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The US Congress has been teasing the administration by tagging a nuclear test-ban onto a domestic spending bill. The trick will help to advertise an important question, but the need now is for serious and energetic diplomacy.
The persistent controversy surrounding the role of the German scientists in developing an atomic bomb during the Second World War can be laid to rest by the release of the Farm Hall transcripts.
What are the reasons why the English-language literature of science is understood only with difficulty elsewhere? And what might make it more accessible?
Competitive reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) can be used to obtain quantitative information of mRNA levels comparable to traditional RNA blot techniques, with the added advantages of PCR.
Scientific graphing calculators that make light work of problem solving, a pulse controller to provide enhanced resolution of DNA samples and an imaging system for low-cost photography are featured this week.
