been making his own inquiries

Forum: Making a success out of a museum of failure – Antony Anderson wants us to own up to our mistakes

Thisle Diary: Sackcloth and postage stamps – Comment from Westminster

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