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 Prozac generation may be on to something after all. Research about to be published in the journal of Neuroscience by Jessica Malberg of Yale University and her colleagues suggest that
A meeting in London has destroyed the idea that AIDS was the accidental result of a polio-vaccination campaign conducted in the 1950s. But the disease' origins are still mysterious : a
Any disease that infects 150m people across the world might seem hard to overlook. But blinding trachoma, the bane of European immigrants to America a century ago, has largely disappeared from the
The lower house of the Dutch Parliament has passed a new law to allow euthanasia under certain circumstances. People over the age of 16 who suffer acute and unremitting pain may now arrange for
Theodore Andre Monod, a naturalist sage, died on November 22nd, aged 98. Long ago, long before the earth had acquired its hordes of friends, long before nations were blaming each other for destroying
A reviving Al Gore has a handy weapon to use against George Bush in Texas's environmental mess. In its bid to undermine George Bush's record as governor of Texas, the Gore campaign is painting a grim
Health care spending is everywhere on the increase. In 1948, it took 3% of gross world product;now, says a new report from the World Health Organisation, the figure is 7.9% and rising. That is
Average life expectancy has risen greatly. The span of individual life has not : a
Africa's forests are vanishing, but it now appears that far fewer trees are gone than was once thought. The reason is that there was not as many trees in the first place as most estimates suggest. In
Who says Russians are passive? In recent months their green movement has managed to collect at least 2.5m signatures in support of a referendum on two big eco-questions facing the country. One is the
