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15 June 1996

Issue 2034

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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.

Cracking the Easter Island code

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.

Virtual port of call - To stay at the top, the Port of Singapore is planning the ultimate upgrade. As Terry Slavin discovers, every last container will reach its destination untouched by human hands

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.

A life in silicon

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.

Seven planets for seven stars - Just as astronomers were losing all hope, new worlds beyond the Solar System have started to turn up, says Gabrielle Walker

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 : Smell of success with sewage

Perth RESIDENTS of Perth, Western Australia, may soon breathe easier, thanks to a proposal to turn sewage sludge from a local waterworks into a fuel similar to diesel. Environmental Solutions International, a company based in Perth, is awaiting final approval from the Western Australian government for the A$19 million (£10 million) oil-from-sludge plant. It is …

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Technology : Deformed legs keep tiny robot in step

News

Science : ...that promises enzyme for a hotter, whiter wash

News

Science : Slowly does it under the volcano

News

Science : Comet clue to missing neutrinos

News

Science : Editing enzyme corrects faulty genes

News

Technology

Technology : Marilyn lives...on computer

News

Technology

Technology : Astra's new satellite slot does for the dishes

News

Technology

Technology : Memories are made of this

News

Technology

Technology : Old 78s, stereo sound and all that jazz

News

Science : Ancient organisms adopt steamy lifestyle...

News

Science : A gene that makes males redundant?

News

Science : Birds and bees fly by numbers

News

Science : Lunar power sends ripples round the Earth

News

Bond telescope fitted with booster

News

Inside story

News

Nuclear test ban

News

Satellite on credit

News

Pill kills roaches

News

Hip fracture risk

News

Cat flap

News

Farmers clamour for killer virus to be let loose

News

Hooked on gadgets - Are bite alarms, sonar scanners and Kevlar rods spoiling the traditional sport of coarse fishing—or making a popular pastime more fun?

News

Home from home for Newbury snails

News

Should we learn to love the urban monster?

News

Crowded beds spread childhood plagues

News

Suburban sprawl takes over as giant cities shrink

News

Farming comes to town to feed the world

News

Live scrapie test raises CJD hopes

News

Irish concern over safety of Sellafield waste tanks

News

Doctors slam tax on safer haemophilia therapy

News

Family videos ease pain of dementia

News

The satellite that got away

News

New Cluster may rise from the ashes

News

Countdown to disaster...

News

Lax pollution controls mean businesses lose out

News

Opinion

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.

Editorial : What the world needs now - ALL told, the UN Habitat conference was a bit of a damp squib—few fireworks and only muted international attention. A mere handful of dignitaries showed up, and journalists outnumbered official delegates. Both

ALL told, the UN Habitat conference was a bit of a damp squib—few fireworks and only muted international attention. A mere handful of dignitaries showed up, and journalists outnumbered official delegates. Both were outnumbered by security staff. The issues were big: giving the world's people somewhere to lay their heads and making cities pleasant, functional …

Opinion

Editorial : How green turns to gold - "Where there's muck there's money" is a saying guaranteed to cause bewilderment in the US and draw blank looks in Germany and Japan, even when translated into the local languages. But all three nations know exactly ho

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.

Cracking the Easter Island code

EASTER Island in the southeastern Pacific is one of the remotest spots inhabited by humans. From evidence pieced together by archaeologists and linguists, we now know that this volcanic speck more than 3000 kilometres from the coast of Chile was probably first colonised by people from eastern Polynesia in the early centuries AD. But much …

Features

Virtual port of call - To stay at the top, the Port of Singapore is planning the ultimate upgrade. As Terry Slavin discovers, every last container will reach its destination untouched by human hands

Features

A life in silicon

Features

Seven planets for seven stars - Just as astronomers were losing all hope, new worlds beyond the Solar System have started to turn up, says Gabrielle Walker

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.

Review : Life and nothing but

It's a tall order: explain all the important concepts of biology in a 215-page paperback aimed at an educated, but science-illiterate reader. Boyce Rensberger chooses biodiversity, heredity, cells, the human body, energy cycles, the interdependence of life, and evolution as these key ideas, and presents them in simple prose in Instant Biology: (Fawcett Columbine, $10, …

Books & Arts

Review : Big babies

Books & Arts

Review : Dinosaurs-upon-Tyne

Books & Arts

Review : Parents, dig this

Books & Arts

Review : Hopper's story

Books & Arts

Review : Home of the Vogons

Books & Arts

Review : Lyme teaches a bitter lesson

Books & Arts

Review : Phenomenonological

Books & Arts

Review : Inside story

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from Washington

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Forum : A short shelf life

Forum

Forum : Kuno and the German computer - Stephen Clackson on one of the world's unsung pioneers of the computer era

Forum

Review : Parallel thoughts of trains

Books & Arts

Thistle diary : Solvents, suntan and swamps - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Antipodes : Chilly reception awaits Australia in Geneva - Ian Lowe finds that commercial interests sway greenhouse stance

Forum

Review : Inspired verse

Books & Arts

Review : Buckybook

Books & Arts

Regulars

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.

Feedback

AS THE BSE debacle rumbles on, we wonder whether German Chancellor Helmut Kohl has come clean about his own country's cattle disease problems. Following a secret scouting mission, Feedback can reveal that there are millions of mad cows at large in Germany, most of them openly sold in supermarkets. At the risk of a visit …

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The Last Word

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

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