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When sleeping giants wake

Humans

Is meditation good for you?

Great balls of carbon: Why have chemists become so excitedabout simple soot? Because it contains an exotic family of carbon moleculeswhose ball-shaped structure heralds a new branch of chemistry

Vietnam on the technology trail: Computer science, biotechnology and chemistry are all flourishing as Vietnam opens its markets and laboratories to the West

Knocking on wood for a mate

And the walls came tumbling down: Old Testament writings ofdoom and destruction are now providing researchers with a record ofearthquakes spanning 4000 years

Table of contents

News

Key test is missing as catamarans take to sea

British Gas ‘under siege’ in Ecuador

China fuels Iraq’s nuclear power

How the brain reorganises itself

Journal rekindles row over Silver Springs monkeys

Tycho Brahe’s observatory rises from the ruins

. . . but falls on Japan

Soot from burning wells ‘will not upset climate’ . . .

Britain’s back door ban on HIV immigration

Germany forces nuclear waste underground

Sierra Leone gets tough with foreign fishers

MPs back more muscle for science advice group

‘Thunder’ generates lightning responses

Private fears

Climate standoff

Women’s AIDS alert

Cray twins

Thaw in space

Nuclear safety. . .

. . . or not?

Science: More heat than light from brightest galaxy

Science: Puzzling particles challenge physicists

Science (Florence 1991): Does HIV cause AIDS-related skin cancer?

Science (Florence 1991): Vaccine fails to protect monkeys from infection through sex

Science (Florence 1991): Lymph clue to virus

Science: Flowers start from a single gene

Science: Fluorine could add a coat to fullerenes

Science: No greenhouse link to declining Arctic ice

Technology

Technology: Buckyballs ‘covered by old patent’

Technology

Technology: Magnetic bundles promise speedier circuits

Technology

Technology: Closing the gap on superconducting computers

Technology

Technology: How SQUIDs were found where crystals meet

Technology

Technology: US tests nuclear store for Scotland

Technology

Technology: Surgeons slice virtual leg

Technology

Technology: Robots totter towards home-help status

Opinion

Comment: An appeal to reason

Comment: Green police or green policies

Features

When sleeping giants wake

No one can stop a volcano once it starts to erupt, but a growing understanding of how an eruption happens is already saving lives

Humans

Is meditation good for you?

Great balls of carbon: Why have chemists become so excitedabout simple soot? Because it contains an exotic family of carbon moleculeswhose ball-shaped structure heralds a new branch of chemistry

Vietnam on the technology trail: Computer science, biotechnology and chemistry are all flourishing as Vietnam opens its markets and laboratories to the West

Knocking on wood for a mate

And the walls came tumbling down: Old Testament writings ofdoom and destruction are now providing researchers with a record ofearthquakes spanning 4000 years

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Gaia

Talking Point: Europe must unite on environment issues

Review: The Empire of the parasites

Review: Botanical Prints

Review: Share and share but not alike

Review: The hills are alive

Review: A step back for the environment

Review: He selects seashells by the seashore

Review: War Games

Forum: The people who want their parks back – Sue Armstrong uncovers the colonial face of wildlife conservation

Forum: Call yourself a supervisor? – Wolf Seufert wonders when students will start laying down the law

Forum: How the molecular football was lost – Jim Baggott tells a sorry tale of missed opportunity

Thistle Diary: Up before the scientific law lords – Comment from Westminster

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