June - 1990 Articles
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Code-cracking claim splits mathematicians
30 June 1990
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Cold fusion retirement
30 June 1990
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Tropical disease
30 June 1990
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Fang free
30 June 1990
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Dam dropped
30 June 1990
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AIDS: What makes the virus so virulent
30 June 1990
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Science: American Indians recorded 'guest star'
30 June 1990
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Science: Mathematician discovers a more complex form of chaos
30 June 1990
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Science: Caterpillars tap-dance for an ant audience
30 June 1990
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Science: A new type of genetic disease
30 June 1990
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Science: Did galaxies form gradually, or in a single burst?
30 June 1990
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Technology: Sky unscrambles the snow-filled shadows on its movies
30 June 1990
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Technology: Clicks, crackles and pops get the chop from recordings
30 June 1990
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Technology: Plastic horseshoes challenge iron in the sole
30 June 1990
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Technology: Robot scales heights
30 June 1990
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Technology: Destroy-it-yourself treatment for toxic waste
30 June 1990
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Science: Galaxy clusters hold magnetic attraction
30 June 1990
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Technology: Solar activity wreaks havoc in heaven and earth
30 June 1990
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'Primatological find of the century'
30 June 1990
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Winning swamp
30 June 1990
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Soviet Union reopens Chernobyl inquiry
30 June 1990
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Talking Point: The global lesson of AIDS
30 June 1990
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AIDS: A vaccine ready 'by the end of the decade'
30 June 1990
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The AIDS debate moves to the streets: The Sixth International Conference on AIDS held in San Francisco last week
30 June 1990
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Mystery of the dead king penguins
30 June 1990
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Only huge investment will bring universities back from the brink, say teachers
30 June 1990
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East Germany struggles to save its science academy
30 June 1990
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Amended Embryo Bill faces last hurdle
30 June 1990
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Airy crop circle theory faces its critics
30 June 1990
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MPs accuse nuclear industry of distorting costs
30 June 1990
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Scientists warn of perils posed by substitutes for CFCs
30 June 1990
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Nations approach unity on measures to protect ozone
30 June 1990
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Unprecedented damage as earthquake occurs close to the surface
30 June 1990
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Modern materials heap extra tragedy on Iran
30 June 1990
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Cheaper alternatives for CFCs
30 June 1990
Industrialised countries are being asked this week to help to pay for the Third World's efforts to protect the ozone layer. But need it really cost as much as some are claiming?
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'Lenient' Hong Kong
30 June 1990
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Expat victory
30 June 1990
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Technology: American firm demands ban on Japanese cameras
30 June 1990
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Patents: British patents lose out to Europe
30 June 1990
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Letter: Political science
30 June 1990
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Software Review: Delete cliches and sexism
30 June 1990
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Software Review: Bibliography made cheap
30 June 1990
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Letter: Glow-worms
30 June 1990
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Letter: Sarawak forestry
30 June 1990
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Letter: Engineer supply
30 June 1990
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Letter: Falsifying Darwin
30 June 1990
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Letter: Antarctic research
30 June 1990
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Feedback
30 June 1990
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Thistle Diary: More Comment from Westminster - Medical shortcomings and Soviet doubts
30 June 1990
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Forum: Floppy thinking - 10 uses for a dead disc
30 June 1990
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Ariadne
30 June 1990
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Comment: Rethinking AIDS
30 June 1990
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Comment: Uneasy partners
30 June 1990
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Letter: Clan gathering
30 June 1990
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Letter: Flowery retort
30 June 1990
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Letter: Supercollider funds
30 June 1990
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Letter: Brave new world
30 June 1990
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Software Review: The medium is the footnote
30 June 1990
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Forum: End of the university as we know it - A dire consequence of the cuts
30 June 1990
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'The great lake is in great peril': Siberia's sacred sea, bigger than Belgium and older than any other lake, Baikal is threatened by pollution from industry and agriculture
30 June 1990
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Chaos on the circuit board
30 June 1990
No electronic system is perfect. Engineers are using chaos theory to help them to understand the wayward behaviour of electrical circuits
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Where did the AIDS virus come from?: Biologists studying HIV
30 June 1990
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The bike built to win: Next week sees the start of cycling's premier event, the Tour de France. With the sport's professionals at peak fitness, race teams look to the bike designers to give them the best chance of winning on the most efficient machines
30 June 1990
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Patents: Patenting life
30 June 1990
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Patents: Bible banned?
