What can you do with a missile designer?: Russian scientists working in military research were an elite, pampered corps. Now they are struggling to adapt and survive.
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Fear and laughter in the Kremlin: Soviet strategists dismissed Star Wars as technical nonsense, but they knew it could undermine delicate negotiations to control the spread of nuclear weapons
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Fusion at a pinch: Researchers at Imperial College arereopening a forsaken route to nuclear fusion – using DIY and help fromGroucho, Chico, Harpo and Zeppo
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Review: Square meals for information scavengers
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Review: Jungle-bound children head off malaria
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Review: An ideal home for American science
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Review: First rule of structural engineers
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Review: Chernobyl - Insight From The Inside
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Bridge design stretched to the limits: Cable-stayed bridges are a type of suspended crossing. Spare but functional, they exploit a form of bridge engineering that is bringing down the cost of progressively longer crossings
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Review: Better described as a 'great uncle'
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Review: Power failure
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