April - 1991 Articles
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Letters: Killing seas
27 April 1991
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Letters: Finger on the trigger
27 April 1991
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Letters: Warm start
27 April 1991
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Letters: Yoga and asthma
27 April 1991
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'English' education provides science for the few
27 April 1991
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Basic research on the slippery slope
27 April 1991
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AIDS deaths blamed on immune therapy
27 April 1991
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Mild winters blamed for dolphin deaths
27 April 1991
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Left-handers don't die young after all
27 April 1991
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Forest saved by debt?
27 April 1991
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Energy policy in disarray, say MPs
27 April 1991
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Science: Soccer-ball-shaped molecule becomes a superconductor
27 April 1991
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Science: A beacon at the beginning of time
27 April 1991
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Gold rush threatens Australia's green dreams: Miners want to dig for gold in Kakadu National Park. At a time of recession, government must decide for conservation and Aboriginal rights or industrial growth
27 April 1991
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Herbal secrets
27 April 1991
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Snag on Galileo
27 April 1991
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Nuclear ferry halted
27 April 1991
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Eager to learn
27 April 1991
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Talking Point: Fusion - A suitable case for assessment
27 April 1991
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Comment: Policing AIDS research
27 April 1991
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Letters: Penicillin day
27 April 1991
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Letters: Volume speak
27 April 1991
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Letters: Volume speak
27 April 1991
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Letters: Error of judgement
27 April 1991
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Letters: Light losses
27 April 1991
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Letters: Cure chances
27 April 1991
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Letters: Cure chances
27 April 1991
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Letters: Nuclear review
27 April 1991
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Dirty water is 'safe'
27 April 1991
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Hands-on exhibits make sense of science
27 April 1991
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Stray rays open way for ban on satellite-busting lasers
27 April 1991
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Analysts wrangle over how many died to contain radiation
27 April 1991
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What shall we do with a smashed reactor?
27 April 1991
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Cracks appear in Chernobyl's concrete shell
27 April 1991
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Antarctic deadlock in Madrid?
27 April 1991
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Europe plans green police force
27 April 1991
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Comment: The numbers game
27 April 1991
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Mud skis lighten the rice planter's load
27 April 1991
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Ariadne
27 April 1991
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Patents: Seed industry sows discontent
27 April 1991
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Patents: Agents of success
27 April 1991
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Patents: Hit the lights
27 April 1991
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Is cannibalism too much to swallow?: The gruesome idea of cannibalism lives on. But archaeologists and anthropologists are increasingly hard pressed to find evidence that people ever indulged in the custom
27 April 1991
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Europe's orbiting ocean plotter: Next week the European Space Agency is scheduled to launch its first remote sensing satellite. ERS-1 is designed to provide oceanographers with unprecedented detail for studying the seas
27 April 1991
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Look who's talking now: Do apes hold the key to the origin of human language? Ape-language studies with one chimpanzee suggests they just might
27 April 1991
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Review: The artist once removed
27 April 1991
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Review: Chernobyl's matchless horror
27 April 1991
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Review: A world of Babbage
27 April 1991
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Thistle Diary - Comment from Westminster: Revelations on the mountain top
27 April 1991
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Forum: Teach yourself the write stuff - Alison Brooks tries to turn her hand to graphotherapy
27 April 1991
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Feedback
27 April 1991
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Forum: She'll be wearing a scarlet miniskirt - Michael Cross wonders why Britain still bans women from Antarctica
27 April 1991
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Review: Wren's inspiration, London's pride
27 April 1991
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Review: A paradise for cheats
27 April 1991
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Forum: Discovery at a snail's pace - Willie Stanton finds snails boring but their habits fun
27 April 1991
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Forum: How did Blumlein die? - Barry Fox retraces the last moments of an inventor's life
27 April 1991
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Patents: Carbon sinks
27 April 1991
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Patents: Shoplifting spoils
27 April 1991
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Technology: Honeycomb helmet
27 April 1991
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Science: Experiment shines light on wave theory
27 April 1991
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Science: Neanderthals puzzle the anthropologists
27 April 1991
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Science: Industry turns to oyster shells, plaice and nuts
27 April 1991
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Science: Dragonflies help to defeat dengue fever
27 April 1991
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Good news for cows
27 April 1991
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Framework freed
27 April 1991
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French mutants
27 April 1991
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Technology: The time is right on the clever crossing
27 April 1991
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Technology: Motorcycle safety is in the bag
27 April 1991
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Patents: Nose dose
27 April 1991
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Patents: Patent information
27 April 1991
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AIDS vaccines - what chance of a fair trial?: Human trials of AIDS vaccines are likely to begin in the developing world within five years. But before they do, researchers must confront a host of ethical and practical problems
27 April 1991
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Technology: Radioactive sheep get a blue rinse
27 April 1991
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Technology: Computer firms take the RISC route to greater power
27 April 1991
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Technology: Transputer learns to speak to industry
27 April 1991
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Technology: All-day gum
27 April 1991
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Technology: Tiny satellite provides medical helpline
27 April 1991
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No cash for hospital cleanup
20 April 1991
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Nuclear industry aims to improve its image
20 April 1991
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France calls for European electronics agency
20 April 1991
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Decade of destruction for rare birds
20 April 1991
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Greenpeace to leave Antarctica without a trace
20 April 1991
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Letter: Antarctic park
20 April 1991
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Letter: Antarctic park
20 April 1991
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Boom or gloom in British science?
