Storm warnings – can Britain meet the challenge?
Features
This week's magazine
17 March 1990
Issue 1708
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Migrating birds fall foul of America’s propaganda war
News
Science: How trees may hold key to their own destruction
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European ministers agree to cut marine pollution
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Dutch call for fishing-free zone in North Sea
News
Carrots for teachers
News
Healing equipment
News
Cold pork
News
The research that Japan keeps to itself
News
Bar-code parrot
News
Sakharov’s last wish
News
Laboratory deal
News
Sea horse swims in
News
Correction
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Science: Drug delays the onset of Parkinson’s disease
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Mystery deaths hit world’s rarest penguins
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Soviet scientists fear neglect in the wake of perestroika
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Lithuanian academy forges links with British research
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Sudan jails biologist for teaching Darwinism
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Financial rules threaten British wind and solar projects
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Britain opts for secrecy on genetic engineering
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Embryo Research: Lords’ vote saves supply of research embryos
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Pentagon gives in over skirt design
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An industry adrift in a sea of troubles
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Secret report attacks French nuclear programme
News
Technology
Technology: Drill clears a path to beat angina
News
Technology
Technology: Green technologies line up for the awards
News
Technology
Technology: Polymer helps broken nerves to get back together again
News
Technology
Technology: Scottish software may run voice-controlled computer
News
Technology
Technology: Doctors revamp iron lung for sick babies
News
Technology
Technology: Bra measures younger women’s risk of cancer
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Science: Heart drugs ‘may be working on the wrong principle’
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Chemists find the easy way to make a conducting polymer
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Science: Gravity creates a distorted picture of the Universe
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Science: Alien shrub runs riot in Hawaii
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Science: First sight of a ‘hot spot’ on a star
News
Features
Storm warnings – can Britain meet the challenge?
If heavy storms become a regular occurrence in Britain, as some scientists suggest, forecasters may have to improve the technology they use for telling us what the weather has in store
Features
Physics
The power of negative matter
Features
Sir Joseph’s buried treasure
Features
Homes fit for hens
Features
Life
The swords that had to die
Features
More
Forum: Teachers as researchers / Seeking to bridge the gap between science and education
Forum: Cook it and see – The fun to be had in the kitchen
Forum: Biology editor’s blues – The perils of editing an academic tome
Forum: Coloured by numbers – The crowds that are too often ignored
Towards a science of science / Review of ‘Discovering: Inventing and Solving Problems at the Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge’ by Robert Scott Root-Bernstein
Books & Arts
Everyday puzzles from scientific folk / Review of ‘Riddles in Your Teacup’ by Partha Ghose and Dipankar Home
Books & Arts
Forum: Look! No buttons! – A relic from the not-so-distant past
The future is not clear to see / Review of ‘Famine Early Warning Systems: Victims and Distribution’ by Peter Walker
Books & Arts
Libraries on discs
Books & Arts
Searching for the biological bases of memory / Review of ‘The Neurobiology of Memory: Concepts, Findings, Trends’ by Yadin Dudai
Books & Arts
