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Mobile phones fit for the future: Chaos and confusion reign in mobile communications as competing systems fight for our custom. Several networks have failed for lack of users, so how will the survivors fare against the expected newcomers

Choices for tomorrow’s chips: Can the information technology revolution of the past two decades repeat itself? Much depends on how the next generation of electronic chips is made

Is your experiment really necessary?: Animals are used only when strictly required, researchers claim. But there are no clear rules to guide them

Physics

The origin of mass

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News

Grain yields tumble in greenhouse world

Deaths fuel controversy over breast cancer drug

Dissolving golf balls end dolphin’s distress

Dutch quake wakes northern Europe

Britain will drive Europe’s transport

Skill shortages in US a ‘myth’

Nobel prizewinner quits genome project

Bleak future for former Soviet scientists

Technology

Japan’s plutonium ship sails into safety row

Green research gains ground in America

UN team to inspect suspect uranium mine

Bulgaria inquires after missing Turks

Zimbabwe’s hippos threatened by drought

Patriot: the missile that missed

Sewage threat to Cape Cod whales

Courtroom battle over genetic fingerprinting

Beefy peptide

Satellite club

Bad blood

Going public

Shrubs for survival

Ultimate test for fibre fiddle

Big bang boron

Toxic ‘vitamins’

Focus: Too many bottles break the bank – The US is gripped by recycling fever. But harsh economic reality is beginning to dent green idealism

Science: Spicy food eaters are addicted to pain

Science: Solar neutrino problem still unsolved

Science: Old photograph of Mars suggest a glacial past

Science: Is nakedness permitted outside the cosmic Eden?

Science: Sunflower spirals obey laws of mathematics

Science: Old star packs a punch

Science: ‘Long in the tooth’ mammal upsets marsupial theory

Science: Hitchhiking pseudoscorpions take beetles for a ride

Technology

Technology: Eggsat technique

Technology

Technology: Neural network makes a tidy profit

Technology

Technology: Software solution for crossword clues

Technology

Technology: Moon rocks may help colonisers breathe easy

Technology

Technology: The video recorder that speaks in many tongues

Technology

Technology: Summer sun sends Pisa round the bend

Technology

Technology: Putting a spring in walkers’ steps

Opinion

Comment: No major changes?

Comment: DNA revisited

Health

Neglected benefits of animal research

Features

Mobile phones fit for the future: Chaos and confusion reign in mobile communications as competing systems fight for our custom. Several networks have failed for lack of users, so how will the survivors fare against the expected newcomers

Choices for tomorrow’s chips: Can the information technology revolution of the past two decades repeat itself? Much depends on how the next generation of electronic chips is made

Is your experiment really necessary?: Animals are used only when strictly required, researchers claim. But there are no clear rules to guide them

Physics

The origin of mass

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AIDS The challenge of the future

Review: A link between scholarship and wonder

Review: An ideal home for American science

Review: An insider’s look over MIT’s shoulder

Review: By the discipline of time made wise

Review: The wonderful world of the wild and the weird

Review: A sponge for streams, a home for saltflats

Review: Define your terms

Paperbacks – Roy Herbert examines the environment, evolution, earth and other enigmas

Forum: In search of a structured career – Ali El-Ghorr believes that job security could help to safeguard Britain’s science effort

Forum: In my beginning is my end – Ian Gordon thinks that to understand a language we need to consider all aspects of linguistics

Thistle Diary: Fast breeding reactors and weeds – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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