20 April 1991
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Hitch in Eurobank's green agenda
20 April 1991
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Chocolate checks the chill that kills
20 April 1991
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Science: Meteorite bonanza in Australian desert
20 April 1991
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Malaria herb
20 April 1991
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Firefighters' fright
20 April 1991
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Kinnock on research
20 April 1991
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Will sort-of-symmetry decorate Kuwait?
20 April 1991
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Cure in mum's milk
20 April 1991
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Letter: Correct code
20 April 1991
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Letter: Brain books
20 April 1991
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Safety system that might have averted disaster
20 April 1991
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Sunken tanker fuels debate over dispersants
20 April 1991
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Nasty things that live in the rubbish
20 April 1991
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Woman's death linked to 'abortion pill'
20 April 1991
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Talking Point: Cold fusion - a reply to critics
20 April 1991
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Talking Point: Cold fusion - a reply to critics
20 April 1991
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Comment: Truth and Chernobyl
20 April 1991
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Letter: Cornish research
20 April 1991
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Letter: Rock and rail
20 April 1991
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Letter: Bit part
20 April 1991
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Letter: Hand trouble
20 April 1991
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Letter: On the fly
20 April 1991
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Letter: Music test
20 April 1991
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Letter: Cost in space
20 April 1991
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Letter: Traffic rights
20 April 1991
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Hot water sterilises Alaska's oiled beaches
20 April 1991
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Forum: Playtime in the office - Fun can be a great teacher
20 April 1991
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Avebury revisited: The antiquarian view of prehistoric monuments at Avebury has long dominated our perception of them. Archaeologists are now digging out the truth
20 April 1991
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Platonic relationships in the Universe?: Some scientists follow the Platonic tradition, seeing the Universe as basically simple and symmetrical. Others take the Aristotelian view that it is complicated and random. Who is right?
20 April 1991
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Student Review: The state of the Earth
20 April 1991
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Student Review: Astronomy-still looking up
20 April 1991
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Student Review: Constructing psychology
20 April 1991
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Student Review: Signs of summer?
20 April 1991
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Student Review: How plants and animals live, die and fossilise
20 April 1991
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Student Review: Studying the past environment
20 April 1991
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Thistle Diary: Saving Edinburgh from Labrador - Comment from Westminster
20 April 1991
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Feedback
20 April 1991
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Ariadne
20 April 1991
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Forum: Watching the 'race' detectives - The results of South Africa's race classification laws
20 April 1991
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Student Review: How should we live?
20 April 1991
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Forum: Little gods with little minds - Donald Gould has had his fill of experts
20 April 1991
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Forum: Zero will come of zero - Anthony Edwards is determined not to become a cipher
20 April 1991
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New Zealand's restoration ecology: With more than 500 species of threatened plants and animals, New Zealanders are becoming 'restorationists', working to rebuild damaged ecosystems
20 April 1991
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An ill wind from Chernobyl
20 April 1991
The poisonous dust may have settled from the Chernobyl explosion of 1986, but whole communities, politicians and the nuclear industry across Europe are still dealing with the fallout
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Loadsa ladybirds
20 April 1991
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Prize ants
20 April 1991
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Japan rethinks curbs on transplant operations
20 April 1991
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Doubts over testing hamper India's AIDS effort
20 April 1991
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Technology: Star wars gives a clear view of the sky
20 April 1991
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Science: Mathematicians learn how to join the dots
20 April 1991
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Science: Is this the biggest black hole in the Universe?
20 April 1991
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Science: Migrating birds use genetic maps to navigate
20 April 1991
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Science: Screwy superconductors carry higher currents
20 April 1991
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The legacy of Chernobyl: Five years after the worst accident in the history of civilian nuclear power, people in the Ukraine still live in restricted zones and daily run the risk of exposure to high levels of radiation
20 April 1991
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Technology: Bundle of tubes brings X-rays into focus
20 April 1991
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Technology: Computer pretends to pollute the sea
20 April 1991
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Technology: Bacteria keep watch on drinking water
20 April 1991
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Technology: Look who's talking - it's a computer
20 April 1991
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Technology: Australian telescope spreads out to get a better view
20 April 1991
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Technology: Infrared video camera pierces the celestial gloom
20 April 1991
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Disease strikes Canada's elk ranches
13 April 1991
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Time to prepare for a warmer world
13 April 1991
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A new life for the sea that died?
