Issue 2032 | Magazine cover date: 1 June 1996

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1 June 1996

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Features

The zero option

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Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box'

Opinion

Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son - LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.

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The zero option

Features

Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Features

Stranger in a strange land

Features

Noises on

Features

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Technology

Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box'

"IS THERE a doctor on board?" could become no more than a curious historical phrase if research under way for British Airways pays off. The airline is working with the University of Edinburgh on the design of an in-flight diagnostic system that monitors the vital signs of a patient who has been taken ill and …

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Technology

Technology : Microwave will keep the weevils out of wheat

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Technology

Technology : Titchy scanners for your PET mouse

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Technology

Technology : Surgeons hatch a better skin graft

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Technology

Netropolitan :

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Technology

Technology : Bionic brain cells teach the language of nerves

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Technology

Technology : Gadget will put Channel 5 viewers in the picture

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Technology

Technology : Many hands make the robot work

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Science : New state of matter pictured at last

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Science : Not-guilty verdict on cancer gene

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Technology

Technology : Bubbles give a sharper image

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Daytime view of northern lights

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Hastening death

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Murky waters

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Shaky engineering

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Child smokers

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In the blood

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Japan takes its medicine - The fate of hundreds of haemophiliacs has struck at the very heart of the cosy relationship between Japanese doctors, drug companies and government

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Science : Cancer's many points of departure

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Science : Whooping cough paves the way for malaria vaccine

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Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights

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Science : Getting nowhere upsets the brain

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Science : Early whales had no taste for salt

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Science : Dozing echidnas sleep like newborn babies

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Science : Schrödinger's cation leaps into reality

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Oil prospectors pose threat to Amazon's ancient tribes

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Wealthy nations face drinking water crisis

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The fall and fall of British research funding

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Fickle greens undermine consumer power

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`Piracy' law leaves Brazil open to exploitation

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Icelanders argue over their ancestors

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The iceman cometh from Italy

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Giant leap for Californian frog

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Minamata victims win cash at last

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Germans pull plug on Britain's batteries

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Hackers play war games with the Pentagon

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Living sea walls keep floods at bay

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Urban apocalypse postponed?

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Opinion

Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son - LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.

LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track. Destined, as the government puts it, for "full independence from the public sector, with the greater freedom this will provide", are the John Innes Centre, Silsoe Research Institute, Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research, and …

Opinion

Editorial

Opinion

Features

The zero option

DAVID CROCKETT, a descendant of the famous frontiersman, looks out across the south central business district of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Most people see nothing more than a patchwork quilt of decrepit buildings, derelict lots and weeds breaking up car parks. But not Crockett. In his eyes, this abandoned "brownfield" is the new Wild West, a frontier …

Features

Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Features

Stranger in a strange land

Features

Noises on

Features

Enigma 877 : Fantastic football

OUR league consists of four teams: Albion, City, United and Victoria. Each plays each of the other teams once in a season and the six matches are played on six consecutive Saturdays. Penalty shoot-outs are used to ensure there are no draws. Before the first match and after each match a league table is drawn …

Forum

Antipodes : Geoscience on shaky ground - Ian Lowe finds another target of Australia's razor gang

Forum

Thistle diary : Slow justice and a killer on the loose - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum : Digging away at the foundations - Haim Watzman explains why science and religion in Israel are at odds

Forum

Forum : Many happy recoveries

Forum

Review : A crisis of credibility

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney

Books & Arts

Review : Doctor Death

Books & Arts

Review : Heavy conversations

Books & Arts

Review : Liberating ideas

Books & Arts

Review : Sticks like glue

Books & Arts

Review : Fossils that New York forgot

Books & Arts

Review : Dreams are made of this

Books & Arts

Review : Crystal-ball gazing

Books & Arts

Review : Building bridges

Books & Arts

Review : United they stood . . .

Books & Arts

Regulars

The Last Word

Ice surprise Q: Can anyone explain this phenomenon? I discovered ribs on the underside of ice sheets on a small lake in the Clywdian Hills of North Wales. These formed a series of roughly concentric lines around the lake. The lake was covered with an ice sheet about 2 centimetres thick, and around its perimeter …

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This week's magazine

1 June 1996

On the cover

The zero option

Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Stranger in a strange land

Noises on

Table of contents

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Technology

Technology : Flight plans for `doc-in-a-box'

Technology

Technology : Microwave will keep the weevils out of wheat

Technology

Technology : Titchy scanners for your PET mouse

Technology

Technology : Surgeons hatch a better skin graft

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Technology : Bionic brain cells teach the language of nerves

Technology

Technology : Gadget will put Channel 5 viewers in the picture

Technology

Technology : Many hands make the robot work

Science : New state of matter pictured at last

Science : Not-guilty verdict on cancer gene

Technology

Technology : Bubbles give a sharper image

Daytime view of northern lights

Hastening death

Murky waters

Shaky engineering

Child smokers

In the blood

Japan takes its medicine - The fate of hundreds of haemophiliacs has struck at the very heart of the cosy relationship between Japanese doctors, drug companies and government

Science : Cancer's many points of departure

Science : Whooping cough paves the way for malaria vaccine

Science : Tadpole galaxies are lightweights

Science : Getting nowhere upsets the brain

Science : Early whales had no taste for salt

Science : Dozing echidnas sleep like newborn babies

Science : Schrödinger's cation leaps into reality

Oil prospectors pose threat to Amazon's ancient tribes

Wealthy nations face drinking water crisis

The fall and fall of British research funding

Fickle greens undermine consumer power

`Piracy' law leaves Brazil open to exploitation

Icelanders argue over their ancestors

The iceman cometh from Italy

Giant leap for Californian frog

Minamata victims win cash at last

Germans pull plug on Britain's batteries

Hackers play war games with the Pentagon

Living sea walls keep floods at bay

Urban apocalypse postponed?

Opinion

Editorial : Beware the juggernaut, my son - LAST WEEK, the British government announced that another six public research institutes are to be sent down the privatisation track.

Editorial

Features

The zero option

Squatters take control - What started with a scheme for building sewers has grown into an all-embracing philosophy. Fred Pearce visited Karachi to see how local effort and basic technology succeeded where governments have failed

Stranger in a strange land

Noises on

More

Enigma 877 : Fantastic football

Antipodes : Geoscience on shaky ground - Ian Lowe finds another target of Australia's razor gang

Thistle diary : Slow justice and a killer on the loose - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Digging away at the foundations - Haim Watzman explains why science and religion in Israel are at odds

Forum : Many happy recoveries

Review : A crisis of credibility

Review : Collected works

Review : BESTSELLERS from Sydney

Review : Doctor Death

Review : Heavy conversations

Review : Liberating ideas

Review : Sticks like glue

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