Issue 1935 | Magazine cover date: 23 July 1994

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23 July 1994

Issue 1935

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When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

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Technology: Are science parks virtually dead?

Opinion

Publishing and perishing

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When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

Features

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

Features

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

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Technology

Technology: Are science parks virtually dead?

Successful trials of a communications system devised at the University of Leeds could signal the end of the fashionionable science parks in which academic researchers work side by side with high-tech businesses. What the Leeds researchers call a Virtual Science Park will allow researchers at the university to keep in constant contact with colleagues in …

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Technology

Technology: CD drives fail video standards test

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Technology: Water jet puts surgeons at the cutting edge

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Science: How New England laid vampires to rest

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Science: Dark stars come closer to home

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Science: Honeybees iron out their directional problems

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Technology: US viewers prefer video-on-demand

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Technology: Drug makers get a kick from bugs that like cocaine

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Technology: Robot repair gangs for America's highways

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Technology: Bacterial infections wiped out in a flash

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Technology: Earthworms breathe life into derelict land

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Science: Diabetes epidemic strikes Pacific islanders

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Science: Taking the temperature of T rex

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Pacific winds of change predict African harvest

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US loosens laws for testing modified pest killers

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Smuggled plutonium

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Appeal fails

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Snack pack that baffles bears

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Keep it casual

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Fossil fund

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TV compromise

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The Midas Touch: An elite corps of researchers funded by a single institute is stealing the limelight in biomedicine

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Sperm injections 'too risky'

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Birds lose place in the shade

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Clues lost when children's medical records are discarded

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Can poison save Pitcairn petrel?

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France wins fight for HIV royalties

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By Jupiter . . . what a performance

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Women sue over painful implants

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Satellite guard on nuclear fuel

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There's money in space for Australia

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Cancer cells ignore death order

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When love is nothing but a catastrophe. . .

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Opinion

Publishing and perishing

AUSTRALIAN science is starting to wilt under government pressure to become more productive. That is the inescapable conclusion from two recent studies - one, by the Carnegie Foundation in the US, sampled the mood of Australian academics; the other, by Paul Bourke and Linda Butler of the Australian National University, looked at the impact of …

Opinion

Comment: Noxious fumes

Opinion

Comment: Centre of excellence

Opinion

Features

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

Debates about the psychology of memory are normally the stuff of arid academic texts. But throw in accusations of child abuse, costly court cases pitting children against parents and controversial psychotherapy techniques aimed at 'recovering' supposedly long-repressed memories, and you have a feast fit for the pages of colour supplements. All this, however, has left …

Features

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

Features

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

Features

Review: Beside the seaside, beside the sea

Sea Breeze and Local Wind by John E. Simpson, Cambridge University Press, pp 234, £29.95/ dollars 39.93 For the most part meteorological books concentrate on the large-scale features of the weather. But, in the real world, local factors can exert an appreciable influence on the conditions we experience. While many textbooks cover aspects of local …

Books & Arts

Review: Darwin at Walden

Books & Arts

Review: The right stuff on the Moon

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Review: Saving fossils from the Philistines

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Forum: When Bernal got plastered with Picasso . . . - the resulting work of art became a historical souvenir well worth saving

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Review: Fins and blazing paddles

Books & Arts

Review: Paradigms are not the only answer

Books & Arts

Thistle Diary: Chernobyl churn-up - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum

Forum: Popping the right eco-questions - Peter Holway goes in search of some efficient queries

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Review: How to build on disasters

Books & Arts

Review: The making of herbal myths

Books & Arts

Regulars

Feedback

In recent weeks there has been much swooning around the 51�� office over the sight of Feedback's legs. Yes, readers, the shorts have been taken out of the cupboard, the knees are on show - and it's time for the Feedback Summer Competition. This year, readers are invited to submit 'backronyms' for institutions, processes, …

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This week's magazine

23 July 1994

On the cover

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

Table of contents

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Technology

Technology: Are science parks virtually dead?

Technology

Technology: CD drives fail video standards test

Technology

Technology: Water jet puts surgeons at the cutting edge

Science: How New England laid vampires to rest

Science: Dark stars come closer to home

Science: Honeybees iron out their directional problems

Technology

Technology: US viewers prefer video-on-demand

Technology

Technology: Drug makers get a kick from bugs that like cocaine

Technology

Technology: Robot repair gangs for America's highways

Technology

Technology: Bacterial infections wiped out in a flash

Technology

Technology: Earthworms breathe life into derelict land

Science: Diabetes epidemic strikes Pacific islanders

Science: Taking the temperature of T rex

Pacific winds of change predict African harvest

US loosens laws for testing modified pest killers

Smuggled plutonium

Appeal fails

Snack pack that baffles bears

Keep it casual

Fossil fund

TV compromise

The Midas Touch: An elite corps of researchers funded by a single institute is stealing the limelight in biomedicine

Sperm injections 'too risky'

Birds lose place in the shade

Clues lost when children's medical records are discarded

Can poison save Pitcairn petrel?

France wins fight for HIV royalties

By Jupiter . . . what a performance

Women sue over painful implants

Satellite guard on nuclear fuel

There's money in space for Australia

Cancer cells ignore death order

When love is nothing but a catastrophe. . .

Opinion

Publishing and perishing

Comment: Noxious fumes

Comment: Centre of excellence

Features

When memory plays us false: Psychotherapy depends on retrieving painful memories of childhood. But as Bob Holmes discovered, the way we store information may make those memories suspect - and open to suggestion

Let mind talk: Why should showing feelings and sleep be good for your immune system, while stress and insomnia are bad?

Plundering the final frontier: If space has a future, it is much more likely to be driven by commercial expolitation than scientific exploration

More

Review: Beside the seaside, beside the sea

Review: Darwin at Walden

Review: The right stuff on the Moon

Review: Saving fossils from the Philistines

Forum: When Bernal got plastered with Picasso . . . - the resulting work of art became a historical souvenir well worth saving

Review: Fins and blazing paddles

Review: Paradigms are not the only answer

Thistle Diary: Chernobyl churn-up - More comment from Westminster by Tam Dalyell

Forum: Popping the right eco-questions - Peter Holway goes in search of some efficient queries

Review: How to build on disasters

Review: The making of herbal myths

Regulars

Feedback

Regulars

Letters

Regulars

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