13 April 1991
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Obstacle race to clear a path to well fires
13 April 1991
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Ozone cancer risk rises
13 April 1991
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Japan chips away at Chile's forests
13 April 1991
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Asbestos found in Antarctic waste dump
13 April 1991
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'Performance' plan threatens Australia's academics
13 April 1991
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Throw away the salt cellar
13 April 1991
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European electronics research moves away from basics
13 April 1991
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Calls for heads to roll after Daresbury closure
13 April 1991
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Thailand's evil trade
13 April 1991
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Rainforests saved by satellite
13 April 1991
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Sixth-formers find their true vocation: Ministers are planning a big shake-up of post-16 education in Britain. After years of debate, there is to be a challenge to the academic 'gold standard' of A levels
13 April 1991
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Dolphins in danger
13 April 1991
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HIV pregnancies
13 April 1991
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New Zealand at risk from nuclear rocket test?
13 April 1991
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Volcanoes on Venus leave their mark
13 April 1991
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Letter: French lesson
13 April 1991
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Letter: Eyes right
13 April 1991
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Letter: Shock treatment
13 April 1991
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Letter: Brain atlas
13 April 1991
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Letter: Antarctic debate
13 April 1991
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Letter: Building blocks
13 April 1991
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Letter: Building blocks
13 April 1991
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Letter: Water studies
13 April 1991
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Letter: Exhausting search
13 April 1991
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Letter: By George
13 April 1991
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Letter: Warming accuracy
13 April 1991
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French AIDS researcher cleared over vaccine trials
13 April 1991
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Outrage over live HIV treatment
13 April 1991
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Comment: No fixed Euro-address
13 April 1991
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Comment: Closing the learning gap
13 April 1991
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Talking Point: In defence of Christian Zoos
13 April 1991
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Letter: Water course
13 April 1991
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Very old Universe
13 April 1991
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NCC successor
13 April 1991
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Making water work: Myth 1 - The Himalayan forest are everywhere being destroyed
13 April 1991
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Making water work: The rivers that won't be tamed - An ambitious scheme costing billions of dollars to protect the cities and plains of Bangladesh from floods could be a disaster in the making
13 April 1991
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Review: Pictures are taking over the story
13 April 1991
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Review: A ramble around psychiatry's history
13 April 1991
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Review: Reefs of tyres and junk replace trawlers
13 April 1991
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Review: Cetacean crusades
13 April 1991
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Forum: Going for gold - Adventuring with profits in the wilds of Quebec
13 April 1991
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Forum: The great Brownian motion swindle - A case of mistaken identity
13 April 1991
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Review: Shining nights
13 April 1991
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Forum: Death in the nuclear family - Michael Kenward recalls happier days for nuclear physics, and fears for the future
13 April 1991
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Arts: The age of industry on display
13 April 1991
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Review: Science beside the Mersey
13 April 1991
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Forum: A land doomed by nature and humans - A letter from Micheal Cross, off South Georgia, on board Gondwana
13 April 1991
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Thistle Diary: An end to errors of judgment? - Comment from Westminster
13 April 1991
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Feedback
13 April 1991
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Making water work: Floods in Bangladesh, who is to blame? - Deforestation in the Himalayas has intensified flooding in Bangladesh, leaving half a billion people on the plains at the mercy of farmers in the hills. Or so say environmentalists. But the evid
13 April 1991
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The ultimate jigsaw puzzle: You can't square a circle using a ruler and compass. But a pair of mathematical scissors will do the job by cutting the circle up into a huge but finite number of pieces
13 April 1991
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Technology: A distorted route to the perfect beam
13 April 1991
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Silicon spheres soak up the sun
13 April 1991
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Go, GRO, go
13 April 1991
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Unfriendly physicists
13 April 1991
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Science: A triple helix to cripple viruses
13 April 1991
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Science: Has the Milky Way formed stars in bursts?
13 April 1991
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Science: How straw in the pond keeps algal slime at bay
13 April 1991
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Technology: Some light bulbs are less green than they seem . . .
13 April 1991
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Technology: How pilots avoid volcanic clouds
13 April 1991
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Science: Eggs urge sperm to swim up and see them
13 April 1991
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Science: 'Unstable' molecules find their feet
13 April 1991
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Science: Copper and cholesterol make a lethal cocktail
13 April 1991
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Technology: Digital recording method beaten to the tape
13 April 1991
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Technology: . . . others last longer
13 April 1991
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Mountain building under the microscope: Most geologists think colliding continental plates caused earthquakes, which in turn threw up our mountains. But some mountain rocks tell us that something else must have been going on too
13 April 1991
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Technology: Let them eat holograms
13 April 1991
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Ariadne
13 April 1991