Issue 2042 | Magazine cover date: 10 August 1996

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10 August 1996

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Features

To catch a space quake

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People power vs nuclear power

Opinion

Editorial : Trafalgar Square, anybody? - ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparat

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To catch a space quake

Features

A thousand channels in every home - Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television—if the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

Features

Don't bet on faster horses

Features

Arachnophilia

Features

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People power vs nuclear power

Tokyo A SMALL town in Japan started a quiet revolution last weekend which could undermine the country's entire nuclear programme. With a two-to-one majority, the people of Maki voted against the construction of a nuclear power station on their doorstep. The vote is not legally binding, but the government is clearly worried. Japan has 49 …

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Technology

Technology : A positive force in cleansing land

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Technology : Auntie is a dab hand with the Web

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Technology

Technology : How to build just the right hole

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Technology

Technology : Ferrites fight acid runoff

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Science : Adding exercise to injury

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Science : Volcanoes overshadow the seasons

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Science : Fossil birds fly in the face of theories

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Science : Superdecay holds mutations at bay

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Technology

Technology : This message will self-destruct . . .

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Technology

Technology : Time's up for navigator in the sky

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Technology

Technology : Brainy bit unlocks oil reserves

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Technology

Technology : Spectrometer picks up vital signs

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Technology

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Plant that cheers

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Scorched Earth

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Condom success

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Monkeys in space

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Air watch

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A hundred years of carnage - Fewer people are being killed on the roads. But does this really mean they are getting safer?

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Science : Are proteins real key to life?

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Science : Worm that turns male mayflies into females

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Science : Hot rocks driven underground

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Sorry, wrong number again

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Mad calves fuel BSE fears

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Log on... or sign on

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Buck Rogers rocket rests in pieces

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Word games at the ministry of sewage

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Spooks help out in their spare time

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To squeeze or not to squeeze?

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Cluster team threatens to sue

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Aborigines spare the dugong

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Oily legacy lingers after `miracle' cleanup

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Net search could reunite refugees

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Richard and the giant strawberry

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Bad blood over bar codes

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Opinion

Editorial : Trafalgar Square, anybody? - ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparat

ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparatively few women are interested at all? If any of the above applies, then you may need to think again—at least …

Opinion

Editorial : Dread and loathing in the technostate - THERE should be a special word for the feeling of dread caused by reading the works of macroeconomists. As the pages turn, you gradually realise that you are merely the tiniest of tiny cogs in a global m

Opinion

Features

To catch a space quake

THE European Space Agency has an ambitious plan. "We are talking about a scientific instrument a thousand times bigger than the Earth, located as far away as Venus, making measurements smaller than an atom," says Peter Bender, a physicist at the Joint Institute for Laboratory Astrophysics in Boulder, Colorado. The project is called LISA—laser interferometer …

Features

A thousand channels in every home - Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television—if the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

Features

Don't bet on faster horses

Features

Arachnophilia

Features

Antipodes : Plea to halve the global fishing fleet - Ian Lowe attends a conference on world fisheries

THE state of the world's fishing industry was under intense scrutiny last week in Brisbane at the second world fisheries congress attended by 800 delegates from 49 countries. What they heard makes sombre reading. About a 100 million tonnes of fish are caught each year and about a quarter of that is fish that are …

Forum

Review : Nice try

Books & Arts

Review : All in the mind?

Books & Arts

Review : Program notes

Books & Arts

Review : Sudden death by lava?

Books & Arts

Review : Body works out

Books & Arts

Thistle diary : Nuclear outlaws and drug busters - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum : Funding the future of our research

Forum

Review : Fun for lawyers

Books & Arts

Review : Go buy a glove

Books & Arts

Review : What do you really think?

Books & Arts

Review : Collected works

Books & Arts

Bestsellers : from Washington

Books & Arts

Forum : God and scientists reconciled

Forum

Review : Mr Newbie

Books & Arts

Review : Smithsonian summer

Books & Arts

Review : Countdown 2000

Books & Arts

Regulars

The Last Word

Heavy metal Q: During a recent thunderstorm, I left the room in which my music centre resides. On my return a few minutes later it had apparently turned itself on and was playing a CD. The chance of human (or indeed animal) intervention was very small, and my wife asserts there was a lightning flash …

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This week's magazine

10 August 1996

On the cover

To catch a space quake

A thousand channels in every home - Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television—if the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

Don't bet on faster horses

Arachnophilia

Table of contents

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People power vs nuclear power

Technology

Technology : A positive force in cleansing land

Technology

Technology : Auntie is a dab hand with the Web

Technology

Technology : How to build just the right hole

Technology

Technology : Ferrites fight acid runoff

Science : Adding exercise to injury

Science : Volcanoes overshadow the seasons

Science : Fossil birds fly in the face of theories

Science : Superdecay holds mutations at bay

Technology

Technology : This message will self-destruct . . .

Technology

Technology : Time's up for navigator in the sky

Technology

Technology : Brainy bit unlocks oil reserves

Technology

Technology : Spectrometer picks up vital signs

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Technology

Netropolitan :

Plant that cheers

Scorched Earth

Condom success

Monkeys in space

Air watch

A hundred years of carnage - Fewer people are being killed on the roads. But does this really mean they are getting safer?

Science : Are proteins real key to life?

Science : Worm that turns male mayflies into females

Science : Hot rocks driven underground

Sorry, wrong number again

Mad calves fuel BSE fears

Log on... or sign on

Buck Rogers rocket rests in pieces

Word games at the ministry of sewage

Spooks help out in their spare time

To squeeze or not to squeeze?

Cluster team threatens to sue

Aborigines spare the dugong

Oily legacy lingers after `miracle' cleanup

Net search could reunite refugees

Richard and the giant strawberry

Bad blood over bar codes

Opinion

Editorial : Trafalgar Square, anybody? - ARE you appalled by the lack of public interest in science? Horrified by the way young people are turning away in droves? Shocked by the growing distrust of scientists and scientific opinion? Dismayed that comparat

Editorial : Dread and loathing in the technostate - THERE should be a special word for the feeling of dread caused by reading the works of macroeconomists. As the pages turn, you gradually realise that you are merely the tiniest of tiny cogs in a global m

Features

To catch a space quake

A thousand channels in every home - Britain is on target to become the world leader in digital television—if the right technical decisions are made today. Barry Fox explores the crucial choices that broadcasters will have to make

Don't bet on faster horses

Arachnophilia

More

Antipodes : Plea to halve the global fishing fleet - Ian Lowe attends a conference on world fisheries

Review : Nice try

Review : All in the mind?

Review : Program notes

Review : Sudden death by lava?

Review : Body works out

Thistle diary : Nuclear outlaws and drug busters - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum : Funding the future of our research

Review : Fun for lawyers

Review : Go buy a glove

Review : What do you really think?

Review : Collected works

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