February - 1995 Articles
-
Not by our genes alone
25 February 1995
-
Why oestrogen helps the circulation
25 February 1995
-
Wartime skeletons return to haunt Japan
25 February 1995
Human remains found on a Tokyo building site have revived the ghosts of Japan's experiments with biological weapons
-
'Borrowed' genes caused cholera chaos
25 February 1995
-
New ingredient for the primeval soup
25 February 1995
-
Bent light points to an older Universe
25 February 1995
-
Love in a cold climate dents monkeys' macho image
25 February 1995
-
DNA at the cutting edge
25 February 1995
-
Galaxy gurus ousted by neural network
25 February 1995
-
Wanted: host for the world's oldest parasite
25 February 1995
-
The incredible shrinking Bard
25 February 1995
-
Super-fast 'son of Pentium' makes educated guess
25 February 1995
-
Bugs make a meal of rubbish
25 February 1995
-
Satellite forecasts better weather in the south
25 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Junk Email
25 February 1995
-
A watchful eye on bridges
25 February 1995
-
Gravitons make a little dark matter go a long way
25 February 1995
-
What's blue and green and eats pesticides and PCBs?
25 February 1995
-
Little risk from HIV at the dentists
25 February 1995
-
Internet anarchy in the UK
25 February 1995
-
Let curiosity drive research, says industry chief
25 February 1995
-
French dismiss transfusion link to brain disease
25 February 1995
-
Redundant warheads could fuel Russian reactors
25 February 1995
-
Cybercops braced for hackers' revenge
25 February 1995
-
Hunting clampdown gets the bird from France
25 February 1995
-
American Association for the Advancement of Science
25 February 1995
-
Altered people can leave the lab
25 February 1995
-
Cocoa strain breaks fungal spell
25 February 1995
-
Neglected coast in need of care
25 February 1995
-
A spoonful of sugar helps the doctor feel good
25 February 1995
-
How to stop moody athletes going stale
25 February 1995
-
Nuclear accidents hardly ever happen …
25 February 1995
-
New balls please, and make them bigger
25 February 1995
-
Early start on signing vital for deaf children
25 February 1995
-
Feedback
25 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Replies
25 February 1995
-
Questions and Answers
25 February 1995
-
Off the rails
25 February 1995
-
Care with coppices
25 February 1995
-
Electric motorway
25 February 1995
-
Patently helpful
25 February 1995
-
Bridge too many
25 February 1995
-
Whiter than white
25 February 1995
-
Einstein was my …
25 February 1995
-
Smart hedgehog
25 February 1995
-
Elephant graveyard
25 February 1995
-
Red hot herbicide
25 February 1995
-
This week's questions
25 February 1995
-
Sloping off
25 February 1995
-
Feedback
25 February 1995
-
Letters to the Editor
25 February 1995
-
Recording recording
25 February 1995
-
All gas and toothpicks in Congress
25 February 1995
The heady heights of Capitol Hill
-
Limits of science
25 February 1995
-
Bother about boys
25 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Overloading
25 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Mailing
25 February 1995
-
Curtains for the Reichstag
25 February 1995
After you've wrapped up the Pont Neuf in Paris and sheathed a long stretch of Australia's coastline, what comes next? Looks at how an unconventional artist is planning a spectacular rite of passage for one of Germany's most famous buildings
-
Nothing like a vacuum
25 February 1995
What could be a permanent, decidedly nonzero source of energy in the Universe, with cosmic consequences? Finds that the vacuum is far from empty
-
Voyage to the bottom of the sea
25 February 1995
In 1960, two oceanographers made history when they reached the ocean's lowest point. Next month an uncrewed Japanese craft is due to return while an ambitious American team plans to "fly" to the bottom
-
Space mission impossible
25 February 1995
Reaching the fabled Alpha Centauri, a mere 40 trillion kilometres away, may not be as difficult as we think, if the cash can be found for a trial run
-
The way we ought to be
25 February 1995
-
Global funeral in Berlin?
25 February 1995
-
A gas by any other name …
25 February 1995
-
Enigma: To change or not to …
25 February 1995
-
Escape from the clutches of the Machine
25 February 1995
Is it too late to pull away from the fatal attraction of information technology?
