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 net comes home

Death by misadventure

Shock tactics

Mystery in the mire

The impossible pound note

Table of contents

News

Going the way of the dodo?

In a bid to save the rhino, conservationists suggested using saiga horn instead of rhino horn in traditional medicines. Their plan has backfired as hunters run amok

Britain wants genetically modified food to have DNA bar codes

Sifting through the clues

‘Blowtorch’ risk to shuttle

Meanwhile, the show must go on

Don’t eat soya if you’re pregnant

Soundbites

Modified crops ‘have big benefits for Third World’

Deadly poisons reveal their friendly side

Medicine

Historic huts in deep guano

Our Universe in glorious detail

Lamps lit early in cosmic history

MAP stakes its claim where no probe has been before

Only four ancestral mammals survived the perilous journey to Madagascar

Humans too tasty to resist

We hear that鈥�

Technology

Golden fries, no problem

Disease genes can be silenced

Technology

Video projectors go 3D

Technology

Pump-action bike security

Subs eavesdrop on crashing fish stocks

Tests improve odds in frog fungus fight

Is gravity leaking away?

Denim buildings are latest in green chic

Smells bad

Little dunes grow big by stealing sand

Quantum solution

Lethal loris

Gardening on Mars

Kissing right

Opinion

By their bar codes shall ye know them

Farewell to hand waving

Meet the ancestors

The peace maker

The word tumucumaque

Humans

Westminster diary

Features

The net comes home

Strip the Internet down to its essentials and you have the perfect backbone for an intelligent building. Bennett Daviss went to MIT for a demonstration

Death by misadventure

Shock tactics

Mystery in the mire

The impossible pound note

More

Do u wan2 tlk? ;-)

If you're stuck half way up the Matterhorn or just fancy a chat, your mobile is your best friend. Ian Sample explains how the little box of tricks does it

Callous nature

Lone survivor

The Story of Life by Richard Southwood (2003)

The other evolutionist

Steven Weinberg

Rocky Kolb

Life

Downhill all the way

Regulars

Feedback

This Week鈥檚 Letters

The last word

Browse past issues

View all

8 February 2003

1 February 2003

25 January 2003

18 January 2003

11 January 2003