Is sex too important to keep quiet about?
Features
This week's magazine
2 June 1990
Issue 1719
Editor's picks
How the World Cup conquers the blues
Features
How to score goals and influence people: The finals of the World Cup football championship begin next week, and each national manager is on trial. Two researchers from Liverpool can now provide the evidence to show why certain tactics suit certain teams
Features
Satellite Aid: Remote sensing began as a tool of war. Yet these same spies in the sky can alert the world to a coming drought, speed the movement of supplies during famine and even help to find water in deserts
Features
The making and breaking of a coral skeleton
Features
White death – the fate of a deserted coral
Features
Biochemistry of a special relationship: Coral reefs would not exist if there was not a special chemistry between the coral polyp and the green algae that live inside it
Features
The big sneeze
Features
Table of contents
News
Museum spells out job losses
News
Technology
Technology: Japan’s nuclear ship sets sail for the sunset
News
Technology
Technology: Long-distance musicians wired to play in unison
News
Fatty genes
News
Naval asbestos
News
Work on genome
News
Sharp start for Hubble
News
Gene screen
News
Animal inquiries
News
High-speed protest
News
Public opinion slows down Japan’s nuclear plans
News
IAEA wants more nuclear power to combat global warming
News
Sarawak study disappoints rainforest campaigners
News
Compensation in doubt after ‘lead-in-milk’ verdict
News
French researchers wrangle over birth rate
News
Technology
Technology: Fields force fluids through tiny silicon pump
News
Departing Red Army leaves its rubbish behind
News
American city puts animal rights on the rates
News
Pressure grows for US to act on global warming
News
Vet shortage ‘increases risk of BSE in food chain’
News
HIV infections lead to rise in tuberculosis
News
Yellowstone lets the wolf through the door
News
Labour promises new deal for science
News
Inside Science: A bright idea – Making electricity
News
Inside Science: Electromagnetic waves – Making light work
News
Inside Science: Units of electricity and magnetism
News
Inside Science: Waves
News
Inside Science: Using electromagnetism
News
Inside Science: Outer space – Tuning in to the Universe
News
Technology
Technology: Tests undermine nuclear accident strategy
News
Technology
Technology: Electricity switches plants onto new genes
News
Technology
Technology: After Concorde
News
Science: Did a Caribbean impact wipe out the dinosaurs?
News
Science: Methane may amplify climate change
News
Science: Some plants will like it hot in the global greenhouse
News
Science: 杏吧原创s make light work of night work
News
Science: Did the AIDS virus originate in chimpanzees?
News
Technology
Technology: Conference leaves high-definition TV up in the air
News
Technology
Technology: Neural network names niffs
News
Features
Is sex too important to keep quiet about?
Will the worldwide AIDS epidemic continue to grow rapidly until it becomes one of the commonest causes of death? Or will it gradually stabilise? Predicting the answer depends on knowing how people behave
Features
How the World Cup conquers the blues
Features
How to score goals and influence people: The finals of the World Cup football championship begin next week, and each national manager is on trial. Two researchers from Liverpool can now provide the evidence to show why certain tactics suit certain teams
Features
Satellite Aid: Remote sensing began as a tool of war. Yet these same spies in the sky can alert the world to a coming drought, speed the movement of supplies during famine and even help to find water in deserts
Features
The making and breaking of a coral skeleton
Features
White death – the fate of a deserted coral
Features
Biochemistry of a special relationship: Coral reefs would not exist if there was not a special chemistry between the coral polyp and the green algae that live inside it
Features
The big sneeze
Features
More
Forum: One of my days is missing – It’s time to move the date line
Froum: And now for the ozone forecast / Should it become a regular event
Forum: So much rot – Death and decay all around
Review: Lord of the box
Books & Arts
Forum: Failed scientist makes good – Why do so few scientists reach positions of influence?
Forum: What do you do with a roomful of haiku? – The finer points of computer poetry
Review: Life in the age of radiation
Books & Arts
Review: On trial for reason
Books & Arts
Review: No holding the axe
Books & Arts
Review: Chemical myths management
Books & Arts
Review: A laboratory as large as a desert
Books & Arts
Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Whales, satellites and fruitful relations
The electromagnetic link
Inside Science
