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Japan's environment agency altruistically advocates sacrifice on behalf of the global environment, but should instead be seeking the basis of common self-interest.
Physicists may soon be able to detect particles which cosmologists tell them constitute most of the Universe. But the experiments are both speculative and expensive.
There are now three automated DNA sequencers on the market — from Du Pont, Applied Biosystems, and EG & G Biomolecular. Below each company tells why theirs is best.
Achema 88 — the international meeting on chemical engineering and biotechnology — takes place next week in Frankfurt, West Germany. Here is a sampling of the exhibits.
Industrial application of recent advances in ceramics technology will require adaptable staff with first degrees in a variety of scientific subjects, rather than highly specialized personnel with higher degrees.
