March - 1992 Articles
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Comment: Defending the indefensible
28 March 1992
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School kit that measures huff and puff
28 March 1992
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Blood money
28 March 1992
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Down ozone way
28 March 1992
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Green timber merchant turns on ecologists
28 March 1992
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Science: How to make a bucky polymer
28 March 1992
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Buried in the manifestoes: The future of British science is low down among the parties' promises for the election. Is there anything to choose between them?
28 March 1992
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Who is the greenest of them all?
28 March 1992
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Science: Time travel without the paradoxes
28 March 1992
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Science: The lost continents of early Earth
28 March 1992
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Technology: The mother of all pearls
28 March 1992
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Technology: Britain backs coconut composts
28 March 1992
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Technology: State of the arc for waste disposal
28 March 1992
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Technology: Improve your wash with a load of balls
28 March 1992
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Science: Distant galaxy upsets magnetic theory
28 March 1992
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Science: Muscular dystrophy could soon succumb to gene therapy
28 March 1992
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Technology: Minibars help to keep vaccines cool
28 March 1992
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Technology: Crews try fresh tack with laser guns
28 March 1992
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Sacking was legal
28 March 1992
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Bonn accord
28 March 1992
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Dirty Britain
28 March 1992
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Comment: Have we overcooked the greens?
28 March 1992
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Unhappy birthday for Star Wars
28 March 1992
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Talking Point: Teaching the neighbours to fish
28 March 1992
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Latin America calls for cash to combat cholera
28 March 1992
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Lethal TB strains catch drugs companies on the hop
28 March 1992
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'Unscientific' hunters set off to kill more seals
28 March 1992
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US sceptical over germ warfare controls
28 March 1992
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Pentagon homes in on Patriot critic
28 March 1992
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Flood plans fail to protect Bangladeshis
28 March 1992
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Do long noses save dogs from passive smoking?
28 March 1992
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Chemicals industry threatens to go West
28 March 1992
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Europe's one small step to save the planet
28 March 1992
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Brazil's green man goes
28 March 1992
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Abortion pill confuses debate on Germany's twin laws
28 March 1992
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Russia plays down nuclear accident
28 March 1992
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'Efficiency' may break up DNA fingerprinting team
28 March 1992
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Shut and open
28 March 1992
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Technology: White noise silences Japanese cars
28 March 1992
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Patents: Solicitor settles out of court
28 March 1992
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Letters: Not cricket
28 March 1992
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Letters: End of time
28 March 1992
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Letters: More women
28 March 1992
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Letters: Winter sun
28 March 1992
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Letters: Uncertainty lives
28 March 1992
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Letters: Men on ice
28 March 1992
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Letters: Essential maths
28 March 1992
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Letters: Essential maths
28 March 1992
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Letters: Dismantling teabags
28 March 1992
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Letters: Nippy neutrinos
28 March 1992
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Letters: . . . bad pay
28 March 1992
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Letters: Bad prospects . . .
