August - 1992 Articles
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Meteorite shakes Dutch province
29 August 1992
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Science: Early vertebrates given new teeth
29 August 1992
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Science: Planet proves to be mere mirage
29 August 1992
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Science: Riddle of the 'time wanderer'
29 August 1992
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Swan song for the neglected dolphin
29 August 1992
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Making waves in the North Atlantic
29 August 1992
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Technical fixes 'cause poverty and hunger'
29 August 1992
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Saxon boat builders on the right tack
29 August 1992
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Memory jogger
29 August 1992
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Science: Quiet! Toxic chemicals at work
29 August 1992
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Science: Some baboons like it wet. . .
29 August 1992
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Technology: Fridge reprieved
29 August 1992
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Technology: How Doctor Who was rescued from oblivion
29 August 1992
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Technology: Battery mower cuts down on pollution
29 August 1992
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Technology: MRS makes memories from spare parts
29 August 1992
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Science: Do birds get hooked on hand-outs?
29 August 1992
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Technology: Faults highlight problems of nuclear software
29 August 1992
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Science: The darkest galaxy cluster of all
29 August 1992
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Science: Mollusc menace unmasked
29 August 1992
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Focus: Return to Turtle Bay - Four-fifths of the Mediterranean's loggerhead turtles lay their eggs on one Greek beach - but for how much longer?
29 August 1992
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Cheap TB drug 'too dangerous' for Africa
29 August 1992
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Foresters pass sentence on grey squirrel
29 August 1992
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Is government funding harming Britain's research?
29 August 1992
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Medical research suffers rigor mortis
29 August 1992
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Public seal of approval for science
29 August 1992
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Parasitic proteins provide the key to malaria vaccine
29 August 1992
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Comment: Firm action for physics. . .
29 August 1992
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Comment: . . . and a big turn-off
29 August 1992
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Privatisation costs jobs at technology group
29 August 1992
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Japan takes stock of its technology gap
29 August 1992
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Industrial research slumps in eastern Germany
29 August 1992
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Boost for safer paracetamol
29 August 1992
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Caring for those who suffer for their art
29 August 1992
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Plutonium ship secretly sets sail for Europe
29 August 1992
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Japan buys into gene project
29 August 1992
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US colleges wary of software battle
29 August 1992
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Coffins lift the lid on atmospheric change
29 August 1992
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Museum audit
29 August 1992
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Fungus foragers threaten forests
29 August 1992
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Technology: Speedy sledge offers retreat from storms
29 August 1992
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Patents: Self-destructing data
29 August 1992
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Feedback
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Thistle Diary: Magnetic mayhem - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
29 August 1992
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Letters: Clever cat
29 August 1992
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Letters: More on MIF
29 August 1992
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Reducing waste by design
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Science and soul
29 August 1992
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Letters: Two tiers
29 August 1992
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Letters: Innocent aerosols
29 August 1992
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Letters: Cockroach balls
29 August 1992
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Letters: More on MIF
29 August 1992
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Forum: Letting poetry loose in the laboratory - Donald Gould claims there's too much wrong-headed compartmentalism in science and medicine
29 August 1992
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Review: How to view in future
29 August 1992
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Not all fun at the fair: Many people face serious injury at funfairs this bank holiday weekend. The government's safety inspectors want tougher rules to control the way fairground equipment is designed to thrill
29 August 1992
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Patents: Big screen discs
29 August 1992
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Patents: Patents Information
29 August 1992
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Licensed to thrill: Human frailty rather than engineering expertise, it seems, limits the design of modern rollercoasters. But they are still becoming bigger and more daring
29 August 1992
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Patents: Viewers in view
29 August 1992
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Patents: Irish give continental coverage
29 August 1992
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Patents: Beating the bends
29 August 1992
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Technology: Tyres in inferno yield oil and gas
29 August 1992
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A trip into the unknown: To thousands of ravers, ecstasy has become an essential part of Saturday night. But despite the drug's popularity on the dance floor, no one can yet predict its long-term effects
29 August 1992
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Trees to fuel Africa's fires: Trees are a vital source of firewood in rural Africa, but the wrong ones turn savannas into desert
29 August 1992
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Surveying the options: Can a nation's mappers do a proper job without government support? David Rhind thought they could, but that was before he became the head of the Ordnance Survey
29 August 1992
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Review: Every child a wanted child
29 August 1992
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Review: Public views of biotechnology
29 August 1992
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Review: The theory of cleaning
29 August 1992
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Review: Moving data mountains made easy
29 August 1992
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Forum: Does business have an attitude problem? - Harold Thimbleby explains why market forces do not bring out the best in science
29 August 1992
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Review: Third World takes the heat
29 August 1992
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Review: Atlantis lost from our sight again
29 August 1992
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Review: Down to earth in Africa
29 August 1992
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Science: Leaving home is hard to do. . .
