August - 1990 Articles
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New fears of leaks from French bomb tests
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Eating lunch causes dip in concentration
01 September 1990
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At the BA: BA backs animal research
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Early mental illness linked to brain abnormalities
01 September 1990
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The centres that may bring new life to industry
01 September 1990
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Shaky start for engineering design centres: Four new research centres could recharge Britain's engineering industry. But the government is offering them only half-hearted assistance
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Clash over museum cuts
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Flood warning as sea defences weaken
01 September 1990
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Science: 'Dark matter' may be hidden stars after all
01 September 1990
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Science: Could mini black holes provide a 'theory of everything'?
01 September 1990
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Science: Trials of growth factors show promise in cancer
01 September 1990
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Science: 'Trapped' seismic waves could help to predict earthquakes
01 September 1990
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Science: Drought comes hand in hand with rain
01 September 1990
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Technology: Milk solution saves elephants
01 September 1990
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Technology: Microwave cooking code spells danger
01 September 1990
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Science: How plants with patterned leaves compete
01 September 1990
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Shudders in the fabric of space-time: Researchers around the world are racing to build a new type of telescope, that will detect gravitational waves from exploding stars, colliding pulsars and cosmic strings
01 September 1990
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Genetic gremlins
01 September 1990
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Model moth for insect engineers
01 September 1990
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Penguin verdict
01 September 1990
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US and Europe could fall out over climate change
01 September 1990
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Raccoons invited to lunch on rabies vaccine
01 September 1990
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Canberra puts skids under Antarctic convention
01 September 1990
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Magellan stops wobbling and starts mapping
01 September 1990
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Dark side of Moon highlights X-rays from space
01 September 1990
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Soviet space programme in chaos as participants threaten withdrawal
01 September 1990
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Mothers hold key to studying child development
01 September 1990
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Soaring cancer rates prompt call for study
01 September 1990
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Making the best of Hubble
01 September 1990
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Nasty niffs
01 September 1990
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Juno grounded
01 September 1990
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Cancer compound
01 September 1990
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At the BA: A capital cure for the Soviet Union's ecological ills
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Survey highlights serious shortages in the classroom
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Moser moves to rescue Britain's schools
01 September 1990
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Astro's mission
01 September 1990
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Technology / Prototype solar electricity generator developed by Sunpower of Ohio and Cummins of Abilene
01 September 1990
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Ariadne
01 September 1990
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Letter: Drug data
01 September 1990
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Letter: Maths scandal
01 September 1990
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Letter: Animal rights
01 September 1990
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Thistle Diary - More Comment from Westminster: Of teachers and animals
01 September 1990
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Letter: See no evil
01 September 1990
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Letter: Warm debate
01 September 1990
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Letter: Media message
01 September 1990
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Letter: Popper defined
01 September 1990
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Letter: Colour blind
01 September 1990
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Letter: Computer kids
01 September 1990
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Letter: Fluctuating beginnings
01 September 1990
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Talking Point: Global warming, the coal industry view
01 September 1990
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Feedback
01 September 1990
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Comment: Engineering by design
01 September 1990
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Comment: The risks of 'big' science
01 September 1990
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Letter: Depression ahead
01 September 1990
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Letter: Methane leakage
01 September 1990
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Forum: Great scientist, lousy manager? - Anne Rolin wants to make the best of scientific superstars
01 September 1990
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Forum: Getting above myself - Ian Gordon discovers he has a penchant for honorary degrees
01 September 1990
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Technology: Wood waste pumps oil
01 September 1990
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Technology: 19th-century engine refrigerates without CFCs
01 September 1990
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Technology: Stereo system gives sound its own space
01 September 1990
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Technology: Gene-spliced corn heralds customised crops
01 September 1990
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Weeding with fungi: Just as fungal diseases can devastate a crop, so too can they destroy weeds. A herbicide made from fungi could be the ideal means of weed control
01 September 1990
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Thoroughly modern Mongolia: Mongolia is in a state of upheaval. Casting aside the outdated theories and industries borrowed from the Soviet Union, the country is looking for a path to a modern way of life that fits its traditional ways
01 September 1990
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The light at the end of the rainbow: Everyone knows that rainbows present the brightest and best range of colours. But this has more to do with how we see natural colours than with rainbow optics
