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10 August 1996

Issue 2042

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To catch a space quake

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A thousand channels in every home - Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television—if the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

Features
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Don't bet on faster horses

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Arachnophilia

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Table of contents

News

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People power vs nuclear power

Tokyo A SMALL town in Japan started a quiet revolution last weekend which could undermine the country's entire nuclear programme. With a two-to-one majority, the people of Maki voted against the construction of a nuclear power station on their doorstep. The vote is not legally binding, but the government is clearly worried. Japan has 49 …

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Technology

Technology : A positive force in cleansing land

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Technology

Technology : Auntie is a dab hand with the Web

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Technology

Technology : How to build just the right hole

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Technology

Technology : Ferrites fight acid runoff

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Science : Adding exercise to injury

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Science : Volcanoes overshadow the seasons

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Science : Fossil birds fly in the face of theories

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Science : Superdecay holds mutations at bay

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Technology

Technology : This message will self-destruct . . .

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Technology

Technology : Time's up for navigator in the sky

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Technology

Technology : Brainy bit unlocks oil reserves

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Technology

Technology : Spectrometer picks up vital signs

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Netropolitan :

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Plant that cheers

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Scorched Earth

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Condom success

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Monkeys in space

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Air watch

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A hundred years of carnage - Fewer people are being killed on the roads. But does this really mean they are getting safer?

News

Science : Are proteins real key to life?

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Science : Worm that turns male mayflies into females

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Science : Hot rocks driven underground

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Sorry, wrong number again

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Mad calves fuel BSE fears

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Log on... or sign on

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Buck Rogers rocket rests in pieces

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Word games at the ministry of sewage

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Spooks help out in their spare time

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To squeeze or not to squeeze?

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Cluster team threatens to sue

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Aborigines spare the dugong

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Oily legacy lingers after `miracle' cleanup

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Net search could reunite refugees

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Richard and the giant strawberry

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Bad blood over bar codes

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Opinion

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Editorial : Trafalgar Square, anybody? - ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparat

ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparatively few women are interested at all? If any of the above applies, then you may need to think again—at least …

Opinion

Editorial : Dread and loathing in the technostate - THERE should be a special word for the feeling of dread caused by reading the works of macroeconomists. As the pages turn, you gradually realise that you are merely the tiniest of tiny cogs in a global m

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.

To catch a space quake

THE European Space Agency has an ambitious plan. "We are talking about a scientific instrument a thousand times bigger than the Earth, located as far away as Venus, making measurements smaller than an atom," says Peter Bender, a physicist at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado. The project is called LISA—laser interferometer …

Features

A thousand channels in every home - Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television—if the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

Features

Don't bet on faster horses

Features

Arachnophilia

Features

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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.

Antipodes : Plea to halve the global fishing fleet - Ian Lowe attends a conference on world fisheries

THE state of the world's fishing industry was under intense scrutiny last week in Brisbane at the second world fisheries congress attended by 800 delegates from 49 countries. What they heard makes sombre reading. About a 100 million tonnes of fish are caught each year and about a quarter of that is fish that are …

Forum

Review : Nice try

Books & Arts

Review : All in the mind?

Books & Arts

Review : Program notes

Books & Arts

Review : Sudden death by lava?

Books & Arts

Review : Body works out

Books & Arts

Thistle diary : Nuclear outlaws and drug busters - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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Forum : Funding the future of our research

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Review : Fun for lawyers

Books & Arts

Review : Go buy a glove

Books & Arts

Review : What do you really think?

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Washington

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Forum : God and scientists reconciled

Forum

Review : Mr Newbie

Books & Arts

Review : Smithsonian summer

Books & Arts

Review : Countdown 2000

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Heavy metal Q: During a recent thunderstorm, I left the room in which my music centre resides. On my return a few minutes later it had apparently turned itself on and was playing a CD. The chance of human (or indeed animal) intervention was very small, and my wife asserts there was a lightning flash …

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