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Physics News Update
Number 130 (Story #4), May 27, 1993 by Phillip F. Schewe and Ben Stein

THE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING RESEARCH COUNCIL (SERC), Britain's highest science governing body, is to be replaced by several specialized councils, including those for engineering and physical sciences, particle physics and astronomy, and biotechnology and biological sciences. Another component of the British government's reorganization of research will be a major campaign for promoting a greater public understanding of science. (For more information, contact Simon Mitton: sam11@phx.cam.ac.uk)