a report alleging that 20 per cent of assisted deaths in the Netherlands were carried out without the patient's

no more sleepiness: Modafinil, a drug that keeps people with debilitating sleepiness awake and attentive, has been approved by the US Food and Administrative Department (FDA). The drug will be

E mail is ready to go visual as the 21st century approaches

THE Dutch government inspectors have played down the health risks posed by chemicals released into an Amsterdam suburb following the 1992 crash of an El Al cargo plane. But the inspectors admit that

The Invention Promotion Company of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, has patented a flower garden that func- tions as a clock -a modem version of an idea cooked up by Linnaeus, the 18th-century Swedish

EUROPE's biotechnology patent laws are to be challenged by the Netherlands in the European Court. The case will restart a longstanding debate over the legitimacy of patenting biotech inventions

Redknot sandpipers use their pressure sensors to prey on buried clams

Scientists have developed a new class of magnetic material

After all these years, science finally creates superconducting transistors