Issue 1985 | Magazine cover date: 8 July 1995

Atomic nuclei are complicated beasts, and no single way of looking at them explains everything. But physicists are making the effort, conscious that nuclei could be the key to almost every aspect of the material world

Inside Science

Small revolution of the 17th century

Books & Arts

The life and times of a man of stone

Books & Arts

Plain English

Books & Arts

Mirages of the millennium

Books & Arts

Looking for Ms or Mr Goodnet

Books & Arts

Driven to abstraction: Killing Time

Books & Arts

Of esoterica and edelopals

Books & Arts

Mr Tompkins and the Chinese whispers

Great speech, shame about the theatre

Catastrophes waiting to happen

The home of the printing press looks for partners

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This week's magazine

8 July 1995

On the cover

Editor's picks

Freefall to Jupiter

Some of our Universe is missing

Genes in black and white

The international grid

Table of contents

News

The dangers of blues for a boy

Night of the killer caterpillar

Kangaroos reclaim the streets of Canberra

Billion-dollar drugs are disappearing in the forest

Acid fallout hits Europe’s sensitive spots

Prof Snooty and his pals pick up the pounds

Special offers at the ‘science shop’

Fast quake net needed after Kobe

Japan’s drug victims lose fight for compensation

Tudor treasure keeps rising damp at bay

Skills shortage blights South Africa’s future

Congress hears plan for science super-agency

Question mark hangs over fragile X test in newborns

Genetics revolution fails to live up to its promise

Inventive Shares

Fatal Blunder

Tomorrow’s world 鈥�

One small step towards the space station

鈥� charted today

Endangered act

Faked falcons

Waiting for the gold rush

How ancient sewage breathed life into the Earth

Shallow methane could turn on the heat

Art of the American arrowhead

The great traffic pile-up in the sky

Scanners put the squeeze on migraine

Playing molecular tag with designer drugs

The truth about sex on the beach

Black holes tied up with string

Technology

Here is the multimedia news

Technology

Brain probe seeks out the seat of schizophrenia

Technology

Batman’s tricks of the light

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Winnie the Pooh

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Shakespearean English

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

You can tell it’s fresh with MRI

Technology

Gold fingerprints spot the fakes

Technology

Wrinkles shrivel under fire from pulsed lasers

Enigma No. 830: Post Mix

Opinion

We’ll take the high ground 鈥�

Not very logical, John

Features

Freefall to Jupiter

Some of our Universe is missing

Genes in black and white

The international grid

More

Heart of the atom

Small revolution of the 17th century

The life and times of a man of stone

Plain English

Mirages of the millennium

Looking for Ms or Mr Goodnet

Driven to abstraction: Killing Time

Of esoterica and edelopals

Mr Tompkins and the Chinese whispers

Great speech, shame about the theatre

Catastrophes waiting to happen