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, New Scientist 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
Features
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, New Scientist 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
Features
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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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