Sun sets on Sunshine Project
After eight years exposing safety lapses at US biodefence facilities, the Sunshine Project – a non-profit organisation in Austin, Texas, that monitors the use of biological agents – is closing due to lack of funding. “It was always a struggle to raise funds,” says Ed Hammond, who ran the project. “You can only work under these circumstances for so long.”
One small step for Europe
Europe’s foothold in space has got a bit firmer. On Monday, Atlantis astronauts installed the European space laboratory Columbus on the International Space Station. On the same day, French president Nicolas Sarkozy called for space powers such as…
