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News

Comment: A hot potato

Comment: 1993 – a Europe newly divided

China’s new cultural Revolution

Wet, wet, wet . . . the story of 1992

Crystal cornfields of chemical ‘Van Gogh’

Reactor in space threatens observation satellites

In my opinion, Mr Waldegrave ..

Where’s the beef?

More fumes loom on Europe’s horizon

How to survive in Australia’s bush war

Veto kills off Europe’s high-tech TV

Europe plays musical chairs with research chiefs

Dirty habits plague Russia’s health

Environment

Spain’s baboons heed the call of the wild

Save our subs

Will Britain turn its back on wave power?

Hot ship

Late bloom for crystal garden

Off the hook

Diet for old age

Potted plant riots

Forest fungus

Europe: under new management – This week, two new commissioners take charge of the European Community’s research programme. Many scientists want the new bosses to consider radical change.

Science: Blood test guages heart attack risk

Science: Hot dust threatens ozone above tropics

Science: When algal mats ruled the land

Science: Who says size isn’t everything?

Science: Where have all the fossil flowers gone?

Science: A million ways to wrap a rubber band round a potato

Technology: The clothes that make a killing

Technology: Horse dung may move sewage mountain

Technology: Online for a cartoon heaven: from Andy Capp to If . . .

Technology: Mapping the risk of breast cancer

Technology: Telephone answers

Technology: Rival music systems hit the high street

Technology: Amsterdam’s locks slide open on a water cushion

A longer life for drugs: Pharmaceuticals companies complain that their costs keep going up while the effective life of their patents goes down. A new regulation in the European Community might make all the difference

Earth

When the tide comes in

Pay attention, Albert Einstein!

Stargazers of the Orient: A remarkable map of the stars has survived more than 2000 years to give us a picture of how Chinese astromomers saw the sky

An explosive start for plants: Plants get up to some ingenious tricks and aerial acrobatics to ensure their survival

Review: Bringing up Baby at the zoo

Review: Prophets not without honour

Review: The confessions of a teenage genius

Review: A lavish spread for nature lovers

Review: Enquire within

Review: Bring back bedside manners

Review: The indiscrete charms of the pygmy chimp

Review: A glimpse of the future and past imperfect

Forum: Academic double standards – Martyn Kelly has a research paper rejected by a learned journal

Forum: When old quicksilver slowed down – Donald Gould thinks he knows why there is a schism between the arts and sciences

Thistle Diary: Hot potatoes and cold reactors – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Letters: Give us a song

Letters: Give us a song

Letters: Easy to compare

Letters: Moving point

Letters: Jonathan West

Letters: Famous facade

Letters: Or vice versa

Letters: Trolley junkies

Letters: Ping!

Letters: Trolley junkies

Letters: Old sackbutt

Letters: No paradox

Letters: Speeding objects

Careers: In search of the right stuff – How do companies nowadays tell if you are the right person for the job?

Feedback

Opinion

Finding a better way to lay down the law

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