01 September 1990
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Review: Fear and ignorance create loathing
01 September 1990
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Review: The handover of knowledge
01 September 1990
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Engines of Creation by K. Eric Drexler
01 September 1990
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Forum: Psst . . . want to buy a power station? - Can poor, redundant Battersea really be worth as much as PowerGen
01 September 1990
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Review: Solid state in the music industry
01 September 1990
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Review: Compact guides to global warming
01 September 1990
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Forum: Educating with empathy - Common sense gets in the way of science
01 September 1990
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Forum: An apple a day - Forbidden fruits and the medical profession
01 September 1990
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Review: Fiction that flies faster than light
01 September 1990
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Review: Yellow companion to space
01 September 1990
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At the BA: Modern farming puts small birds to flight
25 August 1990
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The poisonous power of chemical warfare: The escalation of conflict in the Gulf has reminded the world of the gruesome threat from chemical and biological weapons - and the slow progress in banning them
25 August 1990
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At the BA: Positive posters make the AIDS message stick
25 August 1990
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At the BA: VDU text is a headache
25 August 1990
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At the BA: Government 'distrusts' the social sciences - Swansea hosts this year's annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The meeting, which has attracted almost 2500 delegates from a score of countries, is focusing on s
25 August 1990
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At tha BA: 'Wobbles' rewrite history
25 August 1990
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At the BA: Flipping oceans could turn up the heat
25 August 1990
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At the BA: Could salmonella save your life?
25 August 1990
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Computer modelling makes jet engines less noxious . . .
25 August 1990
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Technology: Sinclair gets on his bike
25 August 1990
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Technology: Pollutant masks hide risk to city cyclists
25 August 1990
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Technology: Systems design takes an evolutionary turn
25 August 1990
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Sex with a twist in the tail: The common-or-garden housefly
25 August 1990
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The grim trade that is so hard to control
25 August 1990
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The hurdles to ban chemical weapons
25 August 1990
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At the BA: Americans aim to overhaul science teaching by 2061
25 August 1990
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Archive threat
25 August 1990
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Hubble still throws light on the stars
25 August 1990
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Comment: Return of 'soft' sciences
25 August 1990
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Comet Levy at its brightest this weekend
25 August 1990
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Cancer threat prompts China to curb smoking
25 August 1990
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Company cars drive wedge between ministries
25 August 1990
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Hard sums lose pupils
25 August 1990
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Bolivian indians march to save their homeland
25 August 1990
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Hot summer comes up to scratch
25 August 1990
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Margarine fails the fat test in Dutch study
25 August 1990
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Talking Point: Science spending must put people first
25 August 1990
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Ceausescu freed
25 August 1990
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Ovarian cancer study
25 August 1990
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Chemical crop
25 August 1990
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Pill briefing
25 August 1990
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Home for bats
25 August 1990
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Comment: Chemical reactions
25 August 1990
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Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Of wild estimates and whales
25 August 1990
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Forum: Biotechnology: public friend or foe? - What does the public really think
25 August 1990
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Forum: A green solution to the green revolution / A look at a model farm in the Philippines
25 August 1990
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Forum: The British Disease - In higher education, it's not who you are but where you've been that counts
25 August 1990
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Review: Grand tour of the planets
25 August 1990
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Review: Science funding in deep waters
25 August 1990
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Forum: Traces of worms - Systems that cover their tracks
25 August 1990
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Ariadne
25 August 1990
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Letter: Pedal power
25 August 1990
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Letter: Hot air
25 August 1990
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Letter: Biodegradable plastics
25 August 1990
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Letter: University blues
25 August 1990
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Letter: Cold comfort
25 August 1990
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Letter: Hubble telescope
25 August 1990
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Feedback
25 August 1990
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Review: 'Man on Earth'
25 August 1990
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Review: Isolated, forgotten and doomed
25 August 1990
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A whiff of happiness: Can smelling a molecule contained in human sweat ease anxiety and stress? Some scientists think so, and argue that 'osmotherapy' may also help people to slim or stop smoking
25 August 1990
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Science: Plant material may have controlled oxygen in atmosphere
25 August 1990
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Science: DNA's ancestors made themselves up
25 August 1990
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Science: Does electrical charge come in smaller instalments?