30 June 1990
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Patents: The video's the thing
30 June 1990
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Patents: Timely endgame
30 June 1990
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Software Review: Mathematics beyond the pocket calculator - This year's crop of software includes the pick of packages for mathematics, games that use advanced programming, modelling in the quantum world and how to teach hypertext
30 June 1990
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Software Review: Games of power, pleasure and wit
30 June 1990
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Forum: Playing by the rules - People and machines have much in common
30 June 1990
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Forum: Coloured vision? - The pharmacological history of Van Gogh
30 June 1990
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Forum: On being a bit green - A couple of suggestions for saving the Earth
30 June 1990
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Software Review: Software and the neural network
30 June 1990
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Software Review: A quantum world on the small screen
30 June 1990
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Software Review: More than a match for most
30 June 1990
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Software Review: Hypertext reaches the student
30 June 1990
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Software Review: A modem that guards your privacy
30 June 1990
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Leading lights in the dark
23 June 1990
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Ministry regained
23 June 1990
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MIT tries again
23 June 1990
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Weather wars
23 June 1990
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AIDS drug
23 June 1990
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Korean aid
23 June 1990
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Exile challenge
23 June 1990
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Slow French
23 June 1990
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New Zealand declares war on the possum
23 June 1990
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Science: Will Americans be first to catch the top quark?
23 June 1990
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Science: DIY chimp uses a whole box of tools
23 June 1990
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Science: The calm that comes before the quake
23 June 1990
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Technology: Mercury strains the law to get the fax right
23 June 1990
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Science: Jupiter's sodium cloud
23 June 1990
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Science: Turtles return to 'birth beach' to lay their eggs
23 June 1990
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Will taxonomy go the way of the dinosaurs?: Plans to drop research in some areas of science at the Natural History Museum in London have led to protests from scientists across the world
23 June 1990
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Science: Old stars may shine a light on hidden comets
23 June 1990
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Forensic expert slates Maguire analysis
23 June 1990
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Inside Science: Nature's catalysts - Enzymes do it better
23 June 1990
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Texans try for the customised cow
23 June 1990
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Communication gaps undermine reports on global warming
23 June 1990
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Disappearing forests fan fears over tropical action plan
23 June 1990
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British groups call for bill of rights for AIDS sufferers
23 June 1990
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An unexpected honour ..
23 June 1990
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Concern prompts review of joint R&D rules
23 June 1990
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Comment: Permanent waywardness
23 June 1990
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US agrees extra funds to safeguard ozone layer
23 June 1990
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Cholesterol in your blood - is a little knowledge dangerous?
23 June 1990
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Egyptians wrestle with the new riddle of the Sphinx
23 June 1990
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'Dangerous' drugs in Armenian aid
23 June 1990
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Hostilities sharpen at embattled museum
23 June 1990
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Britain fails to harvest full fruits of biotechnology
23 June 1990
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Comment: Unnatural history
23 June 1990
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Technology: Clear colour tempts Japanese viewers
23 June 1990
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The magic of catalysts
23 June 1990
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Forum: One born every minute - An offer he can't refust
23 June 1990
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Ariadne
23 June 1990
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Thistle Diary - More comment from Westminster: Two bites or none?
23 June 1990
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Letter: Stony ground
23 June 1990
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Letter: Kinder killing
23 June 1990
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Letter: Sneeze cure
23 June 1990
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Letter: True or false?
23 June 1990
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Letter: Fossil trade
23 June 1990
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Letter: Fossil trade
23 June 1990
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Letter: Museum cuts
23 June 1990
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Letter: Melt down
23 June 1990
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Letter: Taking art
23 June 1990
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Letter: GIFT regulation
23 June 1990
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Feedback
23 June 1990
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Forum: Turning viruses to good use - Computer viruses could yet prove beneficial
23 June 1990
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Forum: Controlling the greenhouse - Is anyone taking this seriously?
