Early warning for the next Chernobyl: The high cost of making the former Soviet Union’s ageing nuclear power plants safe is forcing Western governments to set up an early warning system for radiation leaks
Features
This week's magazine
18 September 1993
Issue 1891
On the cover
Editor's picks
Shine on, brilliant galaxy: What lies at the heart of the brightest galaxies in the Universe? An old theory could be making a comeback
Features
Last chance for the wasting wilderness?: Neglect is destroying two of Britain’s most precious natural habitats. The second part of our series explains why government intervention is needed
Features
Breast cancer: a lethal inheritance – Geneticists are close to identifying a gene that can lead to hereditary breast cancer. But at first this breakthrough could raise more problems than it solves
Features
Table of contents
News
Hidden homeless who came to stay . . .
News
Peace pact promises unity in the desert
News
Injured iceman was only hours away from safety
News
Rushed HIV testing risks false results
News
Few take up offer of gene screening
News
DNA transplant give insight into TB
News
Chewing gum gave Stone Age punk a buzz
News
Row surfaces over sunken nuclear sub
News
French minister hints at budget boost
News
Brazil goes sweet on electricity
News
Ageing tapestries united by light
News
Staff axed as leading museum goes down market
News
Can Clinton’s computers cut government flab?
News
Dreadful locks
News
US advised to rejoin UNESCO
News
Gun laws takes toll of California’s sea lions
News
Weaponry on tap
News
Star Wars tricks
News
Soldiers poisoned?
News
Plug for pill
News
Film fantasy
News
Zoo turnaround
News
Dodgy drugs
News
Focus: Cracking into the world of whispers: The US government is offering an ‘uncrackable’ encryption algorithm to the world. But is its motivation to catch criminals or to listen to everything you say?
News
Science: Can ‘personal’ vaccines fight MS?
News
Science: How to make an hourglass tick
News
Science: Only big boys like broccoli
News
Science: Safer way to stop a coronary
News
Science: Deepest hole yet over the North
News
Science: Monkeys live fast, die young
News
Science: Cold is the key to ozone loss
News
Technology
Technology: Seeds of recovery for Ukraine’s milk
News
Technology
Technology: TV spectacles cast eye fears aside
News
Technology
Technology: Phones to end the bathtime blues
News
Technology
Technology: Danger – men in suits at work
News
Technology
Technology: Just turn on the tap to fill up the tank?
News
Technology
Technology: Quiz question launches better ceramics
News
Technology
Technology: Matrix makes light work of heavy computing
News
Opinion
Features
Early warning for the next Chernobyl: The high cost of making the former Soviet Union’s ageing nuclear power plants safe is forcing Western governments to set up an early warning system for radiation leaks
Features
Shine on, brilliant galaxy: What lies at the heart of the brightest galaxies in the Universe? An old theory could be making a comeback
Features
Last chance for the wasting wilderness?: Neglect is destroying two of Britain’s most precious natural habitats. The second part of our series explains why government intervention is needed
Features
Breast cancer: a lethal inheritance – Geneticists are close to identifying a gene that can lead to hereditary breast cancer. But at first this breakthrough could raise more problems than it solves
Features
More
Earthquakes and volcanoes
Inside Science
Review: The case for earth sciences
Books & Arts
Review: Whewell, the statesman of science
Books & Arts
Review: Earth’s fireworks
Books & Arts
Review: Friend and foe in science fiction
Books & Arts
Review: There are comets at the bottom of the garden
Books & Arts
Review: A cover that says it all
Books & Arts
Paperbacks: Roy Herbert discovers habit-forming science broadcasts and mirror-image molecules
Books & Arts
