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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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
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High and dry in Aswan
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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, 51¶¯Âþ reports on the battle between manufacturers who continue to push their products, and scientists who wa
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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
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Science: Bereaved bee-eaters turn nursemaid to the relatives
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Science: Forests destined to end in the mire
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Science: Atomic engineers grow thinner wires
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Science: Bronze Age computer dating
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Science: Oxygen is key to tumour treatment
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Science: Uncertainty rules in the quantum world
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Technology
Technology: Hunt is on for money-spinning spider gene
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Technology
Technology: Polymer gel keeps arteries open after surgery
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France lags behind on baby-milk code
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Restore vital research cash, says MPs
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Monkey puzzle wars end in hunger
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Bird world in a flap
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AIDS won't halt population rise
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Tanks volunteer for the marines
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Islands unite to ward off toxic waste
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Minister fails to master his degree
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Pentagon's secretive habits delay arms control
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Methane sniffer monitors bovine belchers
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Is it a quark or is it a quirk?
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US trades green points in Bohemia
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Squeamish ossifrage dents electronic armour
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Old reactors lay costly trap for the future
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Opinion
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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
Features
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
Features
High and dry in Aswan
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, 51¶¯Âþ reports on the battle between manufacturers who continue to push their products, and scientists who wa
Features
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
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Forum: Go easy on the weedkiller - Hazel Mackenzie advises authorities to tend their walls as well as their flowerbeds
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Thistle Diary: Lurking doubts and boreal fellers - Tam Dalyell raises the periscope on some environmental issues
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Forum: In the beginning was the bang - Colin Price argues that modern theories of the creation are not so far removed from the Bible
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Review: Dispatches from the frontiers
Books & Arts
Review: Paperbacks - Roy Herbert considers evolution, squirms at irrationality, digs into technology's past, tracks down fossils, improves his memory and hears chocolates
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