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Europe's largest berry bank faces closure
A Russian court ruling favours housing over plant diversity.
- Ralf Strobel
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US report pins down future biosecurity
Committee recommends a sequence-based system for identifying pathogens.
- Meredith Wadman
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Mouse pain study stirs debate
Canadian scientists vindicated after being accused of mistreating laboratory animals.
- Janelle Weaver
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Save the census
The Canadian government should rethink its decision to change the way census data are collected.
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Mexican 'climate migrants' predicted to flood US
A tenth of Mexico's population could surge north to escape climate-triggered crop failures, study claims.
- Zoë Corbyn
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Argentina smooths the path for returnees
Federal agreement aims to cut through red tape.
- Ana Belluscio
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When doubt becomes a weapon
Brian Wynne wishes that a book on the vulnerability of scientific evidence to attack by ideologists had grappled more with the larger question of why science is such an easy target.
- Brian Wynne
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Tie funding to research integrity
A change in institutional culture is needed to promote responsible scientific behaviour and prevent misconduct. That's unlikely to happen unless money is involved, say Sandra Titus and Xavier Bosch.
- Sandra Titus
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UK government warned over 'catastrophic' cuts
Royal Society predicts 'game over' for British science.
- Richard Van Noorden
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Report maps perils of warming
Degree-by-degree breakdown of climate effects published.
- Hannah Hoag
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Value-adding enterprise
In today's tough climate, UK science must produce evidence to affirm its worth to the nation.
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A new strategy for energy innovation
The US government must make the Department of Defense a key customer for energy technologies and make greenhouse-gas reductions a public good, say John Alic, Daniel Sarewitz, Charles Weiss and William Bonvillian.
- John Alic
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World view: ERA of austerity
The economic crisis is a setback to the European Research Area, warns Colin Macilwain — and the research community is ill-placed to respond.
- Colin Macilwain
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The lost legacy of the last great oil spill
Some ecosystems bounced back after the 1979 Ixtoc I oil spill, but research quickly withered.
- Mark Schrope
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Controversy over South Korea's sunken ship
Physicists' research casts doubt on idea that North Korean torpedo downed vessel.
- David Cyranoski
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The needs of the few
Developing drugs for rare diseases is a challenge that requires new regulatory flexibility.
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EU research funds to be diverted to fusion reactor
Ailing ITER may get bailout from framework programme.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Solar System showdown
Competition is fierce as committee weighs NASA's planetary priorities.
- Eric Hand
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The next trailblazer of Australian science
Suzanne Cory is the first woman to take on the top job at the Australian Academy of Science.
- Carina Dennis
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Journals step up plagiarism policing
Cut-and-paste culture tackled by CrossCheck software.
- Declan Butler
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Spanish science spending lockdown
Young researchers and new projects will take brunt of cuts.
- Lucas Laursen
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Fusion reactor set to raid Europe's research funds
€1.4-billion gap in ITER project could be plugged with Framework cash.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Gas to displace coal on road to clean energy
Natural reserves pave way to low-carbon future.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Strikes could 'break' Italy's universities
Action by junior staff would cripple teaching.
- Alison Abbott
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Climate science: An erosion of trust?
Many climate researchers worry that scepticism about global warming is on the rise. Jeff Tollefson investigates the basis for that concern and what scientists are doing about it.
- Jeff Tollefson
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Evidence mounts against diabetes drug
Studies continue to find heart-attack risk.
- Heidi Ledford
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German states wield the axe
University cuts are out of step with federal government's bid to spare research.
- Quirin Schiermeier
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White House stalls oil-slick research
Half-billion-dollar BP fund put on hold.
- Amanda Mascarelli
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London's 'somewhat unusual' new research centre
Britain plans £600-million biomedical facility for young investigators.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Correspondence |
Expand scientific input to address environmental effects
- Lindsay C. Stringer
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US biotech firms line up for tax credits
Application process begins for cash to beat the downturn.
- Heidi Ledford
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How to improve the IPCC
Code of conduct and rapid communication are key, scientists tell review panel.
- Hannah Hoag
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Companies pledge to make more trial data public
Voluntary agreement by drug firms calls for all large clinical trial results to be published.
- Heidi Ledford
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Unknown quantities
It is in researchers' interests to help funding agencies quantify the economic benefits of their work.
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Lessons in carbon trading
The most extensive evaluation to date finds that the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme is robust and successfully cut the region's emissions in its first three years, explains Michael Grubb.
- Michael Grubb
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Science economics: What science is really worth
Spending on science is one of the best ways to generate jobs and economic growth, say research advocates. But as Colin Macilwain reports, the evidence behind such claims is patchy.
- Colin Macilwain