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A report from the White House valuably highlights the chronic difficulties in the United States in involving minority groups in science and technology. But it wrongly skirts around a key issue in alleviating a potential crisis.
Some three-quarters of the British government's defence research agency is poised to be sold off into the private sector, under proposals issued earlier this week.
Jordan has been proposed as the site of an international research centre for the Middle East intended to stimulate regional collaboration around a rebuilt German synchrotron.
In a move which physicist Sheldon Glashow himself describes as “curious”, the Nobel Prize winner is to leave Harvard University to join the nearby but less prestigious Boston University.
Troubled by vandalism at University of California research sites, the California state assembly has approved a bill that would create tough penalties for the destruction of research crops.
A projected shortage of science and technology workers could have “devastating” effects on the US economy by 2050 if it is not addressed now, says a White House report.
An attempt to relax international regulations on issuing permits for cross-border transfers of diagnostic samples for conservation-related research was thwarted last week.
The Wellcome Trust has acknowledged its share of the blame for a highly critical report into the management of one of its research centres based at Oxford University.
A biological gagging order, used in the fight against viruses, could revolutionize our understanding of genetics and development. Trisha Gura listens in on the world of gene silencing.
Models of how forests will respond to climate change usually assume that carbon dioxide output from decomposing organic matter will increase with global warming. That assumption may be wrong.
The development of the brain's cortex relies on both intrinsic and extrinsic cues. But what are the relative contributions of these factors? New research provides the most compelling evidence yet that visual inputs through the retina have a key role in controlling the structural features and responsiveness of the visual cortex.
An oxide-ion conductor is a solid oxide material in which the oxygen ions are highly mobile. These materials form the basis of devices that have a huge market potential. The discovery of a new structural family of oxide-ion conductors may lead to fresh design strategies for finding new materials.
DNA breaks arise frequently in cells, and need to be repaired. Systems that repair such breaks often have a role in preventing cancer-causing mutations or chromosome rearrangements, and so are called 'caretakers'. The 'non-homologous-end-joining' proteins can now be added to this list of caretakers.
Wiring up the brain involves laying out the main 'highways' between groups of neurons first, and then building up the detailed connections by trail and error. Tiny protusions on neurons called dendritic filopodia are now thought to be involved in the second process.
Daedalus has developed a strategy for preventing fracture in fine steel wires. The answer is to run a high current through it. To safeguard thicker wires, a bundle of metal wires separated by an insulating material is needed.
