The great folic acid scandal: Government-funded research proved beyond doubt that one of the B vitamins plays a powerful part in preventing common birth defects. So why isn’t it in our daily bread?
Features
This week's magazine
17 July 1993
Issue 1882
On the cover
Editor's picks
The high cost of carbon dioxide: Great balls of ice or a sea floor coated with snow – just two of the imaginative schemes being dreamt up to deal with one of the planet’s most potent greenhouse gases
Features
The face of a new technology: The inside story of Philips’s decision to launch the Digital Compact Cassette and its engineers’ struggle to build it
Features
Saving Haiti’s bacon
Features
Table of contents
News
Anger over ‘selective’ data on HIV therapy
News
I spy with my gamma ray eye
News
Tobacco industry fumes over passive smoking
News
Apple’s change of heart too late to save jobs
News
Australians up in arms over research shake-up
News
No more pussies galore
News
Taking the graft out of growing roses
News
Antarctica welcomes careful visitors
News
Disaster on tap at French reactor
News
Darwin shows faint signs of life
News
Research hospitals join hit list
News
When cooperation is all . . .
News
Satellite sees waves in the strait
News
Fat rats that love their poison
News
Union threatens injunction over Warren Spring
News
IUD ban will cut Chinese abortions
News
Is it a bird, is it a plane or is it Mother Goose?
News
Global alliance
News
Cleaner rain
News
Nice for wolves
News
Do you know this man?
News
Rotten for ravens
News
Scourge of youth
News
List of lemons
News
A long dry season . . .: Prolonged drought in Mediterranean countries has sparked off a frenzy of engineering projects to save water. Forecasts predict drier times to come
News
Science: Black holes: what goes in, must come out
News
Science: Hawaii’s hotspots find their place in the Sun
News
Science: Could marigolds slay killer mosquitoes?
News
Science: Piecing together the Easter Island molecule
News
Science: ‘Mini’ cosmic ripples hint at birth of galaxies
News
Technology
Technology: Lean-burn catalyst offers market boon
News
Technology
Technology: Infrared makes light work of sorting plastics
News
Technology
Technology: The accidental art of alchemy
News
Technology
Technology: Sensors screen monumental mould
News
Technology
Technology: X-rays with the Midas touch
News
Technology
Technology: Rail gun on the right lines
News
Technology
Technology: Adjustable racket turns heads
News
Technology
Technology: Liquid crystals give sight to failing eyes
News
Technology
Technology: Treasury pressed to switch policies on digital TV
News
Technology
Technology: Fast ferries halve the time for channel crossings
News
Opinion
Features
The great folic acid scandal: Government-funded research proved beyond doubt that one of the B vitamins plays a powerful part in preventing common birth defects. So why isn’t it in our daily bread?
Features
The high cost of carbon dioxide: Great balls of ice or a sea floor coated with snow – just two of the imaginative schemes being dreamt up to deal with one of the planet’s most potent greenhouse gases
Features
The face of a new technology: The inside story of Philips’s decision to launch the Digital Compact Cassette and its engineers’ struggle to build it
Features
Saving Haiti’s bacon
Features
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Review: Swan song for a geologist
Books & Arts
Review: In two minds about consciousness
Books & Arts
Review: On the trail of crystals, caves and city stones
Books & Arts
Review: Pottering beyond the fragments of time
Books & Arts
Review: The grinding mills of mathematics
Books & Arts
Review: Maraca explored
Books & Arts
Films: Look out, there’s a monster about
Books & Arts
Review: Real lives of the dinosaurs – the authorised version
Books & Arts
Television: From origami to the world’s worst films
Books & Arts
