Issue 1887 | Magazine cover date: 21 August 1993

This week's magazine

21 August 1993

Issue 1887

On the cover

Features

Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world's planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

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Technology: Flat out for the speaker of the future?

Opinion

Queensland moves into space

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Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world's planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

Features

Can algae cool the planet?

Features

The seamy side of swing bowling: English cricket facesanother humiliating test match this week, but could some long-forgottenresearch restore its flagging fortunes?

Features

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Technology

Technology: Flat out for the speaker of the future?

What is the panelling developed for noise insulation in helicopters good for? Loudspeakers, say the scientists at the Defence Research Agency (DRA) who have patented a method for making very efficient, thin and flat speakers. The DRA is trying to interest speaker manufacturers in its idea, which could produce wall or ceiling-mounted speakers of almost …

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Science: Alzheimer's gene 'the most important ever found'

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Technology

Technology: Flying glass to foil Serbian snipers

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Technology

Technology: How cash machines will recognise you when you're drunk

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Science: Are solar neutrions quick-change artists?

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Technology

Technology: New prospects surface for gold-diggers

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Technology

Technology: Making mice a little more human

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Technology

Technology: Pressure mounts to end Pisa's decline

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Lead paint poisons Paris children

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Last stand for solitary marron

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Snapshot survey captures Java's shy rhino at home

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Race to the finish for Brazil's wild horses

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The big sleeplessness epidemic

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Computing tops Britain's career league

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Liberated lungs

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Tree thief convicted

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Killing cougars

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Satellite snaps soggy city

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Mammoth meal

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Acid conflict

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Certified bananas

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Linguistics on trial: Forensic scientists have fiercely condemned a technique used in court to show that confessions have been tampered with

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Science: Could time run backwards?

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Science: Plants provide clues to dinosaurs' demise

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Science: 'Claws' worms its way out of the fossil record

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Science: Love potion perks up a panicky penis

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'Hot' food paper left out in the cold

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Clinton auctions airwaves in sale of the century

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Ozone hole 'innocent' of Chile's ills

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Foreign sea life floods through the Golden Gate

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Vaccine promises safer eggs

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Gathering bugs in May

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Rock on, but mind your spine

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West sinks Bangladesh flood plan

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Genetic screening should be kept in the family

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Opinion

Queensland moves into space

FIVE YEARS ago there was much talk in Queensland of building a base on the Cape York Peninsula to launch spacecraft. At the time I said that it looked more like a way to create a real estate boom than a serious proposal. But now there is a chance that Queensland could have a future …

Opinion

Comment: Time to die?

Opinion

Comment: Learning from Ol' Man River

Opinion

Features

Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world's planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

One of our rare visits to another world is about to begin. If all goes well, the American Mars Observer spacecraft will enter orbit around Mars next week. Its primary mission, to map the planet and study its atmospheric and topographic variations, starts in about three months, and will last one Martian year or 687 …

Features

Can algae cool the planet?

Features

The seamy side of swing bowling: English cricket facesanother humiliating test match this week, but could some long-forgottenresearch restore its flagging fortunes?

Features

Thistle Diary: More hot potatoes and follies - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

I am dismayed at what is happening to the British Geological Survey. The government gave responsibility for 'testing' its research markets to the Department of Trade and Industry. As a result, four contracts which hitherto would have gone to the BGS, the DTI has awarded to private sector companies. One such contract for 'computing support' …

Forum

Forum: A cluster of thoughts - Chris Goy wonders if togetherness is just a quaint sentiment or a universal principle

Forum

Forum: Driving tests for mahouts - Colin Tudge on Asia's working elephants - and how to get the best out of them

Forum

Review: Still life with HIV

Books & Arts

Review: Beyond the grave lies a condition called baldness

Books & Arts

Forum: Fetid air over Warren Spring - William Bown peers under the public fig leaves of government double-dealing

Forum

Review: Dispathes from cosmology's front line

Books & Arts

Review: All at sea: lessons in responsiblity

Books & Arts

Review: Into the mystic

Books & Arts

Review: The frustrated user always knows better than the engineer

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

Just how 'new' will Britain's three new research councils be? In the autumn William Waldegrave, the science minister, will be seeking chief executives for the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and for the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council - but not for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (see Feedback, 7 August, …

Regulars

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This week's magazine

21 August 1993

On the cover

Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world's planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

Can algae cool the planet?

The seamy side of swing bowling: English cricket facesanother humiliating test match this week, but could some long-forgottenresearch restore its flagging fortunes?

Table of contents

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Technology

Technology: Flat out for the speaker of the future?

Science: Alzheimer's gene 'the most important ever found'

Technology

Technology: Flying glass to foil Serbian snipers

Technology

Technology: How cash machines will recognise you when you're drunk

Science: Are solar neutrions quick-change artists?

Technology

Technology: New prospects surface for gold-diggers

Technology

Technology: Making mice a little more human

Technology

Technology: Pressure mounts to end Pisa's decline

Lead paint poisons Paris children

Last stand for solitary marron

Snapshot survey captures Java's shy rhino at home

Race to the finish for Brazil's wild horses

The big sleeplessness epidemic

Computing tops Britain's career league

Liberated lungs

Tree thief convicted

Killing cougars

Satellite snaps soggy city

Mammoth meal

Acid conflict

Certified bananas

Linguistics on trial: Forensic scientists have fiercely condemned a technique used in court to show that confessions have been tampered with

Science: Could time run backwards?

Science: Plants provide clues to dinosaurs' demise

Science: 'Claws' worms its way out of the fossil record

Science: Love potion perks up a panicky penis

'Hot' food paper left out in the cold

Clinton auctions airwaves in sale of the century

Ozone hole 'innocent' of Chile's ills

Foreign sea life floods through the Golden Gate

Vaccine promises safer eggs

Gathering bugs in May

Rock on, but mind your spine

West sinks Bangladesh flood plan

Genetic screening should be kept in the family

Opinion

Queensland moves into space

Comment: Time to die?

Comment: Learning from Ol' Man River

Features

Mars on a shoestring: Undeterred by huge cuts in expenditure on space exploration, the world's planetary scientists are planning missions to Mars well into the next century

Can algae cool the planet?

The seamy side of swing bowling: English cricket facesanother humiliating test match this week, but could some long-forgottenresearch restore its flagging fortunes?

More

Thistle Diary: More hot potatoes and follies - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum: A cluster of thoughts - Chris Goy wonders if togetherness is just a quaint sentiment or a universal principle

Forum: Driving tests for mahouts - Colin Tudge on Asia's working elephants - and how to get the best out of them

Review: Still life with HIV

Review: Beyond the grave lies a condition called baldness

Forum: Fetid air over Warren Spring - William Bown peers under the public fig leaves of government double-dealing

Review: Dispathes from cosmology's front line

Review: All at sea: lessons in responsiblity

Review: Into the mystic

Review: The frustrated user always knows better than the engineer

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

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