Balloons fit for globetrotting: Three balloonists are planning to circle the Earth at an altitude of 10 000 metres in one of the most bizarre aircraft ever designed
Features
This week's magazine
30 October 1993
Issue 1897
Editor's picks
Breaking new ground on the ocean floor
Features
Birth of the eco-computer: It takes Pounds Sterling 200-worth of electricity and 12 tonnes of water to make a typical desktop computer. But the pressure is on manufacturers to be less wasteful
Features
Can Russian skills revive the space station?: With American dollars and Russian know-how a space station could be in orbit within three years
Features
Designs on life: Throughout the developing world, aid workers are encouraging local people to build their own maps and models to tackle everyday problems
Features
Table of contents
News
End of the road for giant particle-smasher
News
Arsenic in tapwater linked to skin cancer
News
Waldegrave turns his crystal ball towards the market
News
Does the ‘aggressive gene’ lurk in a Dutch family?
News
Spare the pest and save the farmer
News
Copernicus earns papal blessing
News
Human clones plit fertility experts
News
Fifty ways to break green promises
News
Rhino poachers kill for a few scraps of horn
News
Rare species go online to combat ignorance
News
US army industry wins cash to swap bombs for bridges
News
File on Sellafield cancer link still open
News
Sex and selective memories
News
Health behind bars
News
Exiting Eureka
News
Silly recycling
News
Beads, charms and condoms
News
Doorway to HIV
News
Saving genes
News
Water show
News
The nuts and bolts of flops in space: Recent months have seen a spate of high-profile satellite failures. In a number of these cases, the breakdowns were not in complex electronics or computers but simple mechanics
News
Science: Three-way split for our ape ancestors
News
Science: Thumbs up for an older Universe
News
Humans
Science: Human jaw hints at African trek
News
Science: Glowing prospects for brilliant polymer
News
Science: Fossil find solves half-billion-year mystery
News
Technology
Technology: Oxford goes electric without flywheels
News
Technology
Technology: Green light for Korea’s digital squeeze
News
Technology
Technology: Concrete claim for conservation
News
Technology
Technology: Robodoc takes on hip surgeons
News
Technology
Technology: Underwater computers could make big splash
News
Technology
Shuttle insulation patches up broken bones
News
Patents: Salmonella scan
News
Patents: Patent agents warn against privatisation
News
Patents: Seeing is believing
News
Patents: Colour control
News
Opinion
Features
Balloons fit for globetrotting: Three balloonists are planning to circle the Earth at an altitude of 10 000 metres in one of the most bizarre aircraft ever designed
Features
Breaking new ground on the ocean floor
Features
Birth of the eco-computer: It takes Pounds Sterling 200-worth of electricity and 12 tonnes of water to make a typical desktop computer. But the pressure is on manufacturers to be less wasteful
Features
Can Russian skills revive the space station?: With American dollars and Russian know-how a space station could be in orbit within three years
Features
Designs on life: Throughout the developing world, aid workers are encouraging local people to build their own maps and models to tackle everyday problems
Features
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Review: Letters from a reluctant evolutionary
Books & Arts
Review: The quids and quiddities of journalism
Books & Arts
Review: Cactus huggers and cattle barons
Books & Arts
Review: Let’s hear it for the cultivators
Books & Arts
Review: How to read raptors
Books & Arts
