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Next week's meeting of European science ministers at Paris is unlikely to accomplish much, but at least it makes a start on the improvement of science collaboration. Where next?
A recent demonstration that a classical problem in brownian motion belies Dirac's relativistic equations of quantum mechanics is a reminder of many things that students should be taught.