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The European Molecular Biology Organization is to launch a series of young investigator awards aimed at propelling bright young scientists into permanent jobs in laboratories across Europe.
The University of Salamanca in Spain is being taken to court by an astrophysicist claiming he was passed over for promotion in favour of a lesser qualified internal candidate.
The French government has announced plans to create a deep storage centre and two subterranean laboratories for studying the disposal of nuclear waste.
Researchers at Harvard University and the University of California at Berkeley are beginning to use optics -- in addition to radioastronomy -- in the search for alien life.
Foreign students who receive their doctorates in the United States are more likely than ever before to stay there, according to figures collated by the National Science Foundation.
The number of vacant university chairs in Germany has fallen by nearly half since 1993, according to a study by the German Association of Universities.
Large numbers of scientists from the former East Germany are still unemployed, according to the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in Geneva.
Plans to renew US membership of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) have been blocked by the White House budget office.
Australia's environment minister has run into a full-scale conflict with non-government scientists over the protection of Australia's major environmental attractions.