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Opinion
Letters: November 2011
The presenter of the BBC Horizon programme which dealt with the safety of nuclear installations broadcast on 14 September was careful to avoid commitment but clearly implied that, based on the concept of tolerability of risk, the nuclear energy industry is as safe as any other of equal size ...
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Opinion
Editorial: Ig Nobel awards
The winners of the Ig Nobel awards were announced on 29 September
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Opinion
Good news for graphene
Political party conferences are not noted for taking much interest in science, says Philip Ball
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Opinion
Compounds in the dark
Derek Lowe discusses the compounds you can buy but won't see anywhere in the literature
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Opinion
Weissenberg's Camera
In so many societies, bread is the stuff of life the cornerstone of existence
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Opinion
Letters: October 2011
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) has recently announced worrying new policies, which many scientists believe will ’sound the death knell for fundamental scientific research in the UK’. One of the first two to be arbitrarily targeted with reduced funding is synthetic organic chemistry, a subject that is ...