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Europe’s hot air over carbon cuts: Recent studies show that Europe could reach its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions – but is doing precious little to get there. We have the technology, but will we use it?

Biological messages in a bottle: No business would be run the way a museum collection is. But that doesn’t mean that these unique repositories of biological information have outlived their usefulness

Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may be survivors from a time when planets ricocheted around the Sun like ball bearings on a pinball table

Speaking across the gender gap: Deborah Tannen, an American sociolinguist, thinks she has pinpointed what makes communication between the sexes so difficult

Remembrance of things unconscious: Traditional ideas about memory are being challenged by the discovery that much of what we retrieve from memory may be hidden from conscious awareness

Physics

The Universe according to LEP

Table of contents

News

Cholera under attack from ‘altered’ vaccine

Technology Group searches for a new star

Fossil jaw fills gap in human story

Volcano clouds the picture on global warming

Iraq admits growing deadly biological arsenal

Popovic defends role in AIDS research

Boycott could mar Earth Summit

Satellite nets illegal fishing ships

Duck-billed platypus had a South American cousin

Nuclear test plans leaked in Soviet Union

Biologists plot revenge in war of the snails

Government isolated over lack of teachers

Indonesia pulps its rainforest

Single market lures Britain’s young scientists

AIDS meeting moves

Own goal

Genes for trees

Corn circle of the chaotic kind

Deep and old

Natural plastic

Pollution unlimited

Science: Do genes play a role in AIDS?

Science: Vast ocean may have covered surface of the red planet

Science: Missing dinosaurs turn up in Australia

Science: Nonmetallic magnet comes out of the cold

Science: Artificial antibody could treat brain diseases

Science: Moon stone in Australia

Science: Why some people get drunk than others

Technology

Technology: Atomic nib rewrites data storage record . . .

Technology

Technology: . . . while single atom makes the smallest switch

Technology

Technology: Jostling satellites could mar television pictures

Technology

Technology: Bombs away

Technology

Spikes end chases with a hiss not a bang

Technology

Technology: Transputers speed up medical diagnosis . . .

Technology

Technology: . . . and add runny realism to computer painting

Opinion

Comment: Must we agree on carbon cuts?

Comment: A cold wind from A level

Features

Europe’s hot air over carbon cuts: Recent studies show that Europe could reach its goal of cutting greenhouse emissions – but is doing precious little to get there. We have the technology, but will we use it?

Biological messages in a bottle: No business would be run the way a museum collection is. But that doesn’t mean that these unique repositories of biological information have outlived their usefulness

Birth of the planets: The Earth and its fellow planets may be survivors from a time when planets ricocheted around the Sun like ball bearings on a pinball table

Speaking across the gender gap: Deborah Tannen, an American sociolinguist, thinks she has pinpointed what makes communication between the sexes so difficult

Remembrance of things unconscious: Traditional ideas about memory are being challenged by the discovery that much of what we retrieve from memory may be hidden from conscious awareness

Physics

The Universe according to LEP

More

Talking Point: Regulating IVF: a reply to concerns

Review: The long march to catch up

Review: Fractint brought to book

Review: The scientists’ hero

Review: A bubble of joy

Review: Enquire within for physical science

Review: Oceans of danger

Forum: New technology for the semidetached – Roger Silverstone has been researching the inward-looking world of new technology

Forum: From heaven to hell in six cultures – Ralph Estling’s guide to the best of all possible afterlives

Forum: Cutbacks give plants anonymity – Barry Thomas finds that extinction beckons for taxonomists

Forum: Publish and be praised – Simon Wolff with a few tips on how to get into print by cheating editors

Thistle Diary: Sandbags and giant parrots – Comment from Westminster

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