Issue 1944 | Magazine cover date: 24 September 1994

24 September 1994

Issue 1944

On the cover

Features

Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.

News

Patents: Burning issue

Opinion

Comment: Industry's hot line

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Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.

Features

Technology

A quantum revolution for computing

Features

Greening the heart of England: An ambitious scheme to recreate the forests that once covered Britain is under siege. Pressure is mounting, says Fred Pearce, to use it for environmentally destructive activities

Features

News

Patents: Burning issue

Anyone who has scalded themselves while taking a shower will welcome an idea proposed by Aqualisa Products of Westerham, Kent, in British application 2 274 500. Most domestic shower heads mix hot and cold water from separate supplies. If someone in the house flushes a toilet or runs a cold tap, the pressure in the …

News

Patents: Tune in, drive on

News

Patents: Hip replacement

News

Patents: High flyers

News

Patents: Jelly bullets

News

Technology

Technology: This won't hurt . . . at all

News

Technology

Technology: Britain in DAB hand at digital

News

Patents: Don't go broke with brokers

News

Technology

Technology: A brighter ghost in the machine

News

Technology

Technology: Spacecraft designers reinvent the wheel

News

Science: Designer teepees for Panamanian bats

News

Science: The long and the short of discouraging gulls

News

Science: Crystal clear way to better clotbusters

News

Technology

Technology: Superconductors move into mobiles

News

Hard sell for particle physics?: The killing off the superconducting Supercollider sent shock waves through particle physicics. Now researchers face a dilemma: should they expect governments to give them money to answer the fundamental questions about th

News

Technology

Technology: Namibians who live in glass houses . . .

News

Science: Prehistoric prey met death through a keyhole

News

Science: Bathroom tiling to drive you mad

News

Probes approved

News

No solar pole

News

Sizewell gears up

News

Breast exercise

News

Last call?

News

Americans make logs from a skip-full of dollars

News

Levy to conserve cash for health service R&D

News

Simple 'spelling error' to blame for dwarfism

News

Was it arsenic that did for old Boney?

News

The fat, hairy women of Pompeii

News

Recycling paper goes easy on the bleach

News

Whirlwind reaps a corn circle?

News

Indian plague

News

How not to get lost in space

News

Growth drug falls short

News

Roll up for the flexible transistor

News

Oil spill damages set at billions

News

Seal breeding plan hits the rocks

News

Europe's research 'gold mine' is opened up

News

Patent row splits breast cancer researchers.

News

Opinion

Comment: Industry's hot line

European taxpayers will be interested to learn that they have so far sunk £12 billion into the first three waves of the European Commission's Framework programme of collaborative applied research, and are about to shell out another £10 billion for the current - and fourth - Framework programme. Many a Euroburgher may well be wondering …

Opinion

Comment: A right to know . . . what?

Opinion

Features

Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.

This summer Katharine Hamnett, one of Britain's best-known fashion designers, has been selling denim jeans with a difference. It is not the style of the jeans that is unusual, nor their colour. Rather, the novelty lies in the material they are made of: organic cotton. The price is £85 - £15 more than a pair …

Features

Technology

A quantum revolution for computing

Features

Greening the heart of England: An ambitious scheme to recreate the forests that once covered Britain is under siege. Pressure is mounting, says Fred Pearce, to use it for environmentally destructive activities

Features

Washington Diary: Embarrassing times all round - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

When two plutonium samples turned up in Germany last month, apparently smuggled out of Russia, US officials professed shock and horror. What they didn't admit, except in private, was an extreme case of embarrassment. Because for three years the US government has delayed, ignored and otherwise bungled a lavishly funded programme that was supposed to …

Forum

Review: Florida's records

Books & Arts

Forum: Gossip on the grand scale - Alison Brooks on why watching soap operas is a habit that is difficult to kick

Forum

Forum: After the transformation - Steve McKillup looks at life in a 'new' university

Forum

Review: Relatively comfortable with the bizarre

Books & Arts

Review: Surely you're serious, Mr Feynman

Books & Arts

Review: A hard row to hoe

Books & Arts

Review: National reserves

Books & Arts

Review: A dark blue on the light blues

Books & Arts

Review: A starring role in the universe

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

Sheep may safely graze . . . or not. If you are of an easily distressed nature, skip and gambol your way to the next entry. If not, here's something weird. Feedback was recently taking a welcome holiday in Snowdonia and went walking in the pastoral idyll of purple heather and short-cropped turf. Ahead on …

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24 September 1994

On the cover

Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.

Technology

A quantum revolution for computing

Greening the heart of England: An ambitious scheme to recreate the forests that once covered Britain is under siege. Pressure is mounting, says Fred Pearce, to use it for environmentally destructive activities

Table of contents

News

Patents: Burning issue

Patents: Tune in, drive on

Patents: Hip replacement

Patents: High flyers

Patents: Jelly bullets

Technology

Technology: This won't hurt . . . at all

Technology

Technology: Britain in DAB hand at digital

Patents: Don't go broke with brokers

Technology

Technology: A brighter ghost in the machine

Technology

Technology: Spacecraft designers reinvent the wheel

Science: Designer teepees for Panamanian bats

Science: The long and the short of discouraging gulls

Science: Crystal clear way to better clotbusters

Technology

Technology: Superconductors move into mobiles

Hard sell for particle physics?: The killing off the superconducting Supercollider sent shock waves through particle physicics. Now researchers face a dilemma: should they expect governments to give them money to answer the fundamental questions about th

Technology

Technology: Namibians who live in glass houses . . .

Science: Prehistoric prey met death through a keyhole

Science: Bathroom tiling to drive you mad

Probes approved

No solar pole

Sizewell gears up

Breast exercise

Last call?

Americans make logs from a skip-full of dollars

Levy to conserve cash for health service R&D

Simple 'spelling error' to blame for dwarfism

Was it arsenic that did for old Boney?

The fat, hairy women of Pompeii

Recycling paper goes easy on the bleach

Whirlwind reaps a corn circle?

Indian plague

How not to get lost in space

Growth drug falls short

Roll up for the flexible transistor

Oil spill damages set at billions

Seal breeding plan hits the rocks

Europe's research 'gold mine' is opened up

Patent row splits breast cancer researchers.

Opinion

Comment: Industry's hot line

Comment: A right to know . . . what?

Features

Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.

Technology

A quantum revolution for computing

Greening the heart of England: An ambitious scheme to recreate the forests that once covered Britain is under siege. Pressure is mounting, says Fred Pearce, to use it for environmentally destructive activities

More

Washington Diary: Embarrassing times all round - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Review: Florida's records

Forum: Gossip on the grand scale - Alison Brooks on why watching soap operas is a habit that is difficult to kick

Forum: After the transformation - Steve McKillup looks at life in a 'new' university

Review: Relatively comfortable with the bizarre

Review: Surely you're serious, Mr Feynman

Review: A hard row to hoe

Review: National reserves

Review: A dark blue on the light blues

Review: A starring role in the universe

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word