25 August 1990
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Science: How man-made ozone damages plants
25 August 1990
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Science: Drug eliminates side effects of cancer treatment
25 August 1990
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Patents: Rapid transit for patent disputes
25 August 1990
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Patents: Kamikaze disc
25 August 1990
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Patents: Tangle of wires
25 August 1990
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Patents: Subscriber scan
25 August 1990
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Patents: Vanishing paste
25 August 1990
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Technology: Dallas becomes quality viewing
25 August 1990
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Technology: . . . while recycling could make power supplies soar
25 August 1990
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A worm at the heart of the genome project: What can we learn about ourselves from a lowly parasitic worm? A great deal, argue molecular geneticists on both sides of the Atlantic
25 August 1990
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The changing face of Chiron: When astronomers discovered Chiron between the orbits of Saturn and Uranus in 1977, they thought it was an asteroid in a very strange orbit. But in the past few years, this odd object has begun to look like a gigantic comet
25 August 1990
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Review: The tale of the Black Arrow
25 August 1990
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Science: Where have all the solar neutrinos gone?
18 August 1990
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Japan tipped for mathematics 'Nobel'
18 August 1990
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Magellan's mission
18 August 1990
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Siberia's silent 'bomb'
18 August 1990
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Back to the fold
18 August 1990
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Science: Space snaps spot distant quasars
18 August 1990
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Science: Astronomers mystified by galaxy evolution
18 August 1990
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The year the taps ran dry: Britain's sweltering summer ismore than a repeat of the freak weather of 1976. This year's heat wave ispart of a drought that is afflicting most countries in Europe
18 August 1990
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Cleaner image
18 August 1990
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Museum jobs
18 August 1990
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Technology: Oscillating motor set to shake up engine makers?
18 August 1990
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Technology: Sunshine underground
18 August 1990
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Technology: Contact lens keeps an eye out for exposure
18 August 1990
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Technology: Japan patches up rocket for another try
18 August 1990
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Astronomy marks its stamps
18 August 1990
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AZT go-ahead
18 August 1990
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Measles epidemics sweep across the Americas
18 August 1990
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Comment: Public exposure
18 August 1990
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Fresh threat to renewable energy projects
18 August 1990
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Talking Point: Is change really on the way at the BA?
