Battle looms over European research: Jacques Delors wants European Community funds to help industry to perfect its products. Opponents argue that this is an improper use of taxpayers’ money
Features
This week's magazine
14 March 1992
Issue 1812
Editor's picks
Logging rainforests the natural way?: Those who wish to exploit rainforests usually destroy them. One answer may be to extract timber in a way that mimics the natural destruction which is inherent in a rainforest’s life cycle
Features
Europe’s shining new light: Near the French Alps a dream machine is being built that will be all things to all scientists. It will be able to shed light of unsurpassed brilliance on all kinds of crystals, molecules and atoms
Features
The art of putting industryin perspective: Edna Lumb’s record of Britain’s industrial heritage ranges from the glories of Victorian engineering to the peaks of London’s skyline. Yet galleries find little space for her art
Features
How to seal a supertanker
Features
Table of contents
News
Election jeorpardises techology deal
News
Ministers move to limit genome patents
News
Michelangelo disappoints the virus hunters
News
Marmosets succumb to mad cow disease
News
African nations defeated over elephant trade
News
Nuclear company warned over uranium records
News
Aborigines hit back at ‘out of date’ views on AIDS
News
Earth Summit delegates accused of hypocrisy
News
Breast cancer drug hist fresh safety snag
News
Asthma reports raise false hopes
News
Europe’s top research jobs up for grabs
News
Bargain hunters snap up Russian brainpower
News
Soviet space saver
News
Gene transplant gives apricots a riper future
News
Fear and loathing close a fish farm in Cyprus
News
CFCs in store
News
Cosmonaut returns to topsy-turvy world
News
Crop diversity
News
Water works
News
Concern for koalas
News
Extra cash
News
Oil-tight tankers
News
Zoo aid
News
Science: Interstellar ion
News
Science: Nightingales who change their tune
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Science: The wonderful world of molecular Meccano
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Science: Chaos triggers the northern lights
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Science: How a baseball bat breaks its back
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Science: An orange a day helps to keep sperm OK
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Science: How sulphates shade the midday sun
News
Technology
Technology: BR signals disaster for recording studios
News
Technology
Technology: Star Wars fallout clears the air
News
Technology
Technology: Lightweight materials bring cycling to softies
News
Technology
Technology: Microwaves cook the soot out of diesel exhausts
News
Technology
Technology: Squelching the squeal of steel on steel
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Technology
Technology: Dry air defeats rust in Humber bridge
News
Technology
Technology: A memorable sandwich
News
Technology
Technology: Electronics giant zooms in on patent victory
News
Opinion
Features
Battle looms over European research: Jacques Delors wants European Community funds to help industry to perfect its products. Opponents argue that this is an improper use of taxpayers’ money
Features
Logging rainforests the natural way?: Those who wish to exploit rainforests usually destroy them. One answer may be to extract timber in a way that mimics the natural destruction which is inherent in a rainforest’s life cycle
Features
Europe’s shining new light: Near the French Alps a dream machine is being built that will be all things to all scientists. It will be able to shed light of unsurpassed brilliance on all kinds of crystals, molecules and atoms
Features
The art of putting industryin perspective: Edna Lumb’s record of Britain’s industrial heritage ranges from the glories of Victorian engineering to the peaks of London’s skyline. Yet galleries find little space for her art
Features
How to seal a supertanker
Features
More
Review: The tilted planet in close up
Books & Arts
Review: Unravelling the lines of power
Books & Arts
Review: Spin a chicken
Books & Arts
Review: Beating the odds
Books & Arts
Review: The rise and rise of the computer
Books & Arts
Review: First rule of structural engineers
Books & Arts
Review: A listing approach to the past
Books & Arts
Review: Everybody wants recognition
Books & Arts
