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Stalking HIV in the red light district: Statistical methods developed by ecologists to count animals in the wild are finding an unlikely new lease of life as health officials try to monitor the spread of HIV

Can LA kick the car habit? America’s second biggest city opened its first underground railway this year. But can a city that has grown up without extensive public transport change its ways and abandon private cars?

When electrons go with the flow: Remove the obstacles that create electrical resistance, and you get ballistic electrons and a quantum surprise

The perils of green pessimism: We have no business advising on environmental policy until all the evidence is in. If we do, we risk undermining the best scientific practice

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News

Shareholders’ greed destroys Britain’s R&D

Will Clinton get the electronic message?

Third World aid is ‘too political’

Solar electrons mimic ozone hole

Worst-hit areas lose out in plan to cut acid rain

Uganda’s AIDS agony revealed

Cash could cut epidemic by half

Condors clash with the modern world

Was killer virus carried by rats?

Panel hears conflicting views on biology of violence

South Africa’s bantam satellite weighs in at air show

Zimbabwe to end experiment in conservation?

A la recherche du perks perdu

Japan ‘forgets’ giant canal

Russia throws out shuttle programme

Research chiefs fearful as privatisation looms

Warren Spring closure: has the decision been taken?

Cable link-up

Tarnished mile

Pumping less carbon

Skins smuggled

Hot potatoes

Friendly DNA kit for schools

Imitating art

Britain’s dirty deeds at Maralinga: Fresh evidence suggests that Britain knew in the 1960s that radioactivity at its former nuclear test site in Australia was worse than first thought. But it did not tell the Australians

Science: How carbon dioxide makes dyeing better

Science: Gravitational potholes pull in the stars

Science: How to spot nitric oxide in the body

Science: Asteroid crater buried beneath the sea bed

Science: ‘Supershells’ tell of galactic cannibalism

Science: Animals and fungi closer than anyone expected

Science: Neutrinos are insufficient to hold galaxies together

Science: Buckyball film is no rough diamond

Technology

Technology: Universities call up costly copyright charges

Technology

Technology: Now, the videophone in your PC

Technology

Technology: Green shoots showing for transgenic rice

Technology

Technology: PCBs leave dirty fingerprints

Technology

Technology: CDs join the slow track

Technology

Technology: Military radar finds silver lining in stormy weather

Technology

Technology: Carbon fibre smartens up concrete

Opinion

Universities value arts over engineering

Comment: Coming clean on Maralinga

Comment: Profit or loss?

Thistle Diary: Forbidden fruit juice and some sore points – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

Stalking HIV in the red light district: Statistical methods developed by ecologists to count animals in the wild are finding an unlikely new lease of life as health officials try to monitor the spread of HIV

Can LA kick the car habit? America’s second biggest city opened its first underground railway this year. But can a city that has grown up without extensive public transport change its ways and abandon private cars?

When electrons go with the flow: Remove the obstacles that create electrical resistance, and you get ballistic electrons and a quantum surprise

The perils of green pessimism: We have no business advising on environmental policy until all the evidence is in. If we do, we risk undermining the best scientific practice

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Heart attacks

Review: How to survive in an unreal world

Review: Models of atmosphere

Review: Storming the Moon

Review: Act globally, think locally

Review: The plot of light thickens

Review: Noble tales of molecules and men

Review: Food for thought

Forum: What price coal research? – Ian Fells fears that Britain is in danger of destroying its innovative industrial base

Forum: The Biggest Story Ever Told – Barry Fox recalls the days when the screens were big and curved

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