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The shape of TV to come?: Europe’s electronics companies are desperate for consumers to start buying new widescreen TVs. But no one, especially the manufacturers, seems to know which technology to back

The deadly cloud hanging over Cameroon: A lethal gas bubbled up from the bottom of Lake Nyos six years ago, killing thousands of people and livestock. Years of study have revealed why, but the risk of disaster remains

High noon for solar neutrinos: Fewer neutrinos reach the Earth than particle physicists predict. Are their theories wrong or do we know less than we thought about the Sun?

Can exercise damage your health?

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News

Iraqis economical with nuclear truths

Will Russia open its secret cities?

NASA at the end of its tether over reel problems

How to mould an X-rated lolly

Jobs slashed as BP’s oilfields run dry

Discovery of heavy elements poses periodic problem

Dounreay closure jeopardises fast breeders

Philips threatens to pull out of HDTVP

Going for gold at the computer olympics

Rabbits blow whistle on radiation risk

Listeria epidemic still a mystery

Doctors await verdict in French blood trial

Norway’s choice: whales or Europe

Ethics lobby forces rethink on growth hormones

Polluters pay to clean Thai resorts

Brazilian smokers light hot cigarettes

Tourism threatens Malaysia’s marine park

Slow trains

Red kites rise

Vanishing trout

Virtual monastery rises from ruins

Reactor cleared

Atlantic shame

Green training

Focus: Sitting on a toxic time bomb – Thousands of homeowners across Britain do not know that their houses stand on land contaminated by previous use. New government plans could give them a shock

Science: Young stars breathe life into the Galaxy

Science: Satellite beams back bad news on Antarctic ozone

Science: Leaving home is hard to do. . .

Science: Barbecued CFCs are kind to the atmosphere

Science: What made ripples at the edge of time?

Science: An early grave for stresses sticklebacks

Science: Are aliens on our wavelength?

Science: Drugs open up second front against breast cancer

Technology

Technology: Toy technique gives 3-D feel to virtual reality

Technology

Technology: Tiltrotor hits turbulence as second plane crashes

Technology

Technology: Satellite records oceans’ moving story

Technology

Technology: Incredible lightness of sea gel solid

Technology

Technology: Snake worms its way into reactor’s heart

Technology

Technology: Electric wind blows out fires

Technology

Technology: Squeezed light beam gives denser data

Opinion

Another skirmish in the paper war

Comment: An end to a fast prototype

Comment: Vacuous failures

Features

The shape of TV to come?: Europe’s electronics companies are desperate for consumers to start buying new widescreen TVs. But no one, especially the manufacturers, seems to know which technology to back

The deadly cloud hanging over Cameroon: A lethal gas bubbled up from the bottom of Lake Nyos six years ago, killing thousands of people and livestock. Years of study have revealed why, but the risk of disaster remains

High noon for solar neutrinos: Fewer neutrinos reach the Earth than particle physicists predict. Are their theories wrong or do we know less than we thought about the Sun?

Can exercise damage your health?

More

Review: Population growth and the world’s fate

Review: Infatuation and jealousy in the goose family

Review: More of the right stuff

Review: Love and the ordinary mind

Review: Ecology made easier

Review: Jungle-bound children head off malaria

Review: Under pressure at high altitudes

Review: Catalyst loses its modesty and comes of age

Forum: A babel of science – Martyn Ecott on the art and science of translation

Forum: What do you mean by that? – Ralph Estling suggests how we could stop going around in circles

Thistle Diary: Squeky-clean submarines – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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