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25 January 1997

Issue 2066

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Space

Bubbles behaving badly

Features
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Surfing prohibited - Hopping from one site to another is what makes the Web so powerful, but now a ragbag of commercial companies and politicians want to curtail that freedom. Kurt Kleiner assesses the dangers

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.

Crazy crystals

Features
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The sixth sense

Features

Table of contents

News

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Gourmet mushrooms for all

GOOD news for gourmets on a tight budget: researchers have for the first time grown the highly prized golden chanterelle mushroom in a greenhouse. Farmed chanterelles are now a real prospect, which could send prices of the expensive fungi tumbling. The world market for chanterelles is worth some £1 billion a year. All 200 000 …

News

Technology

Patents : Glass cage

News

Technology

Patents : Out, damned spot

News

Technology

Technology : Modified trees could clean up paper industry

News

Technology

Technology : How Hamlet was shot …

News

Technology

Technology : Is it a phone, is it a surfboard?

News

Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Compatible coat gives implants longer life

News

Technology

Patents : Protection money

News

Technology

Patents : True blue

News

Technology

Patents : Flat out

News

Technology

Patents : Cancer killers

News

Science : Lovesick gerbils' clues to the blues

News

Technology

Technology : Radio promises `no more jams'

News

Science : Fifty years on and the force is with us at last

News

Science : Schizophrenic DNA clicks into place

News

Science : Why drugs don't dispel depression

News

Science : Dying stars squeeze energy out of nothing

News

Divers' bones

News

Don't drink me

News

Tax blow

News

BSE boost

News

Fat chance

News

Fisherman's friend

News

Psst . . . don't tell Uncle Sam - Would the world be safer if the US government could read your credit card details?

News

Science : End of the road for brain evolution

News

Science : The good thing about garlic breath

News

Science : More to electrons than meets the eye

News

Science : Lightning sparks pollution rethink

News

Hepatitis cases highlight India's poor blood safety

News

Nerds discover the joys of hacking under canvas

News

Cosmic mirage reveals invisible world

News

Drivers with hangovers slip through the net

News

Nirex betrays nerves over nuclear dump

News

Axe swings from East to West

News

Killer strain raises urgent questions

News

Animal advisers forced into the open

News

Ethnic strife triggers psychosomatic illness

News

Germany bans `rejuvenating' sheep cell injections

News

French officials on poisoning charge

News

Deluge of criticism greets Nile irrigation plan

News

Opinion

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Editorial : Press the panic button - PANIC reigns. Fear overwhelms logical thought. Pointless activity replaces reason, and sensible advice is no longer heard.

PANIC reigns. Fear overwhelms logical thought. Pointless activity replaces reason, and sensible advice is no longer heard. Sometimes whole nations are affected. A threat appears-a religious cult, a rare disease, aliens who take you up into their saucers-and rationality flies out of the window. Parents lock up their children lest they be abducted. No one …

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.

Space

Bubbles behaving badly

How do you make a bubble buoyant in space? For an astronaut, the answer could be a matter of life or death "NOBODY really understands how bubbles behave," says Eugene Trinh, an astronaut and applied physicist based at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. But there are good reasons for finding out. In space, …

Features

Surfing prohibited - Hopping from one site to another is what makes the Web so powerful, but now a ragbag of commercial companies and politicians want to curtail that freedom. Kurt Kleiner assesses the dangers

Features

Crazy crystals

Features

The sixth sense

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.

AustralAsian : A smart way to collect fares - Bob Johnstone finds a Perth company behind Hong Kong's mass transit system

WHEN Hong Kong reverts to Chinese sovereignty on 1 July this year it will boast an ultramodern infrastructure. In particular, the trains, buses and ferries of the former British colony will mount the world's most sophisticated system for fare collection. The system's most visible component is the smart cards that millions of Hong Kong commuters …

Forum

Washington diary : Warning, handle with extreme care - Andreas Frew reports from the heady heights of Capitol Hill

Forum

Forum : Foresight to keep Britain ahead

Forum

Review : Old curiosities

Books & Arts

Review : Crucial current

Books & Arts

Review : Encrusted

Books & Arts

Review : Reheated greens

Books & Arts

Review : Dial P for philosophy

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Washington

Books & Arts

Forum : A toxic twist in the tale

Forum

Review : Get converted

Books & Arts

Review : Why children?

Books & Arts

Review : Pick a number

Books & Arts

Review : Looking back in chaos

Books & Arts

Review : Meat is murder

Books & Arts

Review : Earth on the hit list

Books & Arts

Regulars

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Feedback

SOME Japanese innovations strike us as a little bit strange. But here's one that Feedback heartily applauds, and can't wait to see catch on in Britain. John Egan tells us that passengers on the Shinkansen bullet train must send and receive their mobile telephone calls from the partitions between the carriages rather than from their …

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