A premier league for university research?: Changes in the way the government allocates money to universities will benefit a chosen few but could put a stop to research in many departments
Features
This week's magazine
15 February 1992
Issue 1808
On the cover
Editor's picks
Splitting images: sex and science – Sexual stereotypes are hard to change. It may be because the notion of polarity has bitten deep into our culture
Features
Beating the uncertainty principle: Experiments with interfering atoms designed to test wave-particle duality are helping physicists to understand the bizarre side of quantum theory
Features
Humans
How the wild beasts were tamed
Features
South Africa’s other bush war: Immigrant plants are sweeping through the Cape of Africa, threatening to strangle the region’s prized bush vegetation. Conservationists have struck back, but their actions may have hidden costs
Features
The hidden cost of Canada’s cheap power: Will expansion of one of the world’s largest hydroelectric schemes in remote northern Quebec cause environmental devastation or exploit a benign source of power?
Features
Table of contents
News
European funds ‘demolish’ the environment
News
Satellites help Australia count its dung
News
Britain blazes an alternative trail for gene therapy
News
Aid for DNA research
News
Industry ‘does not need research’
News
Nuclear stores planned
News
US environmentalists oppose world trade deal
News
Iceland goes it alone on whaling
News
Third World countries should control their genetic resources
News
Industrial giants poised to quit the Netherlands
News
Blood on stone opens doors to human origins: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
Awesome secret of the Indiana banana: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
Diagnosis by computer: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
Skull reconstructions speak for Neanderthals: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
Runaway greenhouse warming ‘cannot be rule out’: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
US argues over nuclear weapons research
News
The riddle of the Sphinx revisited: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
Patriot missiles misled by ‘accidental’ decoys: The American Association for the Advancement of Science met this week for its annual jamboree in Chicago. Topics ranged from Patriot missiles to Neanderthals and pawpaws with peculiar names
News
Science: What happens when sheets of carbon curl up in a saddle
News
Science: Starlight and the seven dwarfs
News
Science: Molecular memory
News
Science: Is Universe’s ‘missing mass’ in faint galaxies?
News
Science: Brownian motion sparks renewed debate
News
Science: Overactive T cells may cause asthma
News
Science: Salmon brains offer clues to nerve growth
News
Science: African Eve theory takes a step back
News
Technology
Technology: Chip revolution no flash in the pan
News
Technology
Technology: The news on the radio gets itself out of a tangle
News
Technology
Technology: Circular process promises to transform zinc industry
News
Technology
Technology: Blood tester scoops invention award
News
Technology
Technology: Cleaner catalysts win environment prize
News
Technology
Technology: Automatic mapping brings rapid relief
News
Technology
Technology: Evolutionary art imitates life
News
Opinion
Features
A premier league for university research?: Changes in the way the government allocates money to universities will benefit a chosen few but could put a stop to research in many departments
Features
Splitting images: sex and science – Sexual stereotypes are hard to change. It may be because the notion of polarity has bitten deep into our culture
Features
Beating the uncertainty principle: Experiments with interfering atoms designed to test wave-particle duality are helping physicists to understand the bizarre side of quantum theory
Features
Humans
How the wild beasts were tamed
Features
South Africa’s other bush war: Immigrant plants are sweeping through the Cape of Africa, threatening to strangle the region’s prized bush vegetation. Conservationists have struck back, but their actions may have hidden costs
Features
The hidden cost of Canada’s cheap power: Will expansion of one of the world’s largest hydroelectric schemes in remote northern Quebec cause environmental devastation or exploit a benign source of power?
Features
More
Review: Artful science from sunny California
Books & Arts
Review: Cooking up experiments
Books & Arts
Review: Why did they die?
Books & Arts
Review: Perceiving the world around you
Books & Arts
Review: Morals meets medicine
Books & Arts
Review: A biker’s approach to boffinry
Books & Arts
Review: To be shown
Books & Arts
Review: Picks of the Paperbacks
Books & Arts