15 August 1992
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Science: What made ripples at the edge of time?
15 August 1992
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Polluters pay to clean Thai resorts
15 August 1992
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Brazilian smokers light hot cigarettes
15 August 1992
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Slow trains
15 August 1992
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Red kites rise
15 August 1992
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Vanishing trout
15 August 1992
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Virtual monastery rises from ruins
15 August 1992
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Science: Barbecued CFCs are kind to the atmosphere
15 August 1992
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Science: Satellite beams back bad news on Antarctic ozone
15 August 1992
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Science: Young stars breathe life into the Galaxy
15 August 1992
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Technology: Toy technique gives 3-D feel to virtual reality
15 August 1992
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Technology: Satellite records oceans' moving story
15 August 1992
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Technology: Incredible lightness of sea gel solid
15 August 1992
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Technology: Squeezed light beam gives denser data
15 August 1992
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Science: An early grave for stresses sticklebacks
15 August 1992
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Science: Are aliens on our wavelength?
15 August 1992
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Science: Drugs open up second front against breast cancer
15 August 1992
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Technology: Tiltrotor hits turbulence as second plane crashes
15 August 1992
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Reactor cleared
15 August 1992
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Atlantic shame
15 August 1992
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Jobs slashed as BP's oilfields run dry
15 August 1992
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Discovery of heavy elements poses periodic problem
15 August 1992
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Dounreay closure jeopardises fast breeders
15 August 1992
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Philips threatens to pull out of HDTVP
15 August 1992
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Going for gold at the computer olympics
15 August 1992
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Doctors await verdict in French blood trial
15 August 1992
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Comment: An end to a fast prototype
15 August 1992
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Comment: Vacuous failures
15 August 1992
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How to mould an X-rated lolly
15 August 1992
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NASA at the end of its tether over reel problems
15 August 1992
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Green training
15 August 1992
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Focus: Sitting on a toxic time bomb - Thousands of homeowners across Britain do not know that their houses stand on land contaminated by previous use. New government plans could give them a shock
15 August 1992
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Rabbits blow whistle on radiation risk
15 August 1992
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Listeria epidemic still a mystery
15 August 1992
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Ethics lobby forces rethink on growth hormones
15 August 1992
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Norway's choice: whales or Europe
15 August 1992
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Tourism threatens Malaysia's marine park
15 August 1992
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Iraqis economical with nuclear truths
15 August 1992
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Will Russia open its secret cities?
15 August 1992
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The shape of TV to come?: Europe's electronics companies are desperate for consumers to start buying new widescreen TVs. But no one, especially the manufacturers, seems to know which technology to back
15 August 1992
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Another skirmish in the paper war
15 August 1992
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Letters: Busting ghosts
15 August 1992
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Letters: Busting ghosts
15 August 1992
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Letters: Busting ghosts
15 August 1992
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Letters: Comet concern
15 August 1992
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Letters: Water warrior
15 August 1992
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Letters: Physics flourishes
15 August 1992
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Letters: Move the mountain
15 August 1992
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Letters: Top quark
15 August 1992
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Letters: Freezing faster
15 August 1992
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Letters: It really hurts
15 August 1992
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Letters: Freezing faster
15 August 1992
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Letters: Character count
15 August 1992
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Feedback
15 August 1992
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Letters: Freezing faster
15 August 1992
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Letters: Freezing faster
15 August 1992
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Letters: Counting holes
15 August 1992
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Letters: Sexual discrepancy
15 August 1992
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Letters: Sexual discrepancy
15 August 1992
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Letters: Whalers lose
15 August 1992
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Letters: School support
15 August 1992
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Review: Infatuation and jealousy in the goose family
15 August 1992
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Review: More of the right stuff
15 August 1992
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Review: Population growth and the world's fate
15 August 1992
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Can exercise damage your health?
15 August 1992
Athletes who train hard seem unusually prone to illness. But the complexities of the immune system make it difficult to understand why
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High noon for solar neutrinos: Fewer neutrinos reach the Earth than particle physicists predict. Are their theories wrong or do we know less than we thought about the Sun?
