And they are exacerbated by bad management, says Simon Long AS IT SCOURS the universe for signs of extraterrestrial life, NASA has a motto-cum-mission-statement: “Follow the water”. About 70% of the human
Dr Alexandros Frantzis of the University of Athens reseach suggests that whales suffer from "collateral damage" from the use of sonar by the world's navies. Such damage has long been suspected, since
In the space of a few years, the HMO has revolutionised America's health care system. In many ways, the new regime is a great success. The trouble is patients seem to hate it : a
UN officials say that Iraqi children are dying as a result of poor health care, nutrition and sanitation. The UN's children agency believes a third of all children under five are chronically
Object oriented programming is taking over the writing of much computer software. Its next conquest could be the database industry : a
The forests are ablaze again in East Kalimantan, part of Indonesian Borneo. As a result, the poisonous smog which cloaked a large area of South East Asia last year may return sooner than had been
Although El Nino reappears regularly, it has never caused such damage to the United States. For some weeks now, severe rain storms have been battering California. Tornadoes ravaged several countries
Though people have raised fish in artificial ponds for millennia, it is only once since the 1960s that the pratice has been extended to shrimp. And farming these crustaceans has rapidly become big
All over the world, railways are reviving thanks to technology, deregulation and road congestion. Another day of the train may be dawning : a
While new infections with HIV, continues to fall in neighbouring Uganda, the figures in Kenya just keep mounting up. The government estimates that around 8% of the country's adult population has HIV.
In 1959 a man living in Congo gave a blood sample to some American doctors who were studying human genetics. When they had finished with it, instead of dropping it in a rubbish bin the doctors put it