-
A tale of two languages
25 February 1995
A year in deepest France brings unexpected popularity
-
True blues
25 February 1995
-
How to spot a bird in the bush
25 February 1995
-
Big bang on the rocks
25 February 1995
-
Paperbacks
25 February 1995
A look at war, creationism, riddles of physics, time travel, wine and philosophy
-
Why pterosaurs were not hang-gliders
18 February 1995
-
Solving a maze with excitable chemistry
18 February 1995
-
Ants get their marching orders
18 February 1995
-
Nearby space 'could not support life'
18 February 1995
-
California's coastline begins to feel the heat
18 February 1995
-
Why women are better with words
18 February 1995
-
Open the box
18 February 1995
-
Fatty molecules make aspirin easier to stomach
18 February 1995
-
Supernova sheds light on cold dark matter
18 February 1995
-
Flu vaccines wanted
18 February 1995
Dead of alive: Scourge of the elderly and infirm, influenza could become a thing of the past if gene guns and nasal sprays live up to expectations
-
Too Real to be True
18 February 1995
What happens when you just can't tell whether the images you're watching on TV are fact or fiction? Reports that the latest in virtual reality is looking disturbingly good
-
Now for the weather in your back yard
18 February 1995
-
Laser probe offers a kinder cut
18 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Replies
18 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Time Wasting
18 February 1995
-
Netropolitan
18 February 1995
-
Students target mystery 'bursters'
18 February 1995
-
Ozone obstacles
18 February 1995
-
Crystal gazing into vitamin C
18 February 1995
-
Funds for the elite
18 February 1995
-
Hello, it's us
18 February 1995
-
Not in anyone's backyard
18 February 1995
-
Disaster quake wins grim place in record books
18 February 1995
-
Drug prospectors turn their sights on Antarctica
18 February 1995
-
Hawks poised to destroy Clinton's ploughshares
18 February 1995
-
Coffee mould leaves toxic aftertaste
18 February 1995
-
The ultimate message in a bottle
18 February 1995
-
Looking for needles with a Haystack
18 February 1995
-
So long, farewell, auf Wiedersehen, goodbye …
18 February 1995
-
Lazarus fights back in religious war
18 February 1995
-
How to survive the world's worst diet
18 February 1995
-
Red Sea pays the price of peace
18 February 1995
-
North unmoved by drowning isles
18 February 1995
-
Dirty tricks in a dirty business
18 February 1995
Germany keeps a clean image by shipping toxic waste abroad. The country now plans to undermine an international agreement that could put a brake on this trade
-
Educating drinkers
18 February 1995
-
Cancer risk
18 February 1995
-
Leaks expose plan to sabotage waste treaty
18 February 1995
-
Sound chamber makes echoes to order
18 February 1995
-
Axe axioms
18 February 1995
-
Hands off, that's no weed
18 February 1995
Old gardens may be a treasure trove of threatened plant species
-
Correction
18 February 1995
-
Documenting the light fantastic
18 February 1995
-
Polymath and the Pill
18 February 1995
-
Feedback
18 February 1995
-
Letters to the Editor
18 February 1995
-
Linear spaghetti
18 February 1995
-
Wild wolves
18 February 1995
-
Papyrus, please
18 February 1995
-
Bell breaking
18 February 1995
-
Robins abroad
18 February 1995
-
Fizz ice
18 February 1995
-
Night growth
18 February 1995
-
Spying on molecules
18 February 1995
Moles are far too tiny to see with the naked eye, so chemists observe them with a powerful technique called spectroscopy. This helps them to identify compounds and to work out how atoms link up in molecules
-
Questions and Answers
18 February 1995
-
This week's questions
18 February 1995
-
Men in need
18 February 1995
-
Forests and fuel
18 February 1995
-
Old discovery?
18 February 1995
-
Testing times for microscopic liver mimics
18 February 1995
-
How to cash in on the Net
18 February 1995
-
Holograms join war against digital pirates
18 February 1995
-
Natural Ways to Banish Barnacles
18 February 1995
Crustaceans clinging to the bottom of boats are the bane of shipowners' lives. Now there may be a remedy that is tough on shellfish but gentle on the environment
-
Publish and Be Robbed?
18 February 1995
Distributing your work on the Internet may seem like the best way to reach a wide audience. But can musicians, photographers and publishers repel the digital pirates?
