杏吧原创

View in the app Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app Find a previous edition online Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

The meaning of life

Plight of the condor

Ships wrecked

It takes two

Table of contents

News

Rising star of electronics found to have fabricated his ground-breaking results

Hendrik Sch枚n's breathtaking advances revolutionised his field. His fall from grace is sending shock waves through the scientific community and beyond

With hindsight, it was a hell of a lot of papers

Soundbites

Warplane system ‘could cut mid-air explosions’

Lorenzo’s oil really does save lives

Dispatches

Environment

There’s no place like home

Polio epidemic scuppers WHO target

Now mammals are feeling the heat

Call to retract ban on shoot-’em-ups

We hear that鈥�

Bedbugs bite back

The case against female circumcision

US millers fight for banned pesticide

Space probe fingers murderers

Diabetes drugs of the future could help us all look and feel younger

Is little foot only a cousin?

Hydrogen utopia comes two steps closer

Resistance to pesticides goes global in a flash

Is this why some people don’t get AIDS?

Let me show you round this car

Tags will tell you if frozen food’s rotten

Technology

With this DNA, I thee wed

Technology

Slam the door on floods

Technology

Soft stepping sidewalks

A foolproof way to spot quark stars

Robots to the rescue

Bug clears arteries

The random route to perfect poise

Women’s lib got it wrong in the 1970s鈥� marriage makes both sexes happy

Caretaker robot will keep terrorists at bay

‘Flat-pack’ craft will boost discoveries

Fast food for fish with a perfect aim

Trauma in the genes

Din-free dining

Shop till you drop

Species saviour

Shock that tumour

Opinion

Conduct unbecoming

It's the biggest scandal ever to hit physics. Who's to blame?

It’s that drug again

Designed for life

The word svalbard

Sex and the single snail

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The meaning of life

Are we nothing more than energy-shredding machines 鈥� Byzantine contraptions for reducing the Universe to a state of bland uniformity? JR Minkel explains this chilling hypothesis

Plight of the condor

Ships wrecked

It takes two

More

No thyself

Evolving the Alien: The science of extraterrestrial life by Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart

Le roi est mort

All about us

Bestsellers – Melbourne

Dr Tatiana’s Sex Advice to All Creation by Olivia Judson

It all depends

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

Browse past issues

View all

28 September 2002

21 September 2002

14 September 2002

7 September 2002