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5 June 1993

Issue 1876

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Planet of the free apes?: Philosophers and biologists have drawn up a bill of rights for apes as part of the latest campaign to liberate then from laboratories and zoos

Features
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Life

Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee

Features
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How science fails the environment

Features
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I spy with my infrared eye: Satellite images are helping volcanologists with the tricky business of predicting when and where a volcano will erupt

Features
New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

The longbow's deadly secrets

Features

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News

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Technology

Technology: Save a boat, help a soldier?

The Ministry of Defence is taking an interest in a protective suit that has been specially developed to protect technicians preserving an enormous prehistoric logboat. The suit will enable technicians at Hull's archaeological museum to withstand temperatures of up to 60°C and 100 per cent humidity - conditions that would scald exposed human skin within …

News

Technology

Technology: Managers struggle to adapt to teleworking

News

Technology

Technology: Windows NT shuts out software rivals

News

Technology

Technology: Farmers watched by spy in the sky

News

Technology

Technology: Clay gum cleans as you chew

News

Technology

Technology: Electronic charts head for clear waters

News

HIV and the straight sex connection: A long-awaited government report will present a detailed picture of AIDS in Britain. But consenting adults need more than numbers to understand the risk of being infected with HIV

News

Science: Comet on collision course with Jupiter

News

Science: Petrified nests reveal termites' true age

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Science: Noisy moths leave a nasty taste in the mouth

News

Science: Galileo met giant magnet in space

News

Science: Volcanic chlorine is innocent

News

Science: How to mimic the early Universe

News

Arctic spring-clean

News

Prize memory

News

Banking on botany

News

Bats in the brewery

News

Bad for birds

News

Skip round Venus

News

Green Gorbachev

News

Ancient chemists

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Hard road for Africa's women

News

Expat experts hold back local talent

News

Dutch doubts over 'runaway genes'

News

US keeps tight rein on Russian satellite launches

News

Look to salt caves for secret nuclear tests

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White Paper 'meaningless' without money

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Waldegrave's strategy wins over old adversary

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Men unmanned by a 'sea of oestrogen'

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Many wives means many daughters

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Germany relaxes rules on gene research

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Hong Kong rounds up toxic waste

News

Noses run to a regular rhythm

News

Collision over home for particle smasher

News

Search for new technology slips between the cracks

News

Opinion

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School changes stir the emotions

AUSTRALIA'S learned societies are up in arms about proposed revisions to the secondary school science syllabus. The Australian Academy of Science, the Australian Institute of Physics and the Royal Australian Chemical Institute are joining forces to oppose the changes. State and federal education ministers are to consider the revisions early next month. The new curriculum …

Opinion

Thistle Diary: In search of some decent actions - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Opinion

Comment: Areas of ignorance

Opinion

Comment: Foresight or just short sight?

Opinion

Features

New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Planet of the free apes?: Philosophers and biologists have drawn up a bill of rights for apes as part of the latest campaign to liberate then from laboratories and zoos

In 1960, Adriaan Kortlandt became the first animal behaviourist to gaze into the eyes of wild chimpanzees. 'A cold shiver went down my spine,' he recalls. 'These were not animals, nor humans either, but eerie souls in animals' furs.' Unbeknown to Kortlandt, this ambiguity was to prove a curse, not a blessing, for chimpanzees in …

Features

Life

Meet my cousin, the chimpanzee

Features

How science fails the environment

Features

I spy with my infrared eye: Satellite images are helping volcanologists with the tricky business of predicting when and where a volcano will erupt

Features

Technology

The longbow's deadly secrets

Features

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New Scientist. Science news and long reads from expert journalists, covering developments in science, technology, health and the environment on the website and the magazine.

Forum: A trace of something nasty - Andy Coghlan wonders how trustworthy measurements are

'Baby milk poison horror' screamed the headline. 'Trading standards officers today found dangerously high levels of the toxic metal, cadmium, in samples of baby milk powder and have recalled all batches from city outlets. Officers found levels of 4500 nanograms of cadmium per gram of baby milk. (A nanogram is one-billionth of a gram.) The …

Forum

Forum: Wear a hard hat this month - Look out, look out, there are meteorites about warns Philip Bagnall

Forum

Review: America under the global greenhouse

Books & Arts

Review: On the origin of the lumpy bits

Books & Arts

Review: Our life is what our thoughts make it

Books & Arts

Review: Safety and the short-term memory

Books & Arts

Review: Risk and its underlying social theories

Books & Arts

Review: Numerical methods made plain

Books & Arts

Review: The current of change

Books & Arts

Review: Iron in the soul

Books & Arts

Review: A complex chemical system writes . . .

Books & Arts

Review: A brief history of Europe

Books & Arts

Review: An orderly progression out of chaos

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

Good old Department of Trade and Industry, right in there fighting the corner of British enterprise. Never ones to neglect an opportunity to open up new markets for British technology, when officials at the department heard that buyers from Walt Disney Attractions are coming to Britain in July, they responded with alacrity. 'Wake up to …

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