23 June 1990
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Review: Our cousins, ourselves
23 June 1990
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Technology: Lasers take the pain out of surgery
23 June 1990
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Technology: 'Mystery' paint steps up the heat
23 June 1990
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Technology: Robots bone up on operating techniques
23 June 1990
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Circles in the corn: Now is the season for crops to be flattened into strange patterns in fields across southern Britain. Far from being the work of devils or aliens, the circles seem to arise from a combination of atmospheric physics and the local lands
23 June 1990
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Primate origins up in the air again: Extinct creatures that everyone thought were our earliest primate ancestors, finely tuned to life as visual predators, turn out instead to have been exquisitely adapted to gliding
23 June 1990
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Review: Ironing out the wrinkles of space-time
23 June 1990
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Baikal's hidden depths: For the first time since the Russian Revolution, foreign scientists have a great opportunity to probe the depths of Lake Baikal, the most fascinating freshwater ecosystem on Earth
23 June 1990
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Technology: Thirsty amphibian quenches fires
23 June 1990
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Technology: Satellite operators home in on mobile messages
23 June 1990
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Forum: Piety in the sky - No Graeco-Roman mythology please, we're British
23 June 1990
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The molecules of outer space: Astronomers have found that the dark regions of interstellar space are teeming with molecules, many formed by unusual chemical reactions that rarely occur on the Earth
23 June 1990
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Review: Children measure the planet's health
23 June 1990
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Review: Blots on the landscape
23 June 1990
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Review: Orchids in the wastelands
23 June 1990
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Review: Cycles, climate and the Sun
23 June 1990
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Science: Uranium dating delves deeper into the past
16 June 1990
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Science: Worm gives clues to the destruction of nerve cells
16 June 1990
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Technology: Budget squeeze puts the heat on early-warning system
16 June 1990
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Physicits drop Brazilian bombshell
16 June 1990
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Zoos 'must join forces' to save threatened habitats
16 June 1990
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Britain's bats come out for the count
16 June 1990
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West removes more bricks from the technology wall
16 June 1990
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China's silent summer: Many scientists are leaving China in the aftermath of the massacre in June last year in Tiananmen Square. Those that remain face cuts in student numbers and funding - not to mention political re-education and military service
16 June 1990
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AIDS conference
16 June 1990
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Tough physics
16 June 1990
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Science: Bronchitis drug may help AIDS sufferers
16 June 1990
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Science: The day the Sweet Track was built
16 June 1990
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Science: A simple model for planets' magnetic fields?
16 June 1990
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Science: Hunting ladybirds need a helping hand
16 June 1990
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Technology: The long, sharp shock for contaminated land
16 June 1990
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Europe's space science short of money
16 June 1990
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'Mystery' illness claims French cattle
16 June 1990
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American detective finds fresh clues to Piltdown mystery
16 June 1990
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Vets targeted in bombing attacks
16 June 1990
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Gunfight at the cold fusion corral
16 June 1990
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Bombings set back animal welfare campaigns
16 June 1990
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Greening of Industry: A chip off the old expert - People with the expertise to manage the environment are in short supply. Computers, equipped with the experts' know-how, can act as stand-ins
16 June 1990
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Greening of Industry: Checks on environmental pollution
16 June 1990
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'Selective' TV documentary attacked by AIDS researchers
16 June 1990
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AIDS vaccine shows promise in humans
16 June 1990
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Greening of Industry: The Consumers are not so Green - Last year many people said they would buy environmentally friendly goods. This year, such products are left on the shelves. What went wrong?
16 June 1990
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East meets West
16 June 1990
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CFC warning
16 June 1990
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Nuclear Japanese
16 June 1990
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A look back at the Solar System
16 June 1990
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Overseas study
16 June 1990
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Gene culprits
16 June 1990
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Greening of Industry: The Green Wave Heads East - Large areas of Eastern Europe are heavily polluted from antiquated, badly run factories. How much will increased trade with the West change that?
