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The British government's penchant for sudden reorganization is plainly matched by its capacity instantly to formulate goals for research and to choose snappy titles for them, but when will it learn to think what it is doing?
A new calculation makes it likely that Type la supernovae will be more useful standard candles for estimating the distance scale of the Universe, but discordance is unlikely to be banished soon.
Tunable optical parametric generators, an expanded range of high-temperature tube furnaces, a new class of fibre optic instruments and a protein fingerprinting system are but a few examples of new equipment available for the laboratory.
