May - 1991 Articles
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Letter: Disloyal to science
01 June 1991
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Letter: Poison reports
01 June 1991
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Chernobyl findings 'excessively optimistic' . . .
01 June 1991
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Hong Kong backs off bid to cut smoking
01 June 1991
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Concern grows over toxic threats to Australia's seas
01 June 1991
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. . . but longer view threatened by lack of support
01 June 1991
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Anti-tick vaccines promise reduced costs for cattle farmers
01 June 1991
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Shuttle launch 'could have faced disaster'
01 June 1991
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Science: Have early black holes left lingering traces?
01 June 1991
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Science: Placental clues to HIV spread in pregnancy
01 June 1991
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Letter: Bhang bungle
01 June 1991
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Letter: Superior posterior
01 June 1991
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Letter: Dog bites dog
01 June 1991
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Talking Point: Testing time for science on our screens
01 June 1991
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To our Readers
01 June 1991
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Comment: Controlling dogs - by numbers
01 June 1991
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Comment: Brussels misses the picture
01 June 1991
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Letter: Some like it hot
01 June 1991
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Letter: States of matter
01 June 1991
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Letter: Proud record
01 June 1991
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Letter: Averageism
01 June 1991
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Letter: Plutonium trade
01 June 1991
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Sweeping carbon dioxide under the ground
01 June 1991
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Mercury - the impossible planet?: By all accounts, the planet nearest the Sun is the wrong size and in the wrong place. Only a mission to Mercury can resolve the puzzle it poses
01 June 1991
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Forum: It's a pity about the panda - Derek Ager is suffering from species compassion fatigue
01 June 1991
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Review: Policies for a clean future
01 June 1991
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Forum: The capsules that time forgot - Brian Durrans reflects on messages buried for future generations
01 June 1991
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Forum: Is the pen now mightier than the Pill? - Pratap Chatterjee meets a man seduced by nonscientific publishing
01 June 1991
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Thistle Diary: Missing the interdisciplinary point - Comment from Westminster
01 June 1991
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Forum: Who wants to drive a Porsch? - Scientists don't come that cheap, says Steve Ellison
01 June 1991
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Review: Naming names in the celestial zoo
01 June 1991
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Electrochemistry
01 June 1991
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Ariadne
01 June 1991
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Feedback
01 June 1991
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Review: Revive your interest in biology
01 June 1991
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Review: Science's debt to industry
01 June 1991
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Review: Religion's private hold on Faraday
01 June 1991
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Technology: . . . as dieters find camera they can't lie to
01 June 1991
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Technology: Panoramic lens focuses on the great indoors . . .
01 June 1991
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Technology: Polymer cube offers data storage in three dimensions
01 June 1991
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Technology: Eye implant promises 'reversible' surgery
01 June 1991
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Science: 'Heat pump' drives oxygen supplies down to water-lily roots
01 June 1991
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Science: Ice age bacteria return from the dead
01 June 1991
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Science: Synthetic success for yew tree 'anti-cancer' drug
01 June 1991
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Microscopes with proton power: Physicists are developing a way of using atomic nuclei to seek out and map minute amounts of elements in samples without destroying them
01 June 1991
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Wells of conflict on the West Bank: For thousands of years, the land that is now Israel has been short of water. Today, this shortage has become a stumbling block to peace in the Middle East
01 June 1991
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How plants fight back: Eating plants is all about predators making easy meals of passive greenery - or is it? Some plants have evolved ways of discouraging those who would eat them
01 June 1991
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Mission to sell
25 May 1991
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The strains of the HIV war
25 May 1991
Another salvo has been fired in the battle over the origin of the first known HIV strain. Six years after the row began, are scientists defending their integrity or indulging in farce?
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Call for independent forensic advice
25 May 1991
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Luxury research
25 May 1991
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French 'super-ministry' will take on US and Japan
25 May 1991
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Villagers will have a stake in Indian forest
25 May 1991
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Legal loophole allows altered organisms to travel by post
25 May 1991
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Hunt is on for the last of the 'fossil' fish
25 May 1991
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Tree wise men
25 May 1991
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Sex prints
25 May 1991
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Science: Chemists mimic energy molecule
25 May 1991
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Power companies fight Green law
25 May 1991
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Indians cheer halt to Canada's giant hydro scheme
25 May 1991
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Abortion pill in US
25 May 1991
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Sky spies
25 May 1991
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Chauvinists in space
25 May 1991
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Bubble people shoot at northern lights
25 May 1991
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HIV increase
25 May 1991
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White House changes rules for genetic engineering
25 May 1991
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Teeside takes on industry over local health
25 May 1991
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Polytechnics to join research elite
25 May 1991
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Comment: Dissolution of a giant?
