EU Set To Enter Clean Energy Race with $73 billion for R&D

8 Oct, 2009 08:32 am Europe is planning to stage a grand entrance into the clean energy race by investing approximately $73 billion in clean energy research,...

Global conservation priorities based on human need

16 Jul, 2009 11:19 am Gary Luck and colleagues' paper Protecting ecosystem services and biodiversity in the world's watersheds, recently posted online in Conservation Letters...

CNN: Supermouse Report

9 Nov, 2007 12:03 pm On November 2, researchers at Case Western University announced the "super mouse": mice who have been genetically tweaked to produce large amounts of ...

?The Really Big Problem for UK Science at the Moment Is Ensuring that We Will Have Enough Scientists in the Future?

11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm As new Prime Minister Gordon Brown unveiled his long-term vision to ?make Britain one of the best places in the world for science,...

"We Are Too Earth-Centric in Our Search for Alien Life"

11 Jul, 2007 12:54 pm The American National Research Council published last week a report entitled ?The Limits of Organic Life in Planetary Systems? suggesting that ?...

Speaker Pelosi on the Stem Cell Research Enhancement Act

25 Jun, 2007 04:43 pm On June 7, the House of Representatives voted 247-176 to pass a bill (S 5) that would allow federal funding for research using stem cells derived from...

?The Idea Is To Open Up?

13 Jun, 2007 06:02 pm Val?rie P?cresse, the French minister of Higher Education and Research in the government of the newly elected center right president Nicolas Sarkozy,...

Money as an Ethical Lighthouse

6 Jun, 2007 03:15 pm Money makes the world go ?round, and the research world is no different.

France: ?What We Demand Is That Laboratories Regain the Ability To Self Finance.?

24 May, 2007 05:53 pm ?Sauvons la Recherche? (Save Research) is a group created in March 2003 to fight a dramatic drop in budgets and recruitment decided by the government at...

EU research: ?We Need to Know What People on the Ground Have to Say?

24 Apr, 2007 01:16 pm The European Commission has recently published a green report on the future of the European Research Area (ERA), an entity created to improve the interaction...