Technology
Playing to win
Features
This week's magazine
19 September 1992
Issue 1839
Editor's picks
Can old reactors take the strain?: The world’s nuclear powerstations risk becoming brittle as they age faster than expected. As Westernengineers try to understand how, they are turning to Russia for practicalhelp in giving their oldest stations a new leas
Features
Sun sets over Silicon Valley: As Britain worries how to exploit its expertise, policy makers should take to heart the lessons of the US where desperate measures may not save the high-technology sector
Features
Humans
A tale of two heads
Features
Table of contents
News
Lower limits for lead in the pipeline
News
Toxic waste adds to Somalia’s woes
News
French dither over PCBs
News
Germans wary of DNA fingerprinting
News
Mutant mice offer hope for childhood disease
News
How bugs on the Acropolis made painters see red
News
Thousands of Britons ‘disappear’ from the books
News
Top golfers slice through myths
News
Don’t call us. . .
News
Greens at odds over drive to scrap cars
News
HIV strategy will fail, says vaccine veteran
News
US patent laws need ‘radical rethink’
News
Europe asks Russia to bale out spaceplane. . .
News
Japan seeks plutonium ally
News
Age no barrier to motherhood
News
Talk is cheap, say Russia’s nuclear chiefs
News
Radiation alert
News
‘Drought’ marks Ukraine’s first birthday
News
BSE hope
News
Rivers row
News
Sulphur safety
News
Computer brings jellyfish to ‘life’
News
Japanese lesson
News
Dole truth
News
Fever spreads
News
Too cosy
News
Trees help nature reclaim the slap heaps: In South Walkes, efforts to reclaim the black mountains of waste from coal mines have failed. A Bulgarian technique promises to do better
News
Science: Take six enzymes, shake and synthesise
News
Science: The devious means by which some birds sire offspring
News
Science: Building the Galaxy from the inside out
News
Science: The rat in squirrel’s clothing
News
Science: Electrons dance to a quantum tune
News
Science: Baby black holes blamed for earthquakes
News
Technology
Technology: US ‘supergun’ sets sights on space
News
Technology
Technology: Successful sperm have a one-track mind
News
Technology
Technology: Japan claims supercomputer lead
News
Technology
Technology: Heat probe charts rise and fall of breast pain
News
Technology
Technology: Helmet camera lends a hand to firefighters
News
Technology
Technology: Microwaved emissions make power stations more palatable
News
Technology
Technology: Werewolf leads Russian helicopter attack
News
Technology
Technology: Focusing with the eye of the beholder
News
Opinion
Features
Technology
Playing to win
People still rule in chess, draughts, bridge and go. But could computer brawn soon overtake human brain in our traditional pursuits?
Features
Can old reactors take the strain?: The world’s nuclear powerstations risk becoming brittle as they age faster than expected. As Westernengineers try to understand how, they are turning to Russia for practicalhelp in giving their oldest stations a new leas
Features
Sun sets over Silicon Valley: As Britain worries how to exploit its expertise, policy makers should take to heart the lessons of the US where desperate measures may not save the high-technology sector
Features
Humans
A tale of two heads
Features
More
Review: Soft cover on the new physics
Books & Arts
Review: Fond farewell to Soviet pioneers
Books & Arts
Review: Prowler in the corridors of power
Books & Arts
Review: Uses and abuses of Soviet psychiatry
Books & Arts
Review: Our world in one country
Books & Arts
Review: Left out of the world
Books & Arts
Review: Physical principles poetically inclined
Books & Arts