25 May 1991
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Talking Point: Making equality work for women
25 May 1991
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Letters: Cup of grace
25 May 1991
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Letters: Leave well alone
25 May 1991
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Letters: Chernobyl witness
25 May 1991
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Letters: Sludge gulps air
25 May 1991
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Letters: Engine trouble
25 May 1991
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Letters: Music in bits
25 May 1991
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Letters: Bewitched
25 May 1991
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Letters: Absent friends
25 May 1991
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Letters: Cults and Kuru
25 May 1991
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Letters: Cheap and healthy
25 May 1991
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Letters: Mammoth task
25 May 1991
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Letters: Close to home
25 May 1991
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Jailed Soviet reactor is homeward bound
25 May 1991
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Promising Down's syndrome test .. at a price
25 May 1991
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Comment: An end to a horrible menace
25 May 1991
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Letters: Right to feel sick
25 May 1991
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Science: Hole at the centre of the Galaxy
25 May 1991
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Ariadne
25 May 1991
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Patents: Virus protection
25 May 1991
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Where the wild plants are: Ecologists have just completed the largest ever survey of Britain's vegetation, paving the way for a radical new approach to plant conservation
25 May 1991
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Designer solvents for clever chemistry: Fluids designed to act as 'universal solvents' can bring together molecules that otherwise would never meet and react
25 May 1991
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Saving mud monuments: Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust - the words sum up the fate of buildings made from earth. But experiments in the New Mexico desert are bringing ancient adobe back from the dead
25 May 1991
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Review: How good is technology's weather eye?
25 May 1991
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Review: Bones talking
25 May 1991
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Review: An American eye in the sky
25 May 1991
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Review: Britain's inventions of the past
25 May 1991
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Review: The nature of purpose
25 May 1991
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Forum: A plague of planets - Ken Croswell wishes astronomers would stop crying wolf
25 May 1991
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Forum: The orphan bears of Romania - Christine Laurent reports on the bears Ceausescu left behind
25 May 1991
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Forum: If it's not saving, it's not working - Kenneth Mellanby is unconvinced by the low-energy bulb
25 May 1991
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Review: Pick of the Paperbacks
25 May 1991
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Review: Maternity and the marketplace
25 May 1991
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Forum: When science should be a humanity - Bruce Charlton calls for a revision of the ways we teach science
25 May 1991
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Thistle Diary - Comment From Westminster: It's the supercomputer that counts
25 May 1991
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Feedback
25 May 1991
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Patents: Patent Information
25 May 1991
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Is anyone out there?: NASA researchers have started to search the Galaxy for signs of intelligent life. What sort of life do they hope to find?
25 May 1991
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Second gene for epilepsy mapped
25 May 1991
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Technology: Chaos equations pack more images into computers
25 May 1991
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Technology: Commercial satellite receiver beats Pentagon at its own game - Brett Wright reports from the International Aerospace Congress in Melbourne
25 May 1991
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Technology: Computer juggling act provides happy landings
25 May 1991
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Patents: Greener fridges
25 May 1991
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Patents: Posture alarm
25 May 1991
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Patents: French battle to outsmart Amstrad
25 May 1991
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Patents: Chilled out
25 May 1991
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Patents: Farewell to fraud
25 May 1991
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Technology: Pocket encyclopaedia
25 May 1991
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Technology: Mini CD jogs into the recording race
25 May 1991
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Science: Hepatitis gene is shown to cause liver cancer
25 May 1991
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Science: Satellite sees rectangular cloud in space
25 May 1991
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Science: Algae help to clean up contaminated water
25 May 1991
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Science: Vitamin E could reduce heart risk
25 May 1991
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Science: Did methane curb ice ages?
25 May 1991
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Technology: This is your hip joint calling
25 May 1991
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Technology: Neural network takes the twinkle out of stars
25 May 1991
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Technology: Sunny future for solar voltaic cells
25 May 1991
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Reprieve for Germany's 'eastern' science
18 May 1991
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Cash for contraception will keep family sizes falling
18 May 1991
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Dutch revive plans for nuclear power
18 May 1991
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Letters: Garden feud
18 May 1991
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Letters: Scratched backs
18 May 1991
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Letters: Happy with scum
18 May 1991
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Letters: Whose safety?
