Protectors of Peru’s shining past: A squad drawn from Peru’s elite police force is cracking down on the looters who plunder pre-Columbian graves. Mary Dempsey reports on a country learning to value its heritage against all the odds
Features
This week's magazine
20 August 1994
Issue 1939
On the cover
Editor's picks
Shore Wars: Maritime strategists sre planning for battle in the confusing, cluttered waters off the enemy’s coast. Vincent Kiernan reports on the equipment navies will need for their new role
Features
Wildlife’s road to nowhere?: Corridors connecting fragmented islands of natural habitat are all the rage. John Bonner asks whether they are routes to survival for threatened species or expensive dead ends
Features
Quantum States of mind: Most biologists believe the answer to what make us consciuos lies buried in brain cells and their chemistry. John McCrone talks to the mavericks who prefer to look for clues in quantum physics
Features
Table of contents
News
Black marks for maths teachers
News
Dante rescued from crater hell
News
Germany issues nuclear smuggling alert
News
Navy cuts blow chill wind over Antarctic research
News
Doctor charged over growth hormone payments
News
. but is it enough to stave off world hunger?
News
Sisters are doing it for themselves ..
News
Fishermen net peers’ support
News
Supernerds fail the subway test
News
German banger bans cuts pollution
News
Warning: tobacco seriously causes smog
News
Hard slog ahead as AIDS loses high profile
News
Nutritious nuisance
News
Lost lapwings
News
Telescope deal?
News
Rare butterflies find a home
News
Exxon verdict
News
Looking at leisure
News
The revenge of the rain gods: Japan is in the middle of a drought. The taps are only turned on for five hours a day and factories are closed. But what is the solution? Is it pumping groundwater, building dams or reusing water? Peter Hadfield reports
News
Science: Do photons really exist?
News
Science: Dead whales – stepping stones for creatures of the deep
News
Science: Jupiter’s surprise radio broadcast
News
Science: Snakes that shake to electro-locate
News
Science: Older Universe solves cosmological conundrums
News
Science: One giant leap for cosmology ..
News
Technology
Technology: Budding astronauts weightless in a virtual chair
News
Technology
Technology: Weevils find alternative bean hard to swallow
News
Technology
Technology: Roll on cheap solar energy
News
Technology
Technology: Privacy battle looms on the superhighway
News
Technology
Technology: Living doll puts young ones off parenthood
News
Technology
Technology: Sound treatment for polluted water
News
Opinion
Features
Protectors of Peru’s shining past: A squad drawn from Peru’s elite police force is cracking down on the looters who plunder pre-Columbian graves. Mary Dempsey reports on a country learning to value its heritage against all the odds
Features
Shore Wars: Maritime strategists sre planning for battle in the confusing, cluttered waters off the enemy’s coast. Vincent Kiernan reports on the equipment navies will need for their new role
Features
Wildlife’s road to nowhere?: Corridors connecting fragmented islands of natural habitat are all the rage. John Bonner asks whether they are routes to survival for threatened species or expensive dead ends
Features
Quantum States of mind: Most biologists believe the answer to what make us consciuos lies buried in brain cells and their chemistry. John McCrone talks to the mavericks who prefer to look for clues in quantum physics
Features
More
Review: The green force writ small
Books & Arts
Review: In the spirit of the north
Books & Arts
Review: All along the river bank
Books & Arts
Review: Cold Turkey – kicking the habit of justification
Books & Arts
Review: Blame it on the hormones
Books & Arts
