Rescuing minds from disease and decay: Molecular genetics and brain scanning technologies are bringing the dream of repairing damaged brains a step closer to reality. But many obstacles still remain
Features
This week's magazine
14 November 1992
Issue 1847
On the cover
Editor's picks
The ‘planet’ that came in from the cold: The discovery of a world beyond Pluto, some six billion kilometres from the Sun, shows that our inventory of the Solar System has been missing a vital component
Features
Superconductors go organic:
Features
Battling on with veteran computers: The computers that underpin our everyday lives are getting old. Can we afford to throw them away or must we learn to live with the drawbacks?
Features
Hydrogen’s evangelist: Mark Oliphant dared to suggest that hydrogen could be an exploitable source of energy. Sixty years on, he is still enthusiastic about its potential
Features
In search of a single Europe: Despite the escalating financial and intellectual demands of modern research and development, international collaboration in Europe remains patchy
Features
Table of contents
News
Enemy from space replaces red menace
News
Pride of Prague to have a cleaner face
News
Britain will plug on fast breeder programme
News
Lead in lake blamed for floppy trunks
News
Handshake symbolises India’s AIDS awareness
News
UN environment chief defends dam builders
News
Ambulance computer system was ‘to complicated’
News
All change for industry’s research funds
News
Iraqi centrifuge mystery solved
News
Research councils in conflict over policy review
News
Russian chemist faces 15 years
News
MOT test fails to make cars cleaner
News
Compulsory decoders for nonexistent TV signals
News
Is Congress backing the wrong AIDS vaccine?
News
‘Warnings ignored’ on prison blood
News
Timber tales
News
Fine feathers of the male mosquito
News
Mean on matching
News
Biotech controls
News
Sludge for forests
News
Israel tests for HIV
News
Animal tests
News
Roubles run out
News
Focus: Guess what’s coming to dinner? – Creatures created by genetic engineering are used in laboratories, and their meat could soon appear on supermarket shelves. Do these animals raise new ethical issues?
News
Science: Gravity waves rule the Universe
News
Science: A moving experience for sponges
News
Science: Cutting X-ray lasers down to size
News
Science: Who wants to live forever?
News
Science: The splatter effect on Venus
News
Science: A small star with a cool companion
News
Science: Genetic test for inherited thyroid cancer
News
Technology
Technology: Warding off bullets by a spider’s thread
News
Technology
Technology: Clinics are glowing in the wind
News
Technology
Technology: Taking the snow out of Greenland’s television
News
Technology
Technology: Cracking solution
News
Technology
Technology: Fast disc sets computer world in a spin
News
Technology
Technology: Cancer test kits
News
Technology
Technology: A tasty dish for farmed fish
News
Technology
Technology: Filtering out cancer’s side-effects
News
Technology
Technology: Virtual emergency clue to people’s behaviour
News
Technology
Technology: A roof and four walls from the sub-Saharan soil
News
Opinion
Features
Rescuing minds from disease and decay: Molecular genetics and brain scanning technologies are bringing the dream of repairing damaged brains a step closer to reality. But many obstacles still remain
Features
The ‘planet’ that came in from the cold: The discovery of a world beyond Pluto, some six billion kilometres from the Sun, shows that our inventory of the Solar System has been missing a vital component
Features
Superconductors go organic:
Features
Battling on with veteran computers: The computers that underpin our everyday lives are getting old. Can we afford to throw them away or must we learn to live with the drawbacks?
Features
Hydrogen’s evangelist: Mark Oliphant dared to suggest that hydrogen could be an exploitable source of energy. Sixty years on, he is still enthusiastic about its potential
Features
In search of a single Europe: Despite the escalating financial and intellectual demands of modern research and development, international collaboration in Europe remains patchy
Features
More
Review: The antman pleads for life on Earth
Books & Arts
Review: Showing off the cave of delights
Books & Arts
Review: Insight into sight and experience
Books & Arts
Review: Mrs Gibson leaps in at the deep end
Books & Arts
Review: Theatre of knowledge
Books & Arts
Review: Reality and dreams in a sea of sculpture
Books & Arts
