Technology
Crystal engineering 鈥� the natural way
Features
This week's magazine
10 March 1990
Issue 1707
Editor's picks
Science advice – an abuser’s guide: Most politicians claim that they recognise the value of advice from scientists and technologists. But is the advice worth anything when weighed in the scales of politics?
Features
Liming fails the acid test:
Features
The intricate wiring that lets us move: Studies of the complex nerve circuits in one part of the brain are beginning to reveal why people with Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases make bizarre movements
Features
Physics
A long, long way to Waxahachie’s dream machine
Features
Table of contents
News
Chinese scientist speaks out for freedom
News
Japan’s particle collider bites the dust
News
California’s still shaking all over
News
Oceans spring surprise on climate modellers
News
Technology
Technology: California cleans up its cars with methanol
News
Technology
Technology: Flipping images fool the fakers
News
Technology
Technology: Video camera learns to cope with uncertainty
News
Computers help to hunt the Tasmanian tiger
News
Australian centres
News
Technology
Technology: Ribbed planes fly with greater ease
News
Technology
Technology: BSB backs British flat satellite dishes
News
Science: Faintest galaxy holds clues to birth of the Milky Way
News
Science: Albatrosses break speed and distance records
News
Science: New trees may increase greenhouse effect
News
Science: Galaxies form ‘megawalls’ across space
News
Science: Minuscule eddies make plankton glow in the dark
News
Science: Cold ‘cure’ holds out hope for AIDS drug
News
Science: Killer whales communicate in distinct ‘dialects’
News
Science: A watched atom never decays
News
Singular feats quench tyre fire
News
Lords unhappy
News
Acid test fails
News
Brazil’s surprise choice
News
Technology
Technology: Dual vision lenses give a better view
News
Biologist’s challenge
News
AIDS waiver
News
Canadian cuts
News
Exxon vows to fight spill charges
News
UN agency launches environmental warning system
News
Germany bows to pressure over gene research
News
Americans edge towards consensus over cholesterol
News
Higher costs confirmed for US supercollider
News
Endangered parrot lays nest egg for survival
News
Britain reviews its stance over Unesco
News
New AIDS drug starts clinical trials
News
Science ministry planned
News
New Zealand’s U-turn threatens Antarctic mining treaty
News
Features
Technology
Crystal engineering 鈥� the natural way
A sea urchin grows its spines as a single crystal of calcium carbonate. Many organisms can fashion minerals into the most fantastic shapes for specific uses. Now, chemists are learning how to do it in the laboratory
Features
Science advice – an abuser’s guide: Most politicians claim that they recognise the value of advice from scientists and technologists. But is the advice worth anything when weighed in the scales of politics?
Features
Liming fails the acid test:
Features
The intricate wiring that lets us move: Studies of the complex nerve circuits in one part of the brain are beginning to reveal why people with Parkinson’s and Huntington’s diseases make bizarre movements
Features
Physics
A long, long way to Waxahachie’s dream machine
Features
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Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: ‘Cats’, women and concern about food
Forum: Our brilliant careers – The haphazard route into science
Forum: Pull the other one – Professional advertising
Forum: So much for Japanese experience – A lack of foresight among British companies
Forum: Exams that turn into nightmares – They have a way of coming back at you
What lies between input and output / Review of ‘In and Out of the Black Box’ by David W. Hamlyn
Books & Arts
A presence that disturbs / Review of ‘Mother Country’ by Marilynne Robinson
Books & Arts
A good place to be? / Review of ‘Women in Engineering’ by Ruth Carter and Gill Kirkup
Books & Arts
The fallacy of the last move / Review of ‘A Shield in Space? Technology, Politics and the Strategic Defense Initiative’ by Sanford Lakoff and Herbert York
Books & Arts
Look into the depths of space / Review of ‘Stereo Star Maps’ by Richard Monkhouse and John Cox
Books & Arts
Forum: How to cut a swathe through the literature – Susan Aldridge applies 80/20 vision to the scientific journals
Forum: A question of credibility – A plea for more openness
Boldness paid off with the double helix / Review of ‘What Mad Pursuit – A Personal View of Scientific Discovery’ by Francis Crick 12.95 pounds
Books & Arts
Cancer and oncogenes
Inside Science
