The decline and fall of a national heritage
Features
This week's magazine
19 January 1991
Issue 1752
Editor's picks
On the saving of the species: No one knows how many million species exist on Earth or how to save them all. But scientists agree that extinction is not just a biological problem
Features
The musical mind: How do we perceive music? Do Mahler and Madonna have anything in common? A forthcoming television programme reveals some of the answers
Features
Cold fusion II: the story continues – Many scientists think that fusion carried out in a test tube is nonsense. But a good look at recent results reveals that the reaction is real
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Cold fusion I: the discovery that never was – At last, the bubble of cold fusion has burst, leaving behind a sticky story of intrigue, false facts and wrong inferences
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An international charter for investors?: Moves to devise a world patenting system have been unsuccessful so far. But the growth of regional agreements on intellectual property has revolutionised national patent offices
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Parcelling maths and physics up with string
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Whatever happened to cold fusion?
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Topologist at the top: After years at the forefront of mathematical research, Sir Michael Atiyah now heads two great pillars of the Establishment, Trinity College Cambridge and the Royal Society
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Table of contents
News
US buys Soviet ‘hot metal’ reactor
News
Science: Tiny tubes prevent liquids from freezing
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Science: Curious crystals confound chemists
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Science: Cyclical Universe bounces back
News
Dam confrontation
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Secret academy
News
Trabbies laid to rest as drivers go West
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Golf threatens toad
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SSC plays safe
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British scientists face exclusion from Europe
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Greeks plan to save turtles from the soup
News
Botswana’s water plan hits the rocks
News
State of science
News
Stranded waste
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Breast cancer test picks cases for chemotherapy
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Last-minute reprieve for Dounreay reactor?
News
Flush with nitrates
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Old design caused train to crumple
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Cold shoulder for fusion chemists
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Earth
Warmer winters fit greenhouse model
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Aluminium ‘mop’ slows Alzheimer’s disease
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Space frogs’ bodies donated to science
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Gulf war could mean largest ever oil spill
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Global hum threatens to ‘deafen’ whales
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Science: Cancer test singles out radiation-resistant cells
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Science: Female infidelity – may the best sperm win
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Science: Supernova leaves X-ray afterglow
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Technology
Technology: Ultrasound puts the heat on cancer
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Technology
Technology: Proteins keep in shape with ceramic carrier
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Technology
Technology: Culture shock for human antibodies
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Technology
Technology: Shellfish stop the rot in fruit
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Technology
Technology: Images of live cells unlock secrets of cancer
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Technology
Technology: Things that glow in the dark in Sweden
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Features
The decline and fall of a national heritage
Features
On the saving of the species: No one knows how many million species exist on Earth or how to save them all. But scientists agree that extinction is not just a biological problem
Features
The musical mind: How do we perceive music? Do Mahler and Madonna have anything in common? A forthcoming television programme reveals some of the answers
Features
Cold fusion II: the story continues – Many scientists think that fusion carried out in a test tube is nonsense. But a good look at recent results reveals that the reaction is real
Features
Cold fusion I: the discovery that never was – At last, the bubble of cold fusion has burst, leaving behind a sticky story of intrigue, false facts and wrong inferences
Features
An international charter for investors?: Moves to devise a world patenting system have been unsuccessful so far. But the growth of regional agreements on intellectual property has revolutionised national patent offices
Features
Parcelling maths and physics up with string
Features
Whatever happened to cold fusion?
Features
Topologist at the top: After years at the forefront of mathematical research, Sir Michael Atiyah now heads two great pillars of the Establishment, Trinity College Cambridge and the Royal Society
Features
More
Talking Point: On trial – drugs that may prevent disease
Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster – Where will all the waste go?
Forum: When second things come first – Sue Birchmore describes the regeneration of a Kenyan village
Forum: Ban the stone axe! – Derek Ager laments mankind’s first environmental onslaught
Forum: What’s in a name? – Richard Griffiths sorts out a problem with his ologies
Review: Mathematical machines
Books & Arts
Review: Travelling in hope
Books & Arts
Forum: How long is a piece of time? – Colin Tudge turns the millennia into moments
Review: Another New Year’s resolution
Books & Arts
Books / ‘Britain’s Changing Environment’
Books & Arts
Review: Dirt and dirty dealing
Books & Arts
Review: Evolution, a suitable case for treatment
Books & Arts
Review: The greening of Rupert Sheldrake
Books & Arts
Physics
Quantum mechanics in the home
Inside Science