18 August 1990
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Sceptics dampen hopes for cancer 'therapy'
18 August 1990
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Israel tests 'star wars' rocket
18 August 1990
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Gas-guzzlers worsen oil crisis in US
18 August 1990
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US remains coy about its plans for chemical arms
18 August 1990
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Lone macaw makes a vain bid for survival
18 August 1990
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Plans for nuclear store hang in the balance
18 August 1990
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Cash crisis undercuts National Curriculum
18 August 1990
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Study of miners heightens aluminium fears
18 August 1990
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Green veto on Berlin reactor threatens research institute
18 August 1990
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The testing error that led to Hubble mirror fiasco
18 August 1990
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Comment: Whistling for the wind
18 August 1990
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Ariadne
18 August 1990
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Forum: Friend or foe? - Computers are not all they claim to be
18 August 1990
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Forum: The case of the missing science - Social scientists are too often given the cold shoulder
18 August 1990
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Feedback
18 August 1990
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Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Death among fast breeders and birds -
18 August 1990
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Forum: Reinventing the wheel - A solution to the not-invented-here syndrome
18 August 1990
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Letter: Bird strike
18 August 1990
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Letter: Belly laugh
18 August 1990
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Letter: Ring vortex
18 August 1990
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Letter: Freebie Frisbees
18 August 1990
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Letter: Falsifiability
18 August 1990
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Letter: Naked truth
18 August 1990
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Letter: Posts, not spaces
18 August 1990
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Letter: Corneting the market
18 August 1990
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Forum: Legless in space - A tumble into microgravity
18 August 1990
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Review: The man who brought science to India
18 August 1990
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Review: An Indiaman keeps her secrets
18 August 1990
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Science: Searching for the shape of the rose
18 August 1990
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Science: 'Wave compass' guides turtles when they are all at sea
18 August 1990
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Technology: Weapons detector sniffs out illegal drugs
18 August 1990
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Technology: X-ray laser aimed at chip makers
18 August 1990
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Too much of a good thing
18 August 1990
Multiple births are on the increase, largely as a result of infertility treatments such as IVF and GIFT. A new study reveals the costs for both parents and children
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Technology: Shrinking polymer hides from the light
18 August 1990
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The perils of popular science: 'Media boffins' often incur the wrath of colleagues back in their ivory towers. The best advice is to become eminent in your field before venturing into the public arena
18 August 1990
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All the world's a zoo: Captive breeding may no longer be enough to save endangered species. Is it time to start manipulating the animals left in the wild?
18 August 1990
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Home of Radio Waves / Review of How We Know About The Universe, an exhibition at the Jodrell Bank sciece centre, Macclesfield
18 August 1990
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Review: Travels in the other Amazon
18 August 1990
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Review: Trials and tribulations in the Arctic
18 August 1990
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Review: Peace strictly for the birds
18 August 1990
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The risks of ferry travel: Many car ferries are built with afatal design flaw. If the vehicle decks flood, the ferries are likely tocapsize rapidly. This is the result of designing them to a rule book thatgoes back to the days of transatlantic liners
18 August 1990
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Selling science to the public: Is the drive to educate the public about science merely an exercise in public relations and labour recruitment? Who will really benefit?
18 August 1990
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Hold that tiger
11 August 1990
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Apnoea kills
11 August 1990
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Bins and burgers
11 August 1990
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More circles
11 August 1990
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Life saver
11 August 1990
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Sterile release
11 August 1990
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Wrong cholesterol
11 August 1990
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Backup launch
11 August 1990
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Science: Cooking up carcinogens - The chemicals generated in our food
11 August 1990
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Science: 'Safe' test may spot fetal abnormalities
11 August 1990
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Science: Pulsar problems in a multidimensional Universe
11 August 1990
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Science: The switch that turns the brain on to cannabis
11 August 1990
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Science: A new tree of life takes root
11 August 1990
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Technology: Record industry faces up to digital tape
11 August 1990
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Technology: The pump that pips fires to the post
11 August 1990
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Europe prepares for its next step in space: The European Space Agency will have a new director general in October. He will face tough decisions on issues from the funding of space science to the future of the spaceplane Hermes
11 August 1990
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Sodium nitrate comes to the aid of the Dunhuang Diamond Sutra
11 August 1990
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Soviet blackout looms as nuclear disquiet deepens
11 August 1990
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Comment: AIDS - a time for natural justice
11 August 1990
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Comment: No minister
11 August 1990
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DNA fingerprinters aim to counter critics
11 August 1990
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Innocent victims of the Glorious Twelfth
11 August 1990
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US approves trials with gene therapy
11 August 1990
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How Europe keeps the cocaine cartels in business
11 August 1990
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Protests grow over nerve gas disposal
11 August 1990
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Iraq's 'nuclear' furnaces stay in Scotland
11 August 1990
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Europe's forests fall to acid rain
11 August 1990
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America shuts the door on 'Open Skies'
11 August 1990
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Bloom boom for Italy's slimy beaches
11 August 1990
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Animal remedy may hold promise for AIDS
11 August 1990
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Japanese business counts the cost of aid projects
11 August 1990
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Europe calls for satellite competition
11 August 1990
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Talking Point: New attitudes needed on animal testing
11 August 1990
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Technology: Sounds cool - The acoustic fridge from California By LEIGH DAYTON
11 August 1990
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Letter: Flippin Frisbee
11 August 1990
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Letter: Hot air
11 August 1990
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Letter: Corn and chaos
11 August 1990
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Letter: Master gene
11 August 1990
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Letter: Integrated Links
11 August 1990
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Feedback
11 August 1990
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Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Questions of heritage
11 August 1990
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Forum: Holiday ecology - A novel niche for grants
11 August 1990
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Forum: We are not inspired - Classroom physics is behind the times
11 August 1990
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Ariadne
11 August 1990
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Letter: Unclear energy
11 August 1990
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Letter: Self-obvious
11 August 1990
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Letter: Who's for unification?
