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Rumours that the UN conference that finished last Sunday in Rio was a failure are false. The urgent matters were dealt with adequately, while the global character of other problems has been more widely acknowledged.
After years of research, the scientific committee of the International Whaling Commission is about to put forward a sound method for setting catch limits for whaling. But will other considerations undermine the science?
Canute, the eleventh-century king of England, is best known for his demonstration that even he could not hold back the tides. Can the US Congress learn this lesson?
Proteins separated on sodium dodecyl sulphate-polyacrylamide gels can be detected in subpicogram quantities by radioactivation of silver-treated protein molecules.
