AAAS annual meeting 2007 The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science is the world’s largest conference covering science and technology across the board. FT.com selects the highlights.
The latest weak point is ‘router’ that controls every home broadband network, the experts told the AAAS on the closing day of its annual meeting in San Francisco
Fisheries experts and scientists have called for an end to subsidised deep-water trawling, which is stripping the oceans of slow-maturing ‘old growth’ fish.
New research shows that tumours are hotbeds of genetic change, with cancer cells mutating several hundreds times faster than healthy human cells.
Work is under way to draft a United Nations treaty laying out the rules for international action if a killer asteroid threatened Earth. The treaty would specify responsibilities for a space mission to deflect the asteroid – preventing death and destruction on a gigantic scale.
If America is to maintain its leadership in life sciences in the 21st century, four important steps are needed, says Lawrence Summers: respect for scientific methods and results, funding, control of the role politics and support for extraordinary performance.
The debate on global warming has, at last, moved on. While there are still sceptics on the science, the tide has moved decisively against them, writes Martin Wolf.
Drug-resistant bacteria bring added risks to a stay in hospital but research into treatments is being stepped up.
