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The new biology has spawned a new industry — that of ethical enquiries into the new biology. But the ethical problems are often neither new nor problematical. Hard heads and plain speaking are the urgent needs.
The new national curriculum for England and Wales includes the testing of the scientific ability of seven-year olds. But the tests themselves show evidence of scientific illiteracy.
This month's celebration of 700 years of the Swiss Confederation is tinged with anxiety about relationships with Europe, the poor recruitment of students to science and engineering and the problems of cosmopolitanism.
Is it worse to have supplied Iraq with materials from which poison gas can be made, or to have supplied without knowing the fate of the material? That question should now torment the British government.
A human and bovine serum alternative and a microbalance that cuts down on unwanted temperature fluctuations and vibrations by separating the weighing cell from the control unit — new product news from Switzerland.
