Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?
Features
This week's magazine
25 September 1993
Issue 1892
On the cover
Editor's picks
Computer chaos at medicine’s cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other
Features
How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport’s most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf’s growing popularity
Features
Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised
Features
Table of contents
News
Your money or your satellite . . .
News
Pesticides linked to breast cancer
News
Rabbit virus to be let loose?
News
First sight of ‘invisible’ matter
News
Big science under the microscope
News
Are bats divided by more than a squeak?
News
No ban on human genes in food
News
‘Come clean on acid rain’
News
All is not well in the wok
News
Industry to pay for data dream
News
American ‘shoot to sterlise’ policy
News
Storm leaves sandy signature
News
Vaccination risks are ‘too small to count’
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Pick and mix
News
JET strike
News
Spinning the light fantastic
News
Sciencefest
News
Fallow and fatal
News
Dounraey danger
News
Killer colour
News
Massive impact
News
Living in harmony with forests: Next week, the first international system is launched for labelling tropical timber that has been sustainably produced
News
Science: Buckyball electrons prefer pentagons
News
Science: Poisonous peanuts linked to liver cancer
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Science: Molecular vase springs a better trap
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Science: Smooth flows the spreading seafloor
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Science: A curious tale of inflatable stars
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Science: Lightning clues to the world’s temperature
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Science: Global warming cuts no ice
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Blind’ ship sails bettter, says pilot
News
Technology
Technology: Robots check the rotting of the reef
News
Technology
Technology: Ray of hope for ‘old’ televisions
News
Technology
Technology: A new calling for computerised phones
News
Technology
Technology: Monitor keeps fighter jets in finer fettle
News
Technology
Technology: Old news acquires immortality on computer tapes
News
Patents: Preparation for sell-off sows confusion
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Patents: Radar love?
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Patents: Light reading
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Patents: Focus on fatigue
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Patents: Quake alarm
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Patents: Flight plan
News
Opinion
Features
Escape from Biosphere 2: On Sunday the four men and four women who volunteered to spend two years in a sealed bubble will come out to resume life in the real world. But does their experience bring us any closer to living on Mars?
Features
Computer chaos at medicine’s cutting edge: Doctors who want to make the most of computers to treat patients are being thwarted by systems that cannot communicate with each other
Features
How green is your golf?: Golfers from the US and Europe compete in Britain this weekend for the Ryder Cup, one of the sport’s most lucrative events. But there is a heavy price to pay for golf’s growing popularity
Features
Engineers, ethics and etiquette: Professional codes of ethics say engineers must always put public interest first. But when two Australian engineers did just that they found themselves ostracised
Features
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Review: Chemistry and the construction of life – A new academic year always finds students searching for the right texts to make the most of their limited budgets. New 杏吧原创 offers help by reviewing books on chemistry, biology, computing and physics
Books & Arts
Review: Biology sticks to the basic text
Books & Arts
Review: Update or out of date
Books & Arts
Review: Living in a physical world
Books & Arts
Review: How to plant the seeds of knowledge
Books & Arts
