Breast cancer: turning figures into facts – Recent findings have raised women’s hopes of better treatment for breast cancer. How were the results reached and how easily can the improvements be put into practice?
Features
This week's magazine
18 January 1992
Issue 1804
On the cover
Editor's picks
Piecing together the Pacific: The largest ocean of the world is also the oldest, according to a new reconstruction of the position of the continents nearly 750 million years ago
Features
The thinking woman’s guide to the mind: Philosopher and self-styled computational psychologist, Margaret Boden uses artificial intelligence as a way of understanding aspects of the human mind
Features
The mind of a very special machine?: Likening the mind to a computer does not have to be dehumanising. For the computational systems that interest psychologists are no ordinary ‘machines’
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Stalking the safe mushroom: People are risking indigestion for the sake of a tasty morsel of mushroom. Spotting the safe varieties is a fine art
Features
Table of contents
News
Gene therapy promises cure for cystic fibrosis
News
The space probe that lost its voice. . .
News
Japanese budget ruled out support for US supercollider
News
Satellite companies fight a war of interference
News
Are Americans older than we thought?
News
Clean up, or else
News
‘Recession has ended’ says electronic economist
News
British university pitches for postgraduates
News
Police attacked over DNA fingerprinting
News
Campaigner arrested
News
Rush to patent human genes ‘will hinder research’
News
Doubts over animal health delay milk hormone
News
Charities want guidelines for breast cancer treatment
News
Sex-test confusion could create havoc at Olympics
News
Spanish athlete wins the gender contest
News
‘Uranium for sale’ rumours spark new proliferation fears
News
Britain keeps drilling
News
Engineering becomes art
News
Zagury cleared
News
Blood and body bags
News
Gulf viruses
News
Nuclear families
News
HIV in prison
News
German jobs
News
Science: Six-bonded silicon surprises the chemists
News
Science: Polluted atmosphere offsets ozone hole
News
Science: Do bigger eggs breed stronger birds?
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Science: Supernova debris broadcasts its latest hit
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Science: Harmful ultraviolet doubles in Antarctica
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Science: Why microwave cooking fails the taste test
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Science: Colder winters for northern Africa as deserts expand
News
Technology
Technology: Memory CD player helps joggers to keep the beat
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Inertia’ keeps Britian’s roads noisy
News
Technology
Technology: Record companies wrangle over right to press CDs
News
Technology
Technology: Seven days of deep thought finds faults in reactors
News
Technology
Technology: Healing the casualties of war by satellite
News
Technology
Technology: No safe place yet for toxic waste
News
Technology
Technology: Motorists head for windscreen displays
News
Technology
Technology: Neural network, teach thyself
News
Opinion
Features
Breast cancer: turning figures into facts – Recent findings have raised women’s hopes of better treatment for breast cancer. How were the results reached and how easily can the improvements be put into practice?
Features
Piecing together the Pacific: The largest ocean of the world is also the oldest, according to a new reconstruction of the position of the continents nearly 750 million years ago
Features
The thinking woman’s guide to the mind: Philosopher and self-styled computational psychologist, Margaret Boden uses artificial intelligence as a way of understanding aspects of the human mind
Features
The mind of a very special machine?: Likening the mind to a computer does not have to be dehumanising. For the computational systems that interest psychologists are no ordinary ‘machines’
Features
Stalking the safe mushroom: People are risking indigestion for the sake of a tasty morsel of mushroom. Spotting the safe varieties is a fine art
Features
More
Review: Histories built on animal bones
Books & Arts
Review: A speculative account of physics
Books & Arts
Review: Evidence after death
Books & Arts
Review: Looking anew at science
Books & Arts
Review: Buckyballs, diamonds from junk
Books & Arts
Review: Exhibition in London’s Natural History
Books & Arts
