Cars at the crossroads: After ruling the world’s highwaysfor a century, the motor car has become a victim of its own success. Wheredoes it go from here?
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Last stand for Society snails: One of biology’s evolutionarytreasure troves, a family of Pacific snails, is fast becoming extinct. Abold attempt to breed the snails in captivity is their only hope of survival
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Close encounters of the comet kind
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Under the volcano:
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Making the most of weightlessness: No one knows why bonesweaken rapidly but crystals grow perfectly when there is very littlegravity. A surge of interest in the science of microgravity may providesomeanswers
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Table of contents
News
Give a planet a bad name . . .
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Little ventured on Europe’s biotechnology
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Lawyers look to genetics to prove HIV ‘guilt’
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Poachers kill tigers for their bones
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Zoo stays open a little longer
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Danish trade unions oppose ban on screening
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Olympic photographers are kept in the dark
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US tackles the legal labyrinth of biotechnology
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Gene sequencers go into business
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Scan reveals musician’s skill
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Space quest for perfect protein crystal
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Cattle tissue banned from French drugs
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Buyers scramble for dinosaur egg
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Pharaohs’ flying machine runs into turbulence
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Catalysts make converts in Far East
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Bush ‘shortsighted’
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Flourishing forests mop up missing carbon
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Prague’s trams leave antismokers fuming
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Greens call for faster phase-out
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Working at home
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Reprieve for cod
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Mind the gap
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Taxing information
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After Ripa
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Hole in the ice
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Men of peace
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Blood pump bypasses bypass surgery
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Whalers win the numbers game: Whales can be hunted withoutrisking extinction, according to a formula adopted by the InternationalWhaling Commission. Next year, commercial whalers could put to sea in force
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Science: Black holes by the million litter the Galaxy
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Science: Athletes run better with unleaded petrol
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Science: Missing neutrinos: the search continues
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Science: Sex and the discerning silkworm
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Science: Unfettered protein is culprit in osteoporosis
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Technology
Technology: When beans means vaccines
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Technology
Technology: Brain scan captures a fleeting thought
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Technology
Technology: Cold tea sparks off energy-efficient welding
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Technology
Technology: How to serve up 20 channels in one dish
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Technology
Technology: Infrared beams cut cable menace
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Technology
Technology: Treacherous gene makes cows immune to mastitis
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Technology
Technology: Coming soon: the cinema in your living room
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Technology
Technology: Remote-controlled crane is handy with a chain saw
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Technology
Technology: Japan turns on the heat to destroy CFCs
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Opinion
Features
Cars at the crossroads: After ruling the world’s highwaysfor a century, the motor car has become a victim of its own success. Wheredoes it go from here?
Features
Last stand for Society snails: One of biology’s evolutionarytreasure troves, a family of Pacific snails, is fast becoming extinct. Abold attempt to breed the snails in captivity is their only hope of survival
Features
Close encounters of the comet kind
Features
Under the volcano:
Features
Making the most of weightlessness: No one knows why bonesweaken rapidly but crystals grow perfectly when there is very littlegravity. A surge of interest in the science of microgravity may providesomeanswers
Features
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Review: The bedrock of civilisation
Books & Arts
Review: Great aspirations
Books & Arts
Review: Against the rise of pseudoscience
Books & Arts
Review: Gas and gravity’s balancing act
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Review: The trials and tribulations of vitamin C
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Review: Plane thinking
Books & Arts
Review: The bulletin boards of knowledge
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