Shock therapy returns
Features
This week's magazine
5 March 1994
Issue 1915
Editor's picks
Live crash from Jupiter – Astronomy is a frustrating business. You can spend years scanning the skies only to find something spectacular happens when your back is turned. This July, however, everything will be very, very different . . .
Features
High hopes for faster transit – City planners are desperate to unclog congested roads by luring us out of our cars and on to public transport. Enter the ‘personal train’ that could be running in Chicago by the year 2000
Features
The electric plastics show: The notion of plastics that conduct electricity – let alone emit light – still comes as a surprise. But industry has been quick to spot their potential and is forcing the pace of development says Karen Celia Fox
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When hyenas kill their own: For many of Africa’s spotted hyenas, life begins with a struggle to survive the murderous attacks of a twin sister
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Table of contents
News
And now a word from our lunar sponsor . . .
News
Whalers change tack on southern sanctuary
News
Women’s report neutered by government
News
Foresight programme widens its horizons
News
Is fishing to blame for starving seabirds?
News
In pursuit of plaice with chips
News
Ozone hole could be killing amphibians
News
Troubled rebirth for French fast reactor
News
Environment
Lemur mum breeds fresh hope
News
Return to the Red Planet
News
Pressure mounts to save Great Lakes
News
Languages that help children to learn maths
News
Gay gene test ‘inaccurate and immoral’: At this year’s meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in San Francisco, the issues in the limelight ranged from gene mapping to the collapse of civilisations . . .
News
Electronic advocates fight for human rights
News
Truth about teeth is found in trash
News
Banana tree could feed hungry
News
Lies, damned lies and slick graphics
News
Naming the world’s species is ‘essential’
News
Antarctic rocks could give clue to life on Mars
News
‘Rigid’ cultures caught out by climate change
News
Science: Damburst of humans flooded from Africa
News
Science: Tough times bring out the best in blackbird fathers
News
Science: Captive capuchins are talented tool makers
News
Science: A smashing start for life on Earth
News
Science: Broken symmetry in the genetic code?
News
Technology
Technology: Bank error not in your favour – lose Dollar 15 million
News
Technology
Technology: Does a fate lie in store for videotape?
News
Technology
Technology: Britain dithers on digital Channel 5 . . .
News
Technology
Technology: . . . while Japan admits that analogue TV is a dead end
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Technology
Technology: Lithium extends battery life – at a price
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Technology
Technology: Crystal meters reveal irradiation
News
Technology
Technology: How simple ants can sort out BT’s complex nets
News
Opinion
Features
Shock therapy returns
As more and more Americans demand electroconvulsive therapy to treat their severe depression, researchers try to find out why ECT works and critics warn of its long-term side effects
Features
Live crash from Jupiter – Astronomy is a frustrating business. You can spend years scanning the skies only to find something spectacular happens when your back is turned. This July, however, everything will be very, very different . . .
Features
High hopes for faster transit – City planners are desperate to unclog congested roads by luring us out of our cars and on to public transport. Enter the ‘personal train’ that could be running in Chicago by the year 2000
Features
The electric plastics show: The notion of plastics that conduct electricity – let alone emit light – still comes as a surprise. But industry has been quick to spot their potential and is forcing the pace of development says Karen Celia Fox
Features
When hyenas kill their own: For many of Africa’s spotted hyenas, life begins with a struggle to survive the murderous attacks of a twin sister
Features
More
Review: Scenes from a biological revolution
Books & Arts
Review: Baring the bones of a good story
Books & Arts
Review: A Domesday book of survival
Books & Arts
Review: Sex and the single yeast cell
Books & Arts
Review: All change for development
Books & Arts
Review: Angels on a quantum pinhead
Books & Arts
Review: Is technology a blessing or a curse?
Books & Arts
Review: Delphi in the New World
Books & Arts
