A Mediterranean holiday from pollution
Features
This week's magazine
5 May 1990
Issue 1715
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Dioxin cuts
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Science: Linear link found between radon exposure andleukaemia
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Science: The Pole Star stops pulsating
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‘Largest’ telescope
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Back on the map
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Mighty mite
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New advice
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First light on our galactic centre
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Gypsum mountain?
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Biologist accused over laboratory funds
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Marchers call for an end to animal experiments
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France and West Germany star in high-definition drama
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Britain backs plans for X-ray satellite
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The greening of Britain’s transport minister
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‘Weak’ Britain
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Technology
Technolony: How Britain must tackle its greenhouse problem
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How the ‘supergun’ was born
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French institute claims progress with AIDS vaccine
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Sex during periods raises risk of HIV spread
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L’amour francais
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Naval architects fear more ferry disasters
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Green activist appointed to gene committee
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US ‘failing to combat AIDS’, Bush told
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Ministers maintain secrecy over genetic releases
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Ethical dilemmas avoided by tests on unfertilised eggs
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Government under fire over NHS research
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Anti-abortionists renew attack on French pill
News
Technology
Technology: Disc could deliver drugs to Third World eyes
News
Technology
Technology: Cheap optics get the message around the chip
News
Technology
Technology: Traffic lights learn to go with the flow
News
Technology
Technology: Peering into the Universe with a bowl of mercury
News
Technology
Technology: Biodegradable plastic hits the production line
News
Technology
Technology: Blushing plant cell
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Science: Do chimps chew leaves as drugs?
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Science: Fire ants deceived by killer wasps
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Science: Why do elderly people fall over so often?
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Science: Muscle fibre may be to blame if you can’t slim
News
Technology
Technology: A technical fix for the greenhouse effect
News
Features
A Mediterranean holiday from pollution
The Mediterranean Basin is on the brink of environmental ruin and faces a massive onslaught from developers. The Nicosia Charter, adopted by most of the region's nations last weekend, could mark the turning of the tide
Features
A quantum leap to better standards
Features
Radioactive waste 鈥� back to the future?
Features
Who wants to be an engineer?
Features
Flesh and blood: Does pornography lead to sexual violence?
Features
More
Forum: Recycle and demand – The economics of recycled paper
Forum: The greatest cultural activity of all – Why should astronomy be funded as a science?
Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Secrets, drugs and Lizzie’s lot
Forum: Academic hurdles and middle-aged spread – A plan to bring new blood into academia
Review: Where particle sheep safely wave – ‘The Cartoon History of Time’ by Kate Charlesworth and John Gribbin
Books & Arts
Review: Tales of murder and detection – ‘Murder, Under the Microscope’ by Philip Paul
Books & Arts
Review: How we all became copycats – ‘The Anatomy of Xerography: Its Invention and Evolution’ by J. Mort
Books & Arts
Review: The legacy of Julian Huxley – ‘Evolutionary Studies’ edited by M. Keynes and G. Ainsworth
Books & Arts
Forum: A resilient little muscle – The heart of the matter
Forum: First, find your venue – Some thoughts on scientific conferences
Review: Vegetarians feast in the Permian – ‘The Dicynodonts: A Study in Palaeobiology’ by Gillian King
Books & Arts
Review: Treasure hunters on trial – ‘Who Needs the Past?’ edited by Robert Layton, ‘Archaeological Heritage Management in the Modern World’ edited by Henry Cleere, ‘The Return of Cultural Treasures’ Jeanette Greenfield
Books & Arts
Review: England’s greener and more pleasant land – ‘Brave New Wilderness’ by Gavin Weightman
Books & Arts
