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Making green labels stick: Shoppers will soon have some help in picking environmentally friendly products. An official label will distinguish the greenest goods

Dying rites: the ethics of euthanasia – Most philosophers argue that euthanasia is justified when a patient is dying and suffering intractable pain. But would legalising it cast doctors and nurses as executioners?

The Dutch way of death: Doctors and nurses in the Netherlands can practise euthanasia if they stick to certain guidelines. Yet many patients receive lethal injections without giving their consent

Measuring the monsoon

Will machines ever think?: Love or hate the idea of an intelligent machine, the prospect of building one remains remote. Researchers have reckoned without the complexity of the rules that govern thought

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News

Earth Summit: Earth at the mercy of national interests – Fred Pearce reports from Rio de Janeiro on the final days of the Earth Summit

Third World fends off controls on forests

‘Malaysia is still covered in trees’

Rio’s poor make their point

Ripped off at Rio, say summiteers

Britain clashes with US over survival of the species

Desert deadlock

Oil producers campaign against carbon cuts

Save our seas

Bush still out on a limb

Revamp promised for British research

Drugs companies ahead on R&D

Clampdown on cellphone swindlers

Pentagon ‘suppresses too many inventions’

Insects in the driving seat

Dumping ground

East Europeans cash in on animal trade

Velvet revolution no longer green

Soviet plutonium plant ‘killed thousands’

War warning

Afraid to invest

Directive delayed

Hitching a lift to the wild

Very large job

Blow to wind power

Soviet dump

No widescreen TV

Focus: Nuclear alchemy: France’s impossible dream? – The French want to use a fast-breeder reactor to turn long-lived radioactive elements into less hazardous waste. But the possibility of transmutation is masking more difficult decisions

Science: Molecular machine springs trap for cancer cells

Science: Teething problems of a punch-up

Science: Shrill stallions make the best fighters

Science: Rats cured of Parkinson-like symptoms

Science: Herpes virus turns tumour cells into sitting ducks

Science: When bird-eating spiders ruled the Earth

Science: Earth’s water did not come from comets

Science: Mappers track planet’s surface

Science: Nitrogen stays fixed in Pluto’s atmosphere . . .

Technology

Technology: Mars rover begins life in Death Valley

Technology

Technology: Sounds from space could kill record store

Technology

Technology: Magnificent flight with flapping wings

Technology

Technology: Computers aim to solve the sloshing problem

Technology

Technology: Computer gives robot’s eye view of optical surgery

Technology

Technology: Melting moment makes a microfilm reusable

Opinion

New Zealand experience bodes ill for Australia

Comment: A time for nerve

Comment: Use and abuse

Features

Making green labels stick: Shoppers will soon have some help in picking environmentally friendly products. An official label will distinguish the greenest goods

Dying rites: the ethics of euthanasia – Most philosophers argue that euthanasia is justified when a patient is dying and suffering intractable pain. But would legalising it cast doctors and nurses as executioners?

The Dutch way of death: Doctors and nurses in the Netherlands can practise euthanasia if they stick to certain guidelines. Yet many patients receive lethal injections without giving their consent

Measuring the monsoon

Will machines ever think?: Love or hate the idea of an intelligent machine, the prospect of building one remains remote. Researchers have reckoned without the complexity of the rules that govern thought

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Review: When big is beautiful

Review: Cooking up a storm

Review: Spiders, scorpions, mites and more spiders

Review: The political abuse of science

Forum: Psst! You wanna buy a piece of moon rock? – Philip Bagnall probes under-the-counter trading in extraterrestrial objects

Forum: Science should turn to time share – Alison Brooks shares a money-spinning idea for science

Thistle Diary: The Minister replies . . . – More comments from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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