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1 June 1996

Issue 2032

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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.

The zero option

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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.

Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

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.

Stranger in a strange land

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.

Noises on

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

Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box'

"IS THERE a doctor on board?" could become no more than a curious historical phrase if research under way for British Airways pays off. The airline is working with the University of Edinburgh on the design of an in-flight diagnostic system that monitors the vital signs of a patient who has been taken ill and …

News

Technology

Technology : Microwave will keep the weevils out of wheat

News

Technology

Technology : Titchy scanners for your PET mouse

News

Technology

Technology : Surgeons hatch a better skin graft

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Bionic brain cells teach the language of nerves

News

Technology

Technology : Gadget will put Channel 5 viewers in the picture

News

Technology

Technology : Many hands make the robot work

News

Science : New state of matter pictured at last

News

Science : Not-guilty verdict on cancer gene

News

Technology

Technology : Bubbles give a sharper image

News

Daytime view of northern lights

News

Hastening death

News

Murky waters

News

Shaky engineering

News

Child smokers

News

In the blood

News

Japan takes its medicine - The fate of hundreds of haemophiliacs has struck at the very heart of the cosy relationship between Japanese doctors, drug companies and government

News

Science : Cancer's many points of departure

News

Science : Whooping cough paves the way for malaria vaccine

News

Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights

News

Science : Getting nowhere upsets the brain

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Science : Early whales had no taste for salt

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Science : Dozing echidnas sleep like newborn babies

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Science : Schrödinger's cation leaps into reality

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Oil prospectors pose threat to Amazon's ancient tribes

News

Wealthy nations face drinking water crisis

News

The fall and fall of British research funding

News

Fickle greens undermine consumer power

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`Piracy' law leaves Brazil open to exploitation

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Icelanders argue over their ancestors

News

The iceman cometh from Italy

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Giant leap for Californian frog

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Minamata victims win cash at last

News

Germans pull plug on Britain's batteries

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Hackers play war games with the Pentagon

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Living sea walls keep floods at bay

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Urban apocalypse postponed?

News

Opinion

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Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son - LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.

LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track. Destined, as the government puts it, for "full independence from the public sector, with the greater freedom this will provide", are the John Innes Centre, Silsoe Research Institute, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, and …

Opinion

Editorial

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.

The zero option

DAVID CROCKETT, a descendant of the famous frontiersman, looks out across the south central business district of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Most people see nothing more than a patchwork quilt of decrepit buildings, derelict lots and weeds breaking up car parks. But not Crockett. In his eyes, this abandoned "brownfield" is the new Wild West, a frontier …

Features

Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Features

Stranger in a strange land

Features

Noises on

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.

Enigma 877 : Fantastic football

OUR league consists of four teams: Albion, City, United and Victoria. Each plays each of the other teams once in a season and the six matches are played on six consecutive Saturdays. Penalty shoot-outs are used to ensure there are no draws. Before the first match and after each match a league table is drawn …

Forum

Antipodes : Geoscience on shaky ground - Ian Lowe finds another target of Australia's razor gang

Forum

Thistle diary : Slow justice and a killer on the loose - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum : Digging away at the foundations - Haim Watzman explains why science and religion in Israel are at odds

Forum

Forum : Many happy recoveries

Forum

Review : A crisis of credibility

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney

Books & Arts

Review : Doctor Death

Books & Arts

Review : Heavy conversations

Books & Arts

Review : Liberating ideas

Books & Arts

Review : Sticks like glue

Books & Arts

Review : Fossils that New York forgot

Books & Arts

Review : Dreams are made of this

Books & Arts

Review : Crystal-ball gazing

Books & Arts

Review : Building bridges

Books & Arts

Review : United they stood . . .

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Ice surprise Q: Can anyone explain this phenomenon? I discovered ribs on the underside of ice sheets on a small lake in the Clywdian Hills of North Wales. These formed a series of roughly concentric lines around the lake. The lake was covered with an ice sheet about 2 centimetres thick, and around its perimeter …

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