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
The planet Mars has claimed another victim. After days of trying to make contact with Mars Polar Lander, an unmanned probe that was supposed to have touched down near the planet's south pole on
In order to power tomorrow's cars, researchers are scrambling to exploit the hydrogen-absorbing properties of carbon. Nobody really knows why carbon nano materials are good at storing hydrogen.
Two months ago more than 1,500 fishermen and farmers occupied the Pak Mun hydroelectric dam in the rural north-east of Thailand. A group of protestors also took over another big dam in the area.All
The race to complete the sequence of the human genome is entering the home straight. Unfortunately, the competitors still cannot agree on what the winner will be allowed to do with the
On November 29th and 30th, David Anderson, Canada's environment minister and his ten provincial counterparts, whose governments jointly own nearly all the country's water, met to discuss water
Astronomers have already discovered dozens of giant planets orbiting other stars. Now they are developing the techniques needed to detect little ones : a
The saga of Steve Dibbs' wetland tell two stories : first, how cumbersome America's environmental protection laws can be, and second, how niftily a new idea, wetland "mitigation", can help people get
In Biology, symmetry is generally regarded as desirbale. There are many reasons for this. In animal species, symmetrical individuals are preferred as mates. Another reason being that if you are
In a recent issue of Physical Review Letters, Dr George Welch and his colleagues describe how to slow light down from 300m metres per second to a mere 90 metres per second by sending it through a hot
One of the nastiest legacies of Soviet rule in the remote and sparsely populated Central Asian republic of Kazakhstan is the lingering remains of the sites used for the testing of nuclear and
