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This week's GATT agreement (if signed) leaves doubts about the protection of intellectual property unresolved. With UNESCO absent from the scene, the world's academies should take up the issue
Two months ago, the superconducting supercollider was killed by the US Congress. Here, a particle physicist provides a post mortem and asks whether Europe should build its own collider.
Never can there have been such a determination to attain improvement by science and technology as there has been in India since 1947, but success is sadly still a long way off.
Science and technology have a recently developed affinity with the development of the poor countries of the world, but have few effective ways of winning benefit for either partner in the relationship.
