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Computers to beat the bookies: As punters prepare to risk a flutter on next week’s Derby classic, more computing aids are becoming available for those who take their betting seriously

Caught in the crossfire of the animal wars: Over the past two decades, 麻豆传媒 has devoted much space to the debate on animal experiments. How balanced have we been?

Chemistry’s crystal seer: Dorothy Hodgkin’s work on X-ray crystallography began in the 1930s. It paid off over the following four decades with insights into the structure of important biological crystals

Victorian values and animal rights: The heyday of the antivivisection movement coincided with public fears about new medical practices. Are today’s campaigners similarly anxious about modern medicine?

Did reality move for you?: Anyone can buy into the dream world of virtual reality, but the technology that creates it cannot guarantee satisfaction

The second railway revolution: Europe is on the verge of a railway revolution to rival that of the last century. A network of high-speed lines is planned that could transform the continent’s economic geography

Chips off the young blocks: For an electronics invention to be commercially viable it needs more than a bright idea – as a competition for young engineers recently showed

No Southern comfort at Rio?: Poor nations are unfairly blamed for the world’s environmental ills and the Earth Summit will do little to alter this perception, argue two leading greens from the developing world

Animal experiments the American way: Scientists in the US have more leeway than colleagues abroad when it comes to deciding what animal experiments can be performed

The laboratory rat’s guide to Europe: The single European market could be good news for laboratory animals. It might reduce the number used in toxicity tests – if only bureaucrats could agree

Health

The resistible rise of skin cancer

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

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

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