Elephants and birth control
Features
This week's magazine
1 August 1992
Issue 1832
Editor's picks
Can science save its soul?: Some scientists have begun to talk confidently about understanding God and creation. They are crediting science with power it doesn’t possess
Features
The brains behind the brawn: Why does weight-training have such a profound effect on the human physique? The answer lies in the flexibility of the genes that program muscle fibres
Features
On the right track: Athletics tracks can give runners and jumpers an unfair advantage. Barcelona has the first Olympic track with a surface designed to an international standard
Features
A record for electronics: Never before has so much electronics technology been used at an Olympiad to monitor performances, record achievements and communicate with an audience of more than 3 billion
Features
Table of contents
News
Russian physicists give way to God
News
AIDS workers in monkey virus scare
News
Genetic ‘hoofprints’ for harness horses
News
Friendly apes
News
Bill challenges secrecy over drug safety
News
Government adviser warns of cuts to come
News
Watchdog targets telephone abuse
News
Factories and traffic blamed for ‘the hum’
News
Save a bug for biotechnology
News
Darwinian program pinpoints pollution
News
Protein therapy ‘stimulates antibodies’
News
Milk warning
News
Fast-growing HIV strain may speed onset of AIDS
News
How the media set conference agenda
News
Funding levels out
News
Britain cannot host fusion project
News
Abortions up as Russia runs out of condoms
News
Berlin builds a second synchrotron
News
Law on paper
News
Grains of sand
News
Spreading east
News
It’s daft to be square
News
Menace from tyres
News
New nerves
News
Atomic currency
News
Focus: A Wellcome injection of cash – The world’s biggest medical charity is about to double its research budget. This new money will create an impact right across British science
News
Science: The biggest mass extinction of them all?
News
Science: Method in the madness of lapwings
News
Science: Enzyme takes toxins out of the soil
News
Science: Ringing the changes to make medicine easy to swallow
News
Science: Planet hunters pin down distance of nearby star
News
Science: Will Antartctic ozone bite the dust?
News
Science: Parental inequality leads to damaged offspring
News
Technology
Technology: NHS computer project ‘should be scrapped’
News
Technology
Technology: Invisible hearing aid gives eardrums good vibrations
News
Technology
Technology: Subtitles to order for films on video
News
Technology
Technology: Electric power from satellite on a string
News
Technology
Technology: Cells and sponge support failing liver
News
Technology
Technology: River robots raise the alarm on polluters
News
Opinion
Features
Elephants and birth control
Culling has been the only way of controlling the burgeoning elephant population in Africa's game reserves. Would birth control be an acceptable alternative?
Features
Can science save its soul?: Some scientists have begun to talk confidently about understanding God and creation. They are crediting science with power it doesn’t possess
Features
The brains behind the brawn: Why does weight-training have such a profound effect on the human physique? The answer lies in the flexibility of the genes that program muscle fibres
Features
On the right track: Athletics tracks can give runners and jumpers an unfair advantage. Barcelona has the first Olympic track with a surface designed to an international standard
Features
A record for electronics: Never before has so much electronics technology been used at an Olympiad to monitor performances, record achievements and communicate with an audience of more than 3 billion
Features
More
Review: Environmental running mate
Books & Arts
Review: Classical ethology from the maestro’s mob
Books & Arts
Review: Engineering change in a real world
Books & Arts
Review: I program, therefore I think
Books & Arts
Review: Locusts and chimpanzees: minds of their own
Books & Arts
Review: Designer instruments survive the longest
Books & Arts
