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The mountain that fell to earth: Forty years ago, climbing Everest was the pinnacle of achievement. But better equipment and medical understandingmean far more people can now reach its summit

Genes from a disappearing world: A major international project to collect DNA fingerprints from the ethnic groups on the verge of extinction has touched off a heated debate about genetics, race and human welfare

Big Blue and the silver screen: When IBM scientists agreed to meet the moguls from Hollywood, they hoped their new computer system would pull them back from the financial abyss

Taking a short cut to drug design: What makes one molecule behave like another? Drugs companies are using a new approach to find answers that will save them time and money

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News

Waldegrave’s ‘White Paper for Wealth’

Captains of industry call the shots

An end to the misery of PhD students

Waldegrave creates research supremo

Don’t dazzle us with space billboards

Longer life for drugs patent

Murder trial features tree’s genetic fingerprint

Controversial AIDS vaccine to be tested in China

Geranium assassin flies to Spanish mainland

Biomedical basics bypassed by ‘targeted’ funds

Astronomers protest against plan to close French telescopes

Pressure group broods over altered turkeys

Otter outrage over the bridge to Skye

Did infertility treatment cause brain damage?

The blue hills of Snowdonia

Green threat at Warren Spring

Deadly urban air

Bye-bye bears?

For sale: Indonesia’s rare parrots

Hackers go down

Traces of Tomsk

Teaming up

When the medium’s message is violent . . . : Does violence on TV make children aggresive? The link is often taken for granted-but can it be proved?

Science: The fading pulse of the North Star

Science: How to manufacture mini metallic ‘buckyballs’

Science: Cometary belt was home of Halley’s Comet

Science: When plants behave like animals

Science: Could brain’s own chemical treat Parkinson’s?

Science: Cheetahs teetered on brink in the ice age

Technology

Technology: City planners put noise on the map

Technology

Technology: Electronic retina picks objects in a flash

Technology

Technology: Puppet on a terminal cuts videoconference data

Technology

Technology: Matsushita gets rough on Mini Disc

Technology

Technology: Plastic passes the acid test

Technology

Technology: Cheap surround sound offers best seat in the house

Technology

Technology: Greenhouse plans to reap the sea wind

Technology

Patents: Searches for sale

Technology

Patents: Noises off

Technology

Patents: Objectors gnaw at patent on mouse

Technology

Patents: Game goggles

Technology

Patents: Roll up, roll up

Technology

Patents: Melting moments

Opinion

Universities break ranks

Comment: Everything still to play for

Thistle Diary: Grounds for some cold comfort – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

The mountain that fell to earth: Forty years ago, climbing Everest was the pinnacle of achievement. But better equipment and medical understandingmean far more people can now reach its summit

Genes from a disappearing world: A major international project to collect DNA fingerprints from the ethnic groups on the verge of extinction has touched off a heated debate about genetics, race and human welfare

Big Blue and the silver screen: When IBM scientists agreed to meet the moguls from Hollywood, they hoped their new computer system would pull them back from the financial abyss

Taking a short cut to drug design: What makes one molecule behave like another? Drugs companies are using a new approach to find answers that will save them time and money

More

Review: In pursuit of fundamental law

Review: Nothing wriggled, nothing moved on the seafloor

Review: Science in the real world

Review: Guidance on the mysteries of biotechnology

Review: Understanding bees and their sweet ways

Review: Paperbacks – Roy Herbert looks at the futility of trying to predict the future, a controversy about the nature of science, the damage wreaked by humanity and a history of hay fever and herbs

Forum: More ways than one to skin a cat – Even as the White Paper is published William Bown finds other recipes for Britain’s science policy

Forum: On the scent of something big – Donald Gould thinks we should mind what we sniff

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