11 August 1990
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Letter: Who's for unification?
11 August 1990
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Letter: Flippin Frisbee
11 August 1990
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Forum: Technology transfer makes cents - Missionaries and heathens make profits in Japan
11 August 1990
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Review: Watery graves
11 August 1990
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Exhibition: A picture of the world
11 August 1990
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Technology: Industry rediscovers the paper that never forgets
11 August 1990
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Technology: Fibres down the tube
11 August 1990
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Technology: Spinning screen TV gives 'real 3-D' images
11 August 1990
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Technology: Cracks begin to show in modern tanker design
11 August 1990
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Palaeontology's hidden agenda
11 August 1990
Spectacular fossils from the time when animals began to build skeletons suggest that the fossil record is not a perfect guide to the way life evolved. The fossils we cannot find are just as important as those we can
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Seeing colours in their true light: The colours we see often depend on how and where we look at them. Psychology, physics and computer science could soon help us to perceive colour more consistently
11 August 1990
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Counting species one by one: Biologists will never be sure that they have found and named every last species on Earth. But they have a long way to go before they can even start to wonder
11 August 1990
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Why should anyone care about taxonomy?
11 August 1990
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Chaos on the trading floor: Economists and speculators would like to be able to predict the ups and downs of the financial and commodities markets. Could chaos theory help?
11 August 1990
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Forum: Fishing for support - A new angle in fish conservation
11 August 1990
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Review: A world beyond the senses
11 August 1990
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For good or evil: Genetic tests for the masses
11 August 1990
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Review: The origin of Darwin's despair
11 August 1990
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Review: Give us our daily plant
11 August 1990
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Your genome in their hands: Soon it will be possible to screen people for genetic diseases and predisposition to heart disease or cancer. Who will see this information, and what will they use it for?
11 August 1990
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Berlin split over future of research reactor
04 August 1990
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Japanese gesture
04 August 1990
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ICL promises
04 August 1990
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Budget blues in Budapest: Financial cuts are forcing Hungarian scientists to rely increasingly on the international scientific community for support. But this is creating its own problems
04 August 1990
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Science: How magnetic fields could upset your ions
04 August 1990
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Science: Aphids with parasites prefer to end it all
04 August 1990
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Science: The seven deadly smells of a skunk
04 August 1990
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Screening ban
04 August 1990
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Toxic shock bill
04 August 1990
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Buildings that wobble but don't fall down
04 August 1990
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Technology: When bird meets aircraft, a computer simulation can help
04 August 1990
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Technology: Widescreen pictures will soon be on tape
04 August 1990
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Technology: American inventor unveils multi-fuel engine
04 August 1990
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Science: Chinese cosmic string could close the Universe
04 August 1990
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Science: Ozone depletion quickens at both poles
04 August 1990
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Science: Second gene linked to Alzheimer's
04 August 1990
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The chimpanzee's medicine chest: Chimps seem to dose themselves with drugs when they are feeling low. Plants with the power to do chimps good may have potential for treating human disorders, too
04 August 1990
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Thumbs down for milk hormone
04 August 1990
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East German police keep eagle eye on eggs
04 August 1990
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Soviet Union goes to Sussex for advice on science policy
04 August 1990
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Comment: Political arithmetic
04 August 1990
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Statisticians call government to account
04 August 1990
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Destruction of chemical arms comes under fire
04 August 1990
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French finally clean up after Amoco Cadiz disaster
04 August 1990
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NASA fails to plug leaky space shuttle
