Full steam ahead for ferry safety: Researchers studying the Zeebrugge tragedy have pinpointed the fatal flaws of roll-on roll-off ferries. Now the British government is pressing for safer designs
Features
This week's magazine
9 February 1991
Issue 1755
Editor's picks
Why anaesthesia can still kill: Every year people die or become severely disabled because the oxygen supply to their brain fails during surgery as a result of human error. Yet monitoring devices that have drastically cut down on such accidents in the US
Features
What makes faces familiar?:
Features
A second chance for targeted designer antibodies
Features
Life after death for empty shells: Crustacean fisheries create a mountain of waste shells, made of a strong natural polymer, chitin. Now chemists are helping to put this waste to some surprising uses
Features
The plant anatomy light show: With chemicals from washing powders and fluorescence microscope, even novice anatomists can explore the intricacies of living plants
Features
Table of contents
News
Gulf crisis hijacks research budget
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News
Science: Giant galactic jet approaches the speed of light
News
Science: Neuroscientists plan ‘atlas’ of the brain
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Science: Brighter than a million Suns
News
Acid forests
News
Old buffers
News
Nobel refusenik
News
Electrique Voitures
News
Tumour attack
News
Can trees save Australia’s salty soil?
News
Long-life scrapie
News
Safer syringe stops accidental jabs
News
Animal experimenters need tough police
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European collider ‘on course’ for top quark
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Science: Rooting around for the right temperature
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Leafing through Antarctica’s balmy past
News
Weakened welds shut down reactor
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The game’s up for phoney medical research
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America on the lookout for plutonium
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No booms spare to save Gulf wildlife
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Ceausescu’s poisonous bequest to the nation
News
Himalayan scandal rocks Indian science
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First Hubble, now ROSAT ..
News
Drugged troops could soldier on without sleep
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Friends fall out
News
Technology
Technology: Hi-fi firms join forces against Europe
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Technology
Technology: US floats plan for levitation train
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Technology
Technology: Solar array lends itself to cosmic possibilities
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Technology
Technology: Australia’s race for clean cars
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Technology
Technology: Europe changes tack on energy from waves
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Technology
Technology: Space probe turns thermometer
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Technology
Technology: Britain backs power from bed of coal
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Technology
Technology: Big bang greets slimmed down Star Wars
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Science: Could herpes speed up AIDS?
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Science: Long tails, a hard act for swallows
News
Features
Full steam ahead for ferry safety: Researchers studying the Zeebrugge tragedy have pinpointed the fatal flaws of roll-on roll-off ferries. Now the British government is pressing for safer designs
Features
Why anaesthesia can still kill: Every year people die or become severely disabled because the oxygen supply to their brain fails during surgery as a result of human error. Yet monitoring devices that have drastically cut down on such accidents in the US
Features
What makes faces familiar?:
Features
A second chance for targeted designer antibodies
Features
Life after death for empty shells: Crustacean fisheries create a mountain of waste shells, made of a strong natural polymer, chitin. Now chemists are helping to put this waste to some surprising uses
Features
The plant anatomy light show: With chemicals from washing powders and fluorescence microscope, even novice anatomists can explore the intricacies of living plants
Features
More
Talking Point: How AIDS has changed epidemiology
Thistle Diary: A sense of direction – Comment from Westminster
Forum: Just don’t mention the politics – More political meat with his greens
Forum: The march of the science platoon – The human materiel of research wars
Review: A measure of dissent
Books & Arts
Forum: There’s no such thing as a calorie-free lunch – You can’t escape the bill for energy saving
Forum: The life and stage of Josephine Wilson – One of the founders of the Molecule Club
Review: Freud’s debt to Darwin
Books & Arts
Review: A pocketful of stars
Books & Arts
Review: Immortal, invisible, not really there?
Books & Arts
Review: Hurray for holy wood
Books & Arts
Review: A cliffhanger of a civilisation
Books & Arts
Review: Dinosaurs honorary and otherwise
Books & Arts
