51¶¯Âþ

This week's magazine

11 March 1995

Issue 1968

New Scientist issue 1968 cover
Previous issue Next issue
arrow
View in the app
Check out this magazine in our easy-to-navigate mobile app
arrow
Find a previous edition online
Search through our digital archive of over 30 years of magazines

Editor's picks

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.

Life

Birth of a Tool-maker

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.

Roads to the Abattoir

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.

Life in the tissue factory

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.

The light fantastic medical show

Features

Table of contents

51¶¯Âþ

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

Netropolitan – G7

THE latest show of togetherness from the world's seven richest nations focused attention on "the information society". The start of the G7's Ministerial Conference on the Information Society was overshadowed by news that France had expelled five Americans suspected of spying. So much for the free flow of information. But any diplomatic hiccups this sideshow …

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

Netropolitan – European Commission

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

Netropolitan – Replies

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

Model patients control X-ray machines

51¶¯Âþ

Quantum physis: the plot thickens yet again

51¶¯Âþ

At last, an ordinary Universe

51¶¯Âþ

Deep heat cracks up Europe's crust

51¶¯Âþ

Women get the feel-good factor, men just get tired

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

FBI puts the squeeze on suspect prints

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

Crystal nose sniffs out nasty diseases

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

Kill the bugs to cure the building

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

'Plasma' holograms pack in the memories

51¶¯Âþ

Technology

Universal disc drive fits all CDs

51¶¯Âþ

TV dinners

51¶¯Âþ

Hong Kong cuts Net

51¶¯Âþ

Indian space centre

51¶¯Âþ

Identity crisis on the Internet

51¶¯Âþ

Horse-killing virus may cause mental illness

51¶¯Âþ

How to be a head-banger and survive

51¶¯Âþ

Breathe in deeply to fight off flu

51¶¯Âþ

World's biggest barge on course

51¶¯Âþ

Bad report

51¶¯Âþ

Dangerous ferries will be named

51¶¯Âþ

Reversing HIV damage 'possible'

51¶¯Âþ

Young drivers nod off at night

51¶¯Âþ

China and India tackle tiger trade

51¶¯Âþ

Smogburger and fries to go?

51¶¯Âþ

Cheap return to the Moon

51¶¯Âþ

Chicago quark hunters come out on top

51¶¯Âþ

Where there's muck there's disease

51¶¯Âþ

Europe kills off patents on life

51¶¯Âþ

Cape Town deal to 'kick-start the future'

51¶¯Âþ

Vulnerable habitats 'vanish' from Europe's agenda

51¶¯Âþ

Hunting horn

51¶¯Âþ

Garden cancer

51¶¯Âþ

Altered animals need watchdog to protect them

51¶¯Âþ

Satellite senses risk of forest fires

51¶¯Âþ

Tragic asbestos error will kill thousands

51¶¯Âþ

Musical chairs at Whitehall

51¶¯Âþ

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.

Building on hope

BRITAIN has become the first country to sign a bilateral agreement to promote science with the new government in South Africa. It is a very welcome move, given Britain's historical ties with the country. 51¶¯Âþs, however, are likely to be cynical about the agreement because the amount of money involved is so small it is …

Opinion

Say hello, wave goodbye

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.

Life

Birth of a Tool-maker

IT IS like a fictitious scene from 2001. An ape-like creature looks thoughtfully at a rock he is gripping purposefully in his hand; he shifts his gaze to the ground, and back to the rock. Then, in a slow, deliberate move, he lifts his arm above his head and forcefully hurls the rock to the …

Features

Roads to the Abattoir

Features

Life in the tissue factory

Features

The light fantastic medical show

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.

Corrections

Correction: The article "Sperm aim for the sweet smell of success" (51¶¯Âþ, Science, 21 January) cited a paper in Molecular Medicine, vol 1, p 12. This should have been p 130, putting it in the second, not the first issue of the journal. Also, as pointed out by Jack Barrett of Kingston upon Thames, …

Regulars

Rescue reactions and infected frogs

Forum

Enigma No 813: Easy as ABC

Forum

Be it ever so humble

Forum

Cosmic paintings

Books & Arts

Tuning in to planetary harmonies

Books & Arts

A special relationship with the high frontier

Books & Arts

From Cornish cliffs to the Titanic

Books & Arts

Everest welcomes careful visitors

Forum

An unacceptable mode of transport

Books & Arts

Roll over, Descartes

Books & Arts

Fair play for psychics

Books & Arts

Incas are not the only South Americans

Books & Arts

Cream, craudie and Captain Kirk

Books & Arts

A great, big book of the brain

Books & Arts

The Scariest Place on Earth: Eye to Eye with Hurricanes by David E. Fisher

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

SOME people just don't trust computers. In the US, for example, the White House had to drum up Doris Meissner, the commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, to soothe the fears of ethnic and civil rights organisations about the proposed national computerised identification system. The system is being developed to prevent illegal immigrants from …

Regulars

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

The last word

Browse past issues

View all
Piano Exit Overlay Banner Mobile Piano Exit Overlay Banner Desktop