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Britain is a glutton for the reorganization of its research enterprise. There have been two major upheavals in the past 30 years, in the early 1960s and in 1972. Soon there will be a third.
Was light from the primaeval Sun the agent of the differentiation of the planets as we know them? The density was probably too great for ordinary radiation pressure to suffice, but there are ways around that difficulty.
Making a splash this week — a technical presentation graphics package, a plasmid drawing program, a troubleshooting program for HPLC, molecular modelling software and data acquisition products.