Europe’s home-grown fuel: Growing non-food crops in empty fields appears to offer many advantages, but British farmers seem reluctant to cultivate them unless they are paid higher subsidies
Features
This week's magazine
16 October 1993
Issue 1895
Editor's picks
Fever in the urban jungle: Across the globe, the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever are returning in force. Will we be able to cope if the disease strikes a major city?
Features
Hold the front page . . . It seemed like any other morning. Then out of the blue came ‘the discovery of the century, perhaps of all time’, and the media were in hot pursuit
Features
Mixed up over the mantle: Currents of solid rock flowing hundreds of kilometres below the Earth’s surface shape the world we know. But only now are geologists beginning to understand them
Features
Table of contents
News
Gene rivals who sparked a revolution
News
. . . while German report confronts industry claims
News
Fast track to British fields for altered plants . . .
News
What’s new bureaucrat?
News
High Court acquits Sellafield
News
Crime plan at odds with US figures
News
Greens turn blue to save the seas
News
Black hole swallows third spacecraft
News
Automation takes a hand in passport control
News
Menu change for air-dropped meals
News
Snapshot of a medieval city
News
Taiwan accuses princess of smuggling rhino horn
News
Uncertain future for Alpine bonecrushers
News
Polluting lights
News
Fame for a fly
News
Anti-Cornell
News
Multiple missiles
News
Einstein’s waves
News
Saving the cave walls of China
News
Out of court
News
When seeing is not believing: Digital technology is now so cheap that just about anyone can set themselves up as a photographic forger. Can we ever trust the camera again?
News
Science: Insect genes to tackle toxic waste
News
Science: Airborne cameras capture riders on the storm
News
Science: A helping hand for arthritis patients
News
Science: Faulty genes work when the splice is right
News
Science: Massage for the ego could ease the pain
News
Science: Field flowers bring in the aphid-eaters
News
Technology
Technology: Fogs yield drinking water in the desert
News
Technology
Technology: Students devise cheaper way to measure sway
News
Technology
Technology: Pushing in the right direction with a silicon steam engine
News
Technology
Technology: Volcano watchers draft in radar
News
Technology
Technology: How shellfish soak up dirty dyes
News
Technology
Technology: Positive discrimination outside the darkroom
News
Opinion
Features
Europe’s home-grown fuel: Growing non-food crops in empty fields appears to offer many advantages, but British farmers seem reluctant to cultivate them unless they are paid higher subsidies
Features
Fever in the urban jungle: Across the globe, the mosquitoes that carry yellow fever are returning in force. Will we be able to cope if the disease strikes a major city?
Features
Hold the front page . . . It seemed like any other morning. Then out of the blue came ‘the discovery of the century, perhaps of all time’, and the media were in hot pursuit
Features
Mixed up over the mantle: Currents of solid rock flowing hundreds of kilometres below the Earth’s surface shape the world we know. But only now are geologists beginning to understand them
Features
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How a drug is born
From simple home-brewed herbal extracts 鈥� still used widely 鈥� to computer- designed magic bullets developed by multinational companies, the questions are the same. Does it work? If so, how? And are there any side effects?
Inside Science
Review: Losers in the struggle for health
Books & Arts
Review: Economics of human misery
Books & Arts
Review: The search for machines with a soul
Books & Arts
Review: A work in progress
Books & Arts
Review: Our reproduction, ourselves
Books & Arts
Review: Captives of our curiosity
Books & Arts
Review: Mountains, mysteries and myoelectrics
Books & Arts
