Last chance for Britain’s industry: As the general election looms, the major political parties are focusing on the parlous condition of the manufacturing sector. What is to be done?
Features
This week's magazine
30 November 1991
Issue 1797
Editor's picks
Europe’s search for the winning diet
Features
The life of a solitary wave
Features
The myth of the barn egg: New proposals from the government’s watchdog on the welfare of farm animals will do little to improve the wellbeing of Britain’s most beleaguered bird, the laying hen
Features
A new foreign secretary for science: One of the most successful biologists of her generation and a leading advocate of research on human embryos, Anne McLaren is poised to storm one of science’s oldest male bastions
Features
Table of contents
News
Japanese find death a depressing experience
News
Land reclamation poisons coastal waters
News
Europe on the lookout for partners in space
News
Fixing a hole where the sun comes in
News
Ban on state subsidy?
News
‘Stop squabbling’ over climate treaty, politicians told
News
Treasury clawback keeps Britain out of Europe
News
Meet the puppets that care about condoms
News
US to lay bare its biological weapons secrets
News
Waste goes east
News
Born-again quagga defies extinction
News
Amazon people get forest home at last
News
Europe cuts the chemicals that cause smog
News
Lone inventor wins battle for patent rights
News
Polar base planned ‘to justify unnecessary airstrip’
News
Mining company threatens West African refuge
News
Death in Japan
News
Growing COST
News
Tidal worry
News
Genius ahead of his time
News
HIV follow-up
News
. . . and pesticides
News
Data on toxins . . .
News
Engineers unite!
News
Science: Say goodbye to the tenth planet
News
Science: Monitoring the ancient greenhouse effect
News
Science: Tiny wire could make molecular electronics a reality
News
Science: Controversy over origin of AIDS
News
Science: Is a tipple really good for your heart?
News
Technology
Technology: Japan’s future TV lacks definition
News
Technology
Technology: Security blanket will foil aircraft bombers
News
Technology
Technology: Quartz gyro goes out for a spin
News
Technology
Technology: Discerning microscope notes the quality of chemical bonds
News
Technology
Technology: Speedy computers hit the price barrier
News
Technology
Technology: Specialist chip has a way with words
News
Technology
Technology: Ceramic coat makes the most of sunlight
News
Patents: Patents information
News
Patents: Microwaved oil
News
Patents: Knobble spotter
News
Patents: Digital audio heads for the pool
News
Patents: Magnetic performance
News
Patents: Identity crisis
News
Features
Last chance for Britain’s industry: As the general election looms, the major political parties are focusing on the parlous condition of the manufacturing sector. What is to be done?
Features
Europe’s search for the winning diet
Features
The life of a solitary wave
Features
The myth of the barn egg: New proposals from the government’s watchdog on the welfare of farm animals will do little to improve the wellbeing of Britain’s most beleaguered bird, the laying hen
Features
A new foreign secretary for science: One of the most successful biologists of her generation and a leading advocate of research on human embryos, Anne McLaren is poised to storm one of science’s oldest male bastions
Features
More
Talking Point: Let chemistry look after its own
Review: Take flight into a world of birds
Books & Arts
Review: A load of feathers
Books & Arts
Books
Books & Arts
Review: Intercontinental dinosaurs
Books & Arts
Review: In a frondly world
Books & Arts
Books
Books & Arts
Review: Books that pass in the night
Books & Arts
Review: Coral captured on camera
Books & Arts
Review: Time waits for no author
Books & Arts
Review: Fudging the event horizon
Books & Arts
Books
Books & Arts
Review: Hands-on aggression
Books & Arts
Review: A popular guide to words in the news
Books & Arts
Review: ‘The desktop of Babel
Books & Arts
