Personal privacy v public health: Europe plans to make it harder for our personal records to pass into the wrong hands. But could the new law kill off potentially life-saving research?
Features
This week's magazine
11 December 1993
Issue 1903
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
‘Colon gene’ rounds off a brilliant year
News
Whiff of eroticism in armpit art
News
Mini meltdown at atomic park
News
Where Budget cuts will strike
News
Mafia puts enemy in the hot seat
News
Sell-off plans meet resistance
News
Disaster hotline will help to prevent more Bhopals
News
How the black box is killing Japanese curiosity
News
Starvation looms while aid groups bicker
News
FBI sting uncovers the wrong stuff at NASA
News
Genetics is a family affair
News
We still like to be beside the sewage
News
Mountain meadows offer first clues to pollution
News
The final frontier for the military mind
News
Placenta problem
News
Europe’s gain
News
Start of a long journey home
News
DTI’s loss
News
Speedy sequencing
News
More red tape
News
Dolphins in danger
News
Depressing figures
News
Technology
War over weapons that can’t kill
News
Science: Why males live fast and die young
News
Science: Absence of blood makes the heart grow stronger
News
Science: Bad vibes tell worker bees to stay home
News
Science: Amateurs’ ancient star puzzles the professionals
News
Science: How sun-loving electrons seek out weak bonds
News
Technology
Technology: Austria swipes lead on electronic tolls
News
Technology
Technology: Germanium makes the chips go faster
News
Technology
Technology: Computers put editors in the picture
News
Technology
Technology: There’s oil in them there plastics
News
Technology
Technology: ‘Lipid’ scalpels make kinder cuts
News
Technology
Technology: Open-plan scanner eases patients’ worries
News
Technology
Technology: Where sheep may radioactively graze
News
Technology
Technology: Superstandards to promote parallel computing
News
Opinion
Features
Personal privacy v public health: Europe plans to make it harder for our personal records to pass into the wrong hands. But could the new law kill off potentially life-saving research?
Features
How surgeons could navigate the brain: Operating on a brain
Features
The grub and the Galapagos: Could the fate of one small, insignificant invertebrate undermine years of work building a conservation plan for the Galapagos?
Features
Our fathers’ toxic sins
Features
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Review: How to flog a dead zebra
Books & Arts
Review: Buying shares in virtual aesthetics
Books & Arts
Review: Paperbacks – Roy Herbert considers the mosquito, evolution and DNA
Books & Arts
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Books & Arts
Review: . . . a life in letters
Books & Arts
