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Greens in muddy water over Indian dam: Debate surfaced in Britain last week over India’s Narmada dam, which has split opinion into bitterly opposing factions. Both sides believe they are fighting for responsible development

Winners and losers in the invention game: What makes an invention successful, the invention or the inventor? Both and neither, say the experts. Five inventors tell of their experiences

Jet pioneers win engineering’s ‘Nobel prize’

Can we end rhino poaching?: Old enemies join forces in Namibia’s war against poaching

Earth

Can we end rhino poaching?

Twists, tangles and topology: For many of us, a knot is just

Table of contents

News

Conflict rages over alternative AIDS theories

Tanks wreck Croatian national parks

Computer shortage scuppers health statistics

Home work clears air

NASA told to think small on climate satellites

Pollution chokes ‘lungs’ of the Mediterranean

Off to a new world in Arizona

Fencing off

Uranium fuel rods lost – or stolen

Water fight

Space plans set back by cash squeeze

Europe haggles over carbon taxes

Decade of disaster predicted for Third World

Brazil trades conservation for cash

Dead zone in the tundra to turn ‘green’?

Dounreay deal

Legacy of a Bronze Age backpacker

Electronically yours

Cold neutrons

Moons christened

Second to one

Hole is opened

Gallic snub

Science: Copycat marmosets get a hand from their mums

Science: Gamma rays burst onto an unsuspecting world

Science: Asteroid ‘airburst’ may have devastated New Zealand

Science: Does polar bear pacing reduce stress?

Science: Simple experiment cooks up primeval particle soup

Science: Precious metal builds rich mix of hydrocarbons

Technology

Technology: Coloured topaz solves Dutch funding blues

Technology

Technology: Hi-fi makers break CD recording barriers

Technology

Technology: Sing-along at home

Technology

Technology: Fibre-optic probe offers instant blood tests

Technology

Technology: Computers keep watch at the bedside

Technology

Technology: Sensors seek concrete evidence for why buildings collapse

Technology

Technology: Videophone rivals race for first place

Technology

Technology: Food containers that stop the rot at sea

Opinion

Comment: AIDS and the dissidents

Comment: Ig Nobel prizes

Features

Greens in muddy water over Indian dam: Debate surfaced in Britain last week over India’s Narmada dam, which has split opinion into bitterly opposing factions. Both sides believe they are fighting for responsible development

Winners and losers in the invention game: What makes an invention successful, the invention or the inventor? Both and neither, say the experts. Five inventors tell of their experiences

Jet pioneers win engineering’s ‘Nobel prize’

Can we end rhino poaching?: Old enemies join forces in Namibia’s war against poaching

Earth

Can we end rhino poaching?

Twists, tangles and topology: For many of us, a knot is just

More

Talking Point: Science as the servant of society

Review: Big, blue and beautiful

Review: Pick of the Paperbacks

Review: Science in tents

Books / Biotechnology Worldwide

Review: Back from the Moon

Review: Complexity and biology

Review: Life, the Universe and quantum physics

Forum: Never mind the science, feel the experience

Forum: Educating more with less is no answer – Arturo Sangalli wonders where we are going with science education

Forum: Pardon me, but is that your credit card singing? – Jim Buess is now able to turn his whole attention to his mind

Forum: Still searching for the Holy Grail – Phil Allport finds himself defending Karl Popper’s view of science

Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: Your rights in their hands

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