18 May 1991
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NASA cuts jeopardise 'real science'
18 May 1991
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Fat finds its own level in the daily diet
18 May 1991
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Bush backs ban
18 May 1991
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Cash flow
18 May 1991
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Forensic fees
18 May 1991
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It came from outer space
18 May 1991
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Bereft of books
18 May 1991
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Eureka in the East
18 May 1991
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Belching rice
18 May 1991
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Letters: Daresbury queries
18 May 1991
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Letters: Dino-mania
18 May 1991
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Egos collide over abandoned particle detector
18 May 1991
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Design study spurs debate on tanker safety
18 May 1991
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Soviet ship may track pollution off Scotland
18 May 1991
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Lucky escape for Europe's oldest flying insect
18 May 1991
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Swedish rocket breaks up after liftoff
18 May 1991
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Faulty forensic testing convicted Maguire Seven
18 May 1991
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Foiling fossil hunters in Eggs-en-Provence
18 May 1991
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Abortion methods 'compromised' by research
18 May 1991
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Talking Point: Two cheers for Britain's first astronaut
18 May 1991
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Comment: Big science for little bucks
18 May 1991
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Comment: Mice, genes and men
18 May 1991
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Letters: Gold fusion
18 May 1991
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Letters: Auxiliary devices
18 May 1991
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Letters: Licensed to encrypt
18 May 1991
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Letters: Graphology-schmology
18 May 1991
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Prospects dim for mines in Kakadu
18 May 1991
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Thistle Diary: This year, next year, some time . . . Comment from Westminster
18 May 1991
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Quiet sufferers of the silent spring: What are organophosphate pesticides?
18 May 1991
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The World of Liquid Crystals: Liquid crystals and the living cell - What holds together the delicate and mobile structure of a cell membrane? How did the first cells form? The subtle physics and chemistry of liquid crystals are providing some answers
18 May 1991
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Review: Children of Mars
18 May 1991
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Review: Their aim is true
18 May 1991
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Books / The murkier side of American politics
18 May 1991
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Review: Bang, bang, you're dead
18 May 1991
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Review: The drama for science
18 May 1991
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Review: Health matters
18 May 1991
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Forum: Everyone wants to be a doctor - Donald Gould on the desirability of having a professional handle to your name
18 May 1991
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Forum: Lessons from a rainforest - Horticulturists should get out into the real world, says Debbie Macklin
18 May 1991
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Forum: Designed for no one - Malcolm Holmes calls for recruits to the Anti-Ergonomic League
18 May 1991
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Ariadne
18 May 1991
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Dust in space
18 May 1991
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Forum: In the pharmacist's image - Ian MacKillop dispenses a literary touch in the pharmacy
18 May 1991
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Feedback
18 May 1991
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Europe's answer to oil spills: Two years after the Exxon Valdez disaster, Alaskans are belatedly learning from the experience of spill prevention teams in Scotland and Norway
18 May 1991
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Slicing through a continent: For the first time geophysicists have modelled a cross section through Europe's continental plate. Already, their results are surprising, but the real work has only just begun
18 May 1991
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Soviet space programme - a burden or a benefit?
18 May 1991
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Acts of God, acts of man?: Poor people seem to bear the brunt of disasters, as in the Bangladesh catastrophe. If this is always true, should we be looking for technical or political solutions?
18 May 1991
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Antarctic agreement
18 May 1991
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Science: Tailored molecules could lead to protein chip
18 May 1991
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Science: Cold dark matter may still rule the Universe
18 May 1991
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Science: Old jar suggests new wine theory
18 May 1991
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Science: Antineutrinos - a window on the Earth's interior
18 May 1991
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Science: How to spot planets round distant stars
18 May 1991
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Technology: We shall trick them in the speeches
18 May 1991
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Technology: Porous chips light up in colour
18 May 1991
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Technology: Disco specs pump up the volume
18 May 1991
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Technology: 'Doughnut' molecule puts healthier food on the menu
18 May 1991
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Technology: Throw-away kit keeps tabs on cholesterol
18 May 1991
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Technology: Chip irons the wrinkles out of golden oldies
18 May 1991
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Quiet sufferers of the silent spring: Every year people in Britain are made ill by exposure to organophosphate pesticides. Why do they find it so difficult to get anyone to take them seriously?
