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Before Italy's latest government crisis, the then Minister for Research, Sr Mario Pedini, forecast that 1976 would be the turning point for Italian science. Gillian Boucher reports.
An aggressive energy conservation programme would enable the United States to meet all its energy requirements for the next 25 years without recourse to environmentally destructive new sources of supply, according to a provocative study published this week. Colin Norman reports from Washington.
As progress falters in the drawn-out second round of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), concern is also growing about the implications of large-scale environmental warfare. But popular attention is often diverted away from both the true state of present technological developments and the strategically valueless damage which the military use of existing techniques has already done. From Stockholm, Wendy Barnaby reports.
The Geneva-based European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN), in which 12 European governments participate in a collaborative programme of subnuclear physics research, largely through teams of visiting scientists, has two particle accelerators that have been operational for many years. Peter Collins reports on the super proton synchrotron (SPS) now under construction
