Corporate shades of green: ‘Environmental audits’ are the latest buzzwords in the greening of business. But are they just PR gloss, or are companies using them to tackle serious issues? Features
Making money mining gas: Extracting gas from unexploitable coalfields can be profitable. But getting fuel flowing is still a matter of chance Features
Survival of the fittest molecules: One way of inventing new drugs and industrial catalysts is to tinker laboriously with nature’s chemistry set. A better approach may be to mimic evolution in the test tube Features
Focus: Messages for the minister – William Waldegrave has canvassed far and wide for advice on shaping his forthcoming White Paper on science. What do the researchers who are working at the sharp end think? News
Corporate shades of green: ‘Environmental audits’ are the latest buzzwords in the greening of business. But are they just PR gloss, or are companies using them to tackle serious issues? Features
Making money mining gas: Extracting gas from unexploitable coalfields can be profitable. But getting fuel flowing is still a matter of chance Features
Survival of the fittest molecules: One way of inventing new drugs and industrial catalysts is to tinker laboriously with nature’s chemistry set. A better approach may be to mimic evolution in the test tube Features
Forum: Incentives for a life in science – As the Royal Society reports on the future of the science base, its president – Michael Atiyah suggests some ways to rescue British science from the doldrums
Forum: How crumpled clothes could save the world – Vitali Matsarski questions whether ironing should be treated as a global environmental problem