The great chip theft: Organised crime is going high-tech in the US with armed gangs holding up chip makers. What can the manufacturers do to prevent the theft and distribution of their valuable bits of silicon?
Features
This week's magazine
15 January 1994
Issue 1908
On the cover
Editor's picks
HIV: beyond reasonable doubt
Features
I buzz therefore I think: Why do so many researchers prefer to believe that animals are more like sleepwalkers than thinking creatures?
Features
Asia’s elephants: No place to hide – African elephants are being killed for their ivory. But their Asian cousins are being threatened just as surely by subtler forces
Features
Is the Universe alive?: The radical idea that our Universe may be evolving like a living creature is making cosmologists think like biologists
Features
Table of contents
News
Cheap design blamed for loss of Mars probe
News
Will diamond film rights leave Britain forever?
News
Vines wither as pest returns
News
Outrage at cuts in schools science . . .
News
. . . but it’s Star Trek to the rescue
News
Fund could ease chemicals claims
News
Growing human eggs is ‘tougher than they think’
News
Scanners prevent racetrack tragedies
News
Tax breaks keep chip factory in Germany
News
Fire and flood greet El Nino’s third year
News
America still embarrassed by the condom
News
Cold War technology on a plate
News
Ministries must back the future
News
Certain age
News
Another high
News
Seal that went walkabout
News
Packing pact
News
State support
News
Week of fun
News
How safe is Europe’s blood?: Cases of HIV infection in Germany have highlighted the risks of blood transfusion. But better technology may not be enough to ensure clean blood supplies across Europe
News
Science: Plumbing the depths for cosmic rays
News
Health
Science: Why MSG myth is a load of chop suey
News
Science: Sugary clues to stomach ulcers
News
Science: Did modern culture begin in prehistoric caves?
News
Science: When you wish upon a star . . . up crops a quasar
News
Technology
Technology: High voltage sounds out colloids in the lab
News
Technology
Technology: Smart network saves Danish bacon
News
Technology
Technology: Virus busters get a shot in the arm
News
Technology
Technology: Who wathes out for vitual screens’ safety?
News
Technology
Technology: Thimble gets in touch with reality
News
Technology
Technology: Rapid-fire laser suits medical cases
News
Technology
Technology: Photocopies: now you see them, now you don’t
News
Opinion
Features
The great chip theft: Organised crime is going high-tech in the US with armed gangs holding up chip makers. What can the manufacturers do to prevent the theft and distribution of their valuable bits of silicon?
Features
HIV: beyond reasonable doubt
Features
I buzz therefore I think: Why do so many researchers prefer to believe that animals are more like sleepwalkers than thinking creatures?
Features
Asia’s elephants: No place to hide – African elephants are being killed for their ivory. But their Asian cousins are being threatened just as surely by subtler forces
Features
Is the Universe alive?: The radical idea that our Universe may be evolving like a living creature is making cosmologists think like biologists
Features
More
Energy and fuels
Inside Science
Review: Third Wave wars by the crystal bombgazers
Books & Arts
Review: Freud’s race against prejudice
Books & Arts
Review: The global identity crisis
Books & Arts
Review: Liverpool finds space for time
Books & Arts
Crime Fighting by Ian Graham
Books & Arts
Review: Evolution for infants
Books & Arts
Review: An Inspector Clouseau of a book
Books & Arts
