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A public debate last week between Stuart Kauffman and John Maynard Smith entertained a London audience but left the status of modelling in biology ill-defined.
This week focuses on laser optics. A whole spectrum of accoutrements including a HeNe laser, an optical design tool system, a particle sizer and personal densitometer.