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News

Comment: Runaway disaster

Hands off northern Siberia, oil companies told

Britain ‘ignores’ Rio summit pledges

Cash cuts squeeze research

Key staff at Warren Spring refuse to move

Letters: In a spin

Space pact gives Russia a share of Freedom

Did northern forests stave of global warming?

T. rex growled like a gippy tummy

Weapons experts target counterfeit clothes

Seagulls do the dirty on Dutch shellfish trade

MS drug shortage prompts patient ‘lottery’

Timbers with a tale to tell

Having the guts to arrest brain disease

Peck the button and sing along

Drugs take the iron out of malaria’s fire

Time to get out of the ghetto

Wandered lonely as a scientist . . .

. . . with a boson at the Tories’ cocktail party

Rising to Waldegrave’s challenge . . .

Can a culture stop AIDS in its tracks?

Science: How salamanders survive the deep freeze

Science: The day the lightning broke all records

Science: Mutation helps dog-whelks survive toxic paint

Science: Crops stand up to killer chemicals

Science: Brown diamond gives up its secret

Science: Hormone mimic sets a long-lasting trap to catch a tsetse fly

Science: Genes turn on to a puff of gas

Technology: Murdoch’s cryptic vision for global TV

Technology: X-rays find growing future with seeds

Technology: Mapping the points where fits begin

Technology: Big Brother is counting your vote

Technology: Video CDs will be seen, not heard

Technology: Virtually anyone could drive across Mars

Technology: A TV sensor to reduce fuel bills – Europe’s annual showcase for electronic products, the Funkausstellung in Berlin, ran from 27 August to 5 September this year and attracted 740 exhibitors from 33 countries to its 30 halls and pavilions. Bar

Technology: Shocking weapon of self-defence

Technology: Talking to your television

Technology: Wrist pager stores a little problem

RSI on trial: More people suffering from repetitive strain injury are seeking compensation in court as fresh evidence comes to light about the symptoms and causes of this crippling disorder

Banksia: a life in pictures – This week an exhibition of watercolours opens at Kew to celebrate the first attempt to record an entire plant genus. But by the time the project ends some of the species may be extinct

Danger! 杏吧原创s at work – Dodging molten lava, sharks or gun-toting landowners – it’s all in a day’s work for some scientists

Road to ruin for Britain’s wildlife: For more than forty years, conserving our natural environment has depended on sites of special scientific interest. Why is the government helping to bulldoze this scheme?

The assault on B12: The gargantuan task of unravelling nature’s route to vitamin B12 is almost complete. Alan Battersby has the summit in sight

Review: Art that reaches the parts the eye cannot see

Review: Many minds and the quantum muddle

Review: Bellamy’s natural health warning

Review: Flowing waters of war

Review: Damage limitation in the earthquake zone

Review: No compromise where the wild things are

Forum: When the lights of reason go out – Francis Slakey ponders the faces of fantasy and New Age scientists

Forum: Decline of the British university system – Denis Tither offers an academic view from industry

Thistle Diary: Cowardice and mega-nonsense? – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Letters: Applied handicaps

Letters: Storm in a teacup

Letters: Natural failings

Letters: No handcuffs

Letters: Swing bowling

Letters: In a spin

Letters: In a spin

Letters: More pong

Letters: More pong

Letters: Devil’s wind

Letters: Swing Bowling

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Opinion

Battle lines drawn in marine review

Comment: The press it deserves?

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4 September 1993