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What can you do with a missile designer?: Russian scientists working in military research were an elite, pampered corps. Now they are struggling to adapt and survive.
News
Fear and laughter in the Kremlin: Soviet strategists dismissed Star Wars as technical nonsense, but they knew it could undermine delicate negotiations to control the spread of nuclear weapons
Features
Fusion at a pinch: Researchers at Imperial College arereopening a forsaken route to nuclear fusion – using DIY and help fromGroucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo
Features
Review: Square meals for information scavengers
Books & Arts
Review: Jungle-bound children head off malaria
Books & Arts
Review: An ideal home for American science
Books & Arts
Review: First rule of structural engineers
Books & Arts
Review: Chernobyl – Insight From The Inside
Books & Arts
Books
Books & Arts
Bridge design stretched to the limits: Cable-stayed bridges are a type of suspended crossing. Spare but functional, they exploit a form of bridge engineering that is bringing down the cost of progressively longer crossings
Features
Review: Better described as a ‘great uncle’
Books & Arts
Review: Power failure
Books & Arts