Licensed to thrill: Human frailty rather than engineering expertise, it seems, limits the design of modern rollercoasters. But they are still becoming bigger and more daring
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Not all fun at the fair: Many people face serious injury at funfairs this bank holiday weekend. The government’s safety inspectors want tougher rules to control the way fairground equipment is designed to thrill
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A trip into the unknown
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Trees to fuel Africa’s fires
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Surveying the options: Can a nation’s mappers do a proper job without government support? David Rhind thought they could, but that was before he became the head of the Ordnance Survey
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Table of contents
News
Privatisation costs jobs at technology group
News
Meteorite shakes Dutch province
News
Caring for those who suffer for their art
News
Boost for safer paracetamol
News
Cheap TB drug ‘too dangerous’ for Africa
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Japan buys into gene project
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Plutonium ship secretly sets sail for Europe
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US colleges wary of software battle
News
Coffins lift the lid on atmospheric change
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Museum audit
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Fungus foragers threaten forests
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Industrial research slumps in eastern Germany
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Japan takes stock of its technology gap
News
Foresters pass sentence on grey squirrel
News
Is government funding harming Britain’s research?
News
Medical research suffers rigor mortis
News
Public seal of approval for science
News
Making waves in the North Atlantic
News
Swan song for the neglected dolphin
News
Parasitic proteins provide the key to malaria vaccine
News
Technical fixes ’cause poverty and hunger’
News
Memory jogger
News
Saxon boat builders on the right tack
News
Focus: Return to Turtle Bay – Four-fifths of the Mediterranean’s loggerhead turtles lay their eggs on one Greek beach – but for how much longer?
News
Science: Mollusc menace unmasked
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Science: The darkest galaxy cluster of all
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Science: Quiet! Toxic chemicals at work
News
Environment
Science: Some baboons like it wet. . .
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Science: Planet proves to be mere mirage
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Science: Early vertebrates given new teeth
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Science: Riddle of the ‘time wanderer’
News
Science: Do birds get hooked on hand-outs?
News
Technology
Technology: Battery mower cuts down on pollution
News
Technology
Technology: Faults highlight problems of nuclear software
News
Technology
Technology: Speedy sledge offers retreat from storms
News
Technology
Technology: Fridge reprieved
News
Technology
Technology: MRS makes memories from spare parts
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Technology
Technology: Tyres in inferno yield oil and gas
News
Technology
Technology: How Doctor Who was rescued from oblivion
News
Patents: Big screen discs
News
Patents: Patents Information
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Patents: Viewers in view
News
Patents: Irish give continental coverage
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Patents: Beating the bends
News
Patents: Self-destructing data
News
Opinion
Features
Licensed to thrill: Human frailty rather than engineering expertise, it seems, limits the design of modern rollercoasters. But they are still becoming bigger and more daring
Features
Not all fun at the fair: Many people face serious injury at funfairs this bank holiday weekend. The government’s safety inspectors want tougher rules to control the way fairground equipment is designed to thrill
Features
A trip into the unknown
Features
Trees to fuel Africa’s fires
Features
Surveying the options: Can a nation’s mappers do a proper job without government support? David Rhind thought they could, but that was before he became the head of the Ordnance Survey
Features
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Review: Down to earth in Africa
Books & Arts
Review: Atlantis lost from our sight again
Books & Arts
Review: Third World takes the heat
Books & Arts
Review: Every child a wanted child
Books & Arts
Review: How to view in future
Books & Arts
Review: Public views of biotechnology
Books & Arts
Review: Moving data mountains made easy
Books & Arts
Review: The theory of cleaning
Books & Arts
