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Humans

Chemists on trial: the inside story

Strangers on the shore: They came crawling out of the oceans 450 million years ago, leaving footprints in the sand. But just what were they ?

Who will underwrite the Hurricane? – Severe storms have cost insurance companies more than $40 billion over the past six years. While governments fail to agree about the threat of global warming, falling profits are forcing insurers to find out for them

Many neurons make light work?: Until recently we thought the cortex behaved like a dictatorship, governing every move we made. But now some think the central nervous system may have more in common with a democracy

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News

Wellcome under fire over ‘old’ AZT data

Own up, says NASA, we won’t sack you

Swarm of protest greets pest control by wasps

Where in the world are the most powerful computers?

Acid rain ‘not guilty’ of killing amphibians

Equality law could backfire on medical researchers

Europe dams Greek river project

Ill feeling over sick plane syndrome

Twin view of starry future

Shrinking future for Britain’s microengineers

A mile’s as good as an inch . . .

Only the tamest survive tourists

How to tell when a cat’s in a flap

The makings of feline friendliness

The return of the medicine show

Computer games paint sound pictures for the blind

Backhander

Full board

How it works

And today’s radiation reading is . . .

Human factor

Tragic flaw

Long storage

Tests fail

Medical research: caught in the crossfile – Reverberations from a report into eight of London’s most prominent research hospitals may be felt by medical researchers across the country

Science: Bacteria hold the key to genetic pollution

Science: Henna dyes nylon a greener shade of yellow

Science: A down-to-earth test for general relativity

Science: Slow-acting poison deals locusts a double blow

Science: When sperm meets egg, it’s electrifying

Science: A handful of dust makes a happy hen

Science: Burning at the K-T boundary

Science: Broken teeth tell a tale of competing carnivores

Science: New light on cancer treatment

Science: Pacific asteroid

Technology

Technology: Mass murder charge hangs by a hair

Technology

Technology: Mercury places its stake on digital cellphones

Technology

Technology: Eureka partners aim to cash in on copper lasers

Technology

Technology: The aerospace bicycle that fell to earth

Technology

Technology: Searching for DNA sequences in a flash

Opinion

Schacht wants researchers on the move

Comment: Sites of special lack of interest

Comment: Cruel confusion

Thistle Diary: Acid rain, delectable lupins and rampant pests – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

Humans

Chemists on trial: the inside story

When police uncovered an illicit drugs factory in the laboratories of a respected pharmaceuticals firm, they exposed the need for safeguards against scientists who turn to crime

Strangers on the shore: They came crawling out of the oceans 450 million years ago, leaving footprints in the sand. But just what were they ?

Who will underwrite the Hurricane? – Severe storms have cost insurance companies more than $40 billion over the past six years. While governments fail to agree about the threat of global warming, falling profits are forcing insurers to find out for them

Many neurons make light work?: Until recently we thought the cortex behaved like a dictatorship, governing every move we made. But now some think the central nervous system may have more in common with a democracy

More

Review: Life, biology and almost everything

Review: The armadillo’s eye view of consciousness

Review: Incompatibility and other pitfalls

Review: Moral dilemmas for gene mappers

Review: Evolutionary ideas stand the test of time

Forum: A wealth of apprehensions – Britain’s future science policy gives some cause for concern says Michael Atiyah

Forum: Phantom card tricks – Barry Fox becomes a victim of the credit system

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