Europe debates the ownership of life: In an attempt to harmonise laws across Europe, officials in Brussels are wrestling with the legal and moral issues of whether companies should have the right to patent life
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This week's magazine
4 January 1992
Issue 1802
On the cover
Editor's picks
Mining with microbes: Extracting metals from low-grade ores is usually a tricky business, but some bacteria have no problems with it. The metal industry is using these tiny helpers to make their mines both green and profitable
Features
Stay awake, stay alive: Every year, thousands of motorway accidents seem to be caused by drivers falling asleep. The problem is particularly acute at early morning and late afternoon
Features
Inside the mind of a monkey
Features
Over the edge: stress and schizophrenia – Recent research suggests schizophrenia is a brain disease activated by stress, opening up new avenues of help for sufferers
Features
Table of contents
News
Poverty holds up Africa’s fight against AIDS
News
‘Slower’ virus is also a killer
News
Siberians menaced by radiation lurking in lake
News
Soviets cut interference
News
Baby monkey brings joy to conservationists
News
UN fears pollution curbs could raise temperatures
News
Changing numbers spell costly chaos
News
Bombers target Scottish primate centre
News
Tough assignment for Russia’s new science supremo
News
Good hope for Cape’s endangered medicinal plants
News
Thirty years on: the secret plot to kill Blue Streak
News
Nuclear extravagance
News
Nuclear crash
News
Nuclear jobs
News
Nuclear loss
News
Heritage in danger
News
A star for Europe
News
Australian sheep let their hair down
News
AIDS progress
News
Energy charter
News
Science: Curious case of the self-destructing galaxies
News
Science: Genetic weeding and feeding for tobacco plants
News
Science: Astronomers double the age of the Universe
News
Science: Star’s dust cloud may be concealing planetary system
News
Science: Superconductors warm to chemical fine-tuning
News
Science: Matching DNA fingerprints prompts renewed concern
News
Technology
Technology: Rapid screening for dental X-rays
News
Technology
Technology: Police computer fuels fears of ‘European connection’
News
Technology
Technology: Simpler software smooths the path to the stars
News
Technology
Technology: Tidings of great ill for CD pirates
News
Technology
Technology: Slim circuits trim the fat off silicon chips
News
Technology
Technology: Drug capsule homes in
News
Technology
Technology: Second pair of eyes for fighter pilots
News
Opinion
Features
Europe debates the ownership of life: In an attempt to harmonise laws across Europe, officials in Brussels are wrestling with the legal and moral issues of whether companies should have the right to patent life
Features
Mining with microbes: Extracting metals from low-grade ores is usually a tricky business, but some bacteria have no problems with it. The metal industry is using these tiny helpers to make their mines both green and profitable
Features
Stay awake, stay alive: Every year, thousands of motorway accidents seem to be caused by drivers falling asleep. The problem is particularly acute at early morning and late afternoon
Features
Inside the mind of a monkey
Features
Over the edge: stress and schizophrenia – Recent research suggests schizophrenia is a brain disease activated by stress, opening up new avenues of help for sufferers
Features
More
Review: The war declared on the mosquito
Books & Arts
Review: Velvet Mites and Silken Webs
Books & Arts
Review: A history of the world’s view of the past
Books & Arts
Review: It’s a visible gas
Books & Arts
Review: Just hanging on the telephone
Books & Arts
Review: Chernobyl – Insight From The Inside
Books & Arts
Review: Iconoclasts and mathematics
Books & Arts
