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Renewable energy: Britain’s untapped resource – Next month sees the start of a parliamentary inquiry into why Britain lags so far behind other countries in exploiting renewable sources of energy

Keep building those bombs: 杏吧原创s at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory see no reason to stop making America’s nuclear weapons just because the Cold War has ended

A strategy for the sea floor: The floor of the deep oceans, rich in valuable minerals, is ripe for exploitation. So we need to plan now to safeguard the seabed

The myth of the Mesozoic cannibals: Victorian naturalists portrayed ichthyosaurs as fearsome beasts with a penchant for cannibalism. But another look at the bones shows how wrong they were

Chemists take the sandwich course: A stack of molecular rings with a filling of metal atoms is providing a versatile recipe for novel families of materials full of high-tech promise

Table of contents

News

Judgment day for the spotted owl

Sleeping pill ban puzzles doctors

Ion channels bring Nobel prize to Germany

Building confidence over biological weapons

Court ruling brings Bhopal prosecution closer

Suit and countersuit over dolphins’ rights

Iraq’s atom bomb

North Africa saved from killer fly

Nations seek green code for world trade

For hire: Soviet physicists and chemists

Mining banned

Surfers sue Pacific paper mills

Dutch doctors call for legal euthanasia

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science met in Adelaide last week. Ian Anderson reports: Hot frogs fall prey to pesticides

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science met in Adelaide last week. Ian Anderson reports: Plague of humans

The Australian and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science met in Adelaide last week. Ian Anderson reports: Children reluctant to join the ‘nerds’

Sea burial

Children saved

Selling the weather

On a bicycle made for eight

Free speech

Space haggle

Poisoned milk

Appeal rejected

Science: Neutron star powers celestial oddity

Science: Seabed molecule mirrors climate change

Science: Was the Cambrian period evolution’s golden age?

Science: Shuttle flight gives green light for mission to red planet

Science: Big bang pins down missing neutrino’s mass

Science: Overstretched parents kidnap their child minders

Technology

Technology: Cheap hologram printer steps into focus

Technology

Technology: Will British power plants burn filthy new fuel?

Technology

Technology: Neural network keeps fusion plasma in shape

Technology

Technology: How to dismantle a nuclear warhead

Technology

Technology: Telescopic images appear out of thin air

Technology

Technology: A sharper image for magnetic resonance

Technology

Technology: Taking wing to America

Technology

Technology: Counting out the swabs

Technology

Technology: Paper bike enters recycling race

Opinion

Missed opportunities in Adelaide

Comment: Unthinking the unthinkable

Comment: Time to go public on clinical trials

Features

Renewable energy: Britain’s untapped resource – Next month sees the start of a parliamentary inquiry into why Britain lags so far behind other countries in exploiting renewable sources of energy

Keep building those bombs: 杏吧原创s at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory see no reason to stop making America’s nuclear weapons just because the Cold War has ended

A strategy for the sea floor: The floor of the deep oceans, rich in valuable minerals, is ripe for exploitation. So we need to plan now to safeguard the seabed

The myth of the Mesozoic cannibals: Victorian naturalists portrayed ichthyosaurs as fearsome beasts with a penchant for cannibalism. But another look at the bones shows how wrong they were

Chemists take the sandwich course: A stack of molecular rings with a filling of metal atoms is providing a versatile recipe for novel families of materials full of high-tech promise

More

Talking Point: A balancing act for research priorities

Review: Slimmer, fitter mathematics

Review: Mathematics in the cracks

Review: Biology’s wild variety

Review: At the computer’s parallel face

Review: An eye on the biosphere

Review: The roots of knowledge

Review: Revivalist physics

Forum: The hope and despair of African science – Martyn Kelly looks at the way African researchers see research – and their own futures

Forum: Laughing by numbers – Think of a joke. Now double it, says Sidney Perkowitz

Forum: Why industry fights shy of space – John Gilman relates the sad history of the crystal gazers

Thistle Diary: Dangerous islands in the sun – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum: Deep Thought and the human perspective – One draw doesn’t make a winner, warns Ralph Estling en passant

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