In 1931, the telecommunication industry inadvertently gave birth to the new science of radio astronomy. Karl Jansky, an engineer at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey, was using an array of
The most recent figures released by the British government on the latest tally of deaths from new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease (nvCJD), the human form of mad cow disease released on April
Beijing residents have known for years that their air is foul. The rest of the world knows about it too. Beijing has appeared at or near the top of several surveys of polluted cities conducted in
For the past four years, Colombia's anti-drugs police, backed by the United States, have tried to eradicate coca-growing in its southern jungles. Chemicals are being sprayed to eradicate the crop.
According to research published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Johanna Bjorkman, Diarmaid Hughes and Dan Andersson, biologists at Uppsala University and the Swedish Institute
America is restructuring its electricity supply business on the hoof. At the end of March, California is scheduled to open its entire market to all comers: altogether 46 states have similar plans.
In late February the National Fisheries Service of United States said that several species of salmon that live in Washington state may be about to be listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA),
There is one deadline that cannot be put off: Unless computers are fixed in the meantime, millions of equipment and other pieces of electronic equipment will go haywire at midnight on the last day of
