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Sunny days for solar power: Some of the world’s leadingproponents of solar power have chosen Australia as the venue fordemonstrating how to make the most of the Sun’s energy. Ian Andersonreports

Fantastic Voyage into the Virtual Brain: For years, neuroscientists have dreamt of getting inside the brain to watch the nerve cells at work. Now, as Bob Holmes discovers, they have powerful ways of making the dream come true

Can we stop the wetlands from drying up?: From southernSpain to northern Nigeria, conservationists are struggling to convincegovernments of the value of wetlands. Ted Hollis and James Bedding findoutif they are succeeding . . .

Table of contents

News

Battle for the world’s seed banks

Everlasting power for the executive on the move

Anglo-German veto delays accelerator

French law clamps down on tissue traders

US acts fast to unravel viral link to cancer

AIDS cases near the million mark

Different races, different veins?

Ozone meter ‘gets it wrong’

Fun in the future laboratory

Cultivating a taste for addiction?

One small tape that saved Auntie’s face . . .

Electronic twitchers spot the night birds

Parisian elephants back on parade

Patent payment . . .

. . . patent pact

Cash for closure

Virus with venom

Rabies campaign

Fast footnotes

The debate over the limits: The good news is that alcoholprevents heart disease. The bad news is that it still causes cancers,cirrhosis and strokes. The result is a dilemma for public healthcampaigners. Helen Saul reports

Science: Hot and cold running model of the Universe

Science: Sun throws up new neutrino riddle

Science: An angle on how to join up the dots

Science: How malaria parasite cracks open blood cells

Science: Chill Uranus is poles apart from other giant planets

Science: Did the biggest galaxies form first?

Technology

Technology: Solved: the mystery of the speckled note

Technology

Technology: Sticky start for world’s largest telescope

Technology

Technology: Giant effects a giant squeeze

Technology

Technology: Fake leaves spot thirsty plants

Technology

Technology: Vapour tracker goes to sea

Earth

Can burning plastics be good for the world?

Opinion

Comment: Fit for what?

Comment: Seeds of discontent

A yen for strawberry flavoured cheese

Features

Sunny days for solar power: Some of the world’s leadingproponents of solar power have chosen Australia as the venue fordemonstrating how to make the most of the Sun’s energy. Ian Andersonreports

Fantastic Voyage into the Virtual Brain: For years, neuroscientists have dreamt of getting inside the brain to watch the nerve cells at work. Now, as Bob Holmes discovers, they have powerful ways of making the dream come true

Can we stop the wetlands from drying up?: From southernSpain to northern Nigeria, conservationists are struggling to convincegovernments of the value of wetlands. Ted Hollis and James Bedding findoutif they are succeeding . . .

More

Review: Waste not, want not

Review: Cures and comforts

Review: Unravelling Ireland’s myths

Review: Selecting the very fittest

Review: In search of sea mammals

Review: Faith in fossils

Review: Roy Herbert considers attempts to educate the public, a trip around the human genome project, the intelligence of birds and the joys of feeding hypochondria

Forum: What do you do with an old banger? – Patricia Lewis says we must give more thought to the future of our nuclear scientists

Forum: Flagler’s folly – Barry Fox investigates a disaster waiting to happen

Thistle Diary: Time to air policy issues in public – More news from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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