THE ongoing controversy in the us involving the Endangered Species Act (Down To Earth, Vol 4, No 5) has taken yet another turn. This time, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) has lit
One ofthe most controversial of scientific projects, Gravity Probe-B, has won the approval of an expert panel of the National Academy of Sciences. The project, proposed by Stanfora physicist
AFTER holding up obstinately Lrgainst a volley of criticism for 3 long months, the Russian government has finally buckled down and scrapped its plans of introducing a law which would require
A whole issue of the journal Annals ofMathematics is to be devoted to a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem, arguably the most famous of mathematical problems (Science, Vol 268, No 5214). The proof,
BIOTECHNOLOGY firms in Britain are extremely sore with the ministry of health. The statement issued by the new secretary of state for health, Stephen Dorrell, criticising the biotech companies'
GERMANY will build its nuclear research reactor at Munich's technical university even if it has to risk brickbats from the rest Of the world community. The us is particularly perturbed about