15 August 1992
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The deadly cloud hanging over Cameroon: A lethal gas bubbled up from the bottom of Lake Nyos six years ago, killing thousands of people and livestock. Years of study have revealed why, but the risk of disaster remains
15 August 1992
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Technology: Snake worms its way into reactor's heart
15 August 1992
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Technology: Electric wind blows out fires
15 August 1992
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Review: Ecology made easier
15 August 1992
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Review: Love and the ordinary mind
15 August 1992
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Review: Under pressure at high altitudes
15 August 1992
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Letters: Cannibal quarrel
15 August 1992
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Letters: Cannibal quarrel
15 August 1992
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Thistle Diary: Squeky-clean submarines - Comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell
15 August 1992
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Letters: Whalers lose
15 August 1992
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Forum: What do you mean by that? - Ralph Estling suggests how we could stop going around in circles
15 August 1992
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Review: Jungle-bound children head off malaria
15 August 1992
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Forum: A babel of science - Martyn Ecott on the art and science of translation
15 August 1992
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Review: Catalyst loses its modesty and comes of age
15 August 1992
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It's daft to be square
01 August 1992
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Menace from tyres
01 August 1992
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Atomic currency
01 August 1992
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New nerves
01 August 1992
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Focus: A Wellcome injection of cash - The world's biggest medical charity is about to double its research budget. This new money will create an impact right across British science
01 August 1992
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Protein therapy 'stimulates antibodies'
01 August 1992
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Spreading east
01 August 1992
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Grains of sand
01 August 1992
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Law on paper
01 August 1992
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Britain cannot host fusion project
01 August 1992
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Science: Ringing the changes to make medicine easy to swallow
01 August 1992
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Science: Will Antartctic ozone bite the dust?
01 August 1992
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Science: Enzyme takes toxins out of the soil
01 August 1992
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Science: Planet hunters pin down distance of nearby star
01 August 1992
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Science: Parental inequality leads to damaged offspring
01 August 1992
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Milk warning
01 August 1992
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How the media set conference agenda
01 August 1992
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Funding levels out
01 August 1992
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AIDS workers in monkey virus scare
01 August 1992
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Comment: Nanny knows best?
01 August 1992
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Bill challenges secrecy over drug safety
01 August 1992
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Russian physicists give way to God
01 August 1992
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Darwinian program pinpoints pollution
01 August 1992
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Save a bug for biotechnology
01 August 1992
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Factories and traffic blamed for 'the hum'
01 August 1992
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Watchdog targets telephone abuse
01 August 1992
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Government adviser warns of cuts to come
01 August 1992
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Friendly apes
01 August 1992
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Genetic 'hoofprints' for harness horses
01 August 1992
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Fast-growing HIV strain may speed onset of AIDS
01 August 1992
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Berlin builds a second synchrotron
01 August 1992
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Abortions up as Russia runs out of condoms
01 August 1992
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Comment: Senseless ACT
01 August 1992
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Technology: Invisible hearing aid gives eardrums good vibrations
01 August 1992
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Technology: NHS computer project 'should be scrapped'
01 August 1992
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Review: Designer instruments survive the longest
01 August 1992
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Forum: Trouble down at t'Quadrat and Binoculars - Clive Bealey fears for the future of grass-roots environmentalists
01 August 1992
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Letters: Bright Brits
01 August 1992
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Thistle Diary: Priorities for research minsiter - Comment from Westminister by Tam Dalyell
01 August 1992
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Letters: Second leg needed
01 August 1992
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Letters: Bright Brits
01 August 1992
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Letters: Sperm competitors
01 August 1992
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Letters: Naughty birds
01 August 1992
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Letters: Wrong side
01 August 1992
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Letters: Floating feeling
01 August 1992
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Letters: Floating feeling
01 August 1992
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Feedback
01 August 1992
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Letters: Clever slant
01 August 1992
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Letters: Ravenous jaws
01 August 1992
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Forum: Something to get your teeth into - R. D. Bagnall looks at the curious dilemma that lies behind the success of amalgam
01 August 1992
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Review: I program, therefore I think
01 August 1992
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Review: Engineering change in a real world
01 August 1992
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Science: Method in the madness of lapwings
01 August 1992
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Science: The biggest mass extinction of them all?
01 August 1992
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Elephants and birth control
01 August 1992
Culling has been the only way of controlling the burgeoning elephant population in Africa's game reserves. Would birth control be an acceptable alternative?
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Technology: River robots raise the alarm on polluters
01 August 1992
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Technology: Cells and sponge support failing liver
01 August 1992
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Technology: Subtitles to order for films on video
01 August 1992
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Technology: Electric power from satellite on a string
01 August 1992
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Can science save its soul?: Some scientists have begun to talk confidently about understanding God and creation. They are crediting science with power it doesn't possess
01 August 1992
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The brains behind the brawn: Why does weight-training have such a profound effect on the human physique? The answer lies in the flexibility of the genes that program muscle fibres
01 August 1992
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On the right track: Athletics tracks can give runners and jumpers an unfair advantage. Barcelona has the first Olympic track with a surface designed to an international standard
01 August 1992
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Review: Classical ethology from the maestro's mob
01 August 1992
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A record for electronics: Never before has so much electronics technology been used at an Olympiad to monitor performances, record achievements and communicate with an audience of more than 3 billion
01 August 1992
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Review: Environmental running mate
01 August 1992
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Review: Locusts and chimpanzees: minds of their own
01 August 1992
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Poor equipment hampers research
01 August 1992