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Europe lays down the law on software: The world’s computer giants want to use copyright law to smother competition. But proposals from Europe should ensure they don’t have it all their own way

Antarctica: exploration or exploitation?

Stargazing at the South Pole: The coldest, highest, driest continent on Earth offers near-perfect conditions for observing the Sun and the stars. ‘The last place on Earth’ is becoming an international centre for astronomy

The case against Eve

The case against Eve: Putting a date on the great migration from Africa

The case against Eve: When the apes went their separate way

How to close a uranium mine: Epidemiology reveals the cost of mining uranium

How to close a uranium mine: Ways to make the old mining territories safe

How to close a uranium mine: Next week Germany takes on full responsibility for decommissioning the mines that were once the world’s third-largest source of uranium. The challenges are enormous

Table of contents

News

Green light for plan to save the Arctic

Gassed human guinea pigs win payout

Crisis talks could spell extinction for London’s zoo

Death in Europe and how to avoid it

Britain relaunches the space plane

Mission to Mars will need nuclear power

Solar flares send navigators off in the wrong direction

. . . while inertia threatens ozone agreement

Redundant huskies sent packing from Antarctica

‘Gene raiders’ must pay for conservation

The Seventh International Conference on AIDS (Florence 1991)

America creates cold climate for greenhouse talks . . .

The Seventh International Conference on AIDS (Florence 1991)

Markdown for science

Fusion centre closes

French bioethics

Cubism on the box displays sharp imagery

Tunnel breakthrough

Somerset mourn

Gene hazards

Starfish alarm

Kakadu spared

Science: Car exhausts may cause hay fever

Science: Interfering atoms feel a sense of acceleration

Science: Grubs on tap for the aye-aye

Science: Can a whiff of garlic keep cancer at bay?

Science: Glass beads support dinosaur theory

Science: Test tube strains of HIV could sabotage experiments

Science: Vaccine made from HIV fragments bolsters immune response

Science: DNA prints show how lions keep it in the family

Technology

Technology: Speakers beam out stereo sound to a wider audience

Technology

Technology: Portable pump keeps the rhythm of the heart

Technology

Technology: Invisible ink that foils forgers

Technology

Technology: New fan spells curtains for mosquitoes

Technology

Technology: Tube commuters get a fairer hearing in Earl’s Court

Technology

Technology: How hot metal makes toxic waste safe to burn

Technology

Technology: Sweden counts the cost of a comfortable sofa

Technology

Technology: Splitting the difference for a standard studio sound

Opinion

Comment: Life with the lions

Comment: Mars – the false frontier?

Features

Europe lays down the law on software: The world’s computer giants want to use copyright law to smother competition. But proposals from Europe should ensure they don’t have it all their own way

Antarctica: exploration or exploitation?

Stargazing at the South Pole: The coldest, highest, driest continent on Earth offers near-perfect conditions for observing the Sun and the stars. ‘The last place on Earth’ is becoming an international centre for astronomy

The case against Eve

The case against Eve: Putting a date on the great migration from Africa

The case against Eve: When the apes went their separate way

How to close a uranium mine: Epidemiology reveals the cost of mining uranium

How to close a uranium mine: Ways to make the old mining territories safe

How to close a uranium mine: Next week Germany takes on full responsibility for decommissioning the mines that were once the world’s third-largest source of uranium. The challenges are enormous

More

Talking Point: Tamoxifen: in whose best interest?

Review: Bully for SJG

Review: Flights of delight

Review: Unmasking psychoanalysis

Books / ‘Silent But Powerful’

Review: Plants of Africa

Review: Creating animals from the past

Forum: How can you tell the truth about Chernobyl? – Bill O’Neill meets a Soviet scientist with a tale about Chernobyl for those who want to hear

Forum: Down and out in the Academy of Sciences – Joanna Bibby finds Soviet researchers looking for their next meal

Forum: A little of what you don’t fancy – Donald Gould watches homoeopathy’s struggle against the accountants

Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: Who is the greenest of them all?

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