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News: December 1998

Blood tests without needles

Jun 3, 1998

Physics loses out in UK budget

Dec 18, 1998

Highlights of the Year

Dec 21, 1998

Thomson scattering goes relativistic

Dec 18, 1998

Taking a closer look at "big G"

Dec 18, 1998

Science chooses accelerating universe as "Breakthrough of the Year"

Dec 18, 1998

Chaos and the arms race

Dec 4, 1998

UK schools to get robotic telescope

Dec 4, 1998

Scientists wobble over Earth's tilt

Dec 4, 1998

The force of acoustics

Dec 4, 1998