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News

Comment: One nation’s interpretation

Comment: The numbers game

Romans coy about a private function

Iraq caught out over nerve gas attack

Resistant TB rises in Third World

Decision looms over WHO chief

Frosty reception greets cold fusion figures

Hiroshima data lead to tighter radiation limits

Queensland sets out rights over native species

Clinton vows to take lead over conservation

Atmospheric ozone hits a new low

Quake watchers probe California’s weak spot

Union Carbide officials face prosecution

US generals take aim at spy satellites

Special coastal sites wiped off the map

Mud flats test Tokyo’s green resolve

Cosmic half-century

Sisterly subject

Keeping time

Water saving

Recycled bullets

A colourful dream for tiny worlds

Dioxin source

Carbon tax blocked

The hidden cost of sex selection: Many people fear that if parents can choose the sex of their children, any imbalance of the sexes that results will lead to social upheaval. But this could be the least of our worries

Science: High-temperature superconductors are unstable

Science: Fish fossils could reveal oil reserves

Science: Rainbow-coloured bucyballs light up the lab

Science: Mongolia’s early bird fails the flight test

Science: Anticancer vaccine undergoes human trials in China

Science: Chameleon-like neutrinos elude detection

Science: Multiperfect numbers proliferate in Colorado

Technology: BT tries to make cable pay its way

Technology: Japan drives ship engine onto the road

Technology: Human subs get set fao Florida’s wet races

Technology: How a fax keeps its secrets

Technology: Fractals put on the big squeeze

Technology: War victims bring archaeology up to date

Technology: Shoestring satellite

Technology: Swelling brain captured by imager

Africa tames the town planners: How do you provide seven million people with homes that they want to live in? South Africa’s architects and town planners have got to learn quickly

Beyond cosmic ripples: A year ago cosmic ripples from the big bang made headlines round the world. But has the discovery brought us any closer to understanding why the Universe is as it is?

The hot new star of microchips: The most complex microprocessor ever developed makes it debut in personal computers this month. The chip promises faster procesisng but its long-term success depends on reducing its high power consumption

What can you do with a missile designer?: Russian scientists working in military research were an elite, pampered corps. Now they are struggling to adapt and survive.

Review: The pain of a world blind to itself

Review: A private man in the public eye

Review: A la reconstruction du temps perdu

Review: On the trail of urban disaster

Review: Digging out the roots of poverty

Review: Moral questions, moral imperatives

Forum: Science and politics in the greenhouse – Stefan Rahmstorf attempts to unravel a tangled debate

Forum: Wobbling one’s way along in words – Ian Gordon on freewheeling in another language.

Thistle Diary: Infernal wastes and nuclear nasties – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell.

Letters: Boring theses

Letters: Insect fossils

Letters: Light search

Letters: A unit called bert

Letters: A hidden disease

Letters: Growth spurts

Letters: Exam questions

Letters: Upland forests

Letters: Watching the earth

Letters: Frog in the rock

Letters: Hacked to death

Letters: Sex and risk

Letters: Whale milking

Letters: WHO’s troubles

Letters: Forest fires

Letters: Crossword test

Letters: Newsworthy

Careers: Getting a fix on pharmacology – A healthy future could await you where drugs and human disease meet up

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