Europe misses the picture: The electronics industry in Europe thought it could take on Japan over new television systems. For those aware of the past, the whole show seems to be yet another repeat
Features
This week's magazine
3 February 1990
Issue 1702
Editor's picks
Fixing the nitrogen fixers
Features
The Sun should never set on GONG
Features
Watching the wobbling Sun: The Sun expands and contracts by a few tens of metres every five minutes or so. To measure these tiny vibrations, teams of astronomers have to watch continually around the globe
Features
The throwaway tail
Features
Earth
Cities against the seas
Features
Table of contents
News
Brussels wants tougher ozone rules
News
Heavy drinking
News
Merchant muck
News
An ill wind
News
Asian prawns go wild in the Channel
News
Science: Mapping the extent of the Great Attractor
News
Science: The computer search for a projective plane of order 10
News
Science: Mammoth killers could have done it with stone
News
Science: Lasers may probe the charge distribution of the vacuum
News
… though still plenty for Star Wars
News
Venice turns the tide on its polluted lagoon
News
America’s migrating birds decline as tropical forests shrink
News
Moon shot
News
Nuclear aid
News
Scientific core
News
Fewer guns, but not much butter, in Bush’s budget . . .
News
Strasbourg calls for boycott of AIDS conference
News
Ozone loss will hit health and food, says UN study
News
Elena Ceausescu stifled AIDS research as Romanian infection spread
News
Food tests raise fears over ‘mad cow’ disease
News
Canberra scraps plans for media service
News
Did the greenhouse effect cause the storm?
News
How the weather forecasters got it right this time
News
The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew
News
American laboratory claims breakthrough in optical processing
News
Technology
Technology: Muscle movements on video tell a tale of evolution by the millisecond
News
Technology
Technology: Midget machine puts recording on a new track
News
Technology
Technology: Chicken power
News
Technology
Technology: Mosaic bacteria move into the market
News
Technology
Technology: Spliced plants open up the field for hybrid crops
News
Technology
Technology: Japan begins international project for the factory of the future
News
Science: Greenhouse makes Greenland ice grow
News
Science: Warming may disrupt nutrient-rich ocean currents
News
Technology
Technology: Excited crystals put the squeeze on light
News
Features
Europe misses the picture: The electronics industry in Europe thought it could take on Japan over new television systems. For those aware of the past, the whole show seems to be yet another repeat
Features
Fixing the nitrogen fixers
Features
The Sun should never set on GONG
Features
Watching the wobbling Sun: The Sun expands and contracts by a few tens of metres every five minutes or so. To measure these tiny vibrations, teams of astronomers have to watch continually around the globe
Features
The throwaway tail
Features
Earth
Cities against the seas
Features
More
Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster Of markets, security and missing nets
Forum: Mammoths out of mothballs – Hopes of a revival are a little premature
Forum: Taking on the experts – The seemingly insurmountable difficulties facing amateur scientists
Forum: Form of address – It’s best to keep it short
Forum: Expanding words, expanding minds – Jargon is too useful to be left to specialists
Forum: Sex and sensibility – The problems in interpreting statistics
Harness the waters / Review of ‘Taming The Flood’ by Jeremy Purseglove
Books & Arts
Plantation policies for saving trees / Review of ‘No Timber Without Trees: Sustainability in the Tropical Forest’ by Duncan Poore, Peter Burgess, John Palmer, Simon Rietbergen and Timothy Synnott
Books & Arts
The past writ in water / Review of ‘People of the Wetlands: Bogs, Bodies and Lake-Dwellers’ by Bryony and John Coles
Books & Arts
Codes of conduct for computers / Review of ‘Benefits and Risks of Knowledge-Based Systems’ by the Council for Science and Society, and ‘XSEL’s Progress: The Continuing Journey of an Expert System’ by E. Mumford and W. B. MacDonald
Books & Arts
Californian dreams of ET / Review of ‘Abductions: Encounters with with Extraterrestrials’ by Edith Fiore
Books & Arts
There are not many snakes in the grass, alas / Review of ‘Conservation of European Reptiles and Amphibians’ by Keith Corbett and Christopher Helm and ‘Snakes and Lizards’ By Tom Langton
Books & Arts
Origin of the chemical elements
Inside Science
