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Everybody approves of the public understanding of science, and next week's meeting of the British Association should help to put the responsibility where it lies, on the scientific community.
The latest measurement of the gravitational constant does not improve the precision with which this important quantity is known. Is there a more radical approach?
To coincide with the Third European Congress on Biotechnology, we feature here twenty five new products of interest to the biotechnologist, including a new range of purified antibodies