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This week's magazine

24 April 1993

Issue 1870

New Scientist issue 1870 cover

On the cover

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Table of contents

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Letters: Scientific proof

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Letters: Scientific proof

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Letters: Accountancy rules

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Letters: Intelligence strikes

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Review: Going Going . . .

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Forum: Soggy tomatoes and bumps on the head - Jeremy Burgess questions some effects of this century's most significant discovery

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Forum: Death on our hands - Donald Gould considers the murderous ways of human animals

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Thistle Diary: Passing of a great panjandrum - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

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Letters: In the fast lane

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Letters: Science careers

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Letters: Science careers

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Letters: Blue flashes

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Letters: Blue Flashes

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Letters: Tilting at windmills

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Letters: Stormy weather

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Review: Humanity's evolution through time and space

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Review: The uninhabitants speak out

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Review: The future of futures past and present

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Review: A pioneer's cry for the Moon

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To catch a killer gene: Researchers knew 10 years ago that the genetic defect that causes Huntington's disease lay somewhere on chromosome 4. Last month, after a succession of false alarms, they finally found the gene

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Genome on the production line

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Engineering the therapies of tomorrow: Biotechnology, genetic engineering's dazzling infant, is poised on the brink of an exciting future as it protagonists search for new routes to drugs

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Technology: Electric tankers to curb oil slicks

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Technology: TV sets standard

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Patents: Radio alarm

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Patents: Court battle joined over video patent

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Patents: Souped up

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Patents: Play it again

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Patents: Longer lasting loaves

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Patents Information

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DNA's stroke of genius

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Science: Supernova sends shockwaves through astronomy

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Technology: US gamesters dream of Genie

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Technology: Treated sheets help hospitals ward of bacteria

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Technology: Gene cloning picks up something nasty on the beach

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Technology: Vaccine goes live on the fish farm

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Technology: 'Gene gun' aims at Parkinson's

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Science: Antibodies crack down on cocaine

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Science: Canadian parents desire more sons

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Science: Dynamic galaxies in unsettled states

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Science: Gambling on the wrong numbers from Monte Carlo

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Magnetic balancing act

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Technology: Dutch stem tide with floating flood gates

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Tide of optimism ebbs over underwater windmill

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Woodpecker pact

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Quark sightings?

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Junk art all washed up

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TV games

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Scotland's HIV centre

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Chemical imbalance

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Reeling with success

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Kill abadger, save a cow?: Badgers will continuue to be shot under a new plan to control bovine tuberculosis in British cattle. But recent research points to less brutal alternatives

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Mission to Mars comes down to Earth

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Comment: Sex 'n' condoms in the USA

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Comment: Noble motives?

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Clash of interests at UN food watchdog

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Satellites join the hunt for the tiny vine slayer

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Plutonium missing after Tomsk blast

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Cable TV company plans fibre-optic data network

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Competition threatens British labs

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Balanced muscles kick injury into touch

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Army retreats on AIDS vaccine trial

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Condoms spurned despite fear of AIDS

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Russia provides fetal tissue for American transplants

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Navy steps up Operation Clamsaver

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Bad blood in Europe over payment to donors

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