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Hooked on HIV – What’s the connection between a 1980s film character and the cutting edge of AIDS research? Philip Cohen reports on a protein that’s unlocking HIV’s mysteries

All for one one for all – Damned for decades as quaint and wrong-headed, the notion of the superorganism is being reinterpreted in the light of modern complexity theory. Roger Lewin investigates

Sixty ways to tour Saturn

Lure of the rings – Tree rings laid down over thousands of years may cut through the arguments surrounding global warming. Fred Pearce reports

Table of contents

News

Canada declares war on tobacco

Top Guns terrify rare antelope

Reactors will burn old bombs

Can the market cool the world?

Africa overtakes Europe as world birth rate slows

Bad medicine deepens Bhopal’s misery

Priest supplies Saturn probe with missing ingredient

Concerns grow over weight loss drug

`Missing link’ is written in stone

Who needs a new liver?

Ship’s halcyon days are over

Change of scene for monkey `gods’

Junk feud

Costly reading

Warlike genes

Station delay

Polio wipeout

Many moons

A hard day’s work on the cyber-farm

Outlaw corn

Psst…wanna Triceratops?

Science : Bugs break the rules underwater

Science : Heart attacks that begin in the womb

Science : Raising the roof in the Wild West

Science : Galactic tides bring showers of comets to Earth

Science : Arthritic French mice rewrite the textbooks

Science : Weeds won’t save us from a greenhouse fate

Science : One dynasty to rule them all

Technology

Technology : Safe landings on a wing and some air

Technology

Technology : Malicious viruses caught in the Net

Technology

Technology : Europe sets cellphone agenda

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Body gets the message across

Technology

Technology : Tots put painted toys to the ultimate test

Technology

Technology : Cleaning up arsenic and old waste

Opinion

Editorial : A cool and deadly image – THE tobacco industry has long claimed that its gigantic advertising and sponsorship budgets aren’t aimed at getting more people to smoke but merely at persuading existing smokers to change brands.

Features

Hooked on HIV – What’s the connection between a 1980s film character and the cutting edge of AIDS research? Philip Cohen reports on a protein that’s unlocking HIV’s mysteries

All for one one for all – Damned for decades as quaint and wrong-headed, the notion of the superorganism is being reinterpreted in the light of modern complexity theory. Roger Lewin investigates

Sixty ways to tour Saturn

Lure of the rings – Tree rings laid down over thousands of years may cut through the arguments surrounding global warming. Fred Pearce reports

More

Formation of Earth

Review : Secrets of the death cell

Review : Oyster calamity

Review : Serendipity

Review : Thinking tools

Review : Journey round the horns

Review : Girls’ own

Review : Sterling works

Review : Framed lives

Review : Trust me

Review : Child’s play

Review : Bits and bytes

Review : Let me count the ways

Review : What a wonderful cosmos

Review : Collected works

Bestsellers : from Washington

Forum : Fiddler in the lab – Vincent Kiernan investigates what is being done in the US to discourage scientific fraud

Forum : Teaching some home truths

Thistle diary : Of nuclear subs and basking sharks – More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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