18 May 1991
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Science: Twins shed light on inherited epilepsy
18 May 1991
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Nuclear piracy
11 May 1991
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New-look Link
11 May 1991
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Be unprepared
11 May 1991
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Dying species give birth to beauty
11 May 1991
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Haemophiliacs put French transfusion service in the dock
11 May 1991
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Double vision
11 May 1991
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Patent protection against Chinese pirates
11 May 1991
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Solving the secret of the vanishing stork
11 May 1991
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FBI demands right to snoop electronically
11 May 1991
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Belgium and Britain swap plutonium
11 May 1991
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Alvey: the betrayal of a research programme
11 May 1991
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Georgia unprepared for April earthquake
11 May 1991
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Orbiting radio telescopes promise a clearer view
11 May 1991
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Compound from breast implants linked to cancer
11 May 1991
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Abe's genes go marching on
11 May 1991
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Wonderful jellyfish
11 May 1991
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HIV saga goes on
11 May 1991
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Words into action
11 May 1991
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Comment: Priorities for Bangladesh
11 May 1991
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Letters: Going pop
11 May 1991
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Talking Point: How to shake up the A-level system
11 May 1991
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Comment: Time for a British prize?
11 May 1991
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Human lives shrugged off in flood plan
11 May 1991
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Letters: Asthma agonists
11 May 1991
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Letters: Raw Scots
11 May 1991
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Letters: Raw Scots
11 May 1991
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Letters: Not so little
11 May 1991
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Letters: Off their rockets
11 May 1991
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Letters: Deltas in danger
11 May 1991
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Letters: Deltas in danger
11 May 1991
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Letters: Any old alignment
11 May 1991
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Letters: Women in Antarctica
11 May 1991
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Letters: Literary fall-out
11 May 1991
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Amphetamines and the HIV connection
11 May 1991
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Forum: Life without father - Greenfly may manage it, but people can't, says Ursula Mittwoch
11 May 1991
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The oldest DNA in the world: The discovery of geneticmaterial that may be 16 million years old has left molecularpalaeontologists with more questions than answers
11 May 1991
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Review: Dismissal is not disproof
11 May 1991
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Review: Green-tinted spectacles
11 May 1991
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Review: Leave it on your plate
11 May 1991
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Review: Money matters
11 May 1991
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Review: Birds and the landscape
11 May 1991
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Review: Keep in touch
11 May 1991
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Forum: Return to the ants - Christopher Joyce meets double-Pulizter prizewinner Edward Wilson
11 May 1991
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Review: Girls' rights to science
11 May 1991
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Thistle Diary - Comment from Westminster: Too late for relief
11 May 1991
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Feedback
11 May 1991
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Ariadne
11 May 1991
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Forum: Under the spell of spelling: Ian Gordon advises scientists struggling to write their papers
11 May 1991
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Forum: It's all a matter of taste - Sue Birchmore sees the problems involved in changing habits
11 May 1991
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Plastics of a new order: Plastics are not necessarily cheap,throwaway materials. A novel generation of polymers based on liquid crystalslooks set to shape the future of electronics and materials science
11 May 1991
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Jubilee for the jet engine: Fifty years ago next week, FrankWhittle demonstrated jet flight in Britain for the first time. Despite manysetbacks, the industry he created still survives
11 May 1991
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Technology: Shuttle tests the eyes of SDI
11 May 1991
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Citation system may encourage 'banal' research
11 May 1991
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Recession drives the Treasury to tighten squeeze on science
11 May 1991
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Science: Does the global greenhouse have a built-in thermostat?
11 May 1991
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Science: The pros and cons of learning from others in the herd
11 May 1991
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Science: 'Fourth neutrino' could be a mirage
11 May 1991
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Science: Sex-change engineering makes man of mouse
11 May 1991
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The West pays up for Third World seeds: Developed countries have for centuries plundered the Third World for seeds to improve their crop yields. But crisis is looming because seed varieties are disappearing fast
11 May 1991
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Science: Tool training at the chimp academy
11 May 1991
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Science: Gene mutation could signal early bladder cancer
11 May 1991
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Technology: US steals a lead in multimedia race
11 May 1991
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Technology: Laser thermometer gets temperature spot on
11 May 1991
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Technology: Supercomputer turns its back on silicon
11 May 1991
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Technology: Water in space goes round and round again
11 May 1991
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Technology: Clothes that change colour in the heat of the moment
11 May 1991
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Britain's deadly diet: Why do we eat such an unhealthy diet?Campaigners face a difficult battle against the food industry's compellingadvertisements. A tough new government report should provide them withammunition
11 May 1991
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A steel corset for the leaning tower
04 May 1991
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Government advisers back four-year degrees
04 May 1991
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Common strategy for action sur l'environment
04 May 1991
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Universities feel the heat from Stanford's cooked books . . .
