An e-mail to the network from Janet Anderson, director of the EPA's bio pesticides division, says "there is no record of a review and/or clearance to field test" the organism.

A light beam shot through a blob of rubidium atoms can directly and reliably measure the size and orientation of a magnetic field, a team of physicists reports in the Sept. 13 Physical Review a.

Peer-review is a process by which other scientists in the field are asked to anonymously and critically evaluate the research presented within a paper.