04 August 1990
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America's hospitals urged to screen for HIV
04 August 1990
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Lizzie the lizard wins a final reprieve
04 August 1990
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Laboratory primates suffered from 'poor science'
04 August 1990
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The pressure to balance the books
04 August 1990
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New moonlet slips through Saturn's rings
04 August 1990
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New minister
04 August 1990
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Jumbo-sized drive-in wash
04 August 1990
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Foreign magnets
04 August 1990
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Biologist charged
04 August 1990
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Astonishment as Britain considers lifting ivory ban
04 August 1990
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Camelford doctors highlight government neglect
04 August 1990
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Comment: Watchers in the rye
04 August 1990
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Making sense of the genome's secrets: Thousands of researchers around the world are gradually revealing how our genetic material is made up. Collecting and collating their results has forced computer scientists to reconsider the way we store and use info
04 August 1990
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Forum: Foul deeds / Never mind the dogs, it's the humans
04 August 1990
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Forum: Physics appeal / A conference to whets girls' appetites for physics
04 August 1990
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Forum: Welfare on the farm - Public support for farm animals
04 August 1990
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Ariadne
04 August 1990
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Letter: Shaken, not stirred
04 August 1990
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Letter: Belly laugh
04 August 1990
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Letter: Airstrip plans
04 August 1990
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Letter: Unique selling point
04 August 1990
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Letter: Sinister goings-on
04 August 1990
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Letter: Sinister goings-on
04 August 1990
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Letter: Fellow feeling
04 August 1990
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Letter: Safe coolants
04 August 1990
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Letter: Animal ethics
04 August 1990
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Letter: Women leads
04 August 1990
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Letter: Speaking for freedom
04 August 1990
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Letter: Course of science
04 August 1990
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Forum: A pool of light - A new lamp
04 August 1990
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Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Fresh thinking for museums and teachers
04 August 1990
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Feedback
04 August 1990
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Technology: 'Double glazing' keeps the noise out of videotapes
04 August 1990
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Technology: Ultrapure diamonds take the heat off chips
04 August 1990
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Technology: Polyglot video discs go to the opera
04 August 1990
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Technology: Cold water treatment for painted planes
04 August 1990
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Tsunami waves wiped out prehistoric Scottish communities
04 August 1990
Giant tsunami waves hit Scotland's northern and eastern coasts some 7000 years ago. And the waves could return to Europe
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Gardeners of the underworld: Burrowing animals play a vital role in nature's economy, cycling and recycling soil and sediment and whatever might be in them. Burrowers can also have unexpected impacts on the world above
04 August 1990
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Waves, tides and tsunamis
04 August 1990
Tsunamis are sometimes called tidal waves, but this is incorrect; they have nothing to do with the tide
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The strange world of the exotic atom: Physicists can now make atoms and molecules containing negative particles other than electrons, and use them not just to test theories, but also to fight cancer
04 August 1990
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Forum: Bids for the greenhouse auction - Could an international trade in 'pollution permits' resolve the greenhouse crisis?
04 August 1990
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Review: Japan's original spirit
04 August 1990
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Amazonia's history of exploitation
04 August 1990
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Review: Viewing by numbers
04 August 1990
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Review: A clear view of a universal favourite
04 August 1990
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Review: A brief history of enigma and paradox
04 August 1990
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Review: Enjoyment and edification
04 August 1990
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Muons, pions and other strange particles
04 August 1990
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Talking Point: Export controls as a threat to the West
04 August 1990