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World Cup 94: fever pitch for facts – Computers will be calling the shots this World Cup as never before. But, as Charles Arthur reports, they’ll also be swamping football fans with more facts and figures than they ever knew they wanted to know

And it’s another goal . . .: Deep in the heart of Finland, a former footballer turned professor is pioneering a computer program that he hopes will help make the game more popular. Timo Paukku went to meet him

Life in a frozen lattice: The white, frozen worlds of the polar ice fields are virtually devoid of life. Yet below the ice, as David Thomas and Gerhard Dieckmann found out, are rich ecosystems with plenty of lessons for the planet

Offices that breathe naturally: The nests of Western Australia’s compass termites have given architects and engineers good ideas about how to keep offices at just the right temperature – naturally. Robert Webb reports

Table of contents

News

‘Molecule of life’ is found in space

Frankenstein syndrome hits climate treaty

Bugging the bugs as they gobble the crops

Europe pushes for a genetically modified future

Virtual therapy reaches new heights

Poor join the cashless society

Legal sting for caterpillar virus

Counting Africa’s trees for the wood . . .

Serengeti lions fall prey to distemper

US urged to join big physics club

Toxic trainers run out of town

Could Japan scrap plutonium?

Monk seals to be captured for breeding study

Healthy babies

Fewer forms

Missing moss

Road to a reptile’s stomach

Fusion record

Drift net defiance

Major accord

Theme park at the heart of rural Britain: The leisure industry is fast becoming the most lucrative of the countryside’s cash crops. But at what cost to the environment?

Physics

Science: Surfing to the stars on warped space

Science: How mothers pass on asthma

Science: A paler shade of coral . . .

Science: Teeming life in ocean deeps

Science: Fatal attraction of fungus the parasite

Science: White-hot facelifts for old stars of Milky Way

Science: Sharp-eyed shrimp has binocular vision

Technology

Technology: Detector sniffs out stowaways

Technology

Technology: Laser guide for aerial crop sprayers

Technology

Technology: Privacy software published on Internet

Technology

Technology: Lenses lose their lethal glint

Technology

Technology: Surgeons try out model operations

Technology

Technology: Wall-to-wall muzak to blast across the airwaves

Technology

Technology: Seed bank builds on frozen assets

Technology

Technology: Pet reactor that eats solvents

Opinion

Comment: What price tranquility?

Comment: Plus ca change . . .

Too many cooks?

Features

World Cup 94: fever pitch for facts – Computers will be calling the shots this World Cup as never before. But, as Charles Arthur reports, they’ll also be swamping football fans with more facts and figures than they ever knew they wanted to know

And it’s another goal . . .: Deep in the heart of Finland, a former footballer turned professor is pioneering a computer program that he hopes will help make the game more popular. Timo Paukku went to meet him

Life in a frozen lattice: The white, frozen worlds of the polar ice fields are virtually devoid of life. Yet below the ice, as David Thomas and Gerhard Dieckmann found out, are rich ecosystems with plenty of lessons for the planet

Offices that breathe naturally: The nests of Western Australia’s compass termites have given architects and engineers good ideas about how to keep offices at just the right temperature – naturally. Robert Webb reports

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Anatomy of a metal

Indonesia: From confrontation to collaboration

Indonesia: Australia on show

Indonesia: Words get in the way

Indonesia: Seeking counsel

Indonesia: A show of power

Indonesia: Does Australia have Indonesia’s measure?

Indonesia: Sensor in the sky

Indonesia: Down to the last detail

Indonesia: Open for business

Indonesia: A degree of hard work

Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia

Indonesia: A promising sign for deaf children

Indonesia: Remote diagnosis

Indonesia: Stopping the flow

Indonesia: AIDS fight begins

Indonesia: Tree centre seeds a growing industry

Indonesia: Farmers stay for tea

Indonesia: A shell of an industry

Indonesia: Ocean research hits a snag

Indonesia: The Bandung blues

Indonesia: Population explosion

Indonesia: How to survive by apeing others

Review: Whatever happened to Pandora’s last gift?

Review: Rebel who found a cause

Review: Recruits to a risky business

Review: Penguins are not the only food

Review: The left and right of it

Review: Time to declare interdependence

Forum: Science policy in a tug-of-war – Francis Slakey reviews the battle in Washington over the role of the National Science Foundation

Forum: The complete guide to exam cheating – John Croucher reveals some developing techniques in the hope that this will speed detection

Thistle Diary: Feral outposts of the realm – More testing topics from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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