By studying these deposits, scientists have deduced that the value of alpha during the ancient nuclear reactions was the same as it is today.

ECONOMIST: Fundamental physics

By studying these clouds from every angle and at every point in their life cycle, researchers hope to learn more about how these storms, which can drive air more than 13km above the Earth's surface, will contribute to climate change in a warming environment.

ECONOMIST: Climatology

The transposon discovery won McClintock the Nobel Prize in 1983, but until very recently none of these genetic tools could be used by scientists studying mammals.

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Marion Petrie and her colleagues at the University of Newcastle and the University of Sheffield tackled this question by studying a couple of hundred of these flighty creatures strutting their stuff at an animal park at Whipsnade, near London.

ECONOMIST: Team players

The process of recreating these ballets involves not only studying the original materials left by the choreographers and designers, but a wealth of detail in contemporary newspapers, drawings, diaries, letters and personal recollections.

ECONOMIST: Dance

Some of the money obtained by selling licences to catch these squid has found its way back to researchers who are studying the squids' life cycles, so as to exploit them efficiently without exterminating them.

ECONOMIST: Conservation in the Falkland Islands

And when the quartet was joined for the Mendelssohn by four equally youthful members of Ensemble39 two still studying at the Curtis these eight musicians bespoke the level of artistry being fostered in that venerable Philadelphia conservatory.

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These employees have been indicted by a grand jury for theft of trade secrets, but the Department of Justice is studying the Lockheed affair with a view to further criminal proceedings, which might involve other Boeing managers.

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