16 June 1990
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Last days of the old night bird
16 June 1990
Rarer than the giant panda or the black rhino, the kakapo faces immediate extinction. Desperate times demand desperate actions, but how much risk is acceptable when a species is at stake?
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Letter: Mechanical dreams
16 June 1990
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Forum: Sniff it and see - Horse sense in the laboratory
16 June 1990
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Letter: Porn experiments
16 June 1990
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Letter: Population debate
16 June 1990
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Feedback
16 June 1990
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Ariadne
16 June 1990
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Comment: AIDS on television
16 June 1990
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Comment: Animal matters
16 June 1990
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Letter: Mites are fun
16 June 1990
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Letter: Weighty research
16 June 1990
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Letter: Early warning
16 June 1990
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Letter: Lamb chopped
16 June 1990
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Letter: Barrier grief
16 June 1990
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Letter: Driving force
16 June 1990
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Letter: Dread plots
16 June 1990
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Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Of Chinese wisdom and British cuts
16 June 1990
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Forum: Mystery of the missing biography / A look at the life of Alan Blumlein
16 June 1990
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Review: Beauty in miniature
16 June 1990
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Technology: Semiconductor laser gets the blue light
16 June 1990
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Technology: Robots take over the petrol pumps
16 June 1990
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Technology: Sound probe peers inside the arteries
16 June 1990
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Technology: Where there's muck, there's glass
16 June 1990
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Science: Arthritis sufferers avoid Alzheimer's disease
16 June 1990
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Ancestral voices at war: Linguists in the US are engaged in a bloody battle over the origins of American Indian languages - and the ancestry of the people who speak them. The science of archaeology and molecular biology may settle the dispute
16 June 1990
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The race to heal the ozone hole
16 June 1990
Next week in London the United Nations Environment Programme will call for a tougher international agreement to halt the production of CFCs. Two industrial chemists recall how the last agreement, reached in Montreal in 1987, galvanised the chemicals industry
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When scorpions ruled the world: Scorpions took the big step onto solid ground about 300 million years ago. Scottish fossils reveal how they evolved to leave the seas and become the first predators on land
16 June 1990
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Review: Science proposes, politics disposes
16 June 1990
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Review: Stronger Shades of green
16 June 1990
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Review: Damming the paper flood
16 June 1990
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Forum: As seen on television / Where are his experts are coming from
16 June 1990
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Review: Safe homes for the endangered
16 June 1990
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Review: Star Trails
16 June 1990
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Review: The fur brigade
16 June 1990
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Think-tank rethink
09 June 1990
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Walk wary
09 June 1990
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BSE - what madness is this?: As beef is banned from the school menu and sales of Britain's national joint plummet, scientists are in pursuit of the unknown agent that causes BSE - 'mad cow disease'
09 June 1990
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Science: Molecule slips through a loophole
09 June 1990
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. . . as dry spell saps British soil
09 June 1990
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MRC launches inquiry into animal experiments
09 June 1990
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American biology student sues over dissection
09 June 1990
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Reverse drain
09 June 1990
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Gene call
09 June 1990
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Science: The Midas touch
09 June 1990
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Science: Small wormholes change our picture of the big bang
09 June 1990
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Science: Children of firefighters may suffer heart defects
09 June 1990
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Science: Brain diseases may be triggered by toxins in food
09 June 1990
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Science: Are 'minicomets' peppering the Earth's atmosphere?
09 June 1990
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Science: How to repair damaged nerves
09 June 1990
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Chaos, catastrophes and engineering: Applying chaos theory to engineering may seem odd. We expect machines and structures to operate with clockwork predictability. But engineers are now discovering that a sudden disaster may mean there's a fractal in the
09 June 1990
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Hunters turn protectors on Brazil's turtle beaches
09 June 1990
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Timber traders fail to quell fears over rainforests
09 June 1990
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Comment: Signing off
09 June 1990
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Comment: The 'clever' country?
09 June 1990
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Comment: Peace work
09 June 1990
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US seeks major Japanese role in supercollider
09 June 1990
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. . . as Germany brings forward ban on CFCs
09 June 1990
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Drought threatens French power supplies . . .
