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Published online 27 February 2002 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news020225-3
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COLD safer than HOT
New theory shows that high performance needn't mean high risk.
For man-made systems such as machines and markets, catastrophe lurks somewhere between high risk and high performance. US physicists may have found a way to strike the optimal balance1.
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