Issue 2038 | Magazine cover date: 13 July 1996

13 July 1996

Issue 2038

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Stone Age Picassos

News

Technology : X-rays spot tell-tale haloes in breast scans

Opinion

Editorial : The wrong resistance - EVERY year, between 300 and 500 million people develop malaria. Close to 3 million people die as a result, most of them children and nearly all of them living in tropical Africa.

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Stone Age Picassos

Features

What if...

Features

forget silicon, try dna

Features

Thinking big - In the quest for new drugs and materials, chemists have harnessed the power of numbers, says Michael Smith

Features

News

Technology

Technology : X-rays spot tell-tale haloes in breast scans

THOUSANDS of women could be spared the agonising uncertainty of ambiguous breast scan results and unnecessary biopsies if a new mammography technique proves as effective as initial results suggest. Doctors at the Oxford University Medical School are testing the technique, which was developed by their colleagues in radiology. It relies on digital images from an …

News

Technology

Technology : Heat on a hot, thin roof

News

Technology

Netropolitan : Heat on a hot, thin roof

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Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Technology : Look, no wires for extra TVs

News

Technology

Technology : Do what I mean, not what I say

News

Technology

Technology : Bendy blades cut rotors down to size

News

Science : Quality control for early embryos

News

Science : You are feeling very sleepy . . .

News

Cot death clue

News

Holistic hazards - Millions of people in Britain turn to complementary medicine in the belief that it is risk-free. But a closer look shows that side effects are widespread

News

Technology

Technology : Heir to the shuttle pushes the limits

News

Science : `Poor' vaccine ruled out in TB puzzle

News

Science : Potassium gives in under pressure

News

Science : Brain regions stutter to a halt

News

Science : Model wind helps build real fire

News

Science : Rocky jigsaw reveals ancient American river

News

Greenland gets tough with `theme park' scientists

News

Probably the loneliest camp site in the world

News

Frozen eye watches the birth of stars

News

AIDS gulf widens

News

Back to front

News

Red tide killings

News

No fireworks

News

Greens attack plans to import `dirty fuel'

News

Space pregnancy leads to hard labour

News

Shuttle launches come unstuck

News

Cluster revamp deepens ESA crisis

News

Cars still choke towns

News

France prohibits use of asbestos

News

Long-lived pollutants threaten the Great Lakes

News

Hormone test goes on trial in Atlanta

News

If you want to win gold, just chill out

News

Global warming brings early spring

News

Malaria falls to herbal remedy

News

Rare birds ravaged by mystery poison

News

Opinion

Editorial : The wrong resistance - EVERY year, between 300 and 500 million people develop malaria. Close to 3 million people die as a result, most of them children and nearly all of them living in tropical Africa.

EVERY year, between 300 and 500 million people develop malaria. Close to 3 million people die as a result, most of them children and nearly all of them living in tropical Africa. Fifty years ago, many people thought that malaria could be completely eradicated. More recently, the hope was that it could at least be …

Opinion

Editorial : Ethical egg on our faces - LAST week, the press had what looked like a bout of mid-summer madness over the impending destruction of thousands of human embryos stored in vats of liquid nitrogen all over Britain. The embryos were produced by cou

Opinion

Features

Stone Age Picassos

JOURNALISTS around the world went into a frenzy in January last year when French cave researcher Jean-Marie Chauvet unveiled a remarkable collection of prehistoric rock art. Chauvet and his friends had discovered the paintings just a few weeks earlier in a cavern at Vallon-Pont-d'Arc in southern Ardèche. Some 300 paintings and at least as many …

Features

What if...

