Earth
A sea change in the Sahel
Features
This week's magazine
2 February 1991
Issue 1754
Editor's picks
Life
The sponges that spanned Europe
Features
Green technology comes of age: The eco-boom of the past few years has transformed the fortunes of a community of alternative technologists living and working in the Welsh hills. The public can now buy a stake in the centre’s future – and help to finance
Features
On the roof of the rainforest: Biologists in an airship have settled on the top of a South American rainforest to explore the unique habitat of the canopy
Features
Female circumcision: Fighting a cruel tradition
Features
Table of contents
News
Farmers and plant breeders lock horns over royalties
News
Science: Solar neutrino problem solved at last?
News
Science: ‘Fourth’ neutrino upsets the theories
News
Science: Cloth fragments reveal the popular colours of the past
News
Science: Water-borne parasite succumbs to allergy antibody
News
Lingering danger of working in the mines
News
Plague of pesticides
News
Tamarins taken
News
Improved implants
News
Tokyo’s famous put their heads together
News
Bhopal cleanup
News
Plants aplenty
News
East-West power
News
Light blues turn green
News
Colliding nuclei give up their secrets
News
Nuclear power reappears on the agenda
News
Science: Self-pollinating primrose is just too fertile
News
Uranium mines leave heaps of trouble for Germany
News
Space campus
News
Gulf crisis takes toll of world’s poor
News
Camelford residents to be tested for brain damage
News
Salyut-7 heads for crash-landing ..
News
.As the Earth survives a near miss
News
Government deals death blow to nuclear physics
News
Wildlife choked by world’s worst oil slick
News
Indian farmers face the smoke
News
No major changes for science
News
Technology
Technology: Born-again telescope will have biggest open dish
News
Technology
Technology: Radar plans complete tests in action
News
Technology
Technology: Sensitive seismometers to straddle the globe
News
Technology
Technology: Critics home in on Patriot missile
News
Science: Asteroid turns comet
News
Technology
Technology: Getting to the heart of fetal distress
News
Science: Iron ‘scavenger’ could help thalassaemia sufferers
News
Science: More active, less radioactive?
News
Features
Earth
A sea change in the Sahel
Climate researchers can now predict African drought in most years, but that doesn't mean they know why it is happening
Features
Life
The sponges that spanned Europe
Features
Green technology comes of age: The eco-boom of the past few years has transformed the fortunes of a community of alternative technologists living and working in the Welsh hills. The public can now buy a stake in the centre’s future – and help to finance
Features
On the roof of the rainforest: Biologists in an airship have settled on the top of a South American rainforest to explore the unique habitat of the canopy
Features
Female circumcision: Fighting a cruel tradition
Features
More
Talking Point: The phoney crisis in American science
Review: The facts that fascinate
Books & Arts
Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: Waiting for the grants
Forum: the case for an amputee astronaut – Mike Rogers wants to leave his tin leg behind on Earth
Forum: Accuracy? Fat chance! – David Cohen is trying to find out how much he weighs
Review: Law defines the limits of space
Books & Arts
Review: Oxford’s Concise Science Dictionary
Books & Arts
Forum: Politics beneath the tree line – An ecological threat to Latin American stability
Forum: Cold bed and breakfast – David Weitzman investigates the standard of campus living
Review: Lives of the very famous
Books & Arts
Review: A non-trivial problem
Books & Arts
Review: Boundaries of perception
Books & Arts
Review: Croaking on a crocus
Books & Arts
Review: Compression without tears
Books & Arts
Review: Facts on physics
Books & Arts
Review: The sums of knowledge
Books & Arts
Review: Online databases may in future oust reference books but it will be the reader’s loss, they do not encourage serendipity, browsing or surprise a reader to switch off the computer and enjoy the pursuit of knowledge
Books & Arts
Review: In search of a killer heuristic
Books & Arts
