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Storm warning over Southeast Asia: Many developing countries say the North has sown the seeds of global warming. But a new report shows that it is the South that could reap the whirlwind

Conservation and the ivory tower

The oldest ice in the world: Snow that fell a quarter of a million years ago is preserved in the Greenland icecap. Drilling this summer will unlock the clues it holds to the climate before the last ice age

Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer

Pioneer, the persistent probe: Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to head for Jupiter, proved that probes could reach the outer planets of our Solar System. Twenty years on, it is sending us messages from interstellar space

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News

Science jobs separate the prunes from the plums

Fresh safety concerns stall anti-cancer trial

Faraday or Newton to bridge the innovation gap

Commons calls for break-up of green police

Bids close in BTG sale

Europe bans CFCs

Mind

High lead levels may permanently lower IQ

Russia breathes life into ‘nuclear’ monster

Sanctions hit Iraq’s ancient sites

LINK scheme earns mixed reviews

Death sentence for pit bulls that breach the law

Officials eat humble pie over mystery noise

Amazon nations name their price

Wayward current takes California by storm

Cot death studies hampered by imprecise terms

Bears ‘worth more dead than alive’

Water tribunal rules on Cree homelands

Telephone U-turn

Implants in question

Bright spot

Dangerous journey

Car recycling

Keeping track of penguin power

Sakharov centres

Bankrupt watchdog

Science: A glass of urine a day keeps the stress away

Science: Hole in the sky stunts Antarctic plankton

Science: Winking stars could reveal Galaxy’s black hole

Science: Will electrons charge down the buckytube?

Science: Puzzle of galaxy that points two ways

Science: How ‘mutant’ molecules fight for survival

Science: Kenyan fossil from skull of oldest human

Technology

Technology: ‘Human’ antibody goes on trial

Technology

Technology: Computer fraudsters foiled by the small ads

Technology

Technology: Book and blackboard rolled into one

Technology

Technology: . . . while a microscope points the way to seeing DNA

Technology

Technology: Dyes could speed up the genome project . . .

Technology

Technology: All change as Manchester brings back the tram

Technology

Technology: . . . while diamonds provide a cooler coating

Technology

Technology: Hot chips chill out with 19th-century heat pump . . .

Patents: Patients information

Patents: Fast patent record

Patents: Flying dustbuster

Patents: Military secrets

Patents: Smokers only

Patents: Still pending in the old Soviet Union

Patents: Mac happy

Opinion

Comment: Just a link in the chain

Comment: Who will pay to save the elephant?

Talking Point: Nuclear emergencies: who should know?

Features

Storm warning over Southeast Asia: Many developing countries say the North has sown the seeds of global warming. But a new report shows that it is the South that could reap the whirlwind

Conservation and the ivory tower

The oldest ice in the world: Snow that fell a quarter of a million years ago is preserved in the Greenland icecap. Drilling this summer will unlock the clues it holds to the climate before the last ice age

Two weeks to save the planet: Do you need funds and workers to carry out field research? Or would you like to invest your money and your labour in a project that might do some good? Earthwatch may be the answer

Pioneer, the persistent probe: Pioneer 10, the first spacecraft to head for Jupiter, proved that probes could reach the outer planets of our Solar System. Twenty years on, it is sending us messages from interstellar space

More

Review: Tourists to the rescue

Review: A physical tour of the imagination

Review: Drink up in moderation

Review: Strait is the gate

Review: The labels that cripple

Review: A night out with Faraday

Forum: Running out of time – Garry Smith thinks he knows when the world could end

Forum: Freud, fantasy or filing cabinet? – Donald Gould dreams of getting to the bottom of dreams

Forum: Classrooms and conservation – Anthony Toole bemoans the impact of exams on the environment

Thistle Diary: Give and take with Community cash – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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