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Squeezing the deserts dry: Water is a dwindling resource in the American southwest. It has become so precious that Arizona is now using the law to force people not to waste it

Life and times of a chameleon star: Since 1955, astronomers have watched the star FG Sagittae turn from blue to yellow. This rapid change has given them the chance to study a star’s evolution in their own lifetime

The world turns upside down for Soviet science: Last month’s abortive coup led to the demise of the old Soviet Union – throwing the country’s research community into chaos

Extinction 鈥� bad genes or bad luck?

Casualites of Vietnam’s recovery: As the doors to economic opportunity in Vietnam swing open, conservationists are growing increasingly worried about the future of the country’s environment

Table of contents

News

Science: Electronics takes astronomers closer to the edge

Technology

Technology: Phone line puts motorists on the right road

Technology

Technology: Satellite to probe the roof of the sky

Technology

Technology: Plant power inspires molecular battery

Technology

Technology: Sony loses ground in digital recording race

Technology

Technology: Computer graphics give teletext a sharper image

Technology

Technology: Mouse controls TV

Technology

Technology: Instant photo copier

Technology

Technology: Digital circuits spawn slimmer camcorders

Science: Prostate pill promises alternative to surgery

Technology

Technology: Fast scanner spots unhealthy hearts

Science: ‘Twisted football’ joins fullerene family

Science: Can police dogs really sniff out criminals?

Science: The fish that have an ear for history

Science: Does HIV trigger an autoimmune response?

Britain rubbishes Europe’s package deal

The beer that came back from the deep

Pests and pollution join forces to destroy trees

A whiter shade of snow

Subscribers pick up the bill for new phone lines

Spain gives itself elbow room on energy targets

Magellan mapper watches Venus crumble

French outcry over radiation accident

Battleship blast was accident, not suicide

Germans at a loss over missing nuclear fuels

Safety posts make roads more dangerous

India’s dentists squeeze fluoride warnings off tubes

Narmada protesters defiant as waters rise

Backs get cold shoulder

Pesticides poison Africa

A cup of green tea a day may keep cancer away

Russia calls for help to identify ‘royal’ remains

Sweet talk

Nuclear attraction

Cholera in clams

Solar photo shows great flare

Oldspeak

Moscow science park

German Sun power

Age no hindrance

Opinion

Comment: Fishing lessons for the Soviets?

Comment: Oh what a lovely war . . .

Features

Squeezing the deserts dry: Water is a dwindling resource in the American southwest. It has become so precious that Arizona is now using the law to force people not to waste it

Life and times of a chameleon star: Since 1955, astronomers have watched the star FG Sagittae turn from blue to yellow. This rapid change has given them the chance to study a star’s evolution in their own lifetime

The world turns upside down for Soviet science: Last month’s abortive coup led to the demise of the old Soviet Union – throwing the country’s research community into chaos

Extinction 鈥� bad genes or bad luck?

Casualites of Vietnam’s recovery: As the doors to economic opportunity in Vietnam swing open, conservationists are growing increasingly worried about the future of the country’s environment

More

Talking Point: Why shouldn’t women have it all?

Forum: A green thought in a green shade – If it’s good enough for frogs, why not for us

Forum: Bringing science to book – 杏吧原创s aren’t really snobs

Thistle Diary – Comment from Westminster: The faces that changed the century

Review: Library in one

Forum: This is the way the maths will end – Not with an exam, but a program

Forum: They shoot horses, don’t they? – So why not do the same for patients

Review: Population analysis

Review: Gandhiji’s vision still inspires

Review: Bold and shocking biology

Review: Return of the flying dragons

Books / New disc-based information source

Review: Everything you wanted to know about chemistry

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7 September 1991