Issue 1969 | Magazine cover date: 18 March 1995

In the animal kingdom, size and strength often go together. However, size also brings some penalties. A tiny plankton doesn't need the many highly specialised organs which are essential for the largest of all animals, the whale 鈥�

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This week's magazine

18 March 1995

On the cover

Editor's picks

Paradise Lost?

Now you see it 鈥�

More than Words can say

Juggling by Numbers

Table of contents

News

Earth

Climate treaty heads for trouble

Net war breaks out over bid to ban porn

Tejus upset natural order in Brazilian sanctuary

Cold-blooded dinosaurs ahead by a nose

Space frogs grow up to lead a normal life

Safety fears over games helmets

Dialysis patients risk hepatitis C

Bats go hungry as streetlamps turn green

Ancient ones haunt genome centre

Market forces threaten health of America

Smart kids not fooled by fiction

Save-the-Taj campaigners win first round

‘Risks ignored’ as medicine rushes ahead

Evening effect

Crash-landing

Lagging Behind

Low lab morale

London borough seeks out its hot spots

Link reborn

Joint effort

Total recall for medical implants

Powerful gravity punctures inflation

Synthetic poison comes in with the tide

Altered malaria’s hidden bonus

Jumping genes pave the way to safer therapy

Radar signals swallowed by Martian volcanic ash

Bees get a buzz out of symmetry

Are power line experiments fatally flawed?

Technology

Design the ‘global village’ at World Net expo

Technology

Standards wrangle puts digital TV on standby

Technology

Sorry, he’s in a virtual meeting

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Far side

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Replies

Technology

Well of hope for solar power

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Scientology

Technology

Netropolitan 鈥� Kill file

Technology

Space specs give teenagers drunk’s eye view

Opinion

A matter of life and death

Slow learner 鈥�

Features

Paradise Lost?

Now you see it 鈥�

More than Words can say

Juggling by Numbers

More

The Big and the Small

In the beginning was the gene

Spectacular feats

Sharing a passion for chemistry

The message from Santa Fe

From navigation aids for the Internet travellers, updating your telephone database, advice for ageing newshounds to hackers at work

Declaring a curfew on aurora metropolis

Hydrocarbon fuels, no thanks: An explosive issue

An alternative to Poll Tax on Wheels

Enigma: Mixed and matched

Where renewables is not an ugly word

Regulars

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