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Frozen in time

The far frontier – Life can be tough for the fast-living, hard-drinking workers of Antarctica’s science city. Vincent Kiernan visits the wild wild south

It’s child’s play – If you want to know what the future will look like, ask a child. And that’s just what many American companies are doing. Rosie Mestel reports

One small step for a tomato – Long-haul space travellers will not be able to take all the essentials of life with them. But they could turn their spacecraft into a self-sustaining ecosystem. Kurt Kleiner investigates

Table of contents

News

Malaria guard

Technology

Technology : Less is more in race to be strong

Science : Water comes clean with arsenic eaters

Science : `Life’ crawls out of the digital soup

Science : Is a Big One lurking in the Midwest?

Science : Introducing the incredible shrinking ceramic. . .

Science : How cancer spreads after a night on the tiles

Science : Altered cells flip the immune system’s off switch

Science : Such stuff as worlds are made of

A watershed for apartheid – The South African government is reforming its hundred-year-old water laws which give a small number of landowners control over most of the country’s water supplies. But it is facing stiff opposition from farmers

Technology

Technology : I spy with my lobster eye

`Real intelligence’ group targets study

Public gives thumbs down to gene screening

Car industry pins hopes on wired-up apprentices

Fur flies over European pelt ban

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it

Technology

Technology : Is it a boat? Is it a plane?

Dangerous plant

Hooked on the Net

Neutrino trap

Wilful slobbery

Scrapie theory fed BSE complacency . . .

. . . now fears grow for unborn babies

Death in the city

Brussels cuts cheap Net links

Pentagon changes tack too late to save GPS

A painkiller a day could fend off Alzheimer’s

French crack down on happy pills

Tough measures to curb acid rain

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : How to put aircraft ahead by a nozzle

Technology

Technology : Tiny factory cleans up dirty water

Opinion

Editorial : Sad, but glad? – DO you find it easier to talk to people on the Internet than in person? Do you feel that if it weren’t for your computer, you wouldn’t have any fun at all? If it has been a long time since you logged on, do you find it hard to

Editorial : Hanging on the telephone – BRITISH scientists often complain that the public does not understand them. Those who worry professionally about the public understanding of science come up with all sorts of theories. Usually they end up admonishing

Features

Are you getting what you’re worth?

Frozen in time

The far frontier – Life can be tough for the fast-living, hard-drinking workers of Antarctica’s science city. Vincent Kiernan visits the wild wild south

It’s child’s play – If you want to know what the future will look like, ask a child. And that’s just what many American companies are doing. Rosie Mestel reports

One small step for a tomato – Long-haul space travellers will not be able to take all the essentials of life with them. But they could turn their spacecraft into a self-sustaining ecosystem. Kurt Kleiner investigates

More

Review : Inside the social cage

Review : A boggy business . . .

Enigma 870 : Cabinet reshuffle

Forum : A collective act of faith

Thistle diary : Patenting pitfalls and poisonous icebergs – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Saving the sounds of silence – James Geary rants and raves about peace and quiet

Review : A big man in the lab

Review : . . . And ancient business

Review : BESTSELLERS from Washington

Review : Collected works

Review : Computers at war

Review : Arid news

The Thread of Life: The Story of Genes and Genetic Engineering by Susan Aldridge and other books

Antipodes : Are frog deaths a residue of pesticides? – Ian Lowe investigates amphibian declines in New Zealand

Review : Old masters

Review : Certainty surveyed

Review : Dream on

Review : Rumours of my death . . .

Review : Great comeback

Review : Byzantine porridge

Review : Couch questions

Regulars

The Last Word — on shaving foam

What function does shaving foam perform during a wet shave, and why is a similar product not necessary for shaving with an electric razor?

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