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The successful alchemist

Where earthworms fear to tread: A foreign flatworm that eats earthworms lurks in the soil of Europe. It isn’t a plague yet, but it could become one

Mapping the cold glow of the big bang: NASA’s firstsatellite dedicated to cosmology is providing new insights into the earlyformation of the Universe with measurements of astonishing precision. Butthe results still give no clues as to how stars and galaxi

Humans

Losing the way of the Great Father

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News

Drugs giant ‘implicated’ in sedative deaths

Stand and deliver, your money and your memory

Ferry passengers must wait for safety at sea

Europe’s space plane hits turbulent times again

Magnox plants may be reprieved

France shelves dams

California suffers its worst chemical spill

Slovakia snubs partners over disputed Danube scheme

Europe’s battered space probe sent on final mission

Pioneers push back the limits of gene therapy

Industry must fund science vital for Soviet recovery

Brazil’s research grinds to a halt

Top scientist pays for university high life

India battles to eradicate major crop pest

‘Extinct’ armadillo comes out of its shell

Medical chief takes centre stage in Congress drama

Gut reaction

Nuclear spies

Sound solutions to save dolphins

Rising damp

Carbon climbdown

BT blues

HIV ban stays?

Reactor row

Science: Self-vaccination halts march of diabetes

Science: Protein triggers an allergy for all seasons

Science: Hidden hydrogen gives the centre of the world alift

Science: Are there lots of Earths out there?

Science: Winter wheat takes off on a magic carpet of clover

Science: Gene jam holds hope for leukaemia therapy

Science: How ancient bacteria handle the heat

Technology

Technology: Dead bacteria give life to ‘friendly’ pesticide

Technology

Technology: For the want of a screw . . . millions were lost

Technology

Technology: Easy-to-program videos – an impossible dream?

Technology

Technology: Capturing the shadow of the Moon

Technology

Technology: Computers get stoned on patent discs

Technology

Technology: Satellite fix helps aircraft taxi safely

Technology

Technology: Wheel treads softly

Opinion

Comment: Controlling chemical arms

Comment: Of tapes and taxes

Features

The successful alchemist

Water heated by volcanoes can release gold from ordinary rocks, a feat of natural alchemy that has revealed the complexity of chemistry deep in the Earth

Where earthworms fear to tread: A foreign flatworm that eats earthworms lurks in the soil of Europe. It isn’t a plague yet, but it could become one

Mapping the cold glow of the big bang: NASA’s firstsatellite dedicated to cosmology is providing new insights into the earlyformation of the Universe with measurements of astonishing precision. Butthe results still give no clues as to how stars and galaxi

Humans

Losing the way of the Great Father

More

Talking Point: Desert Storm drains opportunities

Strong words to save the planet: In Geneva next week ecologists and politicians gather to work on next summer’s Earth Summit – a bid to reverse global decay

Review: A physical approach to history

Review: Science for the kitchen table

Review: A cat’s tale

Review: Plain writing about the code

Review: Shrodinger didn’t do it

Review: Classic mathematics back in print

Review: Stars and planets in their eyes

Review: The age of expansion

Forum: Falling down in the race for space – Lisa Whittle asks whether Helen Sharman’s space flight did anything for British science and industry

Forum: No escape from the Third World – The First World will keep the club exclusive

Forum: Followed by a moonshadow – Nigel Henbest joins the eclipsed scientists in Hawaii

Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: An atmosphere of closure

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