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Technology: Fibre optics lie in wait to catch overburdened axles
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Dissatisfaction grows over revolutionary telescope
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Forum: Quicker by phone? – Mourning the demise of the telegram
Technology
Technology: Crushable steering wheels save face in crashing cars
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Tougher flasks needed to fly radioactive material
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Trains that go pop in the dark: Trains generate pressure waves in tunnels that can cause passengers’ ears to pop – Railway authorities in Europe have started to seal the carriages for comfort at high speed
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Slow going for British tunnellers under the Channel
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