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Increases in the British government’s spending on fundamental science is being funded by cuts to research in applied research, a cross-party group of members of parliament warned this week.
US high-energy physicists facing deep cuts in their operating budgets have been given six months to come up with a consensus on the future direction of their $700 million research should take.
A mammoth project involving some 17 million tropical fish is expected to yield a treasure trove of data for researchers working on the genetics of vertebrate development.
Controversy deepened over the views of the South African president on the nature of AIDS when the text was made public of an outspoken letter sent earlier this month to US President and UN secretary-general and three heads of state.
The director of the United Nations Educational and Scientific Organization promised this week that his organization will “spare no effort” in backing poor countries keen to draw up proposals for swapping debt relief for support for science.
Sharing doesn’t always come easily. But it may be necessary to generate research that relies on obtaining genetic samples from people from a variety of geographic locations and ethnic backgrounds.
Sharing doesn’t always come easily. But it may be necessary to generate research that relies on obtaining genetic samples from people from a variety of geographic locations and ethnic backgrounds.
Beaming scientists last week showed off their first images from NASA’s Terra satellite dedicated to long-term monitoring of the home planet’s surface, ocean, ice, and atmosphere.
New plans to set up a high-speed genome sequencing center are being widely seen as evidence of an increased willingness by Japanese industry to invest into genomics and post-genomics research.
More than 1,600 scientists have spoken up in defence of Germany’s main grant-giving agency for basic research in response to allegations that the agency is reluctant to fund research off the scientific mainstream.
A small band of researchers is plotting a revolution in electronics — one that exploits the spins of electrons, rather than their charges. Philip Ball profiles the emerging field of spintronics.
Balloon experiments over Antarctica have produced a long-awaited temperature map of the microwave sky. The map reveals sound waves that can be used to probe the early Universe.
Introns are seemingly useless gene segments in eukaryotes. One view is that they originated from mobile elements called type II introns that occur, for instance, in bacteria. That possibility finds support in work revealing a way in which type II introns can spread throughout a genome.
Both sound and heat are carried through solids by phonons. In the world of nanoscale objects, the minimum amount of heat or sound that can flow is limited by the laws of quantum mechanics.
In a new mouse model of Huntington's disease, the pathological features and symptoms of the disease can be reversed. This unexpected result offers insight into what causes Huntington's disease, and may - if the findings translate to humans - provide hope for a cure.
Cells need to relay information from their exterior to their interior, and one way in which they do this is through protein kinases of the Src family. The identification of a protein, Cbp, that links Src kinases to a negative regulator suggests that this regulator may be controlled spatially more than catalytically.
How miniaturization affects the properties, such as superconductivity, of electronic devices is an important question. It turns out that an ultrathin superconducting wire can be insulating or superconducting, depending on the interaction of the system with its environment.
Lupus erythematosus is a debilitating autoimmune disease, a feature of which is the presence of hyperactive B cells. The discovery of a new pathway that stimulates B-cell proliferation provides insight into the biology of this disease, and allowed the construction of antagonists of the pathway that halt disease progression in mice.
Daedalus is inventing a 'Wimpatch' that will solve the work-related emotional stresses of so many men. The Wimpatch will reduce the testosterone in a man's blood, allowing the man both to fit into the acquiescent role demanded by the modern office, and to retain his male drive and enterprise well into old age.
