Physics
A quantum revolution for computing
Features
This week's magazine
24 September 1994
Issue 1944
Editor's picks
Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.
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Greening the heart of England: An ambitious scheme to recreate the forests that once covered Britain is under siege. Pressure is mounting, says Fred Pearce, to use it for environmentally destructive activities
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Table of contents
News
Patent row splits breast cancer researchers.
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Growth drug falls short
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Roll up for the flexible transistor
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Oil spill damages set at billions
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Seal breeding plan hits the rocks
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Europe’s research ‘gold mine’ is opened up
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Americans make logs from a skip-full of dollars
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How not to get lost in space
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Levy to conserve cash for health service R&D
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Simple ‘spelling error’ to blame for dwarfism
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Was it arsenic that did for old Boney?
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The fat, hairy women of Pompeii
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Recycling paper goes easy on the bleach
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Probes approved
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No solar pole
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Sizewell gears up
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Breast exercise
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Last call?
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Whirlwind reaps a corn circle?
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Indian plague
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Hard sell for particle physics?: The killing off the superconducting Supercollider sent shock waves through particle physicics. Now researchers face a dilemma: should they expect governments to give them money to answer the fundamental questions about th
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Science: Bathroom tiling to drive you mad
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Science: Prehistoric prey met death through a keyhole
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Science: Designer teepees for Panamanian bats
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Science: Crystal clear way to better clotbusters
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Science: The long and the short of discouraging gulls
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Technology
Technology: Superconductors move into mobiles
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Technology
Technology: Namibians who live in glass houses . . .
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Technology
Technology: A brighter ghost in the machine
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Technology
Technology: Spacecraft designers reinvent the wheel
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Technology
Technology: This won’t hurt . . . at all
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Technology
Technology: Britain in DAB hand at digital
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Patents: Burning issue
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Patents: Tune in, drive on
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Patents: Hip replacement
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Patents: High flyers
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Patents: Jelly bullets
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Patents: Don’t go broke with brokers
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Features
Physics
A quantum revolution for computing
By harnessing the bizarre properties of the quantum world, physicists believe they could construct a computer with undreamt-of power. Julian Brown explains how it might be done
Features
Cotton without chemicals: Fashion designers are making organic cotton a selling point. Jasper Pleydell-Bouverie reports on the problems facing growers as they try to met the demand.
Features
Greening the heart of England: An ambitious scheme to recreate the forests that once covered Britain is under siege. Pressure is mounting, says Fred Pearce, to use it for environmentally destructive activities
Features
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