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15 April 1995

Issue 1973

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Telecommunications

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Space oddities

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The human factor

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Astronomy

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Launches & payloads

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Remote sensing

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Launches & Payloads

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Check the tyres and charge her up

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The secrets of everlastting life

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After the gold rush

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Psst wanna buy a SATELLITE?

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Table of contents

News

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Enigma: Breeding like …?

THE rabbits on the island of Hermaphra each produce a litter of offspring each year, and become more prolific with age. The colony originated in the year dot, with just one newborn individual. The following year she/he/it produced just one offspring. In the year dot +2 the original colonnist produced two offspring, and the previous …

News

Technology

Netropolitan – More Chain Letters

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Gullible People

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Armchair Tourist

News

Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

News

Technology

Internet encryption ban 'violates free speech'

News

Technology

Things that go bump in the engine

News

'Burst zip' undermines theories of ocean birth

News

Why schizophrenics find it's all too much

News

Disgustinng sunblock keep snails off the menu

News

Prostate protein turns up in women's tumours

News

Rise and rise of the breast cancer gene

News

When two sperm tails beat as one

News

Universal problems solved by masses of neutrinos

News

Technology

Sick babies pioneer enzyme implant

News

Technology

Video wars threaten to return as digital standards clash

News

Technology

Making sure sports fans get the right message

News

Technology

Introducing the rabbit that feels no pain

News

Technology

How do astronauts measure up?

News

A very British tragedy?

News

Notre Dame's organ falls silent

News

Hard tomato sell

News

Nuclear legacy

News

Food for thought

News

Haloes part clouds of ignorance

News

Ending the suspense

News

Spring slime

News

Inspector draws blank on fusion

News

Eel conflict

News

How to lose a nuclear power station at the lights

News

Counting the cost of Africa's itch

News

The night clocks go back 100 years

News

PC stands guard over Russian uranium

News

Technophilia floods through Europe

News

Slovaks blow hot and cold over reactors

News

Sellafield deal threatens talks on weapons treaty

News

Goats must go to save the Galápagos tortoises

News

Zimbabwe's elephants up for sale

News

Don't stop talking about tomorrow …

News

Second-hand smoke seriously damages your heart

News

No flow of knowledge across the Rhine

News

Opinion

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Sweating it out together

IN BERLIN, the Climate Change Convention has just drawn to a close, and, as usual at such events, science and politics were confusingly entangled. There are still no clear predictions of how national climates will change in the future. Largely because of this, the convention ended without any agreed targets for reducing outputs of greenhouse …

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.

Telecommunications

AN AUSTRALIAN company has beaten its international rivals to the marketplace with the world's first satellite-based mobile telephone service. An antenna designed in Queensland has allowed Optus Communications to launch its service more than a year before its American counterparts. The phone service, called MobileSat, is designed for use in remote areas not reached by …

Features

Space oddities

Features

The human factor

Features

Astronomy

Features

Launches & payloads

Features

Remote sensing

Features

Launches & Payloads

Features

Check the tyres and charge her up

Features

The secrets of everlastting life

Features

After the gold rush

Features

Psst wanna buy a SATELLITE?

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More

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.

Moral minefields for law-makers

IAN TAYLOR is an alert politician genuinely interested in his portfolio as technology minister. One particularly thorny issue, though, must be the patenting of human genes. Earlier this year, the European Patent Office ruled that human DNA is patentable after a group of MEPs attempted to get a patent revoked. They argued that patenting a …

Forum

Cannibals in the conference room

Forum

Elite researchers under the microscope

Forum

India takes the birds under its wing

Forum

Trespassers will always be prosecuted

Books & Arts

At a patents office near you

Books & Arts

The view from outside

Books & Arts

Can you cost the Earth?

Books & Arts

One from the heart

Books & Arts

The politics of psychology

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

THERE IS a life after chemistry. Just look at the meteoric career of Angela Merkel. Five years ago she was slaving away at the bench, in her 12th year of researching quantum chemistry at Germany's Central Institute for Physical Chemistry. But last week, as environment minister of the host country, she was chairing the Global …

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