Engineering the future of antibiotics
Features
This week's magazine
30 April 1994
Issue 1923
Editor's picks
Hot bubbles in space: What lies between stars in a galaxy? Not a huge expanse of nothingness but something altogether more interesting
Features
Insects that carry a global warning: On the ruggedly beautiful island of Spitsbergen, entomologists are bringing some warmth into the lives of arctic aphids
Features
Contraceptives?: There’s a revolution going on in birth control for men and women. But the drugs companies have all but abandoned research . .
Features
Table of contents
News
Energy crisis blocks Chernobly deal
News
Something cheap for Le Weekend?
News
Rough times for Britain’s wave machine
News
Europe launches spring offensive against rabies
News
Milk hormone dispute boils over into court
News
Bean patent sweeps the field
News
France thumbs its nose at drift-net ban
News
Fly that fills fire ants with fear
News
Where no robot has gone before
News
At last a strategy for government research
News
Rough guide to the wrong souvenirs
News
Green statistics
News
No understanding
News
Open secrets
News
Musseling in on arthritis
News
Unwelcome returns
News
Taboo TV
News
Popcorn hazard
News
Saving ozone with a no-go zone: Jumbo jets are spending more time in the stratosphere than previously realised, and their emissions are damaging the ozone layer. Should flights in the stratosphere be banned?
News
Science: Sex secrets of the spiny anteater
News
Science: Weird atom combines matter and antimatter
News
Science: Electron ‘trains’ signal new state of matter
News
Science: Africa’s wild dogs pussyfoot round the big cats
News
Science: Distant gas cloud poses dark matter puzzle
News
Science: In a whirl over stars that are ‘too old’
News
Technology
Technology: Do not adjust your dish . . . yet
News
Technology
Technology: Cable TV offers route into superhighway
News
Technology
Technology: Historical remains to go online for surveyors
News
Technology
Technology: Polymer putty makes for safer tumour treatment
News
Technology
Technology: Try before you buy with software on CD
News
Technology
Technology: Human disguise for tumour-busting toxins
News
Patents: Charging ahead
News
Patents: Lean-to technology
News
Technology
Patents: Shell-suited sheep
News
Patents: Thomson presses CD makers for a slice of the action
News
Patents: Back to the wall
News
Opinion
Features
Engineering the future of antibiotics
Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928 antibiotics have fought bacterial infection. But resistance to these traditional antibiotics is forcing researchers to look for alternatives, says Lori Valigra
Features
Hot bubbles in space: What lies between stars in a galaxy? Not a huge expanse of nothingness but something altogether more interesting
Features
Insects that carry a global warning: On the ruggedly beautiful island of Spitsbergen, entomologists are bringing some warmth into the lives of arctic aphids
Features
Contraceptives?: There’s a revolution going on in birth control for men and women. But the drugs companies have all but abandoned research . .
Features
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