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Earth

Alaska’s silent spring: One year after the Exxon Valdez

A random walk in arithmetic: God not only plays dice in physics but also in pure mathematics. Mathematical truth is sometimes nothing more than a perfect coin toss

Beastly images of childhood: Biology teachers are supposed to promote a respect for all forms of life. But to be effective they need to know what their charges think of animals in the first place

The death throes of a red giant: Astronomers have known for years that old stars swell up to become red giants. Now they are beginning to understand how these stars cook up many important elements, such as carbon

The guiding principles of nuclear war: If nuclear weapons exist only as a deterrent to threaten huge urban areas, then why have the armed forces spent so much time and money making their missiles deadly accurate?

Health

Enzymes a la carte

Table of contents

News

Demand boosts prospects for chemical engineers

Tokyo commercial TV station beats national space agency by six months in putting Japan’s first citizen into space

Trouble in orbit

Prize increase

Mengele’s bones?

In 1992, will Nina sail the cosmos blue?

Nuclear strike

SSC seeks aid

Insulin complaint

Carbon cuts

French foot first

Science: Plant fungus keeps its host in good health

Science: Ants ride ‘shotgun’ on their companions

Japan may help US to ‘explore’ Mars and the Moon

AIDS director’s resignation deepens crisis at WHO

Winds of change thinned the arctic ice

Americans puzzle over new form of hepatitis

Spreading toads divide Australia’s biologists

Britain risks row over sulphur emissions . . .

. . . while Thatcher says ‘don’t jump to conclusions’

. . . and money runs out for acid rain research

Dissent gathers around India’s forestry minister

British MPs stay cool about rejoining UNESCO

Montreal nations agree tougher rules on CFCs

Czech greens press for stronger control

Technology

Technology: Fast-talking data link

Technology

Technology: Predicting the unpredictable in Australia’s tropics

Technology

Technology: Measure very carefully, we will fly past only once

Technology

Technology: Neural networks ditch digital ways

Technology

Technology: Condom boom brings new life to rubber substitute (

Technology

Technology: Electric filter flushes out the flues

Science: Old stars put their weight behind the big bang theory

Technology

Technology: Radar network watches where the wind blows

Science: Friendlier CFC offers temporary ozone relief

Science: New material makes light double its frequency

Science: Water could finally reveal its complex structure

Opinion

Unseemly goings-on

Blueprint for engineering

Features

Earth

Alaska’s silent spring: One year after the Exxon Valdez

A year after the Exxon Valdez oil spill, scientists are still being refused permission to discuss their findings in public

A random walk in arithmetic: God not only plays dice in physics but also in pure mathematics. Mathematical truth is sometimes nothing more than a perfect coin toss

Beastly images of childhood: Biology teachers are supposed to promote a respect for all forms of life. But to be effective they need to know what their charges think of animals in the first place

The death throes of a red giant: Astronomers have known for years that old stars swell up to become red giants. Now they are beginning to understand how these stars cook up many important elements, such as carbon

The guiding principles of nuclear war: If nuclear weapons exist only as a deterrent to threaten huge urban areas, then why have the armed forces spent so much time and money making their missiles deadly accurate?

Health

Enzymes a la carte

More

Correction: Wrong credit

Forum: Science teaching the hard way – The joys of teaching overseas

Forum: Conservation begins at home

Forum: A happier death – The relationship between doctors and patients

Out of sight, out of mind / Review of Rock Solid: the Geology of Nuclear Waste Disposal’ by Elspeth Reid

Forum: The great chain of being – 杏吧原创s should be a little more modest in their claims

In search of the fundamentals of Islamic science / Review of ‘Explorations in Islamic Science’ by Ziauddin Sardar

The future in a box / Review of ‘Science Fiction’, a Yorkshire Television series

Painters that bloom in the spring / Review of ‘The Art of Botanical Illustration – From 1550 to 1990’ by Lys de Bray

Rays of hope and fearful portents / Review of ‘State of the World 1990’ by Lester Brown et al

Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Men of the sea, birds of the air

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