28 March 1992
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Feedback
28 March 1992
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Ariadne
28 March 1992
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Letters: Charger choice
28 March 1992
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Letters: Soft spot
28 March 1992
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Letters: Swollen organ
28 March 1992
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Letters: East Pole
28 March 1992
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Thistle Diary: Science budget and forest medicines - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
28 March 1992
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Forum: A rare contamination - John Hewish thinks we should beware a mould misplaced
28 March 1992
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Review: In search of the mind's I
28 March 1992
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Hospital waste: a case for treatment - Dirty old incinerators are the dumping grounds for most clinical waste. Tougher laws are putting pressure on Britain's hospital managers to clean up their act
28 March 1992
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Patents: Visionary headware
28 March 1992
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Patents: Patents information
28 March 1992
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Icy moons of the Solar System: Our planet's dynamic surface owes its mobility to heat in its depths. The same processes operate, but for different reasons, on the icy moons that circle the outer planets
28 March 1992
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Patents: Logical cleaner
28 March 1992
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Technology: Dried trees clean up bio-power
28 March 1992
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Patents: Microwave medicine
28 March 1992
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Patents: Current fraud cure
28 March 1992
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A brief history of Stephen Hawking
28 March 1992
The scientist whom many regard as Einstein's heir will for ever be linked with the investigation of black holes
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First aid for the Amazon: The world's richest nations want to save the rainforests. This time they are putting their money on research and modernisation
28 March 1992
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Forum: Getting younger by the day - Donald Gould fears that what can be done will be done
28 March 1992
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Forum: A migration of brain versus brawn - Vera Rich muses on who gains from the wandering Eastern scientist
28 March 1992
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Review: Computing beyond values
28 March 1992
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Review: Everything up in the air
28 March 1992
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Review: Cosmological frontiers
28 March 1992
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Review: Animal Behaviour
28 March 1992
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Review: A slice of tropical life
28 March 1992
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Review: Hands across the Universe
28 March 1992
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British innovation, German style: The major political parties agree that Britain must make industrial capital out of academic ideas. All three are looking to Germany for inspiration
21 March 1992
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Multinationals in Thailand agree to limit CFCs
21 March 1992
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Making companies pay for the right to pollute could cut acid rain
21 March 1992
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Race to save Guyana's rainforests
21 March 1992
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Sick policemen help to pinpoint arthritis gene
21 March 1992
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Planetary probes
21 March 1992
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Just in time
21 March 1992
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Expensive hole
21 March 1992
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Sleuths called in
21 March 1992
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Science: Tunable polymer could make coloured light-emitting displays
21 March 1992
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Science: Treatment for blindness challenges eye orthodoxy
21 March 1992
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Science: Will altered crop genes run wild in the country?
21 March 1992
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Technology: Data compression squeezes movies into CD
21 March 1992
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Technology: Cushion steel puts the spring in high heels
21 March 1992
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Technology: Speeding the way through airport terminals
21 March 1992
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Science: 'Forgotton' electrons could solve solar neutrino puzzle
21 March 1992
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Science: The secret language of honeybees
21 March 1992
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Science: Bursting through to dark matter
21 March 1992
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Tissue issue
21 March 1992
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Six-inch pest controller goes to work
21 March 1992
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Black bears win last-minute reprieve
21 March 1992
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Moves to defuse row over genome patents
21 March 1992
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Charities angry at hitch in breast cancer trial
21 March 1992
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Action to limit deserts
21 March 1992
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Clean white coats spread mutant microbes
21 March 1992
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Drug-resistant malaria threatens Cambodia
21 March 1992
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MPs staggered by tardy Channel trains
21 March 1992
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Drought hits Brazil as climate chaos spreads
21 March 1992
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Comment: Cracks in the genie's bottle
21 March 1992
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Comment: Benefits at odds with risks . . .