-
A bogeyman among the beef-eaters
18 February 1995
-
Moral philosophy in the womb
18 February 1995
-
A fastening on history
18 February 1995
-
Mud houses
18 February 1995
-
The strain of being human
18 February 1995
-
Small changes
18 February 1995
-
It doesn't add up
18 February 1995
-
Turtle tales
18 February 1995
-
Enigma: No 810 Wooded acres
18 February 1995
-
Tight budgets and abandoned mines
18 February 1995
More comment from Westminster
-
The art of perfect presentation
18 February 1995
Some hints on clear communication
-
Was gene survey engineered? An opinion poll of biotechnology
18 February 1995
-
The book of life's missing words
11 February 1995
-
Deadly fungus is kind to hearts
11 February 1995
-
… as WIMPs come in from the cold
11 February 1995
-
Trimaran warships are on the horizon
11 February 1995
-
Hot dark matter loses its mystery …
11 February 1995
-
Model mice
11 February 1995
-
Spotlight turns on little red dwarf
11 February 1995
-
Poor report
11 February 1995
-
Electrifying touch of a distant star
11 February 1995
-
Quick-fix catalysts pull themselves together
11 February 1995
-
Why HIV slips up in saliva
11 February 1995
-
Why do teardrops explode?
11 February 1995
They're so strong you can stand a car on them and so weak you can make them burst with the flick of a finger. Tells how, after three hundred years, the mystery of Prince Rupert's drops has finally been solved
-
Are you Lonesome Tonight?
11 February 1995
As Valentine's Day looms, will men still be looking for pretty young women, and women for rich, high-status men? Trawls the Lonely Hearts columns to find out
-
Netropolitan – Cooking
11 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Cafe
11 February 1995
-
Laser clears the way to speedier burns treatment
11 February 1995
-
Catching on to hidden Gold on the Net
11 February 1995
-
High time for compact tidal power?
11 February 1995
-
Flower bulbs slow brain disease
11 February 1995
-
Satellite deal
11 February 1995
-
More calories
11 February 1995
-
Telescope stakes future on tourists
11 February 1995
-
Hunt is on for supercrops
11 February 1995
-
Films by phone will not pay their way
11 February 1995
-
The rain for Spain fell mainly on Luxembourg
11 February 1995
-
Loggers win concession in siege of Canberra
11 February 1995
-
Rare plants protect Cape's water supplies
11 February 1995
-
He who pays the piper calls the tune …
11 February 1995
-
A slippery slope
11 February 1995
-
Ignoring addicts spells 'catastrophe' for France
11 February 1995
-
'Jurassic DNA' looks distinctly human
11 February 1995
-
Nuclear moratorium
11 February 1995
-
Licensed to sell the stuff of life
11 February 1995
Has the biotechnology industry outgrown the system for protecting its inventions? Investigates the problems with human gene patents
-
Kidney thieves hit Bangalore
11 February 1995
-
Leech rides the tunnel of love
11 February 1995
-
Chicken tests are 'half-baked'
11 February 1995
-
Streamlined design
11 February 1995
-
Warp factor rules on the Net
11 February 1995
-
Will wilderness survive the eco-athletes?
11 February 1995
-
Amor vincit omnia?
11 February 1995
-
Mutant genes fall to enzyme hunter
11 February 1995
-
Mr Blotty
11 February 1995
-
Feedback
11 February 1995
-
Dreamy sleepers
11 February 1995
-
New eyes for an old Mother
11 February 1995
Technology could brighten up the dullest days in Parliament
-
The recycling of research managers
11 February 1995
What's in store for CSIRO head
-
Thanks, Star Wars
11 February 1995
-
Hitler's lentils
11 February 1995
-
Gentle wind
11 February 1995
-
Puzzle solved
11 February 1995
-
Letters to the Editor
11 February 1995
-
Correction
11 February 1995
-
Bulb song
11 February 1995
-
This week's questions
11 February 1995
-
Questions and Answers
11 February 1995
-
Gooner skreshers!
11 February 1995
-
Upside down
11 February 1995
-
Private scanner
11 February 1995
-
I'll scratch yours
11 February 1995
-
Brian drain
11 February 1995
-
No religion here
11 February 1995
-
Rebel with a Cause
11 February 1995
Negawatts, hypercars and soft paths are the inventions of a controversial academic turned campaigner. In search of the man behind the subversive
-
Stars on a cold night
11 February 1995
-
How does the garden grow?
11 February 1995
-
Voyages of a botanical man
11 February 1995
-
All the world's a chip
11 February 1995
-
A real alternative
11 February 1995
-
Spinning a tale for arachnophiles
11 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Replies
11 February 1995
-
Death by a Thousand Cuts
11 February 1995
Finland claims that its timber production is ecologically sound, but environmental campaigners tell another tale
-
Much loved monsters
11 February 1995
-
Jug runneth over
11 February 1995
-
Window on past
11 February 1995
-
Power drain
11 February 1995
-
Unlucky leaks
11 February 1995
-
Enigma No 809: What's the score?
