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New energy institute at Stanford aims to help meet future energy demands.

US institutes are recruiting scientists and postdocs for ageing research.

Despite economic downturn, Toyota opens Michigan R&D centre.

Major life-science initiatives in Massachusetts and Maryland should mean thousands of science-related jobs.

Shock physics gets a funding jolt.

Suite of life-sciences buildings and biotech planned in Louisville, Kentucky.

The NIH adds genetics of health disparities centre to its Bethesda campus.

Florida adds to growing collection of high-profile institutes.

Singapore's Institute of Medical Biology strives for translation.

Pfizer's move out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, has left a hole that local institutions are attempting to fill — with mixed success.

University College London opens new cancer institute.

California Institute for Regenerative Medicine offers start-up grants for young scientists.

Japanese postdocs face career challenges

Australia christens the country's first synchrotron.

EMBL expands to the north.

Cancer Research UK opens new institute.

BP's Energy Biosciences Institute brings jobs and research opportunities to Berkeley.

NIH institute establishes translational-research centre for environmental sciences.

The University of California, San Francisco, opens a special brand of incubator.