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North-South rift bars path to Summit: In 200 days’ time, world leaders will gather for the UN Earth Summit. Already, this bold attempt to resolve the planet’s ills looks like setting rich nations against poor

Physics

Meet the molecular superstars: Chemists have created

Wall Street takes stock of biotechnology: The American biotechnology industry has raised more capital this year than ever before. But analysts say that investors chasing quick profits should be wary

Global pollution’s silver lining: The dirty habits of the fossil fuel industry may prove to have their good side, delaying the onset of a warmer world

Gaps in the climate map: Climate records data back more than 100 years. But few are useful today because most weather stations are in the wrong places

Breathing new life into oxygen therapy: Hyperbaric oxygen may improve the treatment of wounds and infections. But proof is lacking and no one wants to pay for the research

Table of contents

News

‘End isolation of South African science’

Shrunken glands spark sweetener controversy

‘Foolproof’ DNA fingerprints within grasp

We’ve seen the future and it doesn’t work

Lost in space?

Europe aims to build its own supercomputers

Wildcats fall prey to guns, traps and interbreeding

Many monkey experiments ‘not justified’

Impurity blamed for food supplement deaths

Radiation closes German research centre

Catamaran near misses ‘must be logged’

Vandals run riot in Russia’s science cities

Money pledged for international fusion project . . .

Will rescue plan save campus rabbits?

Hospitals at sea over radioactive waste

Successful team faces the axe

Gulf bug

Row over remains

Blinkered Galileo sends back a picture

Iranian rescue

Sorry, no grants

AIDS drug trials

Ground rules

Space talk

Science: Climate change – the solar connection

Science: Lasers illuminate chemistry of vision

Science: Theory of aurora comes into question

Science: How vitamin K makes blood clot

Science: Mathematical model helps to solve AIDS puzzle

Science: Star cluster puts the wind up supergiant

Technology: Liver cells in vitro could save patients in vivo

Technology: Simple error slows down Japan’s fast breeder

Technology

Technology: New hospitals save lives – and energy

Technology

Technology: Muscle rejig holds hope for the incontinent

Technology

Technology: Aromatic smog

Technology

Technology: Taking the measure of tiny objects

Technology

Technology: Colours stay bright when filmed in black and white

Technology

Technology: Watch out for warnings of heart attacks

Technology

Technology: Turning heat on sludge to make fertiliser and fuel

Opinion

Comment: Counting down to Rio

Comment: Animal rights and wrongs

Features

North-South rift bars path to Summit: In 200 days’ time, world leaders will gather for the UN Earth Summit. Already, this bold attempt to resolve the planet’s ills looks like setting rich nations against poor

Physics

Meet the molecular superstars: Chemists have created

Wall Street takes stock of biotechnology: The American biotechnology industry has raised more capital this year than ever before. But analysts say that investors chasing quick profits should be wary

Global pollution’s silver lining: The dirty habits of the fossil fuel industry may prove to have their good side, delaying the onset of a warmer world

Gaps in the climate map: Climate records data back more than 100 years. But few are useful today because most weather stations are in the wrong places

Breathing new life into oxygen therapy: Hyperbaric oxygen may improve the treatment of wounds and infections. But proof is lacking and no one wants to pay for the research

More

Talking Point: Mice, morals and the environment

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Review: How little we know about dinosaurs

Review: China’s technological firsts

Review: The farmer as conservationist

Review: The eyes of the world have it

Review: Pests, problems and the public

Review: Israel has its nuclear demons

Forum: The war between the Toodlers and the Boompers – Ralph Estling asks himself whether evolution equals progress – and remains extremely neutral

Forum: Science down the plughole – Frank Close has been wondering about his bath water

Forum: Closely observed trends – Now we all need differential calculus, says Hugh Aldersey-Williams

Forum: Money is the root of all dilemma – Sue Birchmore asks what kind of aid lasts longest

Thistle Diary: Dipping a toe in the great manmade river – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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