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An international immunology congress, due to be held in New Delhi, could be boycotted from some members of the Association of American Immunologists in protest at India's recent nuclear tests.
The United States has spent $5,500 billion on nuclear weapons since the start of the Manhattan project in 1940, according to the Brookings Institution, Washington's pre-eminent liberal think tank.
Izgrev Topkov, secretary general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), has been removed from his post.
An expert panel told the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) this week that it should give the public a bigger voice in deciding how to spend its $14 billion annual budget.
The University of Rostock has become the first university in east Germany formally to apologise for removing academic titles on racial or political grounds during the Nazi era.
International space collaboration is being threatened by the shift to 'smaller, faster, cheaper' space missions, according to a transatlantic panel of space scientists.
Public interest in science and technology is at an all time high in the United States, according to a study performed for the National Science Foundation.
China is launching several major initiatives in human genomics, with budgets totalling over US$30 million over the next three years — and signs of even more investment to come.
Several high profile social programmes appear to have been sacrificed for a proposed 9.1 per cent budget increase for the National Institutes of Health.
Scientists and senior ministers gathered around the Cabinet table in Downing Street last week to brief the Prime Minister, Tony Blair on why science matters.
The Spanish government plans to introduce a new contract-based university position, which will carry the same responsibilities - and salaries - as existing full-time tenured positions.
