If rabies comes to Britain: European scientists are vaccinating foxes to try to halt the spread of rabies. But culling may be the only effective strategy for Britain, should rabies cross the Channel
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This week's magazine
20 October 1990
Issue 1739
Editor's picks
Confused over personal communications: Industry’s eagerness to meet the demand for mobile telephones has led to incompatible technologies and frustrated subscribers. As they prepare to launch the next genertion of services, telecommunications companies h
Features
Up in the air: Two new families of chemicals, the HFCs and the HCFCs, are being introduced as benign replacements for ozone-damaging CFCs. But scientists are still unsure of what the substitutes might do to the terrestrial environment
Features
The hidden museums of the Mediterranean: Despite decades of plundering, the sea bed of the Mediterranen remains the last great repository of archaeological knowledge from the ancient world. Now underwater archaeologists are revealing its secrets
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Tuatara sheds its fossil image
Features
Table of contents
News
Tokyo’s green plan
News
Star witness
News
Heterosexual AIDS
News
Science: The death of the ‘Great Attractor’
News
Science: Giant bubble of gas rises through Saturn’s atmosphere
News
Science: How to ‘fine-tune’ a superconductor
News
Science: Ageing satellite keeps tabs on the ozone layer
News
Science: Australian mounds – Birds’ nests or Aboriginal middens?
News
Four legs remain faster than two
News
Steamrollered treasure
News
Saving the earth
News
Super agency for the environment
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Congress fights to reverse electronics sale to Japan
News
Case of the stuffed sandpiper leaves museums in a pickle
News
Congressional cuts
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Healthy coffee
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Germany applies brakes to Europe’s space plans
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Europe changes tack on transgenic animals
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Defence workers press for action on cancer claims
News
French come clean on green issues
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Off-the-shelf technologies to cool the planet
News
Cash crisis could crash university’s computers
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AIDS in Africa: AIDS vaccine ‘may not work’ in Africa
News
Darwin may founder on the Great Barrier Reef
News
Legionnaire’s threat from power station
News
Ranching of rarities angers ecologists
News
Technology
Technology: Dutch digital cassette does battle with DAT
News
Technology
Technology: A car for the future, modelled in bricks
News
Technology
Technology: Tritium powers a solid source of light
News
Science: Omnivorous crabs learn about bad food
News
Science: Goodbye to solar WIMPs
News
Technology
Technology: Danish wind farms head out to sea
News
Technology
Technology: The high cost of finding a phone number
News
Technology
Technology: Germany reveals plans for flying into space – Helen Gavaghan reports from the Congress of the International Astronautical Federation
News
Technology
Technology: Battered satellite reveals errors on the ground
News
Technology
Technology: Lasers blast a path through orbiting litter
News
Opinion
Features
If rabies comes to Britain: European scientists are vaccinating foxes to try to halt the spread of rabies. But culling may be the only effective strategy for Britain, should rabies cross the Channel
Features
Confused over personal communications: Industry’s eagerness to meet the demand for mobile telephones has led to incompatible technologies and frustrated subscribers. As they prepare to launch the next genertion of services, telecommunications companies h
Features
Up in the air: Two new families of chemicals, the HFCs and the HCFCs, are being introduced as benign replacements for ozone-damaging CFCs. But scientists are still unsure of what the substitutes might do to the terrestrial environment
Features
The hidden museums of the Mediterranean: Despite decades of plundering, the sea bed of the Mediterranen remains the last great repository of archaeological knowledge from the ancient world. Now underwater archaeologists are revealing its secrets
Features
Tuatara sheds its fossil image
Features
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Review: Gyroscopes remain the strangest of attractors
Books & Arts
Forum: One science, two cultures – Beyond the laboratory
Forum: A mounting mountain – Used tyres are the latest world menace
Forum: All in a day’s eating – The art of keeping a food diary
Forum: Another wrong number – Who is on the line
Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: Ammonia and acid remarks
Review: Rock around the landscapes
Books & Arts
Review: American Landsat satellites
Books & Arts
Arts: The art of technology
Books & Arts
Forum: A time for every catastrophe – The fourth dimension of ecology
Review: Mother’s ruin provides the best tipple
Books & Arts
Review: The status of motherhood
Books & Arts
