Budget blues in Budapest: Financial cuts are forcing Hungarian scientists to rely increasingly on the international scientific community for support. But this is creating its own problems
Features
This week's magazine
Editor's picks
The strange world of the exotic atom
Features
Muons, pions and other strange particles
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Waves, tides and tsunamis
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Gardeners of the underworld: Burrowing animals play a vital role in nature’s economy, cycling and recycling soil and sediment and whatever might be in them. Burrowers can also have unexpected impacts on the world above
Features
Tsunami waves wiped out prehistoric Scottish communities
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Making sense of the genome’s secrets: Thousands of researchers around the world are gradually revealing how our genetic material is made up. Collecting and collating their results has forced computer scientists to reconsider the way we store and use info
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The chimpanzee’s medicine chest: Chimps seem to dose themselves with drugs when they are feeling low. Plants with the power to do chimps good may have potential for treating human disorders, too
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News
Biologist charged
News
Technology
Buildings that wobble but don’t fall down
News
Toxic shock bill
News
Screening ban
News
Japanese gesture
News
ICL promises
News
Science: How magnetic fields could upset your ions
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Science: Aphids with parasites prefer to end it all
News
Science: The seven deadly smells of a skunk
News
Berlin split over future of research reactor
News
Thumbs down for milk hormone
News
East German police keep eagle eye on eggs
News
Soviet Union goes to Sussex for advice on science policy
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Camelford doctors highlight government neglect
News
Astonishment as Britain considers lifting ivory ban
News
Technology
Technology: When bird meets aircraft, a computer simulation can help
News
Foreign magnets
News
Jumbo-sized drive-in wash
News
New minister
News
New moonlet slips through Saturn’s rings
News
The pressure to balance the books
News
Laboratory primates suffered from ‘poor science’
News
Lizzie the lizard wins a final reprieve
News
America’s hospitals urged to screen for HIV
News
NASA fails to plug leaky space shuttle
News
French finally clean up after Amoco Cadiz disaster
News
Destruction of chemical arms comes under fire
News
Statisticians call government to account
News
Technology
Technology: Cold water treatment for painted planes
News
Technology
Technology: Polyglot video discs go to the opera
News
Technology
Technology: Ultrapure diamonds take the heat off chips
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Double glazing’ keeps the noise out of videotapes
News
Science: Second gene linked to Alzheimer’s
News
Science: Ozone depletion quickens at both poles
News
Science: Chinese cosmic string could close the Universe
News
Technology
Technology: American inventor unveils multi-fuel engine
News
Technology
Technology: Widescreen pictures will soon be on tape
News
Opinion
Features
Budget blues in Budapest: Financial cuts are forcing Hungarian scientists to rely increasingly on the international scientific community for support. But this is creating its own problems
Features
The strange world of the exotic atom
Features
Muons, pions and other strange particles
Features
Waves, tides and tsunamis
Features
Gardeners of the underworld: Burrowing animals play a vital role in nature’s economy, cycling and recycling soil and sediment and whatever might be in them. Burrowers can also have unexpected impacts on the world above
Features
Tsunami waves wiped out prehistoric Scottish communities
Features
Making sense of the genome’s secrets: Thousands of researchers around the world are gradually revealing how our genetic material is made up. Collecting and collating their results has forced computer scientists to reconsider the way we store and use info
Features
The chimpanzee’s medicine chest: Chimps seem to dose themselves with drugs when they are feeling low. Plants with the power to do chimps good may have potential for treating human disorders, too
Features
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Forum: Welfare on the farm – Public support for farm animals
Forum: Physics appeal / A conference to whets girls’ appetites for physics
Forum: Foul deeds / Never mind the dogs, it’s the humans
Forum: A pool of light – A new lamp
Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Fresh thinking for museums and teachers
Review: Enjoyment and edification
Books & Arts
Review: A brief history of enigma and paradox
Books & Arts
Review: A clear view of a universal favourite
Books & Arts
Review: Viewing by numbers
Books & Arts
Amazonia’s history of exploitation
Books & Arts
Review: Japan’s original spirit
Books & Arts
