British innovation, German style: The major political parties agree that Britain must make industrial capital out of academic ideas. All three are looking to Germany for inspiration
Features
This week's magazine
21 March 1992
Issue 1813
On the cover
Editor's picks
Is nature mathematical?
Features
Pathways to pain control: We know a lot about acute pain and how to control it. But hospital wards are full of patients suffering unnecessarily after surgery
Features
Health
Freud: who seduced whom?
Features
Earth
The green diplomat
Features
The irresistible fluid and the immovable rock: How does a fluid seep through solid rock? The subtle variations in the paths that different fluids take affect everything from lava to oil reservoirs
Features
Table of contents
News
Drought hits Brazil as climate chaos spreads
News
MPs staggered by tardy Channel trains
News
Drug-resistant malaria threatens Cambodia
News
Clean white coats spread mutant microbes
News
Action to limit deserts
News
Charities angry at hitch in breast cancer trial
News
Moves to defuse row over genome patents
News
Black bears win last-minute reprieve
News
Nervous NASA awaits its new supremo
News
Boost for big science in Eastern Europe
News
Western funds for Russia may miss their target
News
Multinationals in Thailand agree to limit CFCs
News
Making companies pay for the right to pollute could cut acid rain
News
Green advice ploughed under as bulldozers move in
News
Race to save Guyana’s rainforests
News
Sick policemen help to pinpoint arthritis gene
News
Planetary probes
News
Sleuths called in
News
Just in time
News
Expensive hole
News
Tissue issue
News
Six-inch pest controller goes to work
News
False figures
News
Election effort
News
Artificial blood
News
Science: Tunable polymer could make coloured light-emitting displays
News
Science: Bursting through to dark matter
News
Science: ‘Forgotton’ electrons could solve solar neutrino puzzle
News
Science: The secret language of honeybees
News
Science: Treatment for blindness challenges eye orthodoxy
News
Science: Will altered crop genes run wild in the country?
News
Technology
Technology: Data compression squeezes movies into CD
News
Technology
Technology: Cushion steel puts the spring in high heels
News
Technology
Technology: Police cool it with cayenne pepper
News
Technology
Technology: Hotfoot to the hills
News
Technology
Technology: Speeding the way through airport terminals
News
Technology
Technology: Blackbird comes back in spaceplane test
News
Technology
Technology: Robot navvies hired to mend motorways
News
Technology
Technology: Silicone screens put a new face on computers
News
Opinion
Features
British innovation, German style: The major political parties agree that Britain must make industrial capital out of academic ideas. All three are looking to Germany for inspiration
Features
Is nature mathematical?
Features
Pathways to pain control: We know a lot about acute pain and how to control it. But hospital wards are full of patients suffering unnecessarily after surgery
Features
Health
Freud: who seduced whom?
Features
Earth
The green diplomat
Features
The irresistible fluid and the immovable rock: How does a fluid seep through solid rock? The subtle variations in the paths that different fluids take affect everything from lava to oil reservoirs
Features
More
Review: Through warfare to the stars
Books & Arts
Review: Snap up the heavens
Books & Arts
Review: The price of the future
Books & Arts
Review: Pharmaceuticals wrestle it out
Books & Arts
Review: Grounds for anxiety
Books & Arts
Review: C’est magnifique, mais ca ne marche pas
Books & Arts
Review: Through a glass brightly
Books & Arts
