杏吧原创

View in the app Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app Find a previous edition online Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Maps that shape the world: Like a huge piece of orange peel

No way to treat a body: Ten thousand people in Britain alone injure themselves deliberately and regularly. Why do they do it and how can they stop?

Did Tibet cool the world?: When India and Asia collided more

A better recipe for making materials: In the industrial kitchens where materials are made, smart sensors and mathematical models are replacing rules of thumb and trial and error

Table of contents

News

Australia takes tough line on ‘HIV plant’

听

Game, set and match for Wimbledon wind tunnel

A painful problem for men and women

Aliens slip through international ‘safety net’

Bank to bale out Bulgaria’s reactors

Chernobyl’s critical lessons filter through

Braer ‘spill’ exposes huge holes in emergency plans

Disagreement fells timber treaty

Anxiety mounts over ‘divorce settlement’

US takes a closer look at nuclear test veterans

Two more victims of ‘antiscience’ bombing campaign

Secret scientists threaten to strike

The lab at the bottom of the sea

Russia joins Eureka scheme

Women hit hardest by HIV in divided South Africa

How greenery can transform summer in the city

‘AIDS tsar’ named

Cheaper condoms

Cholera scare

Rabies risk

Off target

Saved for now

Space repairs

Spiders welcome a watery fen

France’s troubled transplant trade: The case of a dead teenager whose eyes were removed without his parents’ consent shocked the French public. It exposed a transplant system riddled with legal and ethical failings

Science: Thousand-page proof vindicates Fermat

Science: A young star on the edge of Galactic darkness

Science: Heated exchange preserves life in desert

Science: Hubble catches the last gasps of a dying star

Science: Record-breaking reaction that has gone to pot

Technology

Technology: Hi ho, hi ho, let’s clean up Snow White

Technology

Technology: The smart way to pay your fare

Technology

Technology: . . . in Ottawa, the blind can find their way round town . . .

Technology

Technology: Global positioning helps the world to know its

Technology

Technology: Speckle lights way to atomic accuracy

Technology

Technology: . . . while Japan’s tourists listen in

Technology

Technology: Feeling pressured? Ask a butterfly

Technology

Technology: Bookmaker looks for favourite with electronic punters

Technology

Technology: Firing pottery into the atomic age

Opinion

CSIRO all at sea over merger plan

Comment: Grey men with a mission

Comment: Mirror, mirror . . .

Thistle Diary: Soggy timbers and the status quo – Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Features

Maps that shape the world: Like a huge piece of orange peel

No way to treat a body: Ten thousand people in Britain alone injure themselves deliberately and regularly. Why do they do it and how can they stop?

Did Tibet cool the world?: When India and Asia collided more

A better recipe for making materials: In the industrial kitchens where materials are made, smart sensors and mathematical models are replacing rules of thumb and trial and error

More

Review: Neander’s valley of discovery

Review: Silicon futures

Software: How to handle quick connections to the net, symbolic algebra, text and circuits on screen

Review: Overtaking Star Trek’s technology

Forum: Time to join the real world – Carol Dent argues that research councils must learn to love the marketplace

Forum: Dr Faustus meets the dinosaurs – Douglas Palmer on the shortcomings of Steven Spielberg’s latest scary monsters

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

Browse past issues

View all