Making sure that a medicine works only in the right part of the body is tricky. Using drugs that must be illuminated to become active might be the solution : a
If Article 299A of Senegal's penal code were fully applied, some 1m-2m Senegalese would go to jail. The amendment, which parliament passed last month, makes it a crime to carry out female genital
Action 2000. the UK government's bug-swatting body, has concentrated its efforts on small and medium sized firms, saying that they are less aware of the Year 2000 problem, but quite capable of
The sun provides illumination for nothing. So, following the same principle, it ought to be possible to use ambient radio signals or background noise to help radar or sonar detect objects "passively"
As the world's fish stocks become increasingly depleted, long-range fishing fleets sail to ever more remote areas. Now New Zealand is trying to stop the plunder of one of the last great fishing
A paper just published in Nature says that AIDS spread to people from chimpanzees in equatorial Africa. This result comes as little surprise. It has been known for years that HIV-1 is, in effect,
Although only 42,000 of them are left, and they are wards of the US government, the wild horses of the West can suffer miserable ends. Last month 34 mustangs were found shot to death in the
Canada has 20% of the world's fresh water supply, most of it in the Great Lakes, with the remainder pouring unchecked into three oceans. The United States, with one-tenth of Canada's fresh water, has
America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the organisation charged with making sure that drugs destined for American people are safe and effective, has just given its first formal approval for
