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A $500 million annual increase in funding for Indian science and technology promised by prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee will be used to boost basic research, modernise laboratories, and launch new technology missions.
Gary Ellis, director of the Office for Protection from Research Risks at the National Institutes of Health is likely to find himself out of a job in the coming months, when the office is dissolved and reconstituted in the Office of Health and Human Services.
Roy Anderson, a professor of zoology at the University of Oxford and the director of the Wellcome Trust Centre for the Epidemiology of Infectious Disease, has been suspended on full pay following formal complaints from two female members of staff.
Research may have uncovered to the key to the safety valve that allows plants to cope with the vicissitudes of solar energy, reports Christopher Surridge.
Yale University is to spend $500 million on constructing and renovating its science and engineering facilities over the next six to eight years to boost its reputation in those disciplines.
The Medical Research Council of Canada and Canada's Research-Based Pharmaceutical Companies have announced significant increases for the second phase of a joint research programme, which has quadrupled its research activity since 1993.
A new centre and its director will face the challenge of co-ordinating research on the application of single nucleotide polymorphisms in an inter-ministerial initiative to propel Japan's struggling genome research to international competitiveness.
Shuji Nakamura, who surprised physicists around the world when he announced the development of blue light-emitting diodes a few years ago, is leaving from Japan to take up an academic position in the United States.
A survey to be published next week will reveal the whereabouts of more than 300 million potentially valuable human tissue samples archived in the United States.
Plans to launch a global web site for the scientific literature, headquartered in Europe, have been unanimously endorsed at a closed meeting of representatives of research organizations, commercial publishers and the European Commission in Heidelberg.
When a geneticist first spotted mutant white-eyed flies among his red-eyed fruit-flies in the early years of the 20th century, he launched the gene '_white_' on a career that is still going strong, as Eleanor Lawrence explains.
Many of us feel grim as we crawl to work after the weekend muttering 'I hate Mondays'. But the death statistics tell a more serious story about this reviled weekday, as new research highlights. Sara Abdulla reports.
The appointment of John Krebs (former chief executive of the UK Natural Environment Research Council) as head of the new Food Standards Agency has been criticised by the Consumers' Association.
