Policy

• Where have all the flowers gone?

  At least 117 boys were being born for every 100 girls at the beginning of this century in China. Philip Ball asks whether Chinese birth rates can be controlled without exacerbating the gender imbalance.

  23 July 2008

• German public#19;private partnership breaks ground

  23 July 2008

• US Senate approves $48 billion global AIDS funding

  23 July 2008

• Autism study panned by critics

  Plan to use chelating agents on children comes under fire.

  14 July 2008

• US court slaps down pollution law

  Major clean-air programme is now in limbo.

  11 July 2008

• Briefing: Whatever happened to bird flu?

  The media frenzy over bird flu has receded, but the threat of a global epidemic still looms large.

  9 July 2008

• A Spanish revival

  Spain's Ministry of Science and Innovation was re-established in April, four years after its dissolution in 2004. Cristina Garmendia, a former molecular biologist and chief executive of the Genetrix group of biotech companies, heads the new ministry.

  9 July 2008

• Developing nations reject G8 climate agreement

  Moving targets dog greenhouse-gas deal.

  9 July 2008

• Researcher battles CNRS reforms

  Medal winner rallies French scientists.

  9 July 2008

• In Brief: UK physicists discover full scope of budget cuts

  9 July 2008