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How safe will the Channel Tunnel be? Money is tight on the project to build a tunnel under the Channel that separates England and France. Some experts fear that this financial crisis, and the secrecy it has engendered, means that safety standards for tra

The cost of keeping up with the competition

One last chance for Britain’s lead in light: Research into harnessing optics to electronics has been hauled back from the brink. But industry fears that the government could let the opportunity to exploit optoelectronics slip away

Tumours in the neutron trap: Since the 1930s, medicalresearchers have struggled to find a successful way of treating cancer withneutrons. A technique that uses boron compounds to capture neutrons insidebrain tumours could be the answer they’ve been waitin

Prescribing all the way to the bank: Hard science and high capitalism meet in the pharmaceuticals industry – creating a heady mix of high-powered research, sophisticated sales techniques, creative accountancy and takeover deals

Recipes for fish with rice: Thai farmers who are too poor to buy pesticides and fertilisers find that fish thrive in their uncontaminated rice fields, and help to increase the yield of rice

Jungle law in Thailand’s forests

The chaotic rhythms of life: In the 1970s, populationbiologists helped to launch the theory of chaos. Now it seems that manyaspects of life are probably chaotic. But the problem is that they are alsodifficult to study

Chaos and high winds across the planet

A weather eye on unpredictability: Much of chaos theory came from trying to understand how the Earth’s atmosphere behaves. Now, meteorologists are using chaos to assess how reliable climate and weather forecasts are

Turbulent times for fluids

Keep up, catch up or give up: can coral reefs keep pace?

Earth

Gone with the waves

A dam disaster waiting to break: The water stored behind a dam is a potential hazard for people living downstream of the reservoir, in towns and cities as well as out in the country. When the next dam fails, most countries have no plans to cope with the