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These cells were made for learning

The wrong route to Docklands: London’s Docklands provide a perfect example of how not to regenerate an area through business. The fault is not with the buildings, but the transport infrastructure

How flash wins when the chips are down: The ideal computer memory would be as small and work as fast as a chip, be erasable and hold on to its data even when the power is off. Say hello to flash . . .

Humans

Why gossip is good for you

From cancer to cholesterol: Thirty or so years after exposing the link between smoking and lung cancer, Richard Doll is trying to get to the bottom of another health controversy – the link between diet and heart disease

Shaking the foundations of mathematics: There are many interpretations of mathematics. The one we use has proved itself. But what would happen to our view of the Universe if we experimented with another?

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News

Russian goods rocket into America

Crumbling pipes pepper water with lead

Space: Europe’s flagging frontier

Disappointment over Darwin cash

Spooks undermine commercial secrecy

White whale sighted in the southern seas

Doctors and activists clash over AIDS in Asia

India launches own-brand AZT

Would-be waste smugglers face execution

Pint pots designed to banish bitterness

Ozone treaty in jeopardy

Ease gene laws, say German MPs

Chancellor claws back funds for research

Pests in the post threaten crops in Hawaii

Russian seed bank runs out of credit

. . . and air pollution

Digital radio

The big sleep

Money well spent

Unforthcoming

Tuneful tutu makes its debut

Danger for dentists

Death by dung. . .

Focus: Britain’s plan to revitalise its industry with bright ideas was inspired by a German concept. But the second-hand version is a poor copy of the original – German innovation, British imitation

Science: It’s all in the phylum for slugs with legs

Science: A taste of soy keeps cancer at bay?

Science: Devil’s Hole discovery hots up row over ice ages

Science: Chemical switch gives green light to faster computing

Science: Pluto’s moon is a giant snowball

Science: How cocaine could really blow your mind

Technology

Technology: Network set to put journals in the picture

Technology

Technology: Personal cinemas take to the air

Technology

Technology: Radar traps Earth’s shifting surface

Technology

Technology: Salad days for bacteria

Technology

Technology: Rechargeable battery won’t give up after top-ups

Technology

Technology: Probing with the sensitive touch

Technology

Technology: Pen computer makes its point

Opinion

Moving with the times

Comment: German lessons half-learnt

Comment: A small victory?

Features

These cells were made for learning

How the brain stores information is still a puzzle. But the hunt for clues has been boosted by fresh evidence linking learning to subtle changes in the connections between nerve cells

The wrong route to Docklands: London’s Docklands provide a perfect example of how not to regenerate an area through business. The fault is not with the buildings, but the transport infrastructure

How flash wins when the chips are down: The ideal computer memory would be as small and work as fast as a chip, be erasable and hold on to its data even when the power is off. Say hello to flash . . .

Humans

Why gossip is good for you

From cancer to cholesterol: Thirty or so years after exposing the link between smoking and lung cancer, Richard Doll is trying to get to the bottom of another health controversy – the link between diet and heart disease

Shaking the foundations of mathematics: There are many interpretations of mathematics. The one we use has proved itself. But what would happen to our view of the Universe if we experimented with another?

More

Review: How to think unnaturally

Review: Leap, song and flight

Review: In search of bird men and bird women

Review: Calling asteroids names

Review: A metaphysical look at the highest art

Review: A world of early learning

Review: Featherlight look at birds

Review: Alienating views

Review: Fold up and away

Review: Tote that bale, throw that hammer

Review: The reefs of time and carbon

Review: Paper patterns of complexity

Review: A walk on South Africa’s wild side

Review: A fascinating obsession

Forum: Spread the word on science – Michael Kenward insists that the White Paper must consider the public dimension

Forum: What gave art its start – John Cornell wonders where many of the arts would be without science and technology

Thistle Diary: Solvents, solutions and insolvency – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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