Trade deals a blow to the environment: International rules governing trade aim to stamp out protectionism, but they may destroy Third World attempts to protect the environment and achieve sustainable development
Features
This week's magazine
10 November 1990
Issue 1742
On the cover
Editor's picks
Tracking down the noise polluters: A chanting football crowd seems deafening but the sound energy it generates is barely enough to fry an egg. Modern technology and tougher legislation have encouraged engineers to confront the problems of measuring sound
Features
Scratching the surface of evolution
Features
One gene may not make a man: Earlier this year, geneticists claimed to have found a gene on the Y chromosome that conveys ‘maleness’ on a developing embryo. But is it really so simple?
Features
Earth
High and dry in the global greenhouse
Features
The sea snakes are coming:c Will global warming bring the world’s most poisonous snakes to Britain’s shores? Zoologists have just begun to understand how they survive in the open sea
Features
Table of contents
News
Maverick takes on critics of Tory science record
News
Science: New kind of matter turns up in cosmic rays
News
Science: X-rays illuminate the dark side of the Moon
News
Science: Tailored ‘antibodies’ speed up chemical reactions
News
Science: Opium deprivation could make you suicidal
News
Science: Fungus defeats ravenous rhinoceros beetle
News
Science: Hormone jab may herald male contraceptive
News
Science: Oldest creepies crawled the land in Shropshire
News
Technology
Technology: Europe misled over wave energy
News
Technology
Technology: Putting a beam on the face of dental patients
News
Guyana’s gold diggers dredge up trouble
News
Unwholesome Hamburg unearths a poisonous past
News
Heavyweight cure for seasick passengers
News
Britain’s green bill becomes law
News
Nuclear advice
News
Greener towns
News
AIDS vaccine tests ‘more urgent’ than HIV research
News
Geologists race to catch volcano under the sea
News
Bit-by-bit telescope assembled in Hawaii
News
Safety watchdog fails duty over lead checks
News
While Supreme Court debates a woman’s right to be poisoned
News
杏吧原创s clash with politicians over CO2 emissions
News
Shrinking funds hold back climate research
News
High-definition TV sacrificed in satellie merger
News
Thatcher, it all depends on maths
News
Patents blow the lid on cold fusion
News
Technology
Technology: And give a different angle on the time
News
Technology
Technology: A lay guide to predicting pollution’s patterns
News
Technology
Technology: Many holograms multiply data storage
News
Technology
Technology: Fatal flaw in BT’s electronic directory
News
Technology
Technology: Crises fuel Japan’s nuclear industry
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Tussling tendrils win picture award
News
Saving the sea
News
Think tank’s new boss
News
Bytes for dyslexia
News
Call for cooperation
News
Education reshuffle
News
Opinion
Features
Trade deals a blow to the environment: International rules governing trade aim to stamp out protectionism, but they may destroy Third World attempts to protect the environment and achieve sustainable development
Features
Tracking down the noise polluters: A chanting football crowd seems deafening but the sound energy it generates is barely enough to fry an egg. Modern technology and tougher legislation have encouraged engineers to confront the problems of measuring sound
Features
Scratching the surface of evolution
Features
One gene may not make a man: Earlier this year, geneticists claimed to have found a gene on the Y chromosome that conveys ‘maleness’ on a developing embryo. But is it really so simple?
Features
Earth
High and dry in the global greenhouse
Features
The sea snakes are coming:c Will global warming bring the world’s most poisonous snakes to Britain’s shores? Zoologists have just begun to understand how they survive in the open sea
Features
More
Forum: Haute science – Fashion-fuelled innovation
Forum: Please don’t feed the media pigeons – Strutting journalists
Thistle Diary: Another free run for MITI – Comment from Westminster
Television: The market for intellectual property
Books & Arts
Review: There are no prophets with honour
Books & Arts
Arts: Greazle, Globule and Gloop, Gremlins in the Works
Books & Arts
Forum: A trauma waiting to happen, Disaster workers need help and support too
Forum: The market of a chemist – The distinguishing feature of his profession
Forum: How to be demonstrably entertaining – The play’s the thing when lecturing
Review: The ties that bind so many chemicals
Books & Arts
Review: The missing Arctic
Books & Arts
Review: Invention’s lost history
Books & Arts
Video: DNA printing arrives on the box
Books & Arts
