The light fantastic medical show
Features
This week's magazine
11 March 1995
Issue 1968
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Tragic asbestos error will kill thousands
News
Musical chairs at Whitehall
News
Cheap return to the Moon
News
Smogburger and fries to go?
News
Where there’s muck there’s disease
News
Chicago quark hunters come out on top
News
Cape Town deal to ‘kick-start the future’
News
Europe kills off patents on life
News
Dangerous ferries will be named
News
Vulnerable habitats ‘vanish’ from Europe’s agenda
News
Young drivers nod off at night
News
Reversing HIV damage ‘possible’
News
China and India tackle tiger trade
News
Satellite senses risk of forest fires
News
Altered animals need watchdog to protect them
News
Bad report
News
World’s biggest barge on course
News
Indian space centre
News
Hong Kong cuts Net
News
TV dinners
News
Hunting horn
News
Garden cancer
News
Identity crisis on the Internet
News
How to be a head-banger and survive
News
Horse-killing virus may cause mental illness
News
Breathe in deeply to fight off flu
News
Quantum physis: the plot thickens yet again
News
At last, an ordinary Universe
News
Deep heat cracks up Europe’s crust
News
Women get the feel-good factor, men just get tired
News
Technology
Crystal nose sniffs out nasty diseases
News
Technology
FBI puts the squeeze on suspect prints
News
Technology
‘Plasma’ holograms pack in the memories
News
Technology
Kill the bugs to cure the building
News
Technology
Universal disc drive fits all CDs
News
Technology
Netropolitan 鈥� G7
News
Technology
Netropolitan 鈥� European Commission
News
Technology
Netropolitan 鈥� Replies
News
Technology
Model patients control X-ray machines
News
Features
The light fantastic medical show
When Victorian doctors tried to spot breast tumours using candlelight, it didn't work. Now it might be possible to beat the problem and use light to make cheaper, safer ways of peering inside the body.
Features
Roads to the Abattoir
Features
Life in the tissue factory
Features
Humans
Birth of a Tool-maker
Features
More
The Scariest Place on Earth: Eye to Eye with Hurricanes by David E. Fisher
Books & Arts
Incas are not the only South Americans
Books & Arts
Cream, craudie and Captain Kirk
Books & Arts
A great, big book of the brain
Books & Arts
Fair play for psychics
Books & Arts
Roll over, Descartes
Books & Arts
Cosmic paintings
Books & Arts
A special relationship with the high frontier
Books & Arts
Tuning in to planetary harmonies
Books & Arts
From Cornish cliffs to the Titanic
Books & Arts
Everest welcomes careful visitors
An unacceptable mode of transport
Books & Arts
Be it ever so humble
Enigma No 813: Easy as ABC
Rescue reactions and infected frogs
Corrections
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