Amid the doom and gloom around us there is good reason to think that the lot ot mankind is actually improving. Cheer youselves with the following good news: – After about 200 years of pouring greenhouse gases into the air, resulting in the highest carbon dioxide levels since humans first walked the Earth, the rate …
The thought of terrorists using drones haunts security officials in Europe and elsewhere. The Dutch are training hunting birds like the eagle to help combat the security threats posed by the proliferation of off-the-shelf drones — unmanned aerial vehicles — of the type that can pose risks to aircraft. The fear is that these drones could …
Genetic and stem cell technologies are on the cusp of letting us clone even infertile endangered animals when intact DNA is available. And some extinct species could be brought back by tweaking the genome of a living close relative. It should also be possible to engineer lost traits into a population. Some targeted animals are …
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I am no lawyer but I am flummoxed by the Article 50 legal hearing currently before the British Supreme Court. The issue is whether Parliament should have the final say in Brexit, if necessary over-ruling any agreement made with the EU. The reason I am puzzled is the reported preoccupation with the phrase “from time …
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In the United States there has been a huge influx of for-profit companies into what was started as a humane, civilised way of leaving this world in a caring, kindly way. Profiting from death was the last thing the founders of St. Christopher’s hospice in London thought of when they established the first hospice in …
