On October 25th, if all goes well, NASA, America's space agency, will launch the first in a series of unmanned spacecraft intended to do something it has rarely done before-test new technological
Environmental campaigners are becoming more vocal in arguing that world trade is already too free for the planet's good. And if they are cross about NAFTA, they are hopping mad about the WTO. They
After two years and $250m in exploration costs, a Shell/Mobil consortium has told Peru that it will not go ahead with developing Peru's huge Camisea gas field. The big trouble was the role the
A new quick method for identifying mutants is based on a simple premise : the proteins that a mutant strain produces do not weigh the same as those made by the original virus. The study was
Genetic engineering of trees has been slow to grow. One reason being money, according to Ron Sederoff, director of the Forest Biotechnology group at North Carolina State University and head of a
Gene mapping is useful against all sorts of pests-including tree thieves. Eleanor White, a researcher at the Canadian Forest Service in Victoria, British Columbia, has borrowed from forensic science
The city of Kurchatov in northern Kazakhstan are facing the consequences of nuclear testing. Between 1949 and 1989, 470 nuclear tests were carried out at Semipalatinsk. Until 1962 the tests were on
Environmental approval has been granted for $300m park for Manhattan, to be developed by the Hudson River Park Conservancy. Unless disgruntled locals can stop the project, ground-breaking will begin
The debate surronding the proposed use of statistical sampling in the 2000 census in US has become so heated that the integrity of the entire process has been called into question. There is now a