04 May 1991
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. . . and a Nobel laureate has his fingers burnt
04 May 1991
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UN watchdog to verify fate of Iraq's nuclear fuel
04 May 1991
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Europe's piglets die in mystery plague
04 May 1991
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Bangladesh rejected cyclone assistance
04 May 1991
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Europe battles over biotechnology
04 May 1991
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Volcano prediction was bang on
04 May 1991
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Sensing satellites - who calls the tune?: Satellites can provide essential data about global climate change, but only if governments give climatologists a say in their design
04 May 1991
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Back in the fold
04 May 1991
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Special buttercup
04 May 1991
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Keeping up standards
04 May 1991
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Fact and fusion
04 May 1991
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Help for Alzheimer's
04 May 1991
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Latin America struggles as cholera spreads
04 May 1991
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Madrid meeting bans Antarctic mining for 50 years
04 May 1991
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Talking Point: Arms controls and the art of the possible
04 May 1991
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Letters: Dem chance bones
04 May 1991
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Letters: Plummeting planes
04 May 1991
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Letters: Browned off
04 May 1991
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Letters: Browned off
04 May 1991
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Letters: Browned off
04 May 1991
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Letters: Moon bombs
04 May 1991
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Letters: Turbulent bikes
04 May 1991
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Letters: Share and survive
04 May 1991
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Letters: Antarctic alarm
04 May 1991
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Letters: Buddhist zoos
04 May 1991
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Letters: Facts of life
04 May 1991
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Researchers rally behind animal experiments
04 May 1991
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Comment: Old watchdog, new tricks
04 May 1991
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German playgrounds blighted by dioxin
04 May 1991
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Comment: Answers for Antarctica
04 May 1991
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Milk thieves caught spreading disease
04 May 1991
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Tricked and nicked
04 May 1991
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Technology: Flouting flitzer
04 May 1991
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Making Water Work: A dammed fine mess - Large reservoirs meet much of the world's demand for water and power. But they are clogging up with silt and, within two decades, could be useless
04 May 1991
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Where eastern eagles dare
04 May 1991
Every winter thousands of the world's largest birds of prey migrate to a remote corner of Japan. Recently their habits have been changing
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Confusion in the joints: If the immune system becomes confused, it can turn against the body's own tissues, causing destructive diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis. Are bacteria to blame?
04 May 1991
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Review: The Science Book Prize contenders
04 May 1991
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Review: Why do they change their minds?
04 May 1991
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Review: German Science on display
04 May 1991
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Review: Look back on gynophobia
04 May 1991
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Review: Prize writing for children
04 May 1991
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Forum: The advantages of dual nationality - If you want your papers to be cited, write them with a foreign partner, says Grant Lewison
04 May 1991
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Forum: Through a glass brightly - Nicholas Arnold tries some sociology out in the field of view
04 May 1991
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Forum: Would you pass the Pnin test? - Norman Kane has a suggestion for ageing academics
04 May 1991
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Thistle Diary - Comment from Westminster: Everyone needs standards
04 May 1991
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Forum: Begging the question - David Cohen asks why psychology has ignored the begging bowl
04 May 1991
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Feedback
04 May 1991
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The World of Liquid Crystals: The fourth state of matter - Designing liquid crystals was the first attempt at engineering at the molecular level. Their unusual shapes and exotic behaviour have not only spawned a new electronic technology but have also gi
04 May 1991
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Technology: A drop of glue keeps trams on track
04 May 1991
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Health research
04 May 1991
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ERS-1 grounded
04 May 1991
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Hubble's headaches multiply
04 May 1991
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Science: Embryonic star is the youngest yet discovered
04 May 1991
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Science: The fractal structure of music
04 May 1991
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Sensing satellites - who calls the tune?: What to do with the deluge of data
04 May 1991
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Technology: Electronic playing card maps the way
04 May 1991
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Technology: It may be green but is it clean?
04 May 1991
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Science: Where does all the atmosphere's carbon go?
04 May 1991
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Science: Spider venom could help stroke victims
04 May 1991
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Science: Picked flowers lose their fragrance
04 May 1991
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Science: Hormone may predict ectopic pregnancies
04 May 1991
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Science: WIMPs could make the Sun's core go rigid
04 May 1991
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Technology: Tethered bacteria wash Sydney's waste in a flash
04 May 1991
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Technology: Ring-bound computer will take down a note
04 May 1991
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Ariadne
04 May 1991