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Europe’s ambitions lost in space: Tight budgets and conflicting interests are threatening the European Space Agency’s biggest projects. The agency has only a few months left to solve these earthly problems

How refugees survive: As wars swell the ranks of the displaced in the developing world, relief agencies are asking themselves why they are still failing to meet people’s basic needs

Growing threats to peat: The use of peat for growing plants is a mainstay of British horticulture. But unless alternatives are found quickly, the country’s dwindling peat bogs could disappear altogether

New-wave mathematics

New-wave mathematics: Seeing is believing – pictures from a mathematician

Aluminium menace in tropical wells: The weathering that made the plains of Malawi is still at work, releasing aluminium into wells. But no one knows how widespread the contamination is

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News

Hopes rise for India’s own contraceptive

On board the Stanford Supersaver to Mars

Hubble’s gyros put NASA in a spin

Thatcher’s X-ray vision leaves astronomers out in the cold

Nile crocodiles cut Brazil’s cayman down to size

‘Savage’ cuts slash research budget by half

Ministers clash over rules for modified organisms

Curable cholera kills in Africa

Gulf War pinpoints gaps in US communications

The land that time forgot opens to tourism

Baltic bombs surface in fishing nets

Fair deal denied to people displaced by dam

Delhi doctors afraid to treat HIV-positive women

Diabetes on the run?

Rio plans to clean up its dirty beaches

Safeguards go up in smoke in rush to build incinerators

Pernicious pesticides

Fouled birds

Fishy friendship follows frequent feeding

Space blues

Termite troubles

Chain reaction

Set tax, or else . . .

Science: Molecular ‘chimera’ saves chimps from HIV

Science: Coral beware – starfish spawning tonight

Science: Will snakes shed their poisonous image?

Science: Old star upstages the big bang show

Science: Conservative cosmology

Science: Chemists strike lucky with clover-leaf supercage

Science: Molecules fall into line with nonstick coating

Science: How Hawaiian hunters barbecued the birds

Technology

Technology: Diabetics cast light on blood sugar

Technology

Technology: California cleaning forces fuel reforms

Technology

Technology: How drugs ‘sneak’ past the cell barrier

Technology

Technology: .. as Yorkshire puts the squeeze on industrial effluent

Technology

Technology: London’s water off to a clean start . . .

Technology

Technology: Bacteria make a meal of pig manure

Technology

Technology: Computers smooth the path to integration

Opinion

Comment: Aid in the time of cholera

Comment: Clip Hermes’ wings

Features

Europe’s ambitions lost in space: Tight budgets and conflicting interests are threatening the European Space Agency’s biggest projects. The agency has only a few months left to solve these earthly problems

How refugees survive: As wars swell the ranks of the displaced in the developing world, relief agencies are asking themselves why they are still failing to meet people’s basic needs

Growing threats to peat: The use of peat for growing plants is a mainstay of British horticulture. But unless alternatives are found quickly, the country’s dwindling peat bogs could disappear altogether

New-wave mathematics

New-wave mathematics: Seeing is believing – pictures from a mathematician

Aluminium menace in tropical wells: The weathering that made the plains of Malawi is still at work, releasing aluminium into wells. But no one knows how widespread the contamination is

More

Talking Point: Green light for precautionary science

Review: Complexity is the measure of modernity

Review: Corrections

Review: Word crunching for scientists

Review: Consider their ways

Review: The advance of the green guards

Arts / Exhibition of West African brasses and bronzes at the British Museum

Forum: The customer is always right – A new look at science education

Forum: Building bridges with the experts – The advantages of low cunning

Forum: Take a lesson from the economists – Loose theorising can have its advantages

Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: A question of honour

Forum: Whatever happened to Brand X? – Trouble with miracle ingredients

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