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Canadian scientists are mounting an active campaign to inform candidates in next week's general election of the need to increase support for university research.
In Sweden, as in most European countries, young scientists are facing problems finding work. Wendy Barnaby reports on the falling market in research positions for newly-qualified PhDs
In the last of three articles on science and technology in China, Tong B Tang, research fellow at Darwin College, Cambridge, UK, reports on scientific education and popularisation
Jim Hitter records some observations on what was “effectively the first public debate on science and technology in France for more than a decade”. It was staged last month, by Les Amis de la Terre.
