The incredible shrinking Mississippi Delta
Features
This week's magazine
14 April 1990
Issue 1712
Editor's picks
Humans
Get thee to a laboratory
Features
Natural solutions give their best: Suppose a sales rep has to visit several towns. What is the shortest, most economical route? This is just one optimisation problem that is benefiting from lessons learnt from nature
Features
Genes unlimited: A way of making millions of copies of any sequence of DNA has given molecular biologists a precise technique for detecting just one gene in a cell. Researchers have only begun to explore its potential in areas such as forensic science an
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Table of contents
News
International aid rescues plankton project
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Planet X
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Science: Why arctic ozone has survived – so far
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Science: How careful sailing first won the Pacific
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Congress moves to clean up America’s air
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Three Mile Island group wins battle for radiation data
News
Aspirin aid
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Medical conflicts
News
Join the dots into a well-known company
News
EPA goes East
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Space talk
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Europe founds a school for astronauts
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CFC substitutes will still add to global warming
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Traders accused of beating ban on rhino horn
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Porton challenge
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Moscow ‘blackmails’ Armenia over polluting plant
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Soviet warning over axed radar station
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Tuna fleets banned from ‘bombing’ dolphins
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Science journals on the road to Romania
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Public being ‘misled’ over asbestos dangers
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How Britain’s seismometers got it wrong
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WHO to speed up work on drugs for tropical diseases
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West Germany’s gene law weakens role of public opinion
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Polish bishops denounce anti-AIDS protests
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Technology
Technology: Electric cars drive away with a tankful of electrolyte
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Technology
Technology: Sunlight gives toxic waste a tanning
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Technology
Technology: The sweet way to build a bigger pig
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Technology
Technology: Stretchy ceramics
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Science: Smoking damages DNA in cervical cells
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Science: Shuttle’s sonic booms put Los Angeles skyscrapers to the test
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Science: Mouse model brings leukaemia treatment closer
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Technology
Technology: Drugs industry turns animals into ‘bioreactors’
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Technology
Technology: Foam model gives surgeons a spitting image
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Technology
Technology: Two designs shortlisted in search for safer ferries
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Sorry, ducks
News
Features
The incredible shrinking Mississippi Delta
Louisiana is shrinking, year by year. Many of the state's wetlands have turned to open sea. Human attempts to tame the Mississippi are partly to blame, and there are no easy answers
Features
Humans
Get thee to a laboratory
Features
Natural solutions give their best: Suppose a sales rep has to visit several towns. What is the shortest, most economical route? This is just one optimisation problem that is benefiting from lessons learnt from nature
Features
Genes unlimited: A way of making millions of copies of any sequence of DNA has given molecular biologists a precise technique for detecting just one gene in a cell. Researchers have only begun to explore its potential in areas such as forensic science an
Features
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Forum: Chemists as accountants – Why do so many of them go into the City?
Forum: Whatever happened to the mini ice age? – The relationship between solar cycles and global warming
Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Of genetic manipulations and Lizzie
Review: Not accounting for women’s work – ‘If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics’ by Marilyn Waring
Books & Arts
Forum: So what’s so bad about green authoritarianism? – The idea that the countryside should be sacrificed for houses and jobs
Review: A close look at the silver linings – ‘Spacious Skies’ by Richard Scorer and Arjen Verkaik
Books & Arts
Review: Detecting the watchers – ‘Reflections on Intelligence’ by R. V. Jones
Books & Arts
Review: Dinosaur art meets dinosaur science – ‘Dinosaurs Past and Present’ an exhibition at the Royal Museum of Scotland, 1 March to 27 May
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