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Political changes have affected Australian science. In the first of two articles. Peter Pockley paints a picture of the period up to Labour's downfall.
The Soviet Union recently released Leonid Plyushch, the Ukrainian mathematician held for over three years in Dnepropetrovsk penal mental hospital. Vera Rich reports
The tortuous process of setting controls on the use of a revolutionary, but potentially hazardous, technique for manipulating genes from living organisms has entered a new and politically important stage in Washington. Colin Norman reports
Representatives from six European countries met in Kiruna, North Sweden, last month to inaugurate the EISCAT project for research into the Earth's higher atmosphere. Wendy Barnaby reports
