Photocopied press cuttings, originally arranged in indexed sets for circulation by SERC (to Mar. 1994 only).

Includes cuttings on astronomy in general, science funding and policies, Glaxo pharmaceuticals, the Super-Janet computing network, semi-conductor research, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, an obituary for Stephen Waley, a doomsday notice issued by Sofia Richmond (Sister Marie Gabriel) predicting the collision of Halley’s Comet with Jupiter by mid-July 1994, the Daresbury Laboratory, the launch of a global ‘thermometer’ to detect climate change, artificial intelligence, coastal erosion, ‘supertag’ shopping scanners, the Mars Observer spacecraft, the successful repair of the Hubble Space Telescope, a breakthrough in detoxifying industrial waste, Chilbolton Observatory, the FELIX free electron laser at the Dutch Institute of Physics, robot security guards, Comet Shoemaker-Levi’s collision course towards Jupiter, quasars, the AIDS virus, road taxes, the appointment of Ken Pounds at PPARC, the Along Track Scanning Radiometer (ATSR), computer hacking, the chemistry of smell, matter, antimatter and the asymmetry of nature, telescopes in Tenerife, artificial bone, computer science developments, the world’s smallest car/nanotechnology, travel to Mars and developments 25 years after the Moon Landings, chip technology, Canada’s ‘Kaon Factory’ project, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, a feature on Jocelyn Bell Burnell, etc. Also includes transcripts of BBC World Service science features.