Look who's talking now: Do apes hold the key to the origin of human language? Ape-language studies with one chimpanzee suggests they just might
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Editor's picks
Europe's orbiting ocean plotter: Next week the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its first remote sensing satellite. ERS-1 is designed to provide oceanographers with unprecedented detail for studying the seas
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Is cannibalism too much to swallow?: The gruesome idea of cannibalism lives on. But archaeologists and anthropologists are increasingly hard pressed to find evidence that people ever indulged in the custom
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AIDS vaccines - what chance of a fair trial?: Human trials of AIDS vaccines are likely to begin in the developing world within five years. But before they do, researchers must confront a host of ethical and practical problems
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Gold rush threatens Australia's green dreams: Miners want to dig for gold in Kakadu National Park. At a time of recession, government must decide for conservation and Aboriginal rights or industrial growth
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Table of contents
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Patents: Nose dose
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Patents: Patent information
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Technology
Technology: Radioactive sheep get a blue rinse
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Technology: Computer firms take the RISC route to greater power
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Technology: Transputer learns to speak to industry
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Technology: All-day gum
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Technology: Tiny satellite provides medical helpline
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Technology: Motorcycle safety is in the bag
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Technology: The time is right on the clever crossing
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Technology: Honeycomb helmet
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Science: Experiment shines light on wave theory
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Science: Neanderthals puzzle the anthropologists
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Science: Industry turns to oyster shells, plaice and nuts
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Science: Dragonflies help to defeat dengue fever
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Good news for cows
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Framework freed
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French mutants
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Mud skis lighten the rice planter's load
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Eager to learn
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Nuclear ferry halted
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Snag on Galileo
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Herbal secrets
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Science: A beacon at the beginning of time
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Science: Soccer-ball-shaped molecule becomes a superconductor
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Energy policy in disarray, say MPs
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Forest saved by debt?
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Left-handers don't die young after all
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Mild winters blamed for dolphin deaths
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AIDS deaths blamed on immune therapy
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Basic research on the slippery slope
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'English' education provides science for the few
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Europe plans green police force
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Antarctic deadlock in Madrid?
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Cracks appear in Chernobyl's concrete shell
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What shall we do with a smashed reactor?
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Analysts wrangle over how many died to contain radiation
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Stray rays open way for ban on satellite-busting lasers
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Hands-on exhibits make sense of science
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Dirty water is 'safe'
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Opinion
Features
Look who's talking now: Do apes hold the key to the origin of human language? Ape-language studies with one chimpanzee suggests they just might
Features
Europe's orbiting ocean plotter: Next week the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its first remote sensing satellite. ERS-1 is designed to provide oceanographers with unprecedented detail for studying the seas
Features
Is cannibalism too much to swallow?: The gruesome idea of cannibalism lives on. But archaeologists and anthropologists are increasingly hard pressed to find evidence that people ever indulged in the custom
Features
AIDS vaccines - what chance of a fair trial?: Human trials of AIDS vaccines are likely to begin in the developing world within five years. But before they do, researchers must confront a host of ethical and practical problems
Features
Gold rush threatens Australia's green dreams: Miners want to dig for gold in Kakadu National Park. At a time of recession, government must decide for conservation and Aboriginal rights or industrial growth
Features
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