Secrecy shrouds science funding: 杏吧原创s have found in the past year that they have lost influence over how funds for research councils are shared out. These decisions are now being made behind closed doors
Features
This week's magazine
9 November 1991
Issue 1794
On the cover
Editor's picks
Forensic science goes on trial
Features
The first gene on Earth
Features
A parasite’s guide to editing scrambled genes
Features
Boron, bumps and the big bang: Was matter spread evenly when the Universe began? Perhaps not; the clues lie in the creation of the lighter elements such as boron and beryllium
Features
Closing in on Arctic ozone: Next week, European researchers start to unravel the fate of ozone in the skies above the North Pole. Their task is to bring together models and measurements
Features
Table of contents
News
Crickets break for coffee in Brazil
News
TB returns to haunt America
News
Devastation in Iraq takes its toll in hunger and disease
News
Oil from Kuwaiti wells still pouring into the desert
News
Green cars will cost lives, says US industry
News
UNESCO shake-up
News
Petal power keeps the signals sharp
News
Japan sets sail into potential nuclear disaster
News
Asthmatics at risk from ‘right-handed’ drug
News
Albatrosses saved by a wing and a scare
News
Venice at risk as flood funds dry up
News
Europe fails to agree funds for nuclear fusion
News
The newts from the black stuff
News
Greens damn Kohl’s rainforest pledge
News
Mercury poisoning confirmed among Amazon villagers
News
Silly academics
News
Galactic cigar
News
CFCs cool globe
News
Water prosecution
News
No to nuclear test
News
Rain remains mainly in the sky
News
Chernobyl to close
News
Safety clearance
News
Science: Evidence for colourful quarks
News
Science: Gene-spliced tumour cells immunise mice against cancer
News
Science: Making energy molecule is as easy as ATP
News
Science: Did the Sun make its debut as a bigger star?
News
Science: The flight of a beer bubble from first principles
News
Science: Clouds gather over the ocean’s plankton
News
Science: Maverick supernova hints at pulsar formation
News
Technology
Technology: The ace of diamonds packs them in
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Black box’ could put brakes on bad driving
News
Technology
Technology: Juggling memories bring teletext to Chinese screens
News
Technology
Technology: Designer drugs to foil flu virus
News
Technology
Technology: Neural networks bring harmony to hummers
News
Technology
Technology: Developing nations turn to solar power
News
Technology
Technology: One-piece cistern takes the strain out of flushing
News
Technology
Technology: Keyboard revamp could take terror out of piano practice
News
Technology
Technology: Spurious commands made satellite wobble
News
Features
Secrecy shrouds science funding: 杏吧原创s have found in the past year that they have lost influence over how funds for research councils are shared out. These decisions are now being made behind closed doors
Features
Forensic science goes on trial
Features
The first gene on Earth
Features
A parasite’s guide to editing scrambled genes
Features
Boron, bumps and the big bang: Was matter spread evenly when the Universe began? Perhaps not; the clues lie in the creation of the lighter elements such as boron and beryllium
Features
Closing in on Arctic ozone: Next week, European researchers start to unravel the fate of ozone in the skies above the North Pole. Their task is to bring together models and measurements
Features
More
Talking Point: How research and activism can mix
Review: Burnet, Melbourne’s solitary genius
Books & Arts
Review: Pick of the software
Books & Arts
Review: Conflicting interests
Books & Arts
Review: Notes from the Green underground
Books & Arts
Review: Gangsters in black and white
Books & Arts
Review: Too clean to be true
Books & Arts
