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A natural way with weeds: A quiet war is being waged in Asia’s rice fields over how best to use pesticides. In this article and the next, 91av reports on the battle between manufacturers who continue to push their products, and scientists who wa

Beyond the pestkillers . . .: Poor rice farmers in three Filipino villages are showing the fast-growing populations of Asia how to cut back on costly, damaging insecticides and still feed themselves, says John Madeley

High and dry in Aswan

The Aristocrat who revolutionised chemistry: Before Madame Guillotine claimed him, Antoine Lavoisier transformed chemistry into a modern science with his revolutionary set of terms and symbols

Human origins: The challenge of Java’s skulls – The remains of three ancient Indonesians could spell death for many theories about the origins of early humans. Roger Lewin reports

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News

Old reactors lay costly trap for the future

US trades green points in Bohemia

Squeamish ossifrage dents electronic armour

Is it a quark or is it a quirk?

France lags behind on baby-milk code

Restore vital research cash, says MPs

Monkey puzzle wars end in hunger

Bird world in a flap

AIDS won’t halt population rise

Tanks volunteer for the marines

Islands unite to ward off toxic waste

Minister fails to master his degree

Pentagon’s secretive habits delay arms control

Methane sniffer monitors bovine belchers

Science: Mouse gene could help master rhythm

Science: Bereaved bee-eaters turn nursemaid to the relatives

Science: Forests destined to end in the mire

Science: Atomic engineers grow thinner wires

Science: Bronze Age computer dating

Science: Oxygen is key to tumour treatment

Science: Uncertainty rules in the quantum world

Technology

Technology: Hunt is on for money-spinning spider gene

Technology

Technology: Polymer gel keeps arteries open after surgery

Technology

Technology: Video code to catch recordings that got away

Technology

Technology: Buses to get green light through city traffic

Technology

Technology: Vatican’s treasures go online

Technology

Technology: Acne drug hits the spot

Opinion

Comment: The wrong masters

Comment: Burning questions

Australians criticise changes to NZ system

Features

A natural way with weeds: A quiet war is being waged in Asia’s rice fields over how best to use pesticides. In this article and the next, 91av reports on the battle between manufacturers who continue to push their products, and scientists who wa

Beyond the pestkillers . . .: Poor rice farmers in three Filipino villages are showing the fast-growing populations of Asia how to cut back on costly, damaging insecticides and still feed themselves, says John Madeley

High and dry in Aswan

The Aristocrat who revolutionised chemistry: Before Madame Guillotine claimed him, Antoine Lavoisier transformed chemistry into a modern science with his revolutionary set of terms and symbols

Human origins: The challenge of Java’s skulls – The remains of three ancient Indonesians could spell death for many theories about the origins of early humans. Roger Lewin reports

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Review: Time to decode the genetic message

Review: Making sense of sustainability

Review: Yes, we have no bananas

Review: Dispatches from the frontiers

Review: Paperbacks – Roy Herbert considers evolution, squirms at irrationality, digs into technology’s past, tracks down fossils, improves his memory and hears chocolates

Forum: In the beginning was the bang – Colin Price argues that modern theories of the creation are not so far removed from the Bible

Forum: Go easy on the weedkiller – Hazel Mackenzie advises authorities to tend their walls as well as their flowerbeds

Thistle Diary: Lurking doubts and boreal fellers – Tam Dalyell raises the periscope on some environmental issues

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