Right to die

Article Abstract:

A four year study of terminally ill patients indicates that living wills and other methods used to establish dying patient wishes, have not had the impact proponents hoped for. The Patient Self-Determination Act, passed in 1990, was designed to give patients and families more say in the event of death.

Analysis, Laws, regulations and rules, Column, Advance directives (Medicine), Right to die, Living wills

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What if they don't have radios?

Article Abstract:

Some scientists contend that efforts to communicate with extraterrestrial life-forms may be useless because it is unlikely that aliens communicate in the same way as do human beings.

Telecommunications systems, Life on other planets, Extraterrestrial life

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Antarctic meltdown: the frozen continent's ice cap is not as permanent as it looks

Article Abstract:

Evidence is increasingly suggesting that the Antarctic ice cap has changed dramatically over the last few million years due to factors such as global warming and volcanic eruptions.

Research, Antarctica, Climatic changes, Climate change, Ice caps, Antarctic Regions

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