Bunnies join the cloning club IT'S not as if they need any help to reproduce, but at last rabbits have joined the list of animals that have been cloned. Several groups tried but failed, until Jean-Paul Renard and his colleagues at the National Institute for Agricultural Research in Paris figured out a way (Nature Biotechnology, vol 20, p 366). The … News
Westminster diary THE International Atomic Energy Agency has plans to rid Africa of the tsetse fly by releasing millions of male flies sterilised with gamma radiation (New Scientist, 23 February, p 17) . It certainly looks like an attractive idea, as the tsetse fly causes even more problems in Africa than AIDS. But I asked Hilary Benn, … Opinion
First fruit WHEN the Romans invaded Britain two thousand years ago, they probably took one bite of the local apple and immediately sent home for scions of juicy-fruited Italian trees to graft onto the rootstocks of the bitter native crabs. And that's how eating apples got to England, suspects Barrie Juniper, now an emeritus fellow at Oxford … Features
Bloody Greenland A Farewell to Greenland's Wildlife by Kjeld Hansen, NHB Mailorder Bookstore (Fax: +44 (0)1803 865280), £15, ISBN 8789723015 AUTOMATIC rifles, motorised dinghies and even video recorders are pushing many of Greenland's wildlife species towards the same sad fate as the dodo and the great auk. Hunting has always been a way of life for the … Books & Arts
Feedback ONE OF the eerie things about the World Wide Web is how some sites become frozen in time when an untimely event befalls their creators. Many of these ghost sites belong to failed companies whose clocks stopped when the money ran out, but whose websites were not auctioned off with the office furniture. They are … Regulars