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6 July 1996

Issue 2037

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Flight of the aerospike

Features
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Technology

Through the nanotube

Features
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You must remember this

Features
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Life

Let there be life

Features

Table of contents

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Technology

Technology : Web programming made simple

TO CREATE a basic World Wide Web page you need do no more that write a few lines of text, select a handful of images, and label them with tags from the hypertext mark-up language (HTML). It is a job most people can tackle, given a little practice. But putting together interactive pages guaranteed to …

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Technology

Technology : Second time around for soggy nappies

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Technology

Technology : Surrounded by rival TV sound systems

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Technology

Technology : Foam stretchers lighten the load

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Technology

Technology : Hot enzymes fuel the hydrogen dream

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Scanner watches dementia unfold

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Science : Lizards keep their differences to themselves

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Technology

Technology : X-ray lens brings finer chips into focus

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Science : Double-ended trap ensnares pollutants

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Science : It's good to talk in quantum trits

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Science : Pacific upheavals relieve Israel's drought

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Science : Do alien worlds throng faraway galaxy?

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Science : Cholera's deadly hitchhiker

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Earth

Deserts on our doorstep

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Now the weather…

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Satellite catches hot breath of volcano

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Test ban dies

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Phoenix rising

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Stunted youth

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Patent failure

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Tabletop telescope with cosmic ambitions

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Carbon targets up in the air

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Britain slides down the R&D league table

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Will Russia's criminal underworld go nuclear?

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Engineered maize sticks in Europe's throat

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Buy your own satellite

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Return to the land of the living

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Supergrass sets alarm bells ringing

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AIDS drugs limit damage done by dirty needles

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Greenland's ice holds key to climate puzzle

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US retreats on tribal whaling

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Species invasions `are beyond our control'

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Research funds miss the mark

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Select trees saved from the axe

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Opinion

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Editorial : Call off the hunt

THANKFULLY, both the US and Russia decided to drop requests for new aboriginal whaling quotas at the International Whaling Commission meeting last week. It is doubtful if the US would have been so zealous about the request, on behalf of some members of the Makah tribe, if it were not politically correct to support Native …

Opinion

Editorial : The eyes have it

Opinion

Features

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Flight of the aerospike

AT a remote air base in California's Mojave Desert, engineers are refitting a retired SR-71 Blackbird spy plane for a series of ambitious experiments. The aircraft is being modified to carry a scaled-down version of a rocket engine that will be lighter and simpler, yet more powerful than anything that has gone before. Later this …

Features

Technology

Through the nanotube

Features

You must remember this

Features

Life

Let there be life

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.

Review : Collected works

AT fourteen, I traded science fiction for "regular" fiction—I wanted something that concentrated more on fiction than science. This handful of books crosses and recrosses that shifting margin between fiction and SF, but all of these books share a quality that is vital for me: science propels the story without dominating it. Each of these …

Books & Arts

Earth

The Greenhouse Effect

Inside Science

Forum : Where have all the time travellers gone?

Forum

Thistle Diary : Violent killing, the fact and the fiction - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Review : Spirit of place

Books & Arts

Review : Sun's out

Books & Arts

Review : Museum medley

Books & Arts

Review : Let me swing among the stars

Books & Arts

Review : Radar love

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Sydney

Books & Arts

Forum : The trouble with philosophers - Ralph Estling argues that it is vital to know the difference between mind and matter

Forum

Review : Star life

Books & Arts

Review : Embattled biology

Books & Arts

Review : Net business

Books & Arts

Review : The day of the triffids

Books & Arts

Review : Space-time stretch

Books & Arts

Review : Summer pickings

Books & Arts

Review : Take a count of pollen

Books & Arts

Regulars

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The Last Word

Brat pain Q: How loud can a baby yell? My 14-week-old son actually causes pain when he screams at close range and he can prevent the sound of the telephone from being heard even on its loudest setting. Can parents expect to suffer any hearing loss as a result of the noise and if so …

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