Have we the stomach for engineered food?: Britain’s food producers do not have to tell the government’s safety advisers if they want to genetically modify what we eat. But consumers may force them to be more open
Features
This week's magazine
3 November 1990
Issue 1741
On the cover
Editor's picks
The power behind the Sun: It is 70 years since the pioneering astrophysicist Arthur Eddington told the scientific world that the source of power that keeps the Sun hot must be subatomic energy
Features
Designer eyes for seabirds of the night: How does a Manx shearwater find its burrow in pitch darkness and find its way across vast ocean wastes? It helps to have eyes like nothing else on Earth
Features
Underwater, out of mind: Freshwater fish worldwide are among the most endangered of all animals. But there are so many kinds and huge gaps in basic knowledge about them
Features
Who should pay for global warming?: If the world agrees to cut down on emissions of carbon dioxide, how will it happen? The first of a series examining the changing climate considers whether taxes on greenhouse gases would make us change the way we live
Features
Nicotine on the brain: Nicotine is now known to be as addictive as cocaine or alcohol. Finding out what it does in a smoker’s brain may lead to better strategies for giving up
Features
Table of contents
News
Germany restricts embryo research
News
Science: ROSAT reveals the invisible X-ray universe
News
Nuclear probe
News
Spectators suffer for their sport
News
Explosive report
News
Clean machine
News
Reef relief
News
Tunnel vision
News
Species RIP
News
Dolphin virus threatens last remaining monk seals
News
Dirty dealing
News
Nuclear test angers Soviet deputies
News
Talks sink plans to clean up Mediterranean
News
Abortion pill may help fight breast cancer
News
Science: Toughened sperm survive the stresses of ejaculation
News
As Californians vote on the ‘Big Green’
News
US and Britain top nuclear dumping league
News
Congress gets tough on heavy polluters
News
Europe split on policy to stem global warming
News
Kew project renews hope for Brazil’s poorest
News
Cold fusion pioneer shuns the limelight
News
Japan loses enthusiasm for supercollider
News
Treasury tirggers British Library cash crisis
News
Science projects lost in corridors of power
News
About-turn on official statistics
News
Technology
Technology: BBC scrambles to run subscription TV
News
Technology
Technology: Phone callers can fool identity systems
News
Technology
Technology: Aircraft firefighters learn a new drill
News
Technology
Technology: Tyre power scheme ‘too ambitious’
News
Technology
Technology: Test-bed shakes tower blocks to limits
News
Science: Fossil birds force an evolutionary re-think
News
Science: Monster galaxy dominates cluster
News
Science: Memory molecule with a mind like a computer
News
Science: Overweight women are more likely to have a disabling disease
News
Opinion
Features
Have we the stomach for engineered food?: Britain’s food producers do not have to tell the government’s safety advisers if they want to genetically modify what we eat. But consumers may force them to be more open
Features
The power behind the Sun: It is 70 years since the pioneering astrophysicist Arthur Eddington told the scientific world that the source of power that keeps the Sun hot must be subatomic energy
Features
Designer eyes for seabirds of the night: How does a Manx shearwater find its burrow in pitch darkness and find its way across vast ocean wastes? It helps to have eyes like nothing else on Earth
Features
Underwater, out of mind: Freshwater fish worldwide are among the most endangered of all animals. But there are so many kinds and huge gaps in basic knowledge about them
Features
Who should pay for global warming?: If the world agrees to cut down on emissions of carbon dioxide, how will it happen? The first of a series examining the changing climate considers whether taxes on greenhouse gases would make us change the way we live
Features
Nicotine on the brain: Nicotine is now known to be as addictive as cocaine or alcohol. Finding out what it does in a smoker’s brain may lead to better strategies for giving up
Features
More
Forum: Bakari’s perspective – Corruption begins at home
Thistle Diary: All test and no purpose – Comment from Westminster
Forum: It’s always too soon for some – A strong feeling of climatic deja vu
Forum: What’s in name? – Warning, labels may affect your perception
Forum: Back to school for graduates – Learning to live outside academia
Forum: Put biology up where it belongs – Physics has just been better at playing the game of power politics
Art: Mondrian with chips
Books & Arts
The world at your fingertips
Books & Arts
Review: Bites of pleasure
Books & Arts
Review: Enquire within on radiation
Books & Arts
Review: The physicist’s gift of the gab
Books & Arts
Review: Blow-up models of our Universe
Books & Arts
Life
Genes that control genes
Inside Science