21 March 1992
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Talking Point: Preventing biological warfare
21 March 1992
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Green advice ploughed under as bulldozers move in
21 March 1992
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Nervous NASA awaits its new supremo
21 March 1992
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Boost for big science in Eastern Europe
21 March 1992
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Artificial blood
21 March 1992
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Election effort
21 March 1992
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False figures
21 March 1992
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Western funds for Russia may miss their target
21 March 1992
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Ariadne
21 March 1992
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Letter: Threading DNA
21 March 1992
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Letter: Poles cracked Enigma
21 March 1992
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Letter: Fecund universes
21 March 1992
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Letter: CDs are safe
21 March 1992
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Letter: Techno-women
21 March 1992
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Letter: Space for elephants
21 March 1992
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Letter: Triffid terror
21 March 1992
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Letter: Men who knit
21 March 1992
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Letter: Damming the Bio-Bio
21 March 1992
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Letter: Damming the Bio-Bio
21 March 1992
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Feedback
21 March 1992
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Thistle Diary: Reprocessing, screening and emissions - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
21 March 1992
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Forum: Is the pen mightier than the keyboard? - Jeff Hecht hopes that bad handwriting has no future
21 March 1992
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Letter: Naughty dreams
21 March 1992
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Letter: Microwave climate
21 March 1992
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Letter: Sky TV for free
21 March 1992
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Letter: Sky TV for free
21 March 1992
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Letter: Under the Sun
21 March 1992
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Review: Pharmaceuticals wrestle it out
21 March 1992
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The irresistible fluid and the immovable rock: How does a fluid seep through solid rock? The subtle variations in the paths that different fluids take affect everything from lava to oil reservoirs
21 March 1992
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Freud: who seduced whom? - Modern psychoanalysis depends on theories derived from Freud's work with his patients. But he may not have recalled his own work correctly
21 March 1992
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Pathways to pain control: We know a lot about acute pain and how to control it. But hospital wards are full of patients suffering unnecessarily after surgery
21 March 1992
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Technology: Police cool it with cayenne pepper
21 March 1992
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Technology: Hotfoot to the hills
21 March 1992
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Technology: Blackbird comes back in spaceplane test
21 March 1992
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Technology: Robot navvies hired to mend motorways
21 March 1992
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Technology: Silicone screens put a new face on computers
21 March 1992
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Is nature mathematical?
21 March 1992
Physicists always describe nature in terms of mathematical equations. But some sets of numbers are uncomputable. What does this mean for the laws of the Universe?
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The green diplomat
21 March 1992
Sir Crispin Tickell has had a distinguished diplomatic career. He has also helped to put climate change at the top of the world's political agenda
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Review: Through warfare to the stars
21 March 1992
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Review: C'est magnifique, mais ca ne marche pas
21 March 1992
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Review: Through a glass brightly
21 March 1992
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Forum: A time to teach and a time to train . . . - Adrian Furnham compares and contrasts university and business teaching
21 March 1992
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Forum: Roll of dishonour - Marcus Rowland muses over some laboratory shortcomings
21 March 1992
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Review: Grounds for anxiety
21 March 1992
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Review: Snap up the heavens
21 March 1992
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Review: The price of the future
21 March 1992
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CFCs in store
14 March 1992
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Cosmonaut returns to topsy-turvy world
14 March 1992
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Crop diversity
14 March 1992
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Water works
14 March 1992
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Extra cash
14 March 1992
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Europe's top research jobs up for grabs
14 March 1992
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Concern for koalas
14 March 1992
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Technology: BR signals disaster for recording studios
14 March 1992
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Battle looms over European research: Jacques Delors wants European Community funds to help industry to perfect its products. Opponents argue that this is an improper use of taxpayers' money
14 March 1992
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Science: How sulphates shade the midday sun
14 March 1992
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Science: An orange a day helps to keep sperm OK
14 March 1992
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Science: How a baseball bat breaks its back
14 March 1992
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Science: Chaos triggers the northern lights
14 March 1992
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Science: Interstellar ion
14 March 1992
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Science: Nightingales who change their tune
14 March 1992
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Science: The wonderful world of molecular Meccano
14 March 1992
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Technology: Squelching the squeal of steel on steel
14 March 1992
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Fear and loathing close a fish farm in Cyprus
14 March 1992
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Gene transplant gives apricots a riper future
14 March 1992
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Ministers move to limit genome patents
14 March 1992
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Talking Point: US lessons on short-term contracts
14 March 1992
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Comment: Patent nonsense?
