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
According to Thomas Perls, the director of the New England Centenarian study at Harvard University, dying at 100 is qualitively different from dying at 80. Dr Perls's research suggests that for the
The use and abuse of the environment is a complex matter, especially in the vast but fragile Amazon rainforest. Logging, mining and large scale agriculture have been important sources of jobs and
More cars, more houses. Official predictions suggest that Britain faces a future of rising congestion and pollution as more countryside disappears under concrete and tarmac : a
ZymeTx, a biotechnology company has developed, and recently obtained official approval for, a kit that can tell whether your sore throat and running nose really are the result of a virus or whether
In a quixotic effort to save the leopard and other Arabian species from extinction, the region's first ever Breeding Centre for Endangered Wildlife is set to open in Sharjah in the United Arab
Like Popeye eating cans of spinach, soldiers of the near future will dine on special food that makes them fighting fit-at least according to a report by America's National Research Council. The
America's complicated argument about stem-cell research could be a forerunner of bigger fights to come. The stem cell issue, the first to divide publicly members of the Mr Bush's government, dates
Two years ago the US National Park Service (NPS) announced that it would phase out snowmobile use in 27 national parks by 2004. Snowmobile manufacturers appealed against the decision, claiming the
A new set of ethical indices was launched on 10th July by FTSE, jointly owned by the Financial Times and the London Stock Exchange, to begin trading at the end of the month. More than 1,600 listed
To err is human, but getting medical professionals to own up to such frailty is far from easy. At Bristol Royal Infirmary, between 1984 and 1995, more than 90 babies were injured or died during open
