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The white heat of laser dentistry: Dentists in the US are not allowed to use lasers to drill their patients’ teeth. But in Britain they are, even though researchers are still evaluating the technique

Space

Magellan’s last mission

Why genes have a gender: Without knowing it, parents stamp their authority on the DNA of their children. The result is a battle of the sexes played out by chromosomes and genes

Anyone for cheap diamond film?: Should a revolutionary way of coating materials with diamond be cold-shouldered until it establishes its scientific credentials? Industrialists are beginning to think not

Table of contents

News

Gulf War was no high-tech breakthrough

The torpedo is not for turning

Whaling ban stays in place – for now

End of an era for Britain’s biggest research council

Foreign weed raises alarm across Broads

Secret report puts Warren Spring’s future on the line

Vitamin cuts cancer rate in China

Timber pest prompts import curb

Royalties row over digital recordings

Health reforms herald personal identity numbers

University researcher given a taste of life in industry

Overhaul ordered for bioethics bill

Nuclear dump could pollute water

Quiet engineer heads German research

Goodbye Star Wars

Labour list

Sheep may safely burp

Sex boycott

Fate of Freedom

Soyuz explodes

Surface solution

Earth

The two faces of the Exxon disaster

Science: How hungry ants hinder return of the forest

Science: Gene injection cures mice of cancer

Science: Supernova changes its spectral spots

Science: DNA test finds HIV’s hideout

Humans

Science: On the origins of the midwife

Science: The Hubble constant rides a gravitational arc

Earth

‘Pit of the bones’ yields early human skulls

Technology

Technology: Ghostbusters in the sky

Technology

Technology: Barnacle Bill and the red hot peppers

Technology

Technology: Instant CDs come just in time

Technology

Technology: Peace dividend produces secure cellphones

Technology

Technology: Photographs in a flash

Technology

Technology: Silicone rats take the pain out of training

Technology

Technology: Bargain space station hitches shuttle ride

Technology

Technology: Wireless computers in the offing

Technology

Technology: Scrapyard dangers from airbags

Opinion

Model women may be a waste of time

Comment: The battle for Warren Spring

Comment: Business as usual

Good relations in Asia

Thsitle Diary: No shoot-out or shell-out in Star Wars – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

The white heat of laser dentistry: Dentists in the US are not allowed to use lasers to drill their patients’ teeth. But in Britain they are, even though researchers are still evaluating the technique

Space

Magellan’s last mission

Why genes have a gender: Without knowing it, parents stamp their authority on the DNA of their children. The result is a battle of the sexes played out by chromosomes and genes

Anyone for cheap diamond film?: Should a revolutionary way of coating materials with diamond be cold-shouldered until it establishes its scientific credentials? Industrialists are beginning to think not

More

Review: Prizewinners in the art of communication

Review: The zap approach to information

Review: Why pure inventions don’t exist

Review: Goodbye to the steamers

Review: Right Promethean fire

Is Anyone Out There? The Scientific Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence by Frank Drake and Dava Sobel

Review: In the country of the blind

Forum: Two-way look at the literature of change

Forum: Who’s a pretty poly then? – Leighton Jones believes league tables are for sports clubs, not academia

Forum: So, farewell then, Mike Peyton

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