09 June 1990
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Australian telescope catches cosmic calamity
09 June 1990
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British Telecom rings the changes on phone fraud
09 June 1990
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Scientists oppose bid to lift whaling moratorium
09 June 1990
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Religious cult lands in hot water over drilling scheme
09 June 1990
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Dutch army attacks soil pollution
09 June 1990
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Fast French
09 June 1990
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The touch that turns to money
09 June 1990
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Chimps 'immunised'
09 June 1990
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Backs and money
09 June 1990
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Supersonic plans 'threaten ozone layer' . . .
09 June 1990
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Aridane
09 June 1990
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Forum: Science with a human face - More researchers should write autobiographies
09 June 1990
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Review: Darwin on the brain
09 June 1990
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Review: Fiction mangles science
09 June 1990
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Review: In our own backyard
09 June 1990
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Review: The World of Volcanoes
09 June 1990
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Forum: Out of the fume cupboard, into the home - The apparatus no home should be without
09 June 1990
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Letter: Penguin point
09 June 1990
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Feedback
09 June 1990
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Forum: The great pigeonhole in the sky - A look into the ecology of office envelopes
09 June 1990
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Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Long-term problems, short-term solutions
09 June 1990
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Letter: Is GIFT illegal?
09 June 1990
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Letter: Science trust
09 June 1990
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Letter: Parks and people
09 June 1990
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Letter: Parks and people
09 June 1990
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Letter: Cry freedom
09 June 1990
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Forum: The real thing - school dissections
09 June 1990
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Forum: Missing, presumed dead - A bird in the Sun
09 June 1990
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Technology: Japan's electromagnetic ship prepares to test the water
09 June 1990
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Technology: Last round in battle of CD video giants
09 June 1990
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Technology: Tobacco could be new food source
09 June 1990
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Technology: Gene probes may help to spot listeria in food
09 June 1990
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Technology: Farmers offered cheap aerial surveillance
09 June 1990
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Technology: Air conditioner freezes in the heat of the night
09 June 1990
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Technology: Three-dimensional TV is really old hat
09 June 1990
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Technology: The greening of Eureka
09 June 1990
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Enabling technology?: Technology could transform the lives of many disabled people, giving them greater independence and control over their lives. In practice, however, there is too little, too late
09 June 1990
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Review: Retrieving the scholarly past
09 June 1990
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Designer drugs head for the marketplace: Pharmaceuticals companies spend millions searching for new drugs; some chemists prefer to design them. Their approach could help us to fight AIDS, diabetes and high blood pressure
09 June 1990
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Review: Rise and Decay
09 June 1990
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Review: Breaking the chains of deductive logic
09 June 1990
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Breaking the mould: Strong engineering plastics are one of the fastest-growing parts of the world's chemicals business. They are also forcing suppliers and customers into closer relationships to develop new manufacturing technologies
09 June 1990
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The turn of the screw worm: One of the world's worst pests is turning up in unusual places. If it is not stopped, the screw worm fly could devastate the livestock industry in North Africa and Australia
09 June 1990
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Laboratories for all: Children with disabilities are out in the cold when it comes to doing science experiments. A new generation of gadgets is now bringing them into the school laboratory
09 June 1990
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Work on genome
02 June 1990
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Sharp start for Hubble
02 June 1990
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Gene screen
02 June 1990
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Animal inquiries
02 June 1990
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High-speed protest
02 June 1990
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Is sex too important to keep quiet about?: Will the worldwide AIDS epidemic continue to grow rapidly until it becomes one of the commonest causes of death? Or will it gradually stabilise? Predicting the answer depends on knowing how people behave
02 June 1990
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Public opinion slows down Japan's nuclear plans
02 June 1990
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Naval asbestos
02 June 1990
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Fatty genes
02 June 1990
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Technology: Long-distance musicians wired to play in unison
02 June 1990
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Technology: Japan's nuclear ship sets sail for the sunset
02 June 1990
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Technology: Fields force fluids through tiny silicon pump
02 June 1990
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Technology: Neural network names niffs
02 June 1990
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Technology: Conference leaves high-definition TV up in the air
02 June 1990
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Science: Did the AIDS virus originate in chimpanzees?
