September 2009

• Q+A: Driven out of research - Premium content

  A virologist describes how stringent biosecurity regulations caused her to drop one line of work.

  30 September 2009

• Rutherford Building cancers a 'coincidence' - Premium content

  Independent inquiry finds cancer connection to historic radiation experiments "unlikely".

  30 September 2009

• Past quakes cause future shocks - Premium content

  Seismic waves from earthquakes might make distant fault lines more slippery.

  30 September 2009

• News briefing: 1 October 2009 - Premium content

  The week in science

  30 September 2009

• Booming biosafety labs probed - Premium content

  US lawmakers and scientists at odds over how to regulate high-containment labs.

  30 September 2009

• Innovation strategy - Premium content

  The Obama administration has good proposals but needs a more systematic approach, David Goldston argues.

  30 September 2009

• Eastern Europe: Scaling the wall - Premium content

  The collapse of communism opened up the world to scientists from eastern Europe. Quirin Schiermeier talks to researchers about what changed.

  30 September 2009

• Eastern Europe: Beyond the bloc - Premium content

  30 September 2009

• Cellulosic ethanol hits roadblocks - Premium content

  The third of four weekly articles looks at how the financial crisis is slowing efforts to commercialize next-generation ethanol.

  30 September 2009

• Climate change will hit developing world harvests hardest

  Report quantifies link between global warming and food security.

  30 September 2009