11 February 1995
-
Slashing away at the bumph
11 February 1995
More comment from Westminster
-
Fragile land of clouds and kiwis
11 February 1995
-
Waiting for the Romans to turn up
11 February 1995
-
Wood-be fuel
11 February 1995
-
Lifting the pernicious veil of secrecy
11 February 1995
Peer reviewers should shed the mask of anonymity argue three Canadian academics
-
Expanding space gets something for nothing
04 February 1995
-
Did storms land the dinosaurs in hot water?
04 February 1995
-
Fossil jellyfish squashed by lichen theory
04 February 1995
-
Bosses with attitude set the tone
04 February 1995
-
Deep freeze leaves its mark on mice
04 February 1995
-
Fi diddle dee dee, nuclear triggers for me
04 February 1995
-
Nothing new in software?
04 February 1995
-
Voles' urine is their downfall
04 February 1995
-
Time travel: it's all done with smoke and mirrors
04 February 1995
-
Get your head around 3D
04 February 1995
-
Tiny engine speeds ahead of the competition
04 February 1995
-
Bacteria go to work on old tyres
04 February 1995
-
Vietnamese termite meets its match
04 February 1995
-
Gamma-ray repeater reveals star quality
04 February 1995
-
Leaky dishes drown out terrestrial TV
04 February 1995
-
Plot thickens as audience rewrites the script
04 February 1995
-
Killer parasite urges cells to destroy themselves
04 February 1995
-
Wrong snow can fool pilots
04 February 1995
-
Recycled plutonium 'a gift to bomb markers'
04 February 1995
-
Hack attack leaves Internet wide open
04 February 1995
-
The trouble with boys …
04 February 1995
-
Last blast for Florida's teenage trippers
04 February 1995
-
… while fish fall prey to progress
04 February 1995
-
Indian dams will drive out rare animals …
04 February 1995
-
African locusts thrive on conflict
04 February 1995
-
Botanists crack case of fossil nut
04 February 1995
-
Naked intelligence
04 February 1995
-
Patent confusion
04 February 1995
-
Ban on bacterium that makes poison plants safe
04 February 1995
-
Glass spheres track the Sun in gold
04 February 1995
-
Hard times for Britain's lost boys
04 February 1995
Girls are racing ahead in Britain's schools. Teachers whose pioneering interviews research may show why boys are being left behind
-
WHO comes to Kobe
04 February 1995
-
Critical event
04 February 1995
-
Gusty reception
04 February 1995
-
Former science adviser slams secret carve-up
04 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Replies
04 February 1995
-
Netropolitan – Boats
04 February 1995
-
Watt power to Romania's people?
04 February 1995
-
Questions and Answers
04 February 1995
-
Keeping the nasties under lock and key
04 February 1995
More comment from Westminster
-
Feedback
04 February 1995
-
Letters to the Editor
04 February 1995
-
Egg needed
04 February 1995
-
Biblical sons
04 February 1995
-
Quarkless
04 February 1995
-
Dear Darwin
04 February 1995
-
Snowed under
04 February 1995
-
Toeing the line
04 February 1995
-
Not Taylor-made
04 February 1995
-
This week's questions
04 February 1995
-
All shook up
04 February 1995
-
Boring question
04 February 1995
-
Grey matters
04 February 1995
-
The nature of mathematics
04 February 1995
-
A net to trap unwary gremlins
04 February 1995
Systems that don't work properly
-
Netropolitan – Women
04 February 1995
-
Dead in the Water
04 February 1995
Attempts to save the grossly polluted Mediterranean seem as doomed as the sea itself
-
Online to Kathmandu
04 February 1995
Can one of the world's richest industries breathe new life into the economy of one of the world's poorest nations?
-
Bell is cast with ring of confidence
04 February 1995
-
Houston, we have a fire on board!
04 February 1995
NASA has admitted that there have been five "fire incidents" on the shuttle since it first flew in 1981. In the wake of this week's launch, discovers that no one is planning to redesign the safety system
-
El Niño goes critical
04 February 1995
What's happening to the Pacific? We are used to its climate causing havoc around the word – but not every single year
-
Going for the cultural burn
04 February 1995
-
All you want to know about a body
04 February 1995
-
My life among the ants by E.O. Wilson
04 February 1995
-
Time and tide wait for no man
04 February 1995
-
I am the Alpha and the Omega Point
04 February 1995
-
Finding the energy for a new tax
04 February 1995
The latest example of power politics
-
Soothsayers, suckers and sceptics
04 February 1995
The public may not be as gullible as some scientists would have us believe
-
Tabloid biology
04 February 1995
-
Cross gender
04 February 1995
-
Enigma No 808 Multi-choice quest
04 February 1995
-
Brush mush
04 February 1995