02 June 1990
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Science: Scientists make light work of night work
02 June 1990
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Science: Some plants will like it hot in the global greenhouse
02 June 1990
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IAEA wants more nuclear power to combat global warming
02 June 1990
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Sarawak study disappoints rainforest campaigners
02 June 1990
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Inside Science: Using electromagnetism
02 June 1990
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Inside Science: Waves
02 June 1990
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Inside Science: Units of electricity and magnetism
02 June 1990
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Comment: So, farewell then
02 June 1990
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Inside Science: Electromagnetic waves - Making light work
02 June 1990
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Inside Science: A bright idea - Making electricity
02 June 1990
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Labour promises new deal for science
02 June 1990
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Yellowstone lets the wolf through the door
02 June 1990
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HIV infections lead to rise in tuberculosis
02 June 1990
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Vet shortage 'increases risk of BSE in food chain'
02 June 1990
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Pressure grows for US to act on global warming
02 June 1990
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American city puts animal rights on the rates
02 June 1990
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Departing Red Army leaves its rubbish behind
02 June 1990
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Museum spells out job losses
02 June 1990
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French researchers wrangle over birth rate
02 June 1990
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Compensation in doubt after 'lead-in-milk' verdict
02 June 1990
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Inside Science: Outer space - Tuning in to the Universe
02 June 1990
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Science: Methane may amplify climate change
02 June 1990
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Science: Did a Caribbean impact wipe out the dinosaurs?
02 June 1990
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Forum: So much rot - Death and decay all around
02 June 1990
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Froum: And now for the ozone forecast / Should it become a regular event
02 June 1990
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Forum: One of my days is missing - It's time to move the date line
02 June 1990
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The electromagnetic link
02 June 1990
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Aridane
02 June 1990
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Letter: Westward ho
02 June 1990
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Letter: Earthly powers
02 June 1990
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Letter: Cold comfort
02 June 1990
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Letter: Cold comfort
02 June 1990
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Letter: Head and heart
02 June 1990
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Letter: Wonderful biology
02 June 1990
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Letter: Private science
02 June 1990
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Letter: Early learning
02 June 1990
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Letter: Constructive neglect
02 June 1990
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Letter: Constructive neglect
02 June 1990
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Feedback
02 June 1990
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Review: Lord of the box
02 June 1990
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Forum: Failed scientist makes good - Why do so few scientists reach positions of influence?
02 June 1990
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The big sneeze
02 June 1990
Hay fever is on the increase, even though pollen counts are falling. Many think air pollution explains it, but new data suggest a more bizarre explanation – that our increasingly hygienic childhoods might be to blame
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Technology: After Concorde
02 June 1990
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Technology: Electricity switches plants onto new genes
02 June 1990
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Technology: Tests undermine nuclear accident strategy
02 June 1990
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Biochemistry of a special relationship: Coral reefs would not exist if there was not a special chemistry between the coral polyp and the green algae that live inside it
02 June 1990
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White death - the fate of a deserted coral
02 June 1990
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The making and breaking of a coral skeleton
02 June 1990
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Satellite Aid: Remote sensing began as a tool of war. Yet these same spies in the sky can alert the world to a coming drought, speed the movement of supplies during famine and even help to find water in deserts
02 June 1990
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How the World Cup conquers the blues
02 June 1990
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Review: A laboratory as large as a desert
02 June 1990
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Review: Chemical myths management
02 June 1990
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Review: No holding the axe
02 June 1990
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Review: On trial for reason
02 June 1990
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Review: Life in the age of radiation
02 June 1990
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How to score goals and influence people: The finals of the World Cup football championship begin next week, and each national manager is on trial. Two researchers from Liverpool can now provide the evidence to show why certain tactics suit certain teams
02 June 1990
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Forum: What do you do with a roomful of haiku? - The finer points of computer poetry
02 June 1990
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Thistle Diary: More comment from Westminster - Whales, satellites and fruitful relations
02 June 1990