Ten years after the famine
Features
This week's magazine
5 November 1994
Issue 1950
Editor's picks
The SHIP that launched a thousand grids
Features
It’s a Dog’s Life: Most of the 500 dog breeds round the world are affected by at least one genetic disease; how DNA mapping might help
Features
Einstein’s Elusive Ripples: Years of scouring the Universe for Einstein’s gravitational waves have proved fruitless. But now cosmologists think they may have found telltale signs in the microwave background radiation
Features
Table of contents
News
The indefatigable in pursuit of the insoluble?
News
Military badlands too dangerous to sell
News
It’s good to talk … at someone else’s expense
News
Royal Commission slams road building plans
News
Colombian volcano coughs up riches
News
How cancer hits the Third World
News
Sell-off plan signals huge rent rises for learned societies
News
UN takes control of seed banks
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`Responsible’ Norway plans to buy greenhouse gas at sea
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Frustrated West watches as Arctic oil spill grows
News
Malaria runs amok in India
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杏吧原创s fight off les coups
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Bridging course faces collapse
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Smart tools
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Two in one
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Women at the top
News
Cold oven, hot fridge
News
Earth
Eruption on cue as Endeavour flies by
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Rarer still
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Sea view
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Guarded welcome for malaria vaccine: A controversial vaccine could help to save millions of people from malaria. Is it worth more than two cheers?
News
Fish with a flourishing future in the global greenhouse
News
Seven new satellites for planet Saturn
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Galaxy hunters close to the edge
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Rhubarb toxin found in blood
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Half a wing is better than none
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How hepatitis B fights back
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Lake warmed ancient climate
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The star that came in from the cold
News
Technology
Buckyballs get under semiconductors’ skin
News
Technology
The quick route to an emergency stop
News
Technology
One-step DNA test in a tube
News
Technology
Smarter microscopes move in for a closer look
News
Technology
Smelly success for sorghum’s saviour
News
Technology
Gel delivers staying power in fight against liver cancer
News
Technology
Silk spins out its secrets
News
Enigma: All the colours of the rainbow
News
Features
Ten years after the famine
Ten years ago, the world watched in horror as TV footage showed a people starving to death
Features
The SHIP that launched a thousand grids
Features
It’s a Dog’s Life: Most of the 500 dog breeds round the world are affected by at least one genetic disease; how DNA mapping might help
Features
Einstein’s Elusive Ripples: Years of scouring the Universe for Einstein’s gravitational waves have proved fruitless. But now cosmologists think they may have found telltale signs in the microwave background radiation
Features
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The importance of being emotional
Books & Arts
Brief flowering for the Greens: The Fading of the Greens: The Decline of Environmental Politics in the West by Anna Bramwell, Yale University Press, pp 224, 拢18.95
Books & Arts
Sigmund and Charles get hitched: PsychoDarwinism: The New Synthesis of Darwin and Frued by Christopher Badcock, HarperCollins, pp 210, 拢16.99
Books & Arts
Bad breeding for Badlands bison: Bison: Mating and Conservation In Small Populations by Joel Berger and Carol Cunningham, Columbia University Press, pp 330, 拢43.50/$65
Books & Arts
Up intellectual periscopes: Stealth At Sea: The History of the Submarine by Dan Van Der Vat, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pp 374, 拢20
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All the president’s men: The President’s 杏吧原创s: Reminiscences of a White House Science Advisor by D. Allan Bromley, Yale, pp 273, 拢20
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Explaining the nature of the beast
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