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Technology

The longbow’s deadly secrets

I spy with my infrared eye: Satellite images are helping volcanologists with the tricky business of predicting when and where a volcano will erupt

How science fails the environment

Life

Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee

Planet of the free apes?: Philosophers and biologists have drawn up a bill of rights for apes as part of the latest campaign to liberate then from laboratories and zoos

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News

White Paper ‘meaningless’ without money

Waldegrave’s strategy wins over old adversary

Men unmanned by a ‘sea of oestrogen’

Many wives means many daughters

Germany relaxes rules on gene research

Hong Kong rounds up toxic waste

Noses run to a regular rhythm

Collision over home for particle smasher

Search for new technology slips between the cracks

Dutch doubts over ‘runaway genes’

Hard road for Africa’s women

Expat experts hold back local talent

US keeps tight rein on Russian satellite launches

Look to salt caves for secret nuclear tests

Arctic spring-clean

Prize memory

Banking on botany

Bats in the brewery

Bad for birds

Skip round Venus

Green Gorbachev

Ancient chemists

HIV and the straight sex connection: A long-awaited government report will present a detailed picture of AIDS in Britain. But consenting adults need more than numbers to understand the risk of being infected with HIV

Science: Petrified nests reveal termites’ true age

Science: Comet on collision course with Jupiter

Science: Noisy moths leave a nasty taste in the mouth

Science: Galileo met giant magnet in space

Science: Volcanic chlorine is innocent

Science: How to mimic the early Universe

Technology

Technology: Electronic charts head for clear waters

Technology

Technology: Save a boat, help a soldier?

Technology

Technology: Managers struggle to adapt to teleworking

Technology

Technology: Windows NT shuts out software rivals

Technology

Technology: Farmers watched by spy in the sky

Technology

Technology: Clay gum cleans as you chew

Opinion

School changes stir the emotions

Comment: Areas of ignorance

Comment: Foresight or just short sight?

Thistle Diary: In search of some decent actions – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

Technology

The longbow’s deadly secrets

English success at the battle of Agincourt can largely be put down to strips of yew wood strung with linen. What made this weapon so lethal?

I spy with my infrared eye: Satellite images are helping volcanologists with the tricky business of predicting when and where a volcano will erupt

How science fails the environment

Life

Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee

Planet of the free apes?: Philosophers and biologists have drawn up a bill of rights for apes as part of the latest campaign to liberate then from laboratories and zoos

More

Review: The current of change

Review: Iron in the soul

Review: A complex chemical system writes . . .

Review: A brief history of Europe

Review: An orderly progression out of chaos

Review: Safety and the short-term memory

Review: Risk and its underlying social theories

Review: Numerical methods made plain

Review: America under the global greenhouse

Review: On the origin of the lumpy bits

Review: Our life is what our thoughts make it

Forum: Wear a hard hat this month – Look out, look out, there are meteorites about warns Philip Bagnall

Forum: A trace of something nasty – Andy Coghlan wonders how trustworthy measurements are

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