Famines before the floods?: Confidence in new technology has overshadowed evidence that the world may soon face a growing food shortage, warns agronomist Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington DC
Features
This week's magazine
31 March 1990
Issue 1710
On the cover
Editor's picks
No quick fix for raising crop yields
Features
Labour of death: The world is slowly waking up to a hidden tragedy – in the Third World, giving birth kills half a million mothers each year
Features
The rise and fall of negative resistance: The idea of negative electrical resistance seems to be just as implausible as water flowing uphill. But new electronic devices working at the quantum level employ materials that sometimes reveal their negative si
Features
Europe protects itself from dubious results
Features
Earth
Guyana’s test at high tide
Features
Is DNA fingerprinting ready for the courts?: New tests to identify criminals by their DNA were soon welcomed as a valuable forensic tool. But in the rush to introduce the tests into the courtroom, commercial and government laboratories in the US may have
Features
Table of contents
News
Science: Nose tissue may provide Alzheimer’s test
News
Science: Dark matter comes into sharper focus – on Earth and in the heavens
News
Technology
Technology: America cuts its launchers down to size
News
Technology
Technology: Interactive video gets the full motion treatment
News
New row over plans for US space station
News
Distress signals
News
Faint dwarf
News
Fossils that tell of Antarctica’s past
News
Coming clean
News
Poland’s particles
News
Farm payout
News
WHO moves
News
Cancer gene
News
Space plan off course
News
Science: Chemists tame the wild side of drugs
News
Science: Encounter with Saturn confirms relativity theory
News
Berlin’s fibre optic cable will help East to speak unto West
News
Ban on nuclear aid scuttles renewable energy projects
News
Forest ‘preservation’ plan comes under fire from Third World group
News
New rules proposed for European space projects
News
Japan drops satellite programme under US pressure
News
Doctors warn of loophole in Embryo Bill
News
Heart patients ‘should be warned of faulty valve implant’
News
America considers offering ‘untried remedies’ to people with AIDS
News
Council threatens to bring TV dishes down to earth
News
Sulphur cuts too small for Britain’s lakes
News
Food council plans European research links
News
Europe opens environmental data up to public scrutiny
News
Technology
Technology: Compact cassette may threaten DAT
News
Technology
Technology: Image analysis picks up the able semen
News
Technology
Technology: Japan claims lead on Josephson chips
News
Technology
Technology: Nothing could be sweeter, say chemists
News
Technology
Technology: Tiny laser beams red
News
Patents: Fat silhouette
News
Patents: Leaner, fitter and moving out
News
Patents: Talk to your TV
News
Patents: Bomb detector
News
Science: Ancient artists painted with human blood
News
Science: Hormonal clue to bamboo’s elusive blossomings
News
Features
Famines before the floods?: Confidence in new technology has overshadowed evidence that the world may soon face a growing food shortage, warns agronomist Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute in Washington DC
Features
No quick fix for raising crop yields
Features
Labour of death: The world is slowly waking up to a hidden tragedy – in the Third World, giving birth kills half a million mothers each year
Features
The rise and fall of negative resistance: The idea of negative electrical resistance seems to be just as implausible as water flowing uphill. But new electronic devices working at the quantum level employ materials that sometimes reveal their negative si
Features
Europe protects itself from dubious results
Features
Earth
Guyana’s test at high tide
Features
Is DNA fingerprinting ready for the courts?: New tests to identify criminals by their DNA were soon welcomed as a valuable forensic tool. But in the rush to introduce the tests into the courtroom, commercial and government laboratories in the US may have
Features
More
Forum: Hands-off experience – It’s time computers came out of the closet
Forum: Eat, drink and be educated! – Philip Lightowlers looks forward to the second Edinburgh Science Festival
Forum: For six days shalt thou labour – Seek to streamline the seven-day week
Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: A shattering blow for schoolchildren
Early Red Admirals
Books & Arts
Forum: Too hot to handle – It’s time people came to terms with the ‘patchiness’ of their environment
It all depends on your point of view / Review of ‘The Science of Art – Optical Themes in Western Art from Brunelleschi to Seurat’ by Martin Kemp
Books & Arts
Mooseburgers to go / Review of ‘Wildlife Production Systems – Economic Utilisation of Wild Ungulates’ edited by R. J. Hudon, K. R. Drew and L. M. Baskin
Books & Arts
Bad news for penguins and polar bears / Review of ‘Winds of Change’ by John Gribbin and Mick Kelly and ‘Turning Up The Heat’ by Fred Pearce
Books & Arts
The hidden treasures of China’s countryside / Review of ‘The Natural History of China’ by Zhao Ji, Zhen Guangmei, Wang Huadong and Xu Jialin
Books & Arts
