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Colin Norman reports from Washington on the continuing discussions about genetic manipulation experiments in the United States

Colin Norman reports from Washington on a growing dispute involving overhead costs associated with government-funded academic research

Alastair Hay updates developments since the Seveso disaster in northern Italy last year

Miles Reid, Royal Society Visiting Fellow in the Department of Mathematics at Tokyo University and Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge, writes an open letter to scientists interested in maintaining and improving contacts with their Soviet colleagues

Alwyn Eades, recently in Chile, assesses the state of the physical sciences there

Peter Pockley reports from Sydney on Australia's data collecting project for research expenditure

As America freezes energy matters grow more important. Colin Norman reports from Washington on the continuing search for an energy policy

Alexander Dorozynski reports from France on the nuclear power debate there

Leslie Shepherd assesses the contribution nuclear fission can make to the energy requirements of the next 50 years

A long-awaited bill on governmental organisation of scientific activities was finally presented to the Canadian Parliament shortly before Christmas. David Spurgeon reports from Ottawa.

Robert Orr Whyte examines the prospects for reclamation of an important natural resource

J. Tuzo Wilson, Director General of the Ontario Science Centre in Toronto, argues the case for a return from growth to stability