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Bend it, shake it…

Earth

Outcasts from Eden

Music of the spheres

Life

Slime city

A future drugged with success

Table of contents

News

Pioneers cut out animal experiments

Warning shots over `health hazard’ labs

Dead cows don’t fart . . . or belch

Clean air strategy fails to tackle traffic

Big game revival in war torn Africa

Wronged magpies fight back

Long tall cure for Los Angeles smog

Grand Canyon flood a roaring success

Big boost for Japan’s rockets

Edith’s butterfly flees north

Seismic bangs silence sensitive dolphins

Monkey tests clear way for pig-to-human transplants

Porn crackdown

Absolutely asteroidal

Bargain patents

Storm forecast

Child witnesses

Prehistoric art leaps back to life

The dirtiest dilemma of all – Should university researchers take the tobacco companies’ tainted money?

Science : DNA test spots tumours in the blood

Science : US successes fuel hopes for gene therapy

Science : Variations on an evolutionary theme

Science : Life, but not as we know it

Science : When a carnivore is not a carnivore

Science : Air bubbles burst poisonous gas theory

Science : Where quiet quasars get their energy

Technology

Technology : Chip pioneers tame power of e-beams

Technology

Technology : Multistorey bike shed locks out thieves

Technology

Technology : Hot stuff for night vision

Technology

Technology : Walk like the animals

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology : Wanna buy a computer time-share?

Technology

Technology : Antibodies deliver killer blow to cancer

Technology

Patents : Much ado about digital video

Technology

Patents : Captive coffee smell

Technology

Patents : Thomson loses out

Technology

Patents : Easy video

Technology

Patents : No phone clones

Opinion

Editorial : How to turn humans into guinea pigs – IF you want to develop drugs to treat human diseases, then the ideal subjects are, naturally enough, humans. No other animal shares all our biochemistry so we can never be sure that a drug that works on an

Editorial : A soft spot for drains – FOR years, scientists in British universities have been complaining about the decaying labs in which they work and the ever increasing cuts in cash for buildings, supplies and equipment. Now, however, they have found a

Features

Bend it, shake it…

Earth

Outcasts from Eden

Music of the spheres

Life

Slime city

A future drugged with success

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AustralAsian : Japan slow to build collaboration in Pacific region – Bob Johnstone meets a Japanese industry leader with New Zealand roots

Review : Conjuring up the past

Review : Dodgy dealings

Review : From cradle to crucible

Review : Alternative medicine

Review : Earthly presence

Review : Staying alive

Review : Witchy wisdom

Review : Home cooking

Review : Taking the long way round

Review : Hard yet and harder still

Review : Mysterious ways

Review : Boffins galore

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Forum : Digital monster rocks Hollywood – Barry Fox believes the film moguls have killed copyright as we know it

Forum : Doing what comes naturally

Washington diary : Martian fantasies and sliced salmon – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

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