FOR YOUR EYES ONLY
The British Parliament passed a law last week allowing the government to restrict access to information that could be used to build nuclear, biological or chemical weapons. The Export Control Act covers information transmitted verbally, electronically or in print for the first time. Campaigners for academic freedom won a last-minute amendment requiring any controls on research communications to be “no more than is necessary”. But there are fears that the law might hamper research by discouraging publication of gene sequences that could be used in bioweapons, for example.
RETURN OF A KILLER
Dengue fever is back…
