Issue 1711 | Magazine cover date: 7 April 1990

7 April 1990

Issue 1711

On the cover

Features

An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

News

Technology: Plastic print changes pages on the run

Opinion

Comment: Bombs away

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An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

Features

Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world's most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe

Features

News

Technology

Technology: Plastic print changes pages on the run

A PLASTIC which can change its properties at the touch of an electric pulse may revolutionise the printing industry. The plastic, being developed in West Germany, can be used to make printing plates for presses on which the image on the plate can be altered electronically - while the press is running. At the moment, …

News

Science: Comets may 'short-circuit' neutron stars

News

Science: Computer model confirms global warming

News

Science: Can photons travel 'faster than light'?

News

Science: Oceans yield up their oldest rocks

News

Technology

Technology: Britain does an about-face on communications in space

News

Technology

Technology: Recording CD systems on the way

News

Technology

Technology: Erasable disc system gets your records in order

News

Technology

Technology: Where are the new scientists? - What if they gave a university and nobody came? Many predictions suggest that few young people will want to work as scientists in the 1990s

News

Technology

Technology: Sun-dried air cuts cooling costs

News

Technology

Technology: Record switch speed for silicon transistors

News

Renewable energy crisis

News

Smoking deaths

News

Chemical boycott

News

Biotech battle

News

Sellafield stockpile

News

Hawke's victim

News

Scans show the shape of schizophrenia

News

Japanese organs

News

Watertight refusal

News

Science: Faulty protein holds clue to Alzheimer's disease

News

Science: Test-tube embryos 'can survive' genetic screening

News

Polytechnics demand an end to 'intellectual apartheid'

News

New enterprises lure senior scientists away from the Siberian academy

News

Gene therapy: the struggle for acceptance

News

Satellites search in vain for global warming

News

Japan's nuclear experiment sails off into the sunset

News

Safety body may strengthen ozone controls for offices

News

Endangered squirrels drive Arizona's astronomers nuts

News

Utah keeps embers of cold fusion aglow

News

Liquid petroleum gas explosion outside Sydney

News

Tourism threatens Spanish wildlife sanctuary

News

Crisis deepens over US ban on foreigners with HIV

News

Blood pressure affects heart disease more than we thought

News

Massive job cuts threaten East German science

News

Opinion

Comment: Bombs away

JUST 20 years ago, any talk of explosions and population was designed to inject fear into us all. Those were the days when that harbinger of doom, The Limits to Growth, the report 'for', decidedly not by, the Club of Rome, told us: 'The basic behaviour mode of the world system is exponential growth, followed …

Opinion

Comment: Driving to destruction

Opinion

Features

An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

NO MORE than 20 large animals in the world have been domesticated to provide food. That leaves almost 200 species of large, herbivorous animals which have not been domesticated. What is wrong with all these wild species? Have they ever been investigated and found wanting, or has no one ever explored their qualities? Might some …

Features

Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world's most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe

Features

Review: At the heart of the camera

A History of the Photographic Lens by Rudolf Kingslake, Academic Press, pp 272, Pounds sterling 21.50 THE LENS is usually the most expensive and the least understood part of any camera; thousands of different lenses have been developed in the 150 years since photography was invented. The development of good camera lenses was a slow …

Books & Arts

Forum: Creating the right atmosphere - The prospects for research in developing countries

Forum

Forum: Graduates for the real world - Kevin Law questions whether we are producing the kind of people we need

Forum

Forum: Taxation with representation - Christopher Evans would like more say in how the money is spent

Forum

Forum: A day in the country - We get what we deserve

Forum

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Of modern millstones and Ancient Greek

Forum

Review: Green cons and green consumers

Books & Arts

Review: Locked out of history

Books & Arts

Review: An alternative view

Books & Arts

Review: The breakdown of all communication

Books & Arts

Review: Struggle for survival on the bookshop shelves

Books & Arts

Jobs for Science: How to get on in science

Careers

Regulars

Ariadne

THE TITLE of John Betjeman's autobiographical book, Summoned by Bells, referred to church bells, real bells. I can recall the indignation shown by a friend of mine when he discovered that while robing himself for some ceremony, his local vicar put on a tape recording of peals from somebody else's famous bells, which duly sounded …

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7 April 1990

On the cover

An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world's most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe

Table of contents

News

Technology

Technology: Plastic print changes pages on the run

Science: Comets may 'short-circuit' neutron stars

Science: Computer model confirms global warming

Science: Can photons travel 'faster than light'?

Science: Oceans yield up their oldest rocks

Technology

Technology: Britain does an about-face on communications in space

Technology

Technology: Recording CD systems on the way

Technology

Technology: Erasable disc system gets your records in order

Technology

Technology: Where are the new scientists? - What if they gave a university and nobody came? Many predictions suggest that few young people will want to work as scientists in the 1990s

Technology

Technology: Sun-dried air cuts cooling costs

Technology

Technology: Record switch speed for silicon transistors

Renewable energy crisis

Smoking deaths

Chemical boycott

Biotech battle

Sellafield stockpile

Hawke's victim

Scans show the shape of schizophrenia

Japanese organs

Watertight refusal

Science: Faulty protein holds clue to Alzheimer's disease

Science: Test-tube embryos 'can survive' genetic screening

Polytechnics demand an end to 'intellectual apartheid'

New enterprises lure senior scientists away from the Siberian academy

Gene therapy: the struggle for acceptance

Satellites search in vain for global warming

Japan's nuclear experiment sails off into the sunset

Safety body may strengthen ozone controls for offices

Endangered squirrels drive Arizona's astronomers nuts

Utah keeps embers of cold fusion aglow

Liquid petroleum gas explosion outside Sydney

Tourism threatens Spanish wildlife sanctuary

Crisis deepens over US ban on foreigners with HIV

Blood pressure affects heart disease more than we thought

Massive job cuts threaten East German science

Opinion

Comment: Bombs away

Comment: Driving to destruction

Features

An antelope for all seasonings: Most large, herbivorous animals are good to eat, so why do we stick with cows, sheep and pigs? The Indian nilgai is an ideal candidate for domestication and could add variety to our diet

Astronomy takes off: Next week, NASA plans to launch the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit, turning it into the world's most powerful optical telescope. Once up there, it will look back through 14 billion years of the history of the Universe

More

Review: At the heart of the camera

Forum: Creating the right atmosphere - The prospects for research in developing countries

Forum: Graduates for the real world - Kevin Law questions whether we are producing the kind of people we need

Forum: Taxation with representation - Christopher Evans would like more say in how the money is spent

Forum: A day in the country - We get what we deserve

Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Of modern millstones and Ancient Greek

Review: Green cons and green consumers

Review: Locked out of history

Review: An alternative view

Review: The breakdown of all communication

Review: Struggle for survival on the bookshop shelves

Jobs for Science: How to get on in science

Regulars

Ariadne

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