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The British government has made a muddle of its decision to prevent one electronics company from taking over another. It should pay more attention to what happens in the United States.
The notion that a periodic X-ray source may also be giving off streams of massive particles which are unknown from accelerator experiments is still, against the odds, alive.
Computer networking in the research laboratory is still a rarity. But growing demands for shared resources may prompt laboratories to make the connection . . . the question is when and how.
From data acquisition to manuscript submission, computers aid research every step of the way and the computers often jump in where their owners may fear to tread.
