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29 June 1996

Issue 2036

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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.

Treasure hunters of the deep

Features
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High & dry in Colombia

Features
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Invasion of the micromachines

Features
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You've all got it wrong

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Technology : Tiny rubber stamp succeeds where chip makers fail

MICROSCOPIC patterns can be embossed on a variety of surfaces using a technique similar to a simple rubber stamp, say researchers at Harvard University. The tiny patterns could be the key to cheaper computer chips and other electronic components, as well as a step towards a "lab on a chip" for handling minute samples. George …

News

Technology

Technology : Early warning for sore udders

News

Technology

Technology : Top down building big in Japan

News

Technology

Technology : Ion beams reveal vital surface impressions

News

Science : Star caught having a quiet smoke

News

Technology

Technology : Digital TV faces fragmented future

News

Science : Take heart from the jelly that wobbles for ever

News

Science : Lake life thrived at the South Pole

News

Science : Volcanoes take their cue from changing climate?

News

Science : Evolution is driven by jerks

News

Science : Exchange rates go with the flow

News

Science : Elephants swam in two by two

News

Science : Mat munchers cleared ancient algae

News

Science : Tornado chasers see into the eye of the storm

News

Why even chewing the fat is bad for you

News

X-ray vision provides brain scans for bees

News

Rising yen

News

Frozen fertility

News

Promised land

News

Africa online

News

Space 2000

News

Falling on deaf ears – A new French law will curb the volume of personal stereos to protect

News

Falklands tempted by black gold

News

Particle beams hit the bottle

News

Biotech firm `embarrassed' by leaked plant deal

News

West won't cough up cash to save vanishing crops

News

Measles trial broke consent rules

News

Sparks fly over `dead wood' logging

News

Sun worshippers baffled by star ratings

News

Crops and cockatoos upset a delicate balance

News

Did ancient Athenians catch Ebola?

News

Shuttle landing goes live on the Net

News

Crisis looms over whaling ban

News

Demob dolphins back in the ranks

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

News

Technology

Technology : Muscle transplant brings relief from incontinence

News

Technology

Patents : Back in the good old days

News

Technology

Patents : Bath time

News

Technology

Patents : Eye, eye

News

Technology

Patents : Shock treatment

News

Technology

Patents : Glowing diagnosis

News

Technology

Patents : Stunning tuna

News

Opinion

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Editorial: No more bloody whaling

FOR YEARS, delegates and scientific advisers to the International Whaling Commission have been less than honest. The stated goal of the IWC is to protect all species of whales from overexploitation. The reasoning is simple: "Increases in the size of whale stocks will permit increases in the number of whales which may be captured." It …

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.

Treasure hunters of the deep

Lured by rich rewards, salvage experts are equipping themselves to recover thousands of tonnes of sunken cargo from the ocean floor. Tara Patel reports

Features

High & dry in Colombia

Features

Invasion of the micromachines

Features

You've all got it wrong

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.

Forum : Gold from the Gorbals

HUMANKIND has long sought gold, often with great diligence, and nearly always with greed and ferocity. But even by the late 19th century, the processes available for separating the metal from its ores could at best retrieve only about 45 per cent of it. By the 1870s, one of the biggest financiers of the gold-extracting …

Forum

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Enigma 881 : Up, up and away

Forum

AustralAsian : Taiwan and Australia strike multimedia deals - Bob Johnstone looks behind the headlines

Forum

Washington diary : Take control, fix the blame and act promptly - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum

Forum : Picking up the pieces after Ariane

Forum

Review : Animal magic

Books & Arts

Review : Beijing revisited

Books & Arts

Review : Designer death

Books & Arts

Review : Sex, anybody?

Books & Arts

Review : Of mayflies and Minds

Books & Arts

Review : A patient approach

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from San Francisco

Books & Arts

Review : Gene teach-in

Books & Arts

Review : Head case

Books & Arts

Review : Dickens of a book

Books & Arts

Review : A la recherche du temps

Books & Arts

Review : Engineering a nation

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

EARLIER this month, US Vice-President Al Gore addressed two thousand students on their graduation day at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unbeknown to Gore, the Boston Globe tells us, the students were handed "Al Gore Buzzword Bingo" cards as they entered the hall. On each card of 25 squares was a different set of Information …

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