Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years
Features
This week's magazine
19 March 1994
Issue 1917
Editor's picks
Is something lurking in your liver? – Millions of people all over the world are walking around with tiny, complex and potentially lethal parasites in their lungs, livers and brains. And yet almost nothing is being done to help them
Features
The world of symplectic space – Convential calculations of the future of the Solar System quickly degenerate into disarray as computer errors build up. Symplectic integration could save the day
Features
There’s a starman waiting in the sky . . . – The race is on to launch worldwide telecommunications by satellite. It is a race that could . . . blow our minds
Features
Tragedy of Muslimova – Villagers living on the Techa River; east of Moscow, complained of ill health for more than 40 years. Now they are demanding justice
Features
Table of contents
News
Is broken ocean pump a global warning?
News
Peruvian mummy clears colonists of TB charge
News
Cool, quiet motors prove their worth
News
. . . as Japan seeks last-minute opt-out from ban
News
Loophole opens up black market in CFCs . . .
News
The greening of the president
News
Vital moments after an avalanche
News
Lab blast rocks university safety
News
Secret plans of research ‘hit squad’
News
Return to the inner planet
News
Living fungi fiund in Otzi’s boots
News
Second team moves into the bio-bubble
News
Virtually painless surgery
News
Great woman
News
Mirzayanov cleared
News
No room for space
News
Wired state
News
Elemental honour
News
Strike struck
News
Screening without meaning? – For a decade, routine screening with ultrasound has been a recognised part of pregnancy care in Britain. But doctors still do not know if it is worthwhile
News
Science: In a spin over fictitious forces
News
Science: Tracing our ancestral song lines
News
Science: DNA survey sets Basques apart
News
Science: How busy bacteria turn flesh into stone
News
Science: Liquid crystals show their metal
News
Science: A high-energy route to the Hubble constant
News
Technology
Technology: How lungfuls of liquid can save a tiny life
News
Technology
Technology: Factions put satellite phone service on hold
News
Technology
Technology: Early start for HIV disruptor
News
Technology
Technology: Alloy takes the shuttle to a higher plane
News
Technology
Technology: Cooking up DNA with a heater on a chip
News
Technology
Technology: Plastic shutter sends data flashing through
News
Opinion
Features
Alvin Toffler: still shocking after all these years
New 杏吧原创 meets the controversial futurologist
Features
Is something lurking in your liver? – Millions of people all over the world are walking around with tiny, complex and potentially lethal parasites in their lungs, livers and brains. And yet almost nothing is being done to help them
Features
The world of symplectic space – Convential calculations of the future of the Solar System quickly degenerate into disarray as computer errors build up. Symplectic integration could save the day
Features
There’s a starman waiting in the sky . . . – The race is on to launch worldwide telecommunications by satellite. It is a race that could . . . blow our minds
Features
Tragedy of Muslimova – Villagers living on the Techa River; east of Moscow, complained of ill health for more than 40 years. Now they are demanding justice
Features
More
Dark matter and the Universe
Inside Science
Review: How to on the gravy train
Books & Arts
Review: Let’s talk books
Books & Arts
Review: The perils and pleasures of duty
Books & Arts
Review: What makes a bird?
Books & Arts
Review: Past keys to present conditions
Books & Arts
Review: Winning ways
Books & Arts
Review: Spots of life
Books & Arts
Review: Hour of the soft revolutionaries
Books & Arts
