The hidden cost of technology transfer: The developing world demands economic growth. But that is no excuse for rich industrial nations to transfer technology destined to bring social chaos and environmental ruin
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Dissecting values in the classroom: Should animals be used for teaching in schools and universities, and if so, how? In many cases, alternatives might be just as good
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Time for talk across the trenches: The two sides in the antivivisection debate must stop sniping at each other if they are ever to find some common ground
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Sailing by software: More than 30 yachts started racing three months ago for the right to compete in sailing's most prestigious event, the America's Cup, off San Diego. Now there are just two - but the real winner will actually be the computer
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Technology
Technology: Practice run for nuclear catastrophe
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Science: Stuffed birds reveal past mercury levels
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Science: Buckyballs in disguise take to the water
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Science: The Australian beetle that behaves like a bee
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Science: The shape of proteins to come
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Science: Beyond the blue event horizon
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Technology
Technology: Spikey signals warn of engine trouble
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Technology
Technology: TV sets get rid of the jitter bug
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Technology
Technology: Fast-growing reeds could fuel Europe's future
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'Innocent' hackers want their computers back
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Ozone survives
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Spies enlisted to aid crippled spacecraft
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Doubt cast on claims for 'dolphin-friendly' tuna
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Signwriting skills on test as designers go underground
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Committee call
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Mine flooded
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'Homegrown' HIV
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Backyard monsters on the crawl
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Skills gap
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Pollution body
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Frontier man
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Curriculum 'mess'
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In much of the Third World, farming evolved to minimise the effects of crop disease and drought. These methods conserve genes better than Western techniques and can produce just as much food: Farming goes back to its roots
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Science: Flipping molecule bowls over the chemists
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Much is written, but little is understood
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US forces Earth Summit to cut carbon commitment
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Sizewell B clones fall out of favour
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Third World wins more control of aid
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Forest fires signal early arrival of first Australians
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Sweet smell of death on Thailand's rivers
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Old washrooms blamed for dysentery in schools
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Breast cancer drug goes on trial in US
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Business as usual for waste exporters
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Fleas help hunters have their fun
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Call for 'treaty' on human gene patents
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Opinion
Features
The hidden cost of technology transfer: The developing world demands economic growth. But that is no excuse for rich industrial nations to transfer technology destined to bring social chaos and environmental ruin
Features
Dissecting values in the classroom: Should animals be used for teaching in schools and universities, and if so, how? In many cases, alternatives might be just as good
Features
Time for talk across the trenches: The two sides in the antivivisection debate must stop sniping at each other if they are ever to find some common ground
Features
Please do not adjust your screen
Features
Sailing by software: More than 30 yachts started racing three months ago for the right to compete in sailing's most prestigious event, the America's Cup, off San Diego. Now there are just two - but the real winner will actually be the computer
Features
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Forum: Fat cats and thin marmosets - Brian Homewood is concerned about financial monkey business at the Earth Summit venue
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Review: Reaching for the stars, understanding the Universe
Books & Arts
Review: Archaeological hits
Books & Arts
Review: The ancient and modern in earth sciences
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