Â鶹´«Ã½

This week's magazine

6 June 1998

Issue 2137

Â鶹´«Ã½ issue 2137 cover
Previous issue Next issue

On the cover

Features

Acid house

News

Timekeeping vitamin

Opinion

Altering hearts and minds
arrow
View in the app
Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app
arrow
Find a previous edition online
Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Acid house

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Jim's bright idea

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Let's play quantum chess

Features
Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Anything goes

Features

Table of contents

News

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Timekeeping vitamin

A LIGHT-SENSITIVE pigment derived from vitamin B 2 may help to set the body's clock. Scientists reported earlier this year that bright light on the back of the knees can reset the body's daily rhythms (This Week, 24 January, p 11) . Now Yasuhide Miyamoto and Aziz Sancar at the University of North Carolina in …

News

The first man?

News

Melting away

News

Can an enzyme cheat the Grim Reaper?

News

Still waters…

News

…run deep

News

Best for breasts

News

Late launch

News

Fast food detectives

News

Frogs help hunt down the gender benders

News

Active ingredients

News

Young people question vivisection

News

Sentinels of the seas

News

Breathe deeply

News

Sins of the parents

News

Wireless network

News

Zapper relay

News

Dust to dust

News

Science hits celluloid

News

. . . . .

News

. . . . .

News

. . . . .

News

Fangs a lot

News

Chlorophyll sorts out the good seeds from the bad

News

Safe in the woods

News

The big smoke

News

On second thoughts

News

How the dragons of the deep improve their sight

News

Wipeout

News

Gyrating muscles

News

On the record

News

Technology

Flagging profits

News

Technology

A word from our sponsor...

News

Technology

Four-wheeled minder

News

Put the kettle on

News

The mother of all firework displays

News

Staying put

News

Unhappy families

News

The big picture

News

Radioactive waters

News

Guilty as charged

News

Costa del Mars

News

Don't worry about superbugs, just take the tablets

News

Six degrees of separation

News

Video's long player

News

Shock treatment

News

He looked shifty . . .

News

It's a whole new world

News

Opinion

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Altering hearts and minds

IN SWITZERLAND, voting is about to take place on an extraordinary referendum which could outlaw virtually all research involving genetically manipulated organisms. Fortunately, opinion polls suggest the bill is likely to be rejected. "Fortunately" not because the bill would be a grave blow to Swiss science and industry (although it would be), but because it …

Opinion

The only good nuke . . .

Opinion

Features

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Acid house

THIS place stinks. The rotten-egg smell of hydrogen sulphide hits before you even enter the mouth of the cave. Acid drips from the walls and ceiling. Slime coats the rock with coloured blotches like ghastly gelatinous wallpaper. And then there are the "snottites", white, wobbling versions of stalactites with the consistency of phlegm. Not your …

Features

Jim's bright idea

Features

Let's play quantum chess

Features

Anything goes

Features

More

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Virtual vigilantes

IF you had evidence that someone was a regular user of child porn what would you do? Report them to the authorities or destroy all their pictures and videos to teach them a lesson? Digital vigilantes on the Internet are turning this hypothetical dilemma into a real problem. One hacker, who uses the name Se7en …

Forum

Welcome to the Lizard of Oz

Forum

. . .

Forum

The sacred and the profane

Forum

What's up, Doc?

Books & Arts

It's a blast

Books & Arts

Photo finish

Books & Arts

Get a quantum grip

Books & Arts

Collected works

Books & Arts

All to pot

Books & Arts

Cashing in

Books & Arts

from Oxford

Books & Arts

Tick here

Books & Arts

Mapping DNA

Books & Arts

Guppy love

Books & Arts

Play the name game

Books & Arts

Jewel of the Nile

Books & Arts

Breaking the grip of materialism

Books & Arts

Root and branch

Books & Arts

Â鶹´«Ã½'s Darwinian selection (1998)

Books & Arts

The darling of the masses

Books & Arts

Off with the old . . .

Books & Arts

Regulars

Â鶹´«Ã½. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Feedback

THE PRIZE for last month's silliest non sequitur goes to Nigel Evans, Conservative MP for Ribble Valley. In the House of Commons on 13 May, he had this to say about the view of Paul Flynn, Labour MP for Newport West, that marijuana is less harmful than tobacco and alcohol: "Some people listening to the …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

Browse past issues

View all
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop