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Computers to beat the bookies: As punters prepare to risk a flutter on next week’s Derby classic, more computing aids are becoming available for those who take their betting seriously

Earth

Last chance to save the planet?

Turning the proton inside out

Metals pass the endurance test: Materials used in jet engines, power stations and chemical plants have a tough time. New compounds made from two or more metals could have the right qualities for the job

From green to academe: Richard Macrory, a former campaigner with Friends of the Earth, has become Britain’s first professor of environmental law. Is this a natural progression or a clever change of tack?

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News

Zoo animals doo it better

NASA cuts back to win over Congress

Men banned from raising the flag

Computer counterfeiters profit in prison

Bush’s ‘ploy’ on fetal tissue research

Last-minute ‘compromise’ saves biodiversity treaty

French urged to curb their thirst . . .

. . . while Africa’s drought spreads

Lead campaigner cleared of fraud

Island devastated by mine, say rebels

Dounreay cools off

Free trade ‘undermines the environment’

Research bears cost of united Germany

Homeless monkeys

Brain drain out of Africa

First among fungi . . . for now

Computer takes the enigma out of the Sphinx

Ozone amendments

Back to school

‘No’ to new numbers

Silicon vallee

Stemming leukaemia

Paper bedding for a comfortable calf

Hum test

Glittering prizes

Earth

Focus: A climate of confidence

Science: Potent painkiller from poisonous frog

Science: Pregnancy hormone makes the heart race

Science: The acceptable face of carbon dioxide

Science: Busy bees work themselves to death

Science: NASA expoited chaos to control spaceprobe

Science: Mathematicians learn how to tame chaos

Science: Now you see it . . . now you don’t

Technology

Technology: Flat screen future for HDTV

Technology

Technology: Soviet building monitors its health

Technology

Technology: US battery research moves up a gear

Technology

Technology: Cheap probe plumbs the depths

Technology

Technology: Icy air helps turbine keep cool

Technology

Technology: Satellite peers through window to the Galaxy

Patents: Soaraway prizes

Patents: Thieves brought to book

Patents: Timely evidence

Patents: Stop the clock

Patents: Wired for cold

Patents: Patents Information

Patents: A fair cop

Patents: Moving pictures

Opinion

Federal-state fight looms over nuclear waste

Comment: Paying for Germany

Comment: No shortages, yet

Features

Computers to beat the bookies: As punters prepare to risk a flutter on next week’s Derby classic, more computing aids are becoming available for those who take their betting seriously

Earth

Last chance to save the planet?

Turning the proton inside out

Metals pass the endurance test: Materials used in jet engines, power stations and chemical plants have a tough time. New compounds made from two or more metals could have the right qualities for the job

From green to academe: Richard Macrory, a former campaigner with Friends of the Earth, has become Britain’s first professor of environmental law. Is this a natural progression or a clever change of tack?

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Review: The meaning of life

Review: Science as the dustbin of hope

Review: Painting hazard and chaos

Review: A school among the orange groves

Review: The man who bled redheads

Review: Reflections in a crystal world

Forum: Good clean nuclear thoughts – Donald Gould visits a high temple of science and technology where all is tranquil

Forum: There I was, surveying this hole . . . – Willie Stanton believes that environmental protection should begin at home

Thistle Diary: Bright minds should be brought together – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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