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News

Comment: Creating wealth

Comment: AIDS row – the real casualties

Mind & Body

Wellcome hits back over AIDS drug result

Arctic art treasures carved in stone

Mind & Body: Motherhood past midnight

Russia owns up to sea burial for nuclear waste

Clinton pledges ‘science for democracy’

Review threatens status of science in schools

Shades of Chernobyl stalk Tomsk

Reusable rocket could linger on launch pad

Green detergents ‘foul up’ Italian coastline

Are major projects a source of jobs?

Jupiter keeps comet fragments in line

Uproar over energy in Philippines

Israel floods drained swamp to bring in tourists

Hardy Honduran banana fends off fungal infection

Mind & Body: A name in a million – Nothing is left to chance when drugs get their names.

Cystic fibrosis sleuth take top genome job

Tough animal law could force research into exile

Mind & Body: Against Ageing – No one wants to end up sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything-the good news is that we may be able to hold back the tide.

Draining life from Iraq’s marshes: Saddam Hussein is using an old idea to force the Marsh Arabs from their home

Science: Small waves at sea sap the wind’s energy

Science: Why do electric fish swim backwards?

Mind & Body: The secret life of the nose – US researchers find unexplored territory inside one nostril.

Science: Asteroidal bombardment wiped out the dinosaurs

Science: Superconductors increase their pulling power

Mind & Body: The big sleep?

Mind & Body: Last gasp for smokers

Science: How plants prepare for the cold of night

Science: Warp factor shows way to Galaxy’s edge

Mind & Body: Chewing over the fat

Science: Zooming in on the heart of the Milky Way

Science: Homeless starlings murder their kin

Mind & Body: Less fat, more aggro?

Mind & Body: When sex can kill

Technology: ‘Winning’ tactic lands Mansell in hospital

Mind & Body: Easing the loss

Technology: Capturing images of Alzheimer’s

Technology: Salyut launches into the West

Technology: Drug hope for kidney transplants

Mind & Body: Modes of mind – What have small children playing with dolls in as Edinburgh nursery got to do with Buddhism? One psychologist says she has found a link

Technology: Why Japanese batteries won’t blow your stereo away

Technology: Don’t videophone us, we’ll videophone you

Is there money in lost memories?

Mind & Body: Fear of food – Some people think eating disorders start in the brain; others that society is at fault. Either way, thet are very hard to treat.

Mind & Body: Lessons from the inferno – Every second counts when a fire breaks out. Understanding how people react when the alarm goes off may help save lives

No way to treat the mind: The idea of memory-boosting pills is appealing. But we should resist the claim that there is automatically a chemical fix for all our psychological failings

California’s lousy vintage: Tiny insects wrecked the vineyards of Europe and South Africa a century ago. But the lessons were forgotten, and now California’s wine producers are counting the cost

All you ever wanted to know about the big bang . . .: Every week, questions about the big bang flood into the New 杏吧原创 office. So we thought it was about time to let some experts loose on the subject

Stop the rocket, I want to get off: It sounded glamorous, the ultimate high. But the stark reality of life as an astronaut is becoming increasingly evident to psychologists in the run-up to a mission to mars

Humans

Review: The role of technology in evolution

Review: A blot on the landscape

Review: In praise of supercomputers

Review: A girdle round the earth

Review: Early days of material man

Review: Squash that data, load that drive

Computer Games: Games for the players who like to think a little bit harder. You struggle to survive in the war, the ant colony or on your own world. Build incredible machines, adbenture in space or sharpen up your psyche.

Forum: A healthier balance of power – Funding bodies should see themselves as supporters, not prizegivers says David Budsworth.

Forum: Academic Cosa Nostra – Simon Wolff finds that pressing the flesh has its payoffs.

Thistle Diary: Testing times for physical forces – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Letters: Numbers game

Letters: Unnamed

Letters: Industry on trial

Letters: Industry on trial

Letters: Living lab

Letters: Must try harder

Letters: Mystic buzz

Letters: Spiders from Oz

Letters: Must try harder

Letters: Community dunes

Letters: Antarctic Games?

Letters: Shot in the dark

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