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The limits to Freedom: The space station used to be sexy – a patriotic game that could one day lead to Mars. Now critics say it is good for nothing but wasting taxpayers’ dollars

Who’d fly a superfighter?: Fighter aircraft now manoeuvre so powerfully that their pilots are passing out before the new generation of planes can fulfil their design potential

Multiple sclerosis: first aid for nerve fibres: It will be a long time before we know what causes MS. Meanwhile, four researchers in Cambridge are tracking down a new way to bring relief to people with this chronic illness

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News

Greek dam dooms Byron’s wetland

Party’s over for supercollider

Cool response to dinosaur ‘DNA’

No place in space for adverts

Government faces both ways on Thorp

Bills still coming in for Australian nuclear tests

‘Time to bank on gene profiles’

Clinton’s unpopular timber plan

Test ban survives despite protests

Prescriptions for the health of the world?

US measures to save rhino anger African states

Prisoners’ video link goes on trial

Israel’s fish at risk from escaping sturgeon

Weeding out wolves

Civilian sub

Pollutant puzzle

Science fetes

Eye reopens

Receiving science loud and clear

Cool $30 million

Rock bottom

And now, here is the technology forecast: Time and again, Japan has shown an ability to exploit new technology before anyone else. Britain is about to adopt the Japanese model for picking promising areas for research

Science: Stings go better with Coke

Science: Touchy flowers work on elastic

Science: A baby boom for brown dwarfs?

Science: Consuming passion for distant relatives

Science: Microwaves may mark position of protoplanets

Science: DNA goes missing in Polynesian triangle

Science: Secrets of the sand written in the scallops

Technology

Technology: Open the shuttle bay doors, Hal

Technology

Technology: Bright sparks speed up catalysis

Technology

Technology: White Book opens new chapter on digital standards

Technology

Technology: Mirrors throw new light on video projectors

Technology

Technology: EuroDisney games: not all childs’ play

Technology

Technology: Biofuel not the ticket for Reading buses

Opinion

Report jolts research centre

Comment: Picking the right elixir

Comment: The green file

Thistle Diary: Cowardice and mega-nonsense – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

The limits to Freedom: The space station used to be sexy – a patriotic game that could one day lead to Mars. Now critics say it is good for nothing but wasting taxpayers’ dollars

Who’d fly a superfighter?: Fighter aircraft now manoeuvre so powerfully that their pilots are passing out before the new generation of planes can fulfil their design potential

Multiple sclerosis: first aid for nerve fibres: It will be a long time before we know what causes MS. Meanwhile, four researchers in Cambridge are tracking down a new way to bring relief to people with this chronic illness

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World of quarks

Review: Beyond the warm little pond

Review: Pranksters strike again

Review: A world built on grass

Review: Couch potatoes and the Solar System

Review: Paris enjoys science a la mode

Forum: Physician, teach thyself – Wolf Seufert is party to a new way of fostering autonomy and self-reliance in medical students

Forum: Slugging it out in the nocturnal garden – Willie Stanton on the frustrations of gardening in the dark

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