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31 August 1996

Issue 2045

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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.

A future drugged with success

Features
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Life

Slime city

Features
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Music of the spheres

Features
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Bend it, shake it...

Features
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Earth

Outcasts from Eden

Features

Table of contents

News

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Technology

Patents : Much ado about digital video

THE electronics companies that are soon to start selling high-density digital video disc players must add at least $25 to their factory costs to pay patent royalties. So must the computer companies that plan to sell DVD-ROMs, while the movie studios and multimedia program producers are also in the same boat. They are all at …

News

Technology

Patents : Captive coffee smell

News

Technology

Patents : Thomson loses out

News

Technology

Patents : Easy video

News

Technology

Patents : No phone clones

News

Technology

Technology : Walk like the animals

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Antibodies deliver killer blow to cancer

News

Technology

Technology : Wanna buy a computer time-share?

News

Technology

Technology : Multistorey bike shed locks out thieves

News

Technology

Technology : Hot stuff for night vision

News

Science : US successes fuel hopes for gene therapy

News

Science : Life, but not as we know it

News

Science : Variations on an evolutionary theme

News

Science : When a carnivore is not a carnivore

News

Science : Air bubbles burst poisonous gas theory

News

Science : Where quiet quasars get their energy

News

Technology

Technology : Chip pioneers tame power of e-beams

News

Science : DNA test spots tumours in the blood

News

Child witnesses

News

Storm forecast

News

Bargain patents

News

Absolutely asteroidal

News

Porn crackdown

News

The dirtiest dilemma of all - Should university researchers take the tobacco companies' tainted money?

News

Long tall cure for Los Angeles smog

News

Wronged magpies fight back

News

Big game revival in war torn Africa

News

Grand Canyon flood a roaring success

News

Edith's butterfly flees north

News

Big boost for Japan's rockets

News

Monkey tests clear way for pig-to-human transplants

News

Seismic bangs silence sensitive dolphins

News

Prehistoric art leaps back to life

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Clean air strategy fails to tackle traffic

News

Pioneers cut out animal experiments

News

Dead cows don't fart . . . or belch

News

Warning shots over `health hazard' labs

News

Opinion

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Editorial : A soft spot for drains - FOR years, scientists in British universities have been complaining about the decaying labs in which they work and the ever increasing cuts in cash for buildings, supplies and equipment. Now, however, they have found a

FOR years, scientists in British universities have been complaining about the decaying labs in which they work and the ever increasing cuts in cash for buildings, supplies and equipment. Now, however, they have found a new tactic to give their arguments some extra force. Their labs, they claim, are in such a sorry state that …

Opinion

Editorial : How to turn humans into guinea pigs - IF you want to develop drugs to treat human diseases, then the ideal subjects are, naturally enough, humans. No other animal shares all our biochemistry so we can never be sure that a drug that works on an

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.

A future drugged with success

PAIN sets most of us groping for the analgesics bottle at some time or other, but for pharmacologists it generates a much more professional interest. Their job is to increase our understanding of mechanisms which lead to disease, to work out how these mechanisms can be countered and to test the effectiveness of any compounds …

Features

Life

Slime city

Features

Music of the spheres

Features

Bend it, shake it...

Features

Earth

Outcasts from Eden

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 : Doing what comes naturally

WOMEN'S fertility has been hitting the national news in the past few weeks as a storm of debate and moral outrage has descended on reproductive clinicians and their patients. The first story concerned the law requiring fertility clinics to destroy unclaimed frozen human embryos after five years of storage. This was followed by two stories …

Forum

Washington diary : Martian fantasies and sliced salmon - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum

AustralAsian : Japan slow to build collaboration in Pacific region - Bob Johnstone meets a Japanese industry leader with New Zealand roots

Forum

Review : Earthly presence

Books & Arts

Review : Alternative medicine

Books & Arts

Review : Dodgy dealings

Books & Arts

Review : From cradle to crucible

Books & Arts

Review : Home cooking

Books & Arts

Review : Witchy wisdom

Books & Arts

Review : Staying alive

Books & Arts

Review : Boffins galore

Books & Arts

Review : Mysterious ways

Books & Arts

Review : Hard yet and harder still

Books & Arts

Review : Taking the long way round

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Forum : Digital monster rocks Hollywood - Barry Fox believes the film moguls have killed copyright as we know it

Forum

Bestsellers : from Oxford

Books & Arts

Review : Conjuring up the past

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Major Toms Q: Myself and some friends were watching TV footage of a Russian spacewalk and began to wonder what would happen to an unprotected human body ejected into space. Would it explode immediately, freeze quickly or a combination of both, depending on whether it was ejected into sunlight or shade? We are dying to …

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