14 March 1992
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Soviet space saver
14 March 1992
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Bargain hunters snap up Russian brainpower
14 March 1992
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Asthma reports raise false hopes
14 March 1992
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Breast cancer drug hist fresh safety snag
14 March 1992
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Earth Summit delegates accused of hypocrisy
14 March 1992
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Aborigines hit back at 'out of date' views on AIDS
14 March 1992
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Nuclear company warned over uranium records
14 March 1992
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African nations defeated over elephant trade
14 March 1992
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Marmosets succumb to mad cow disease
14 March 1992
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Michelangelo disappoints the virus hunters
14 March 1992
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Election jeorpardises techology deal
14 March 1992
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Zoo aid
14 March 1992
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Oil-tight tankers
14 March 1992
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Comment: A controlled reaction for safety
14 March 1992
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Letters: Glowing gold
14 March 1992
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Feedback
14 March 1992
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Thistle Diary: Cooperation in all dimension - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
14 March 1992
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Letters: Face in place
14 March 1992
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Letters: Need for books
14 March 1992
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Forum: As the dust settles on Poland . . . - Jan Zalasiewicz files an eyewitness account from Wroclaw
14 March 1992
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Forum: Nuclear workers: a healthy bunch - Roger Berry provides an industry view
14 March 1992
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Letters: Discrimination
14 March 1992
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Letters: Nappy wearers only
14 March 1992
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Letters: Tropical ozone loss
14 March 1992
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Letters: Fell into a dream
14 March 1992
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Letters: Crypto-chaos
14 March 1992
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Letters: Radiation records
14 March 1992
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Letters: Advance warning
14 March 1992
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Letters: Pressure on planes
14 March 1992
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Ariadne
14 March 1992
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Letters: It phollows
14 March 1992
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Review: Spin a chicken
14 March 1992
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Review: Beating the odds
14 March 1992
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Technology: Microwaves cook the soot out of diesel exhausts
14 March 1992
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Technology: Star Wars fallout clears the air
14 March 1992
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Technology: Electronics giant zooms in on patent victory
14 March 1992
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Technology: Lightweight materials bring cycling to softies
14 March 1992
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Logging rainforests the natural way?: Those who wish to exploit rainforests usually destroy them. One answer may be to extract timber in a way that mimics the natural destruction which is inherent in a rainforest's life cycle
14 March 1992
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Technology: A memorable sandwich
14 March 1992
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Technology: Dry air defeats rust in Humber bridge
14 March 1992
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Europe's shining new light: Near the French Alps a dream machine is being built that will be all things to all scientists. It will be able to shed light of unsurpassed brilliance on all kinds of crystals, molecules and atoms
14 March 1992
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The art of putting industryin perspective: Edna Lumb's record of Britain's industrial heritage ranges from the glories of Victorian engineering to the peaks of London's skyline. Yet galleries find little space for her art
14 March 1992
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How to seal a supertanker
14 March 1992
Most oil tankers are as unsafe today as those in service 25 years ago when the Torrey Canyon accident created the world's worst oil slick. Now the shipping industry wants to make amends
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Forum: Golden anniversary link - Barry Fox offers some birthday advice to would be email users
14 March 1992
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Review: The rise and rise of the computer
14 March 1992
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Review: First rule of structural engineers
14 March 1992
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Review: Everybody wants recognition
14 March 1992
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Review: A listing approach to the past
14 March 1992
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Review: The tilted planet in close up
14 March 1992
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Review: Unravelling the lines of power
14 March 1992
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Philips cuts R&D
07 March 1992
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Homework
07 March 1992
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Science beyond the ballot box: Expectations are high that the election will be on 9 April. Before the election manifestoes blind everyone with promises, what is on offer for the way science is run after polling day?
07 March 1992
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Code on medical ethics divides Poland's doctors
07 March 1992
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East German scientists face the dole
07 March 1992
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Police protection fails Thailand's problem pets
07 March 1992
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Threat to summit
07 March 1992
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Health for all
07 March 1992
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Science: Bright gas jet reveals twin black holes . . .
07 March 1992
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Science: How to count the number of fish in the sea
07 March 1992
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Technology: Data delays leave satellite research up in the air
07 March 1992
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Technology: Plans for massive NASA database 'too vague'
07 March 1992
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Technology: 'Steer-by-wire' puts computers in the driving seat
07 March 1992
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Science: Peering through the purple pall of pollution
07 March 1992
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Science: Boron belies big bang theory
07 March 1992
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Science: How does HIV infect babies in the womb?
