A lthough it sounds disastrous, making a $100,000 mistake seems relatively minor when stockbrokers have lost millions by hitting the wrong key. The following case proved to be different, however. An ordinary bank customer, Grete Fossbakk, used Internet banking to transfer a large amount to her daughter. She keyed one digit too many into the account number field, however, inadvertently sending t...

We consider the possibility that the dark matter in the halos of galaxies may be in the form of clusters of Machos within which are embedded cold, dense gas clouds. Mi-crolensing experiments have found evidence that the Galactic halo contains up to half of its mass in the form of low-mass Machos. A number of observational and dynamical arguments point to the existence of hitherto unobserved col...

Just a small contingent of Pharmamar’s staff, which is, with a total of 262 employees, one of the main biotechnological companies in Spain. Ph ot os (5 ): P ha rm am ar Like Captain Nemo, the mysterious character created by Jules Verne, Jose María Fernández Sousa-Faro decided to seek his fortune in the depths of the oceans. His reasons were not, however, as obscure as Nemo’s. He had inherited t...