Earth
A wild time at the zoo
Features
This week's magazine
5 January 1991
Issue 1750
Editor's picks
Green futures on Wall Street: Environmentalists have won unlikely allies on Wall Street. Their campaigns have encouraged governments to spend more on reducing pollution. This has raised the stock market value of companies involved in cleaning up the envi
Features
Cold comfort in the crystal ball: Over a year ago, meteorologists predicted that the US would have a severe winter in 1990/91. Are they wrong again or have they at last discovered a sound basis for long-term forecasting?
Features
Physics
On the crest of a sunbeam
Features
Iraq: nuclear secrets or rumours?
Features
Table of contents
News
Tough fishing limits slip through the net
News
Shooting the Moon to find missing neutrinos
News
Deeper cuts in research
News
Eastern Europe’s chemicals in price free-for-all
News
A long, toxic way to Tipperary
News
Nightmare on Chelmsford, Sydney
News
Japan breaks its own rules on science policy
News
Science: Rosettes clue to brain malaria
News
Technology
Technology: Testing time for a total test ban
News
Technology
Technology: Growing vanilla down on the factory farm
News
Technology
Technology: Radioactive beads combat liver cancer
News
Technology
Technology: Oven-baked chips strike oil
News
Technology
Technology: Computers take a bite out of census drudgery
News
Technology
Technology: A sticky way to numb the gums
News
Science: Aspirin helps the garden grow
News
Science: Little squirt saves plant from being eaten
News
Science: Cosmic ‘wallpaper’ hangs across the Universe – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Missing matter may not be missing – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Genesis recreated – Last month in Brighton, particle physicists and astronomers came together to discuss the areas where their two sciences come together, cosmology, high-energy astrophysics and the big bang*
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Science: Discriminating molecule could mop up pollutants
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Computer cops needed to police networks
News
The beetles, the frogs and the French Legionnaires
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A safer future for birds on South Pacific islands
News
RNA test pinpoints carriers of muscular dystrophy
News
Features
Earth
A wild time at the zoo
The buzz word in the best zoos is 'behavioural enrichment', ways of making a captive environment as much like the wild as possible
Features
Green futures on Wall Street: Environmentalists have won unlikely allies on Wall Street. Their campaigns have encouraged governments to spend more on reducing pollution. This has raised the stock market value of companies involved in cleaning up the envi
Features
Cold comfort in the crystal ball: Over a year ago, meteorologists predicted that the US would have a severe winter in 1990/91. Are they wrong again or have they at last discovered a sound basis for long-term forecasting?
Features
Physics
On the crest of a sunbeam
Features
Iraq: nuclear secrets or rumours?
Features
More
Talking Point: Why physics degrees need reform
Forum: Nothing new under the greenhouse – A historial turn around the carbon cycle
Forum: High priest of analogue – The man who loves to hate digital sound
Thistle Diary: It’s the interpretation that counts – Comment from Westminster
Forum: Brought down by the Sun – The effects of ion in the political soul
Forum: Physics on the brain / A report on a strange interdisciplinary discussion
Review: On the ancestrail trail
Books & Arts
Review: The war within
Books & Arts
Forum: Solutions required, must be predetermined – It’s lucky that Faraday is not working now
Review: Pictures of knowledge
Books & Arts
Review: Japan’s myths and realities
Books & Arts
Review: A catalogue for the ancient past
Books & Arts
Review: Setting the record straight
Books & Arts
Review: A seal’s life is short, brutish and nasty
Books & Arts
Review: Where no birds sing
Books & Arts
