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By being dilatory, the British government has allowed its policy on in vitro fertilization to be undermined by an ordinary member of parliament. It should quickly set up a licensing committee.
It is possible for economics to become a science — if only the discipline would abandon its present practice of eschewing empirical tests of its theories in favour of ‘formal’ ones
A neat new measurement confirms that moving clocks appear to run slow, and by the amount that special relativity predicts (with an accuracy of one part in 25,000).
Two recent reports from the Institute of Manpower Studies indicate that the adoption of new technologies in the workplace introduces the need for, but benefits from, retraining of staff, particularly technicians.
