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You may think that your nightly tipple helps you cope with stress, but alcohol may actually make your body far more vulnerable to it, reports Sara Abdulla.
US President Bill Clinton is expected to request substantial increases in funding for basic scientific research in his budget request for the 2001 financial year, which will be released on 7 February.
The EU research commissioner is backing plans by the European Molecular Biology Organization to establish a European counterpart to PubMed Central — the free Web site for life science papers due to be launched later this month in the United States.
Britain is bidding to make the Royal Observatory at Greenwich the symbolic timekeeper of the Internet, with the launch of Greenwich Electronic Time, or GeT.
Fish hooked from prehistory could change the way we look at our fossil heritage. Could sharks have left us floundering in the evolution stakes, asks Henry Gee?
Bell Laboratories has won patent rights to one of the most important high-temperature superconductor materials, yttrium barium copper oxide, which was identified as a superconductor by several rival groups of in 1987.
Officials at the US National Institutes of Health are pushing for President Clinton's budget request for the 2001 fiscal year to include funds that would allow work to begin on a new $270-million centre for research in the neurosciences.
When the dust settles over the recent dramatic upsurge in the value of biotechnology stocks -- with the price of shares in some companies increasing three- or fourfold within a few weeks -- a key role in triggering the goldrush could be credited to a US investment website visited regularly by many thousands of small investors.
A series of technical obstacles could block completion of the US National Ignition Facility (NIF), according to an interim project review delivered this week to Bill Richardson, the Secretary of Energy.
The Japan Development Bank has announced that it is to set up a dedicated biotechnology fund, a move that reflects to a growing willingness by Japanese investors to nurture domestic start-up companies.
Research from Finland is threatening to overturn an understanding of how we see colour that has held sway for nearly 50 years, says Christopher Surridge.
The British government was so worried about the loss of scientists and engineers to the United States in the late 1960s that it considered banning foreign recruitment advertising, according to documents released last week.
Reversing the conventional direction of Italy's scientific migration, a major genetics research institute in Milan will move to Naples this summer, helping to secure city's reputation as one of the country's leading genetics research locations.
Celera Genomics Corporation appears to have cut back on its plans to singlehandledly complete a high-quality sequence of the human genome. The company now says that it intends to achieve the same end by combining lower-quality sequence with data from the international, publicly funded Human Genome Project (HGP).