07 March 1992
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Science: Exploding neutron star could crate binary neutron star
07 March 1992
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Science: . . . while mystery surrounds jet's dimmer partner
07 March 1992
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Teletext fiasco
07 March 1992
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Welsh wind farm
07 March 1992
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Confident cow walks again
07 March 1992
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Sticky cure saves Suffolk stallion
07 March 1992
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Cod crisis forces Canada to curb fishing
07 March 1992
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Comment: Wellcome news
07 March 1992
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Comment: Bushwhacking the environment
07 March 1992
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Peers urge more money for research into ship safety
07 March 1992
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'Escaped' algae threaten Mediterranean ecosystem
07 March 1992
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Bison and two veg, the perfect Sunday dinner
07 March 1992
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NASA tried to dodge freedom of information laws
07 March 1992
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Washington takes a stand on biotechnology
07 March 1992
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Europe considers relaxing rabies rules
07 March 1992
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US offers cash for carbon cuts
07 March 1992
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Dangerous technology dumped on Third World
07 March 1992
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Asthma researchers wrangle over safety inhalers
07 March 1992
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Channel Tunnel passengers must wait
07 March 1992
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Medical charity to gain billions
07 March 1992
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Plea for the Burren
07 March 1992
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Policy promised
07 March 1992
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Talking Point: Science - a commitment to the future
07 March 1992
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Technology: All-purpose chip breaks world speed record
07 March 1992
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Technology: Remote-controlled robots get a feel for Mars
07 March 1992
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Letter: La difference
07 March 1992
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Feedback
07 March 1992
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Hard choices on technology
07 March 1992
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Ariadne
07 March 1992
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Letter: Wandering woodlice
07 March 1992
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Letter: Shep the seal
07 March 1992
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Letter: Soap success
07 March 1992
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Letter: Soap success
07 March 1992
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Letter: Crystal clear
07 March 1992
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Letter: No bananas
07 March 1992
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Letter: Noisy wires
07 March 1992
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Letter: Clever Cinders
07 March 1992
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Letter: Testing relativity
07 March 1992
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Letter: Credit due
07 March 1992
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Letter: Fuzzy thinking
07 March 1992
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Letter: Fuzzy thinking
07 March 1992
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Letter: Timber tasks
07 March 1992
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Letter: La difference
07 March 1992
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Letter: La difference
07 March 1992
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Forum: Mathematics and the scientist - John Nicholson seeks a new perspective on mathematical skills
07 March 1992
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Technology: Alleged reality
07 March 1992
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Technology: Canalside body count
07 March 1992
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When the solar wind blows: The northern lights are a sign of the awesome power that the Earth receives from the solar wind. The big puzzle is how
07 March 1992
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Technology: Oxygen treatment makes organic waste digestible
07 March 1992
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Nanotechnology rules, OK!
07 March 1992
Creating microscopic graffiti is fun. But for the people working in atomic electronics the serious business is devising minute devices for the future
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The secret sex lives of fungi: When fungi indulge in sex, the fields fill with exotic toadstools and mushrooms. But how and why do they do it, and what's in it for us?
07 March 1992
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The women who went back to technology: Ten years ago a pioneering project was set up to help women return to technological careers. What happened to the hundreds who enrolled?
07 March 1992
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Television: Ecoterrorism and war
07 March 1992
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Review: Silicon, modern alchemy's target
07 March 1992
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Review: Travels in an unknown country
07 March 1992
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Review: From hippymumble to zorkmid
07 March 1992
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Review: A picture of history
07 March 1992
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Review: Words of wisdom
07 March 1992
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Forum: Scientists have a word for it - Berry-Anne Billingsley charts the rise of media slang
07 March 1992
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Thistle Diary: Good science should be on top, not on tap - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
07 March 1992
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Forum: Whose world is it anyway? - Richard Aronson wants to know how we can best manage our biosphere
07 March 1992
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Review: The constant decline
07 March 1992
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Letter: Shrieking gnomes
07 March 1992