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30 March 1996

Issue 2023

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Come hell and high water

Features
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Silicon toons

Features
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Hungry for a new revolution

Features
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Earth

When north flies south

Features

Table of contents

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

Patents : Pavel faces the music

THREE Appeal Court judges in Britain have ruled that Andreas Pavel did not invent the Walkman personal stereo, and so is not entitled to the £100 million damages he hoped to win. The judges also told Pavel to pay Sony and Toshiba the full cost of the appeal—£500 000. Although Pavel is a German living …

News

Technology

Patents : This way up

News

Technology

Patents : Weed waster

News

Technology

Patents : Action replays

News

Technology

Patents : Bouncy castle

News

Technology

Patents : Low bridge

News

Technology

Technology : Bright future for brainy chips

News

Technology

Technology : Supernappy shapes up with sugar

News

Technology

Technology : A softer option for X-rays

News

Technology

Technology : Netropolitan

News

Science : How speedy lizards take flight across water

News

Technology

Technology : Tugboat drags drugs to the tumour

News

Technology

Technology : Hollywood hold-up plays havoc with video discs

News

Science : There's life in the old drug yet

News

Science : Earth rocked by shattered asteroids

News

Science : Angry cuttlefish see one another in a different light

News

Science : Killer cells stalk cancerous protein

News

Science : Polymer designers crack secret of nature's concrete

News

Physics

Science: Has SUSY shown her shadowy face?

News

Science : Tearing up immunity's rulebook

News

Peat bog rescued

News

Keep taking the Pils

News

Is CS the wrong solution? - The Home Office is keen to promote CS spray as the ideal "cop-in-a-can", but a growing number of critics, from MPs to police on the street, are worried about its safety

News

If you want to get ahead, get a science degree

News

Hyakutake puts on a spectacular show

News

Lean times for ESA

News

Researchers' rights

News

Supersonic bargain

News

Global emergency as TB toll mounts

News

Resistant malaria plagues India

News

World's wetlands sucked dry

News

That's the way the money goes

News

Tobacco giant 'knew nicotine was addictive'

News

Ministers hostile to advice on BSE

News

Doubts linger over human cases

News

Ten deaths that may tell a shocking tale

News

Court slams French charity

News

Lawyer kills plans to cull peregrines

News

Opinion

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Editorial : Give us the beef about beef - LAST week the 1996 British Science Week got off to a cracking start. Bigger and better than ever before, the event staged thousands of events at museums, universities and businesses all over the country.

LAST week the 1996 British Science Week got off to a cracking start. Bigger and better than ever before, the event staged thousands of events at museums, universities and businesses all over the country. But, by a hideous irony, this attempt to demonstrate the value of science to the general public was upstaged by one …

Opinion

Editorial : A patent failure - INVENTORS need a place where they can fight patent actions without gigantic delays and huge costs. In Britain, the Patents County Court was created to make patent litigation quicker, easier and cheaper. But it has failed on

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.

Come hell and high water

HOW much is an ancestral homeland worth? More than a few water holes and some clinics say Namibia's Himba tribespeople. This is what they were offered in January by officials from the country's electricity generating company, which wants to dam the Cunene River on the border with Angola. One angry local pointed out that the …

Features

Silicon toons

Features

Hungry for a new revolution

Features

Earth

When north flies south

Features

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.

AustralAsian : Saying "Made in Australia" is not always the best - Bob Johnstone meets a Japanese software mogul chasing imports

MENTION Australia to most Asians and they think of farms, mines, quarries—and, of course, beaches. What they don't think of is hi-tech. The little green kangaroo sticker may look good on T-shirts, but on software it can be the kiss of death. As often as not, successful Australian software exporters will avoid mentioning where they …

Forum

Washington Diary : Ritual combat and the Word of God - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum

Forum : Never mind the price, feel the bandwidth - Jeff Hecht takes a sceptical look at the possible return of dumb network terminals

Forum

Review : Religious ramble

Books & Arts

Review : Darwin public...

Books & Arts

Review : ...Darwin private

Books & Arts

Review : More than the sum of their parts

Books & Arts

Review : Feel better, see better

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from London

Books & Arts

Review : Laying bare the bones of humanity

Books & Arts

Forum : Whose research is it anyway?

Forum

Review : Wordly wise

Books & Arts

Review : Science feast

Books & Arts

Review : Lucid landscapes

Books & Arts

Review : Doctor in the doghouse

Books & Arts

Review : Have sex and die

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Bright sparks Q: The tide was out one day as a friend and I were walking along a beach. As we walked on the littoral zone—the part of the beach between low and high tides—strange blue lights lit up around our feet as we stepped on the sand. The lights were similar to lightning and …

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