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An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world’s most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe

Table of contents

News

Satellites search in vain for global warming

Smoking deaths

Chemical boycott

Biotech battle

Sellafield stockpile

Hawke’s victim

Scans show the shape of schizophrenia

Japanese organs

Watertight refusal

Science: Faulty protein holds clue to Alzheimer’s disease

Science: Test-tube embryos ‘can survive’ genetic screening

Polytechnics demand an end to ‘intellectual apartheid’

New enterprises lure senior scientists away from the Siberian academy

Gene therapy: the struggle for acceptance

Renewable energy crisis

Japan’s nuclear experiment sails off into the sunset

Safety body may strengthen ozone controls for offices

Endangered squirrels drive Arizona’s astronomers nuts

Utah keeps embers of cold fusion aglow

Liquid petroleum gas explosion outside Sydney

Tourism threatens Spanish wildlife sanctuary

Crisis deepens over US ban on foreigners with HIV

Blood pressure affects heart disease more than we thought

Massive job cuts threaten East German science

Technology

Technology: Plastic print changes pages on the run

Science: Comets may ‘short-circuit’ neutron stars

Science: Computer model confirms global warming

Science: Can photons travel ‘faster than light’?

Science: Oceans yield up their oldest rocks

Technology

Technology: Britain does an about-face on communications in space

Technology

Technology: Recording CD systems on the way

Technology

Technology: Erasable disc system gets your records in order

Technology

Technology: Where are the new scientists? – What if they gave a university and nobody came? Many predictions suggest that few young people will want to work as scientists in the 1990s

Technology

Technology: Sun-dried air cuts cooling costs

Technology

Technology: Record switch speed for silicon transistors

Opinion

Comment: Bombs away

Comment: Driving to destruction

Features

An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world’s most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe

More

Review: At the heart of the camera

Forum: Creating the right atmosphere – The prospects for research in developing countries

Forum: Graduates for the real world – Kevin Law questions whether we are producing the kind of people we need

Forum: Taxation with representation – Christopher Evans would like more say in how the money is spent

Forum: A day in the country – We get what we deserve

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Of modern millstones and Ancient Greek

Review: Green cons and green consumers

Review: Locked out of history

Review: An alternative view

Review: The breakdown of all communication

Review: Struggle for survival on the bookshop shelves

Jobs for Science: How to get on in science

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24 February 1990