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The virtual destruction of an animal-testing company by activists and terrorists has highlighted again the power of fundamentalist minorities. Industry and government have failed to respond adequately to the public challenge.
US government agencies are confronting a tough test of their much-vaunted ability to maintain a safe food supply, as they scramble to block possible paths for the entry of mad cow disease into the United States. Their latest action is to extend a ban on blood donors from European countries.
The British government is under intense pressure to do more to protect people associated with companies that perform experiments on animals, following last week's near-collapse of the Cambridgeshire-based company Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS).
Global warming is liable to become an even more acute problem than anticipated, according to the new assessment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
What becomes of research students who study the fundamental forces of the Universe? According to a survey of students who pass through CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, esotericism proves no bar to lucrative employment.
Nuclear physicists, accelerator physicists and astrophysicists are planning a journey into uncharted territory — studying the nuclear processes that occur when massive stars explode. Alexander Hellemans reports.
The legacy of Santiago Ramón y Cajal, the brilliant Spanish neuroscientist, is to be preserved in a new museum. But the fight to recover his lost works goes on, say Xavier Bosch and Alison Abbott.
Using lasers and ultracold atoms, physicists have found a way to stop and start a pulse of light. This magic trick may one day be used to store data in a quantum computer.
An object at least 17 times the size of Jupiter, discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, has astronomers scratching their heads. Is it a giant planet or a failed star?
The genome of an Escherichia coli strain that is emerging as a severe threat to human health has been sequenced. Comparing it with that of a harmless strain suggests why some forms of this bacterium cause disease.
The organic carbon that runs into the oceans from rivers could be hundreds or thousands of years old. If so, aspects of our understanding of the global carbon cycle will have to change.
The active zones of neurons are characterized in part by protein aggregates that make up 'active-zone material'. The function of this material is unclear, but new high-resolution images look set to change that.
