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Computers weave a new fashion: Textile manufacturers no longer need so many artists to create their wares. Computers are cutting corners in the design process
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Particle detectors come out of the laboratory: There is more to a particle physicist than a theoretician working on fundamental research with no practical use. Many are skilled inventors who have developed new kinds of technology that is benefiting indus
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Molecular clocks run out of time: The theory that we can date the birth of new species by charting the steady accumulation of mutations over evolutionary time is in serious trouble
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Home thoughts from abroad: Oh, to be in Britain! Many of the scientists who have left for Europe and the US would like to come back. First, they told Mrs Thatcher this week, they need to feel wanted
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Technology: Japan flexes its artificial muscles in the search for new treatments
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Technology: Texas finds fresh fibres for tomorrow's news
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Technology: Civilians outgunned in race to optical processing
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Technology: Rival company takes a broader view
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Technology: Smart cards hold the key to the scrambled satellite picture
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Technology: The starchiest plastic that leaves no trace
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Technology: Oceanographers make a noise to test the water
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Science: Astronomers witness the birth of quasar twins
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Science: Population 'bottlenecks' enhance a species' genetic resources
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Science: Organic superconductors begin to show promise
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Science: Transplanted eggs can create ovaries
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Science: Sulphur pools on Earth give clues about Jupiter's volcanic moon
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Science: Erratic pulsar is quaking at its core
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Ministers accused of lax attitude to contaminated land
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East-West cooperation
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Loire reprieve
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Secret AIDS unit shut
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So long, suckers: it's flatworms' turn
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Wrong skull
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Rice genome
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Radioactive erosion
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HIV estimates down
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Biotechnology call
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Methanol use in Brazilian cars 'would endanger health'
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East-West cable snagged by technology embargo
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Hello? Is there anyone out there?
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Brussels under pressure as Germany fights to keep pollutant
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MPs frustrated by sewage scientists' fallout over outfalls
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Drugs giant takes over Genentech
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NASA moves to defuse space station row
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Bush rejects scientists' call for action on global warming
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Five-year wait predicted for genome project
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Pretoria reforms raise hopes on science links
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We won't return until you pay more, say scientists
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Crisis looms for science as teenagers abandon higher education
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Gene test for cystic fibrosis sparks off screening debate
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Inside the AIDS virus
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Computers weave a new fashion: Textile manufacturers no longer need so many artists to create their wares. Computers are cutting corners in the design process
Features
Particle detectors come out of the laboratory: There is more to a particle physicist than a theoretician working on fundamental research with no practical use. Many are skilled inventors who have developed new kinds of technology that is benefiting indus
Features
Molecular clocks run out of time: The theory that we can date the birth of new species by charting the steady accumulation of mutations over evolutionary time is in serious trouble
Features
Home thoughts from abroad: Oh, to be in Britain! Many of the scientists who have left for Europe and the US would like to come back. First, they told Mrs Thatcher this week, they need to feel wanted
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Forum: Never say die - Why are doctors so reluctant to admit defeat?
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Forum: A year in a thousand - The debate about when the millennium ends
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Thistle Diary - More Comment from Westminster: Crime, cars and vanishing hedgerows
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In the name of science / Review of 'Lyndon LaRouche and The New American Fascism' by Dennis King
Books & Arts
Many faces of Eve's daughters and sons / Review of 'Subpersonalities' by John Rowan
Books & Arts
Unearthly sciences / Review of 'Planetary Geosciences 1988' edited by Maria Zuber
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A brewer's tale / Review of 'James Joule: A Biography' by Donald S L Cardwell
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Forum: Where do we go from here? - The break-up of the Nature Conservancy Council
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Forum: Western idealism; Third World pragmatism - Reconcile Western scientific thought with the needs of developing countries
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What dark matter means to us / Review of 'The Stuff of the Universe*' by John Gribbin and Martin Rees
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Rocky dwarfs and gassy giants
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