Lock up your satellites

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Communications satellites could suffer significant damage from the Leonid meteor shower on Nov 17, 1998. Operators of commercial and scientific satellites in high orbits are making plans in case their equipment is damaged by the shower, which will be caused by a trail of dust left in the Earth's orbit from Comet Temple-Tuttle, which makes an elliptical orbit around the Sun. Quasi-governmental organization CRESTech in Canada has set up radar monitoring sites in Australia and Mongolia to monitor the storm.

Guided missiles and space vehicles, Communications Satellites, Guided Missile and Space Vehicle Manufacturing, Environmental aspects, Meteor streams, Maintenance and repair

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Butchers on the block in report on E.coli

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A report into the outbreak of E.coli 0157 food poisoning in Lanarkshire, Scotland, in Oct 1996 is due to be published shortly. This follows an investigation by professor Hugh Pennington, a leading microbiologist based at Aberdeen University. It is thought unlikely that the report will give specific details about the source of the outbreak, in which 18 people died. This has been criticised by a lawyer dealing with compensation claims for around 50 victims.

Investigations, Food poisoning

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The superconductor comes of age

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Latest developments in superconductor technology are discussed. Researchers at the Dept of Physics at Aoyama-Gakuin University in Tokyo, Japan, have developed a superconductor with a critical temperature, below which it loses all resistance, of only 39K.

Semiconductors and related devices, Semiconductor and Related Device Manufacturing, Superconductive Devices, Research, Superconductors, Superconducting devices

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