Features

forget silicon, try dna

Features

Thinking big - In the quest for new drugs and materials, chemists have harnessed the power of numbers, says Michael Smith

Features

Forum : Finders keepers won't do any more

THE indigenous peoples of the world may soon turn away researchers who come to study how they use local plants and animals, or search for rare species on their lands. Their decision to impose a ban on such work follows many years of frustration in their struggle to establish the right to remain in their …

Forum

Thistle diary : Catalysts for a new millenium - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Antipodes : Switching to solar can lower current prices - Ian Lowe looks at where renewable energy is making economic sense

Forum

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Forum : Benefit of the doubters

Forum

Review : Confidence tricks

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : Breakfast of champions

Books & Arts

Review : Engineering feats

Books & Arts

Review : Ironmongering

Books & Arts

Review : Cosmic reading

Books & Arts

Review : Stolen treasure

Books & Arts

Review : The splintered self

Books & Arts

Review : Pride and prejudice

Books & Arts

Review : Top twenty

Books & Arts

Review : Gasping for air

Books & Arts

Review : Woes of the world

Books & Arts

Regulars

The Last Word

Time bombs Q: Within a day or two of my starting to wear a quartz watch, it starts to keep time erratically, running alternately fast and slow. Also, brand-new five-year batteries last only a month. As I don't work around any unusual equipment that might affect a watch, I'm left to assume that something in …

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13 July 1996

On the cover

Stone Age Picassos

What if...

forget silicon, try dna

Thinking big - In the quest for new drugs and materials, chemists have harnessed the power of numbers, says Michael Smith

Table of contents

News

Technology

Technology : X-rays spot tell-tale haloes in breast scans

Technology

Technology : Heat on a hot, thin roof

Technology

Netropolitan : Heat on a hot, thin roof

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Look, no wires for extra TVs

Technology

Technology : Do what I mean, not what I say

Technology

Technology : Bendy blades cut rotors down to size

Science : Quality control for early embryos

Science : You are feeling very sleepy . . .

Cot death clue

Holistic hazards - Millions of people in Britain turn to complementary medicine in the belief that it is risk-free. But a closer look shows that side effects are widespread

Technology

Technology : Heir to the shuttle pushes the limits

Science : `Poor' vaccine ruled out in TB puzzle

Science : Potassium gives in under pressure

Science : Brain regions stutter to a halt

Science : Model wind helps build real fire

Science : Rocky jigsaw reveals ancient American river

Greenland gets tough with `theme park' scientists

Probably the loneliest camp site in the world

Frozen eye watches the birth of stars

AIDS gulf widens

Back to front

Red tide killings

No fireworks

Greens attack plans to import `dirty fuel'

Space pregnancy leads to hard labour

Shuttle launches come unstuck

Cluster revamp deepens ESA crisis

Cars still choke towns

France prohibits use of asbestos

Long-lived pollutants threaten the Great Lakes

Hormone test goes on trial in Atlanta

If you want to win gold, just chill out

Global warming brings early spring

Malaria falls to herbal remedy

Rare birds ravaged by mystery poison

Opinion

Editorial : The wrong resistance - EVERY year, between 300 and 500 million people develop malaria. Close to 3 million people die as a result, most of them children and nearly all of them living in tropical Africa.

Editorial : Ethical egg on our faces - LAST week, the press had what looked like a bout of mid-summer madness over the impending destruction of thousands of human embryos stored in vats of liquid nitrogen all over Britain. The embryos were produced by cou

Features

Stone Age Picassos

What if...

forget silicon, try dna

Thinking big - In the quest for new drugs and materials, chemists have harnessed the power of numbers, says Michael Smith

More

Forum : Finders keepers won't do any more

Thistle diary : Catalysts for a new millenium - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Antipodes : Switching to solar can lower current prices - Ian Lowe looks at where renewable energy is making economic sense

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Forum : Benefit of the doubters

Review : Confidence tricks

Review : Collected works

Review : Breakfast of champions

Review : Engineering feats

Review : Ironmongering

Review : Cosmic reading

Review : Stolen treasure

Review : The splintered self

Review : Pride and prejudice

Review : Top twenty

Review : Gasping for air