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New Zealand's new government has launched a major effort to set priorities for public investments in science and technology based on the ‘technology foresight’ model developed in Britain, Australia and Finland.
A committee is to investigate allegations that medical treatment was deliberately withheld from 1107 Indian women with uterine cervical dysplasias, even though it was known that some of these lesions could become cancerous.
A new, integrated strategy for high performance computing and simulation for the national laboratories funded by the Department of Energy is being proposed by the department's top scientific administrator.
An independent panel set up by Germany's science council has put forward a series of proposals for ensuring good scientific practice in Germany's universities and research institutes.
The Clinton administration will embark on the first stage of a prolonged and difficult struggle to implement the Kyoto Protocol when it presents its 1999 budget in February.
The United Nations' expert panel of climate scientists is to lose the services of one leading researcher, with a second considering his future with the body.
The University of Düsseldorf has been taken to court by a researcher in its department of orthopaedics over a decision to remove his right to teach at the university.
Officials at a US naval air base in Atsugi, Japan, plan to install an infrared sensor to monitor gases from a nearby waste incinerator which they claim is discharging toxic pollutants.
More than a hundred members of Britain's Parliament have criticized the government for failing to develop a policy for managing plutonium removed from dismantled nuclear weapons.
Tension has been running high at the Australian National University in Canberra, where efforts to absorb a 14 per cent cut in government funding over four years have included a move to change the management of its renowned Institute of Advanced Studies.
NASA hopes to begin scientific balloon flights of up to 100 days duration as a way of conducting near-space research at a fraction of current launch costs.
The European Commission is to tighten a directive first issued in 1991 covering the deliberate release of genetically modified organisms into the environment.
The Russian president, Boris Yeltsin, has expressed concern that the continued exodus of scientists from Russia has become a threat to national security.
The ‘internal market’ ministers of the member states of the European Union last week approved the latest draft of the European Commission's directive on the legal protection of biotechnological inventions, which allows the patenting of human genes as well as transgenic plants and animals.
Latin American governments have clashed with environmentalist groups over the application of the United Nations biodiversity convention to forestry policy.
