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Health

Switching off genes with antisense: A powerful new technique

How to go wild

An experiment with mathematics: Think of a number x, put it into a simple equation and feed the equation to a computer. Put the answer back into the equation. Repeat the exercise and watch chaos evolve before your eyes

No bells for Japan: 杏吧原创s don’t win Nobel prizes for perfecting the video recorder or devising a new manufacturing process, no matter how creative the effort involved. If they did, our image of Japanese science and technology would be very different

Bacteria with a sticky touch: A microbe’s first step when it enters the body is often to anchor itself to a cell. Understanding this process may make it possible to design new drugs against infectious bacteria – or even vaccinate women against cystitis

Falling out over water: The nuclear industry says there will never be another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island or Windscale. What worries the people who provide our water is that they don’t know enough about how radioactivity would contaminate supplies – j

The search for the cystic fibrosis gene: For nearly a decade, several teams of molecular biologists have struggled to be the first to find the defective gene that is responsible for cystic fibrosis. At last, a collaborative effort has succeeded

Chaos: a science for the real world.

Pride and protest in Malaysia: Foreign governments and conservation groups are quick to condemn countries that cut down their rainforests. But attitudes must change on both sides if the forests are to survive

The battle of Angkor Wat: Cambodia’s national symbol

Beyond the bones of contention: Traditional approaches to human evolution have concentrated on bones in the quest to find out who’s who in the family tree – But an ecological perspective reveals our ancestors in a new light

An ear to the sea

In two minds about Soviet psychiatry

Should Antarctica be left on ice?