NASA research on hold
Space science at NASA has taken a hit. While President Bush’s budget request on Monday allocated the agency $16.8 billion for 2007, an increase of 3.2 per cent, funding for NASA science increased by less than expected, just 1.5 per cent. Projects now on ice include missions to find extrasolar planets and detect gravitational waves.
Unsteady railway
The Qinghai-Tibet railway, the highest in the world, is under threat from global warming before it has even opened. Wu Ziwang of the Chinese Academy of Sciences says that more than 30 years’ worth of figures show that the…
