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HOW many pieces of scientific research have been embraced by Hollywood film-makers? Probably fewer than should have been, but perhaps more than we might have expected. Older readers may remember The Poseidon Adventure, a 1972 disaster movie in which an ocean liner is capsized by a monster wave. In our , we warned that such waves, though poorly understood, were certainly more common than had been thought. 鈥淜iller waves鈥�, we reported, were more likely at the continental edge where the sea-floor topography suddenly rises more steeply. We surmised that the loss of the SS Waratah off South Africa in 1909 could be explained by such a wave.

More movie science, sort of, in our . James Bond鈥檚 Q would no doubt have been delighted to read that the world鈥檚 smallest video camera had been released by Toshiba. It was, we announced excitedly, 鈥渢he size of your thumb鈥� and you would be able to view the images on a 鈥渂ig-screen display鈥�. Most of us now have cameras a fraction of the size in our phones, and carry the viewing screen around within the same piece of hardware.

It is practically compulsory for just about every shoot-鈥檈m-up movie nowadays, but that red dot the bad guy sees on his jacket just before the cops dispatch him with a hail of bullets was worthy of its own news story in 1995. 鈥淏eware the red spot, warn New York鈥檚 finest鈥� was the headline in our 14 January edition. For the first time, police patrolling the subway would have laser technology to pick out a felon in the gloom, using sights that made aiming in the dark a safer prospect. Unless, of course, you were a criminal and the red dot suddenly appeared in the middle of your chest.