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Commercial publishers plan to link up their journals, stealing the thunder of free repositories for life-science papers — and protecting their revenues.
Lake Vostok, isolated from the rest of the biosphere for at least a million years, could be the subject of an international initiative to plumb its secrets.
The National Institutes of Health says it will put $18 million into improving two major synchrotron facilities whose base funding comes from the Department of Energy.
After years of budget cuts and internal division, things are looking up for US fusion research. At a recent meeting,the community began work on a common agenda, and tried to present a united front to funding agencies.
With the arrival of devolved governments in Scotland and Wales, British science has an opportunity to build on past experience and experiment with new ways of implementing science advice.
With the rapidly burgeoning numbers of mouse mutants being produced, Europe's need for a repository and distribution centre has become urgent. The announcement that its mouse archive is to open is thus welcome.