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Michael Ashburner of the Department of Genetics at the University of Cambridge gives his view on the UK Health and Safety Executive's recent proposals for regulating genetic manipulation experiments
Colin Norman looks at a new analysis of population trends throughout the world which has produced findings that are both encouraging and decidedly grim
R. M. Morris and R. A. S. Ratcliffe of the Meteorological Office, Bracknell, discuss recent anomalies of the weather and the general atmospheric circulation
The New York State Attorney General's office is considering whether or not to impose controls on recombinant DNA experiments performed in facilities in the State. Colin Norman reports from New York