Come hell and high water
Features
This week's magazine
30 March 1996
Issue 2023
On the cover
Editor's picks
Table of contents
News
Lean times for ESA
News
Science : How speedy lizards take flight across water
News
Technology
Technology : Tugboat drags drugs to the tumour
News
Technology
Technology : Hollywood hold-up plays havoc with video discs
News
Science : There’s life in the old drug yet
News
Science : Earth rocked by shattered asteroids
News
Science : Angry cuttlefish see one another in a different light
News
Science : Killer cells stalk cancerous protein
News
Science : Polymer designers crack secret of nature’s concrete
News
Science : Tearing up immunity’s rulebook
News
Peat bog rescued
News
Keep taking the Pils
News
Is CS the wrong solution? – The Home Office is keen to promote CS spray as the ideal “cop-in-a-can”, but a growing number of critics, from MPs to police on the street, are worried about its safety
News
If you want to get ahead, get a science degree
News
Hyakutake puts on a spectacular show
News
Technology
Technology : Netropolitan
News
Researchers’ rights
News
Supersonic bargain
News
Global emergency as TB toll mounts
News
Resistant malaria plagues India
News
World’s wetlands sucked dry
News
That’s the way the money goes
News
Tobacco giant ‘knew nicotine was addictive’
News
Ministers hostile to advice on BSE
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Doubts linger over human cases
News
Ten deaths that may tell a shocking tale
News
Court slams French charity
News
Lawyer kills plans to cull peregrines
News
Technology
Patents : Pavel faces the music
News
Technology
Patents : This way up
News
Technology
Patents : Weed waster
News
Technology
Patents : Action replays
News
Technology
Patents : Bouncy castle
News
Technology
Patents : Low bridge
News
Technology
Technology : Bright future for brainy chips
News
Technology
Technology : Supernappy shapes up with sugar
News
Technology
Technology : A softer option for X-rays
News
Physics
Science: Has SUSY shown her shadowy face?
News
Opinion
Editorial : Give us the beef about beef – LAST week the 1996 British Science Week got off to a cracking start. Bigger and better than ever before, the event staged thousands of events at museums, universities and businesses all over the country.
Opinion
Editorial : A patent failure – INVENTORS need a place where they can fight patent actions without gigantic delays and huge costs. In Britain, the Patents County Court was created to make patent litigation quicker, easier and cheaper. But it has failed on
Opinion
Features
More
Review : Lucid landscapes
Books & Arts
AustralAsian : Saying “Made in Australia” is not always the best – Bob Johnstone meets a Japanese software mogul chasing imports
Washington Diary : Ritual combat and the Word of God – Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill
Forum : Never mind the price, feel the bandwidth – Jeff Hecht takes a sceptical look at the possible return of dumb network terminals
Review : Religious ramble
Books & Arts
Review : Darwin public…
Books & Arts
Review : …Darwin private
Books & Arts
Review : More than the sum of their parts
Books & Arts
Review : Feel better, see better
Books & Arts
Review : Collected works
Books & Arts
Review : BESTSELLERS from London
Books & Arts
Review : Laying bare the bones of humanity
Books & Arts
Forum : Whose research is it anyway?
Review : Wordly wise
Books & Arts
Review : Science feast
Books & Arts
Review : Doctor in the doghouse
Books & Arts
Review : Have sex and die
Books & Arts
