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No bells for Japan: Scientists don’t win Nobel prizes for perfecting the video recorder or devising a new manufacturing process, no matter how creative the effort involved. If they did, our image of Japanese science and technology would be very different

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Bacteria with a sticky touch: A microbe’s first step when it enters the body is often to anchor itself to a cell. Understanding this process may make it possible to design new drugs against infectious bacteria – or even vaccinate women against cystitis

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Falling out over water: The nuclear industry says there will never be another Chernobyl or Three Mile Island or Windscale. What worries the people who provide our water is that they don’t know enough about how radioactivity would contaminate supplies – j

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The search for the cystic fibrosis gene: For nearly a decade, several teams of molecular biologists have struggled to be the first to find the defective gene that is responsible for cystic fibrosis. At last, a collaborative effort has succeeded

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Chaos: a science for the real world.

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Pride and protest in Malaysia: Foreign governments and conservation groups are quick to condemn countries that cut down their rainforests. But attitudes must change on both sides if the forests are to survive

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The battle of Angkor Wat: Cambodia’s national symbol

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Beyond the bones of contention: Traditional approaches to human evolution have concentrated on bones in the quest to find out who’s who in the family tree – But an ecological perspective reveals our ancestors in a new light

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An ear to the sea

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In two minds about Soviet psychiatry

After six years out in the cold, the Soviet government wants to see its psychiatrists accepted back into the international community. But have the reforms gone far enough?

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Should Antarctica be left on ice?

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Greening of Industry: Towards a better future

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Greening of Industry: Japanese industry joins the act – Companies in Japan have reacted with characteristic speed and adaptability to the new markets opened up by environmental concerns

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Greening of Industry: How greenery led governments to cleaner cars

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