BSE – what madness is this?: As beef is banned from the school menu and sales of Britain’s national joint plummet, scientists are in pursuit of the unknown agent that causes BSE – ‘mad cow disease’
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This week's magazine
Editor's picks
Breaking the mould: Strong engineering plastics are one of the fastest-growing parts of the world’s chemicals business. They are also forcing suppliers and customers into closer relationships to develop new manufacturing technologies
Features
Designer drugs head for the marketplace: Pharmaceuticals companies spend millions searching for new drugs; some chemists prefer to design them. Their approach could help us to fight AIDS, diabetes and high blood pressure
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The turn of the screw worm
Features
Laboratories for all: Children with disabilities are out in the cold when it comes to doing science experiments. A new generation of gadgets is now bringing them into the school laboratory
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Enabling technology?: Technology could transform the lives of many disabled people, giving them greater independence and control over their lives. In practice, however, there is too little, too late
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Chaos, catastrophes and engineering
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Table of contents
News
Chimps ‘immunised’
News
Science: Children of firefighters may suffer heart defects
News
Science: Small wormholes change our picture of the big bang
News
Science: The Midas touch
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Gene call
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Reverse drain
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Think-tank rethink
News
Walk wary
News
Science: Molecule slips through a loophole
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. . . as dry spell saps British soil
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MRC launches inquiry into animal experiments
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American biology student sues over dissection
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Hunters turn protectors on Brazil’s turtle beaches
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Timber traders fail to quell fears over rainforests
News
Backs and money
News
Health
Science: Brain diseases may be triggered by toxins in food
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The touch that turns to money
News
Fast French
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Dutch army attacks soil pollution
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Religious cult lands in hot water over drilling scheme
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杏吧原创s oppose bid to lift whaling moratorium
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British Telecom rings the changes on phone fraud
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Australian telescope catches cosmic calamity
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Drought threatens French power supplies . . .
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. . . as Germany brings forward ban on CFCs
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US seeks major Japanese role in supercollider
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Supersonic plans ‘threaten ozone layer’ . . .
News
Technology
Technology: The greening of Eureka
News
Technology
Technology: Three-dimensional TV is really old hat
News
Technology
Technology: Air conditioner freezes in the heat of the night
News
Technology
Technology: Farmers offered cheap aerial surveillance
News
Technology
Technology: Gene probes may help to spot listeria in food
News
Technology
Technology: Tobacco could be new food source
News
Technology
Technology: Last round in battle of CD video giants
News
Technology
Technology: Japan’s electromagnetic ship prepares to test the water
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Science: How to repair damaged nerves
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Science: Are ‘minicomets’ peppering the Earth’s atmosphere?
News
Opinion
Features
BSE – what madness is this?: As beef is banned from the school menu and sales of Britain’s national joint plummet, scientists are in pursuit of the unknown agent that causes BSE – ‘mad cow disease’
Features
Breaking the mould: Strong engineering plastics are one of the fastest-growing parts of the world’s chemicals business. They are also forcing suppliers and customers into closer relationships to develop new manufacturing technologies
Features
Designer drugs head for the marketplace: Pharmaceuticals companies spend millions searching for new drugs; some chemists prefer to design them. Their approach could help us to fight AIDS, diabetes and high blood pressure
Features
The turn of the screw worm
Features
Laboratories for all: Children with disabilities are out in the cold when it comes to doing science experiments. A new generation of gadgets is now bringing them into the school laboratory
Features
Enabling technology?: Technology could transform the lives of many disabled people, giving them greater independence and control over their lives. In practice, however, there is too little, too late
Features
Chaos, catastrophes and engineering
Features
More
Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster – Long-term problems, short-term solutions
Forum: The great pigeonhole in the sky – A look into the ecology of office envelopes
Forum: Out of the fume cupboard, into the home – The apparatus no home should be without
Review: The World of Volcanoes
Books & Arts
Review: In our own backyard
Books & Arts
Review: Fiction mangles science
Books & Arts
Review: Darwin on the brain
Books & Arts
Forum: Science with a human face – More researchers should write autobiographies
Forum: The real thing – school dissections
Forum: Missing, presumed dead – A bird in the Sun
Review: Retrieving the scholarly past
Books & Arts
Review: Rise and Decay
Books & Arts
Review: Breaking the chains of deductive logic
Books & Arts
