Science
The End Of An Era
By Rob Coppingher ON JULY 21st, 2011, NASA’s space shuttle Atlantis landed, completing its final mission and in the process ending America’s 42-year dominance of the space race. The days of Neil Armstrong’s pioneering first steps on the moon and the Apollo missions appear a distant memory now as NASA’s billion-dollar budget has been cut after [...]
Nuclear Or Oil
By Jonathan Sebire THE FALLOUT from the crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, the worst radiation disaster since the Chernobyl meltdown 25 years ago, has reverberated around the world. An industry on the cusp of a worldwide renaissance has become crippled by doubt. Countries around the globe have found their energy policies under attack from [...]
Safe Drugs
THE debate over the decriminalization of drugs in the UK has erupted again after a private statement made by the one-time head of the Royal College of Physicians Sir Ian Gilmore was leaked to a drug-reform campaign group and the media. This reiterated the sentiment of David Nutt the former head of the Government’s drug [...]