Are power lines bad for you?: People first drew possible links between power transmission lines and cancer in 1979. Evidence gathered since then has been inconclusive, but new studies could provide a way forward
Features
This week's magazine
11 April 1992
Issue 1816
On the cover
Editor's picks
The secret world of animal experiments: Despite the 1986 act, the public still has little say on what is done in animal experiments. Ethical committees could give lay people a voice
Features
A fair press for animals: When they write up their research, scientists should give details of any adverse effects on animals so that others can avoid making the same mistakes
Features
Making maths make money: Will analytical models of complex systems in nature also predict the movements of financial markets? Mathematicians in the US are hoping to get rich while they find out
Features
Imperfect mirrors of the Universe
Features
Table of contents
News
Britain keeps its cool as the world warms up
News
Why the Japanese like it sour. . .
News
‘Open skies’ treaty suffers blurred vision
News
Europe exposed to ultraviolet risk as ozone levels hit all-time low
News
Hermes boosts Russian space industry
News
Genetic tests identify plane crash victims
News
Academia ‘needs links to industry’
News
Earth Summit ‘seriously devoid of vision’
News
Southern Europe’s women ‘face greater AIDS risk’
News
Legal row breaks out over hepatitis test
News
Patents thwart genome project
News
Ukraine shuns links with republics
News
Demolition of a disastrous dam
News
Japanese river scheme survives barrage of criticism
News
French firm in Australian radar rumpus
News
Gene may give early clue to bowel cancer
News
Is it a bat or is it a monkey?
News
Squabble over how to spend Exxon’s Valdez compensation
News
German naturalists defend Red Army’s legacy
News
Asimov dies
News
Sick seals
News
Starring role for Atlantis astronatus
News
Renewable energy
News
Concern over cars
News
French HIV tests
News
Doping horses
News
Focus: Who pays for the Earth Summit? – Good intentions are all there is to show for more than a year of preparations for the Earth Summit. The most fundamental issue is still unresolved: who will pay? And how much?
News
Science: Earthquake tension builds up in California
News
Science: A radical approach to electromagnetic fields
News
Science: Metallic buckyballs in a class of their own
News
Science: Did comets give Titan its atmosphere?
News
Science: Genetic code gains a new letter
News
Technology
Technology: Will ozone in the laundry leave detergents all washed up?
News
Technology
Technology: Fake fish steer dolphins away from danger
News
Technology
Technology: Computer games make learning virtually irresistible
News
Technology
Technology: The flight of the powerless aeroplane
News
Technology
Technology: BBC scrambles for profits in the dead of night
News
Technology
Technology: One sniff of lemon stuns a barking dog into silence
News
Technology
Technology: Latex men help doctors to predict strokes
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Brass rubbings’ breathe life into architects’ plans
News
Technology
Technology: Slick paint gives graffiti the brushoff
News
Features
Are power lines bad for you?: People first drew possible links between power transmission lines and cancer in 1979. Evidence gathered since then has been inconclusive, but new studies could provide a way forward
Features
The secret world of animal experiments: Despite the 1986 act, the public still has little say on what is done in animal experiments. Ethical committees could give lay people a voice
Features
A fair press for animals: When they write up their research, scientists should give details of any adverse effects on animals so that others can avoid making the same mistakes
Features
Making maths make money: Will analytical models of complex systems in nature also predict the movements of financial markets? Mathematicians in the US are hoping to get rich while they find out
Features
Imperfect mirrors of the Universe
Features
More
Review: Ancestral cannibalism gives us food for thought
Books & Arts
Review: Men rule maths, but that is not OK.
Books & Arts
Review: A novel interpretation of icy inspiration and heroism
Books & Arts
Review: Changing the rules of the game in process
Books & Arts
Review: Edinburgh’s Festival of Science
Books & Arts
Review: Operating systems that gum up the works
Books & Arts
