The cost of clean blood: Donated blood is still a significant source of HIV infection in developing countries. Although cheap and simple tests are now available, the resources to buy them are not
Features
This week's magazine
5 September 1992
Issue 1837
Editor's picks
A shanty town that’s here to stay
Features
The thinking machine’s guide to computing: When a group of renegade researchers decided to build a machine that could reason, they did not expect to take on the computing industry. Now they are part of the establishment
Features
Can they do science?: There are more than 100 000 disabled scientists and engineers working worldwide. Computer technology is helping to break down barriers
Features
Table of contents
News
Heisenberg’s principles kept bomb from Nazis
Nazi leaders were kept in the dark about how far Germany's nuclear physicists had got in their work on an atomic bomb
News
How uranium sellers enrich their lives
News
Britain loses initiative on biodiversity
News
Still steaming after all these years
News
Army AIDS vaccine comes under fire
News
Iraq’s chemical weapons go up in smoke
News
Spanish pilots force flamingos to flee
News
Japanese ibis loses the mating game
News
A powerful future for deep waters
News
Test-tube fusion lives on in exile: The British Association’s Science Festival hotted up in the second half with more confusion over cold fusion, queries over aquariums and a carp about cod
News
Complex programmers outsmart Euclid
News
Earth works for archaeologists
News
Tropical treatment for sweeter salad
News
Plymouth wins over heavyweights for aquariums
News
Carp and chips, twice please . . .
News
Third World ‘under pressure to burn fossil fuel’
News
From alchemy to gravity
News
Lasers too weak for optical computers
News
Focus: Marriage of convenience for Russian research – As Russian research institutes take their first steps in courting Western companies, they are learning harsh lessons about what makes a successful marriage
News
Science: Amphibians offer a taste of their own medicine
News
Science: Let them burn limestone . . .
News
Science: Teaching the body to tolerate transplants
News
Science: Galaxy’s dark halo may hold clues to cosmic puzzle
News
Science: How foam forms on ocean waves
News
Science: Geese brave life on the edge to reach food first
News
Science: Macho birds sing a rousing dawn chorus
News
Technology
Technology: Phonetappers profit from weak radio link
News
Technology
Technology: Listening in high places
News
Technology
Technology: Molecular battery makes charges stick
News
Technology
Technology: Automated anaesthetist promises end to waking nightmare
News
Technology
Technology: Metal balls settle out-of-court disputes
News
Technology
Technology: Recycled CDs play it again
News
Opinion
Features
The cost of clean blood: Donated blood is still a significant source of HIV infection in developing countries. Although cheap and simple tests are now available, the resources to buy them are not
Features
A shanty town that’s here to stay
Features
The thinking machine’s guide to computing: When a group of renegade researchers decided to build a machine that could reason, they did not expect to take on the computing industry. Now they are part of the establishment
Features
Can they do science?: There are more than 100 000 disabled scientists and engineers working worldwide. Computer technology is helping to break down barriers
Features
More
Review: Sanity for the 21st century
Books & Arts
Review: That old quack magic
Books & Arts
Review: A satirist’s view of morality
Books & Arts
Review: The dirt on museums
Books & Arts
Review: Worlds in water
Books & Arts
Review: Navigating the world of instruments
Books & Arts
Review: Deadly bequest to the nations
Books & Arts
