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News

Comment: Who’s in trouble again?

Comment: Gotcha!

Drug no protection against onset of AIDS

US Army defies advice on controversial vaccine trial

Narmada dam fails World Bank’s final test

Pentagon is ‘second rate’ in germ warfare

Basic research suffers from the appliance of science

French may eat Indonesia out of frogs

How seabirds win and lose in the fishing stakes

Crop centre for a greener revolution

Tracking turtles’ ocean highways

Close encounters of the shattering kind

WHO chief under pressure after critical audit

Clinton wants plan to reconcile forestry and wildlife

What am I bid for two tonnes of sulphur dioxide?

Cocaine growth

Rat virus

Star struck

Searching for subatomic ‘soup’

Outer body

Green savings

Laxer laws?

Bad timing puts babies at risk: When carried out in early pregnancy, a minor operation used in diagnosing inherited disease in the fetus has been linked to birth defects

Science: Does pasta lie at the heart of pulsars?

Science: Major galaxy cluster eluded astronomers

Science: Asking Alice for the missing mass

Science: Time to redesign the trusty football boot?

Humans

Science: Early humans were forest dwellers

Science: Algae tell of Arctic’s ice-free past

Technology: Exterminator stalks shrieking feedback

Technology: Blood cell ‘factory’ aims to end transfusions

Technology: All wired up for a view of the future

Technology: Compost toilet brings relief to beauty spots

Technology: Spiral escalator winds up in a museum

Technology: Electron avalanche aids photon detection

Technology: Biofilters spruce up sewage for the Seine

Flying industry’s green standard: From next year, businesses will be able to apply for the British Standards Institution’s environmental management standard. Will it lead to greener practices – or public relations exercises?

A glowing future for silicon: Chips and circuits could work much faster if they used light to communicate with each other. Fragile layers of porous silicon could be just the thing to let them do it

Sometimes in the recent future . . .: Somputer viruses? Terrorists holding the children of millionaires to ransom? Global computer networks? Stringent car emission standards in California? John Brunner predicted them all in science fiction novels 20 year

Brain cells made for seeing

Review: Conformity, control and coercion

Review: A lustrous fragment of life

Paperbacks: Roy Herbert examines the mind of God, ventures into Flatland, and solves a problem or two

Review: Navigation across time and the world

Review: Essays on nature

Forum: On the origin of theses – Dissertations depend too much on survival of the fattest says Dave Mitchell

Forum: An artist among viruses – Colin Tudge considers some tactics of transmission

Thistle Diary: Future hopes, flights of fancy and glue sniffing – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Letters: God and science

Letters: Careful counsel

Letters: DNA fingerprints

Letters: No way in

Letters: No way in

Letters: Different diets

Letters: Provocative hum

Letters: Whales are cuter

Letters: Burning issue

Letters: Cool moves

Letters: Slower if lower

Letters: Dry goodbye

Letters: Mystery frog

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Opinion

Chemistry sets the wrong questions for girls

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27 February 1993