Cloning scientist verdict
A South Korean court has found disgraced cloning scientist Woo Suk Hwang guilty of embezzling government funds and breaching the country’s bioethics law. Hwang received a suspended sentence, rather than the four-year prison term sought by prosecutors, leaving him free to continue his privately funded work on animal cloning.
Deniers on the rise
The proportion of Americans who believe global warming is caused by human activity has dropped from 47 per cent to 36 per cent in the last 18 months, according to a poll by the Pew Research Center. Fewer saw global warming as a very…
