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Dr R. H. Mole, Director of the MRC Radiobiology Unit at Harwell, offers some personal reflections on the recent nuclear power report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution
Nature's Christmas issue a year ago carried an article entitled ‘Naming the Loch Ness monster’. This year, Carl Sagan writes on ‘Detection times and number densities of rare mobile organisms: application to Loch Ness’.
The National Science Foundation is looking into the possibility of converting the Central Intelligence Agency's Glomar Explorer into a deep sea drilling vessel. Colin Norman reports from Washington.
Fierce disagreement characterised the debate amongst French scientists about La Soufriére, the volcano in Guadaloupe in the French Antilles. A report from La Recherche:
