Britain declines to play the health card
Features
This week's magazine
1 February 1992
Issue 1806
Editor's picks
Japan’s plutonium stockpile: Japan needs plutonium for its nuclear power programme, but accumulating large amounts of this dangerous material could raise international tensions
Features
Good morning, Mr . . . er: Why do we recognise a face, but sometimes draw a blank when it comes to the name? The answer may lie in how the brain sorts and encodes information about people
Features
Earth
Secrets of a tropical ice age
Features
Table of contents
News
Why it’s cheaper to poison the poor
News
US company plans to hijack DNA project
News
Pilots demand European safety watchdog after Airbus crash
News
World AIDS programme ‘lacks vision’
News
Canadian Cree take Quebec’s hydro scheme to tribunal
News
US military fails to go green
News
Phone card stays on sale despite fraud warnings
News
Fame may not follow frequent publication
News
Push for productivity kills off Third World breeds
News
Science minister berates science lobby
News
Some of our uranium is still missing. . .
News
Nuclear workers’ leukaemia linked to radiation
News
Spaceplane finds friends despite official delay
News
Greens go to law to block human gene patent
News
Businesses predict chaos over Europe’s data rules
News
Shark practice
News
Is it a weapon?
News
It’s mouldy and it moves
News
No reply
News
Haemophiliacs’ hope
News
Science: Evolution of the Universe by natural selection?
News
Science: Stars observed falling into black hole
News
Science: Pinatubo promises severe Russian winters
News
Science: Porphyrins provide the key to ‘designer enzymes’
News
Science: Vaccine protects monkeys from AIDS-like disease
News
Science: Human ancestor’s early steps out of Africa
News
Technology
Technology: Electronically inclined to stay on the level
News
Technology
Technology: Pesticide from sunshine
News
Technology
Technology: Frequency fumble delays sale of Channel 5
News
Technology
Technology: Will Britain come clean with coal-fired power stations?
News
Technology
Technology: Milking automation for all it’s worth
News
Technology
Technology: Cutting out a hazard of genetic engineering
News
Technology
Technology: Robots at the ready with faster food
News
Technology
Technology: Watch for directions
News
Non to sex tests
News
Early warning
News
Opinion
Features
Britain declines to play the health card
Grand plans were being laid a few years ago for people to carry their medical records with them on credit cards. Those plans are now on ice
Features
Japan’s plutonium stockpile: Japan needs plutonium for its nuclear power programme, but accumulating large amounts of this dangerous material could raise international tensions
Features
Good morning, Mr . . . er: Why do we recognise a face, but sometimes draw a blank when it comes to the name? The answer may lie in how the brain sorts and encodes information about people
Features
Earth
Secrets of a tropical ice age
Features
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Review: State support helps French to flourish
Books & Arts
Review: Why the book you want costs a fortune
Books & Arts
Review: A single market for the mind?
Books & Arts
Review: Eco-economics in translation
Books & Arts
Review: Babel for the computer
Books & Arts
Review: Digging for theories
Books & Arts
Review: Popular science in Germany
Books & Arts
Review: Abandon the mother tongue
Books & Arts
