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
Action 2000. the UK government's bug-swatting body, has concentrated its efforts on small and medium sized firms, saying that they are less aware of the Year 2000 problem, but quite capable of
The sun provides illumination for nothing. So, following the same principle, it ought to be possible to use ambient radio signals or background noise to help radar or sonar detect objects "passively"
As the world's fish stocks become increasingly depleted, long-range fishing fleets sail to ever more remote areas. Now New Zealand is trying to stop the plunder of one of the last great fishing
Although only 42,000 of them are left, and they are wards of the US government, the wild horses of the West can suffer miserable ends. Last month 34 mustangs were found shot to death in the
Canada has 20% of the world's fresh water supply, most of it in the Great Lakes, with the remainder pouring unchecked into three oceans. The United States, with one-tenth of Canada's fresh water, has
America's Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the organisation charged with making sure that drugs destined for American people are safe and effective, has just given its first formal approval for
The battlefields of the future may be enveloped by clouds of tiny spy-planes. American Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is sponsoring research into so-called micro air vehicles
Pollution is no respector of national boundaries. But meteorologists can still be surprised by the distances that large quantities of airborne crud are sometimes able to travel. The American
On December 14th, a meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology in San Francisco heard about some research that may eliminate one of the more pernicious effects of ageing-muscle wasting. The
Many people worry that there are too many Chinese. The real worry is that in future there will be too few : a
