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Advances in modern science and medicine have introduced unprecedented dilemmas for both courts and legislators. A ruling in a British case on artificial insemination gives hope that good sense can be made to prevail.
Forty years ago, the world of physics was stunned by the discovery that nuclear beta-decay does not respect symmetry between left and right. But the credit for this conclusion has not been properly attributed.
Organisms at the bottom of the deep seas might seem to be immune from large-scale shifts in climate. Not so, according to a study which reveals links between benthic biodiversity, glaciation and the Earth's obliquity.
Close links between courses and senior scientists are one key to career development in immunological fields. And better organization of careers advice is on the way.
