Pouring cold water on Lorenzo’s oil
Features
This week's magazine
6 March 1993
Issue 1863
Editor's picks
Watch out for the videophones: After 30 years of promises, we can now buy telephones that transmit pictures. But the problems caused by out-of-date technology may put us off them for life
Features
2010: America’s nuclear waste odyssey – The US has spent billions of dollars studying a site planned to be the permanent home for its nuclear waste. As the deadline for a decision approaches, supporters and opponents are still wrangling about what the da
Features
Why must I be a teenager at all?: No one knows for sure why adolescence is unique to humans. But it could buy teenagers time to practise the complex social skills we need to become effective parents
Features
Careers: In waters deep and shallow – As an island, Britain has a special interest in what inhabits its coastal, territorial and inland waters
Features
Table of contents
News
Wester Australia ‘censored’ forest reports
News
Pressurised managers blamed for ambulance failure
News
Columbus could head east to escape Clinton’s cuts
News
Too much manure makes Dutch dykes crumble
News
Genetic ‘switch’ to target skin cancer
News
Europe raises its standard at sea
News
Gorillas caught up in civil war
News
Perforations appear in Arctic ozone
News
US health chief asked to step down
News
Energy booster ‘a con’ says French food watchdog
News
Fishy cure for craggy features
News
Californians wary of plan for profits
News
Spark of life for Faraday centres
News
Smokers’ sperm spell trouble for future generations
News
Poisoned fish blamed for villagers’ birth defects
News
Enzyme clue to cause of degenerative disease
News
This won’t hurt a bit . . .
News
Rubella rising
News
To him that hath
News
Miscarriage risk
News
Pining for parrots
News
Fatal firing
News
Boost for ban
News
Unequal
News
DNA fingerprinting back in the dock: The case of a man cleared of armed robbery has badly dented the credibility of genetic fingerprinting in British courts
News
Science: Farthest superclusters trouble the cosmologists
News
Science: Clutch of stars may have crashed into Milky Way
News
Science: Cape crusaders kill African ‘killer’ bees
News
Science: The glue that held the Roman empire together
News
Science: Finding the energy to solve a knotty problem
News
Science: Multiple sclerosis gets the oral treatment
News
Science: Pinatubo warms winters in the north
News
Technology
Technology: Drop test picks out best peas for soggy soil
News
Technology
Technology: Will patent challenge stymie software giant?
News
Technology
Technology: Brain waves show that Michael Jackson is no thriller
News
Technology
Technology: Drug trial shakes confidence in biotechnology firms
News
Technology
Technology: Microwaves crack problem of radioactive floors
News
Technology
Technology: Measuring methane from bovine burps
News
Technology
Technology: Camera follows a moving target
News
Opinion
Features
Pouring cold water on Lorenzo’s oil
Everyone has warmed to Hollywood's true-life story of two parents battling to save their son from an incurable disease. But does the treatment they discovered work?
Features
Watch out for the videophones: After 30 years of promises, we can now buy telephones that transmit pictures. But the problems caused by out-of-date technology may put us off them for life
Features
2010: America’s nuclear waste odyssey – The US has spent billions of dollars studying a site planned to be the permanent home for its nuclear waste. As the deadline for a decision approaches, supporters and opponents are still wrangling about what the da
Features
Why must I be a teenager at all?: No one knows for sure why adolescence is unique to humans. But it could buy teenagers time to practise the complex social skills we need to become effective parents
Features
Careers: In waters deep and shallow – As an island, Britain has a special interest in what inhabits its coastal, territorial and inland waters
Features
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Review: Patterns emerging from a complex world
Books & Arts
Review: Wild hopes for the future of tropical crops
Books & Arts
Review: From the speculative to the indisputable
Books & Arts
Review: Tools of the trade, polished and preserved
Books & Arts
Review: Time to learn
Books & Arts
