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How AIDS made patients act up

Dangerous dance of the dividing cell: Most cells divide at just the right moment, and in just the right place. Discovering the molecules that control this timing may help us to understand cancer

The first billion years of the British Isles: Studying the

Raising rice in Cambodia’s ruins: Pol Pot’s regime and its aftermath have devastated the once bountiful paddy fields of Cambodia. As the refugees return, what will they find?

Starry signposts to the Universe: Astronomers have new and accurate methods for measuring distances to the nearest galaxies. But these measurements also suggest that the Universe may be younger than its oldest stars

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News

Despondency descends on Rio: Fred Pearce reports from the first week of the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro

Industrial growth: Is it part of the solution

Industrial growth: The root of the problem?

Companies judged by deeds, not words

Earth Summit: Rio rolls out red carpet while research funds run dry

Earth Summit: Woodstock comes to the Amazon

Earth Summit: Bush: why I won’t sign the treaty

World says ‘no thanks’ to Japanese computer

High-risk plans for technology firms

Glory of Nefertari’s tomb restored

Stuffed leopard gives smugglers’ game away

Zimbabwe’s rhinos lose their horns

Border crossing

MPs investigate AIDS maverick

There’s no such thing as a free phone call

Only fools still hunt for elusive red mercury

Einstein’s ‘red’ links were genuine

Space bid hit

Place your call with the wind

Life not snipped

Hermes hold-up

Friendly fire

First collision

Russian deals

Cocoa crash

Poplar power

Dirty move

Focus: How to destroy the doomsday asteroid – An asteroid collision that wipes out the human race sounds like science fiction. But in the US the threat is being taken very seriously

Science: A dusty birth for new solar systems

Science: Who’s ever heard of a spitefule fish?

Science: Only 120 light years to pulsar

Science: Castrated top-dog fish fail to lose their balls

Science: Ripping yarn tells of Galaxy’s starry past

Science: ‘Educated’ rats learn to fight off diabetes

Technology

Technology: ‘Skimmer’ plane takes off on wave of success

Technology

Technology: Japanese fighter heads for grounding

Technology

Technology: Computers make lute work of damaged manuscript

Technology

Technology: The yuppie gamma-ray detector

Technology

Technology: Halons still the best

Technology

Technology: Fractal maths adds up to a clearer vision

Technology

Technology: The small screen heads for the big time

Opinion

Back room economists strike again

Comment: Strangled at birth?

Comment: Cut and paste

Features

How AIDS made patients act up

Health campaigners in the US are forcing the medical profession to change the way it treats us as patients

Dangerous dance of the dividing cell: Most cells divide at just the right moment, and in just the right place. Discovering the molecules that control this timing may help us to understand cancer

The first billion years of the British Isles: Studying the

Raising rice in Cambodia’s ruins: Pol Pot’s regime and its aftermath have devastated the once bountiful paddy fields of Cambodia. As the refugees return, what will they find?

Starry signposts to the Universe: Astronomers have new and accurate methods for measuring distances to the nearest galaxies. But these measurements also suggest that the Universe may be younger than its oldest stars

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Review: The intellectual tithes of aquaculture

Review: Parrot talk

Review: Archaeology in the wet

Review: Designer enzymes and other stories

Review: Ancient quarrels

Review: Global warnings for rich climates

Review: Analytical microscopy explained

Forum: How to be a PhD student – Simon Wolff offers some warnings to would-be candidates

Forum: Blessed is the chip factory . . . – Elisabeth Geake attends an episcopal blessing in Italy

Thistle Diary: ‘Anybody want a physicist? – More comments from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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