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The second railway revolution: Europe is on the verge of a railway revolution to rival that of the last century. A network of high-speed lines is planned that could transform the continent’s economic geography

Did reality move for you?: Anyone can buy into the dream world of virtual reality, but the technology that creates it cannot guarantee satisfaction

Victorian values and animal rights: The heyday of the antivivisection movement coincided with public fears about new medical practices. Are today’s campaigners similarly anxious about modern medicine?

Caught in the crossfire of the animal wars: Over the past two decades, New 杏吧原创 has devoted much space to the debate on animal experiments. How balanced have we been?

Chemistry’s crystal seer: Dorothy Hodgkin’s work on X-ray crystallography began in the 1930s. It paid off over the following four decades with insights into the structure of important biological crystals

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News

Third World fights to retain its natural rights

Smart ideas for smart materials

French find short cut to map of human genome

Minister promises national plan for British science

Hungary bows out of grand plan to dam the Danube

Russia shuns biological weapons

Cold fish flourish in a Cambridge fridge

Greens to challenge patent for Harvard mouse

NASA celebrates its spacewalking endeavours

Picture puzzle as Magellan changes point of view

Japan cuts research to the bone

North Korea’s nuclear guessing game

No help over Cambodian mines

Beef for Europe threatens Botswana’s wildlife

Will they, won’t they save the owl?

Britain accused of ‘carbon con’

Further limits

Space reject

Tissue wasted

Asthma deaths down

Duesberg drubbing

‘Siamese calf’ born in Trinidad

Skills bank

Suffering South

Rules in a mess

Science: Sharper evidence for a young Universe

Science: Untangling the history of elliptical galaxies

Science: Light-doubling crystals pass the acid test

Science: Cosmic pancakes spawn a fractal universe

Science: Design for a gentler cancer cure

Science: The incredible lightness of the Universe

Technology

Technology: Video goggles give second sight to ageing eyes

Technology

Technology: Buying the fears of Chernobyl’s farmers

Technology

Technology: Sludge slabs pave the way in Japan

Technology

Technology: Computer graphics learns rules of the game

Technology

Technology: Growing benefits of a greenhouse gas

Technology

Technology: Honeycomb mirror done to a turn

Technology

Technology: Welcome to your talking bus stop

Opinion

Einstein is our only icon

Comment: Europe’s carbon cop-out

Comment: Taming the genome

Features

The second railway revolution: Europe is on the verge of a railway revolution to rival that of the last century. A network of high-speed lines is planned that could transform the continent’s economic geography

Did reality move for you?: Anyone can buy into the dream world of virtual reality, but the technology that creates it cannot guarantee satisfaction

Victorian values and animal rights: The heyday of the antivivisection movement coincided with public fears about new medical practices. Are today’s campaigners similarly anxious about modern medicine?

Caught in the crossfire of the animal wars: Over the past two decades, New 杏吧原创 has devoted much space to the debate on animal experiments. How balanced have we been?

Chemistry’s crystal seer: Dorothy Hodgkin’s work on X-ray crystallography began in the 1930s. It paid off over the following four decades with insights into the structure of important biological crystals

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Review: Evolution on the bookshelf

Review: This is the way the world works

Review: Historical thriller on chiller killers

Review: Dining out on the unified theory of life

Review: Many views make a universe

Review: How green are the multinationals?

Forum: Searching for intelligence in space – David Holbrook wonders what drives us to seek other life forms in the Universe

Forum: Going Deutsch – Martyn Ecott believes that things can’t get any wurst

Thistle Diary – Carbon tax and nuclear safety Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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