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The United States needs a credible and far-sighted body to provide the government with forthright advice on scientific priorities. Scientists should support the National Science Board in its efforts to fulfil this task.
Over the past decade, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute has seen a steady escalation in the value of both its endowment and its reputation as a source of support for high-quality biomedical research.
Bringing old building stock into line with modern standards of earthquake-resistant design is a daunting and expensive task. But the damage caused by the Kobe earthquake shows that doing nothing will be even more costly.
Economists and ecologists have Joined forces to estimate the annual value of the services that Earth's ecosystems provide. Most services lie outside the market and are hard to calculate, yet minimum estimates equal or exceed global gross national product.
This week's pot-pourri for the laboratory includes a freeze dryer, a centrifugal concentrator, a chemical reaction system, a radio transmitting data logger and a miniature spectrophotometer.
