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Starburst memories

Year of the rat

Stressed out

Some bugs like it hot

Table of contents

News

League tables just don’t add up

Birds knocked from top of endangered list

Plague of pigs strips Germany bare

Ignorant bosses give sick patients the sack

Cancer charities tighten rules on `dirty money’

Space agency at crisis point

Penguin chicks swim into trouble

Doomsday has been postponed

British psychology faces oblivion

AIDS epidemic slows in France

Bacteria could clean up Cold War chemicals

Animal vaccine drives out danger bugs

A fruit in winter

Record-busting dam

Arms dumps

Rowdy buses give off bad vibes

Flying a satellite

Menacing subs

Fossil rustlers

Messengers of death – With virtually no safety regulations to protect them, despatch riders on piecework are a danger to themselves鈥攁nd to anyone else on the road

Science : An alternative history of the Earth

Science : Swimming-pool gas is in the blood

Science : Genes that go with a smoother flow

Science : Sandy remnants of ancient hearths

Science : Sponges trip the light fantastic

Science : The genes that maketh man

Science : Have fake fossils fooled experts?

Science : Smart algae steer clear of water fleas

Science : Weird dark matter makes gravity wobble

Technology

Technology : X-rays cut chips down to size

Technology

Technology : Happy hunting keeps captive cheetahs in shape

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Lopsided modem boosts speed

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Doubts surface on Net cleanup

Technology

Technology : Fibres are a printer’s best friend

Technology

Technology : Probe sheds light on the brain

Technology

Technology : Virtual `tour’ could prevent colon cancer

Technology

Technology : Simple blood test may replace amniocentesis

Opinion

Editorial : Why the mind matters – PSYCHOLOGY has always had to fight for its place in the pantheon of “true” sciences. But the battle is getting harder. Last year Robert Walker, chairman of the US Congressional committee on science, declared that governm

Editorial: Fantasy league

Features

Starburst memories

Year of the rat

Stressed out

Some bugs like it hot

More

Antipodes : Biological weapons aimed at invading pests – Ian Lowe examines Australia’s attempts to curtail introduced species

Review : Climb every mountain

Review : Pill poppers

Review : The game of life

Review : News reel

Review : Touching sea shells

Review : Father of the jet

Review : Glorious dioxin

Review : Wipeout

Review : Polluters are revolting

Review : Anorak gospel

Review : In loving memory of humankind

Review : Buried pleasure

Review : Cheltenham day out

Review : Chemical habits

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Sydney

Forum : Where are all the extraterrestrials?

Thistle diary : Water, water everywhere, but the wrong place – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Meditations on the campaign trail

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