The year the taps ran dry: Britain’s sweltering summer ismore than a repeat of the freak weather of 1976. This year’s heat wave ispart of a drought that is afflicting most countries in Europe
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This week's magazine
18 August 1990
Issue 1730
On the cover
Editor's picks
Selling science to the public: Is the drive to educate the public about science merely an exercise in public relations and labour recruitment? Who will really benefit?
Features
The risks of ferry travel
Features
All the world’s a zoo: Captive breeding may no longer be enough to save endangered species. Is it time to start manipulating the animals left in the wild?
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The perils of popular science: ‘Media boffins’ often incur the wrath of colleagues back in their ivory towers. The best advice is to become eminent in your field before venturing into the public arena
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Too much of a good thing
Features
Table of contents
News
Green veto on Berlin reactor threatens research institute
News
Cleaner image
News
Science: Astronomers mystified by galaxy evolution
News
Science: Space snaps spot distant quasars
News
Science: Where have all the solar neutrinos gone?
News
Japan tipped for mathematics ‘Nobel’
News
Magellan’s mission
News
Siberia’s silent ‘bomb’
News
Back to the fold
News
Astronomy marks its stamps
News
AZT go-ahead
News
Measles epidemics sweep across the Americas
News
Space
The testing error that led to Hubble mirror fiasco
News
Museum jobs
News
Study of miners heightens aluminium fears
News
Cash crisis undercuts National Curriculum
News
Plans for nuclear store hang in the balance
News
Lone macaw makes a vain bid for survival
News
US remains coy about its plans for chemical arms
News
Gas-guzzlers worsen oil crisis in US
News
Israel tests ‘star wars’ rocket
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Sceptics dampen hopes for cancer ‘therapy’
News
Fresh threat to renewable energy projects
News
Technology
Technology: Shrinking polymer hides from the light
News
Technology
Technology: X-ray laser aimed at chip makers
News
Technology
Technology: Weapons detector sniffs out illegal drugs
News
Science: ‘Wave compass’ guides turtles when they are all at sea
News
Science: Searching for the shape of the rose
News
Technology
Technology: Japan patches up rocket for another try
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Technology
Technology: Contact lens keeps an eye out for exposure
News
Technology
Technology: Sunshine underground
News
Technology
Technology: Oscillating motor set to shake up engine makers?
News
Opinion
Features
The year the taps ran dry: Britain’s sweltering summer ismore than a repeat of the freak weather of 1976. This year’s heat wave ispart of a drought that is afflicting most countries in Europe
Features
Selling science to the public: Is the drive to educate the public about science merely an exercise in public relations and labour recruitment? Who will really benefit?
Features
The risks of ferry travel
Features
All the world’s a zoo: Captive breeding may no longer be enough to save endangered species. Is it time to start manipulating the animals left in the wild?
Features
The perils of popular science: ‘Media boffins’ often incur the wrath of colleagues back in their ivory towers. The best advice is to become eminent in your field before venturing into the public arena
Features
Too much of a good thing
Features
More
Forum: Reinventing the wheel – A solution to the not-invented-here syndrome
Thistle Diary – More comment from Westminster: Death among fast breeders and birds –
Forum: The case of the missing science – Social scientists are too often given the cold shoulder
Forum: Friend or foe? – Computers are not all they claim to be
Forum: Legless in space – A tumble into microgravity
Review: The man who brought science to India
Books & Arts
Review: An Indiaman keeps her secrets
Books & Arts
Home of Radio Waves / Review of How We Know About The Universe, an exhibition at the Jodrell Bank sciece centre, Macclesfield
Books & Arts
Review: Travels in the other Amazon
Books & Arts
Review: Trials and tribulations in the Arctic
Books & Arts
Review: Peace strictly for the birds
Books & Arts
