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April 28, 2011 1:25 PM
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New U.K. Plant Science Lab Receives the Royal Treatment
Most people think the major royal event of the week in England is a small wedding tomorrow, but plant biologists might disagree. Yesterday, the Queen, resplendent in a blue...
April 27, 2011 1:00 PM
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Scientists Lobby European Court to Maintain Stem Cell Patents
Thirteen European stem cell scientists have issued a public appeal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) not to prohibit patents on discoveries made with human embryonic stem (hES)...
Italy Puts Nuclear Power on Indefinite Hold
Plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in Italy have run aground following the accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan last month. The center-right government of...
April 20, 2011 5:19 PM
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A Roadmap for Stalking Extremophiles
From the interior of desert rocks to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, life has adapted to extraordinary environments. And yet many such species are threatened by...
April 13, 2011 12:53 PM
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Report: Current European Biofuel Policies 'Unethical'
A report from the influential British think tank the Nuffield Council on Bioethics has concluded that current U.K. and European policies on biofuel use are encouraging unethical practices, including...
April 1, 2011 6:42 PM
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European Researchers Want Granting Agency to Stay a Granting Agency
A group of prominent European researchers today sent an open letter to the heads of all of Europe's research councils protesting against the winding up of the grant-giving activities...
March 28, 2011 4:54 PM
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Royal Society Report Documents Globalization of Science
LONDON—"Emerging nations are transforming the scene, although traditional powers remain." That's how physicist and former CERN director Christopher Llewellyn Smith today summarized a new Royal Society report on the...
March 28, 2011 1:37 PM
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In German Elections, Major Research Region Goes Green
Yesterday's state elections in Germany were a clear setback for Angela Merkel's coalition. It also means a significant political change for Baden-Wuerttemberg, the state in southwest Germany that is...
March 25, 2011 12:45 PM
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Europe Nudges Top Scientists to Market
Some of Europe's top scientists will get financial help to see whether the results of their research could succeed in the marketplace. The European Research Council (ERC), the European...
U.K. Unearths £100 Million More for Research Infrastructure, Launches Agency to Eliminate Clinical Trial Red Tape
The United Kingdom's budget for 2011-12, announced today by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has some good news for scientists with a £100 million boost in spending on...
European Space Missions to Go It Alone After NASA Yanks Support
European space scientists are scrambling to rethink—and redesign—massive potential missions after it was confirmed that NASA, whose budget is in disarray, won't contribute significant funding to any of the...
March 16, 2011 1:09 PM
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U.K. Science Minister Calls Libel Reforms 'Good News'
Scientific discourse may enjoy greater legal protection in the United Kingdom, if the provisions in a draft Defamation Bill become law. The proposals, unveiled yesterday by U.K. Justice Secretary...
ITER Fusion Project Fills Top Management Slot
Osamu Motojima, the new director-general of the ITER fusion reactor project, has put in place the final piece in the senior tier of his new management structure for the...
March 2, 2011 5:26 PM
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In Times of Crisis, U.K. Government Should Listen to Its Scientists, Says Report
LONDON—The British Government is too hesitant to ask the advice of its own scientific advisers and other scientists while preparing to deal with national emergencies. And the British public may...
March 2, 2011 11:23 AM
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Italian Biotech Project Draws Fire From Researchers
An initiative launched by a nonprofit foundation in Italy that promotes innovation in agricultural genomics has recently sparked a storm of controversy among Italian and European biotechnologists. The scientists believe...
February 23, 2011 11:07 AM
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Native Son Returns to Guide Catalonia's Research Through Spain's Troubled Economy
Noted mathematical economist Andreu Mas-Colell, who resigned his position as secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC) last September, is returning to his native Catalonia to help the...
February 17, 2011 11:30 AM
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Nobel Insults, Radical Departures, and Budget Battles
A conversation with E.U. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
February 16, 2011 1:58 PM
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Foreign Scientists Will Move to Front of U.K. Visa Line
Fleshing out the details of its controversial new immigration cap, the UK Border Agency announced today that it will give priority to scientists and engineers. This represents a partial...
February 10, 2011 1:39 PM
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U.K. Neuroscientists Complain Funding Cut Penalizes Them for Success
LONDON—At a briefing here today, the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) warned that a planned 20% cut in funding for neuroscience by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)...
February 9, 2011 2:06 PM
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Europe Asks Researchers for Funding Ideas
The European Commission is asking for help designing—and renaming—its next research and innovation funding program. The current program, Framework Programme 7, will spend €53.3 billion over 7 years before...
February 8, 2011 12:18 PM
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E.U. Commissioner Seeks 'Clean Break' From Past Research Funding Strategy
LONDON—"Get focused and get united to get ahead." Pinching words from U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European research, innovation and science commissioner,...
February 4, 2011 5:05 PM
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Hungarian Academicians Blast Government Over Inquiry Into Research Funds
An ugly political situation in Hungary has spilled over into academia, prompting an investigation of supposed financial misdeeds on one side and claims of harassment on the other. Humanities...
February 4, 2011 2:11 PM
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90 Papers by German Could Be Retracted on Ethics Concerns
An ongoing investigation into the work of a German anaesthesiologist may lead to as many as 90 retractions. Joachim Boldt was fired in November from his job as head...
February 4, 2011 2:00 PM
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U.K. Archaeologists Protest Rule Forcing Reburial of Human Remains
United Kingdom archaeologists are protesting a recent change in the licensing of excavations that requires the reburial of any human remains found in England or Wales. In a letter...
English Universities Stem the Budget Bleeding
Details of the much-reduced government funding for universities in England were released today following a meeting last week of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) board. Despite...
CERN Gives Higgs Hunters an Extra Year
Just days after U.S. particle physicists were told they would have to shutter their accelerator later this year—so ending their hopes of finding the elusive Higgs boson—their European competitors...
January 24, 2011 1:45 PM
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Cairo or Bust for Nefertiti
She has been dead for more than 3 millennia, but Queen Nefertiti is kicking up diplomatic dust between Cairo and Berlin. Today, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities demanded the...
January 24, 2011 11:40 AM
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European Research Head Starts to Tackle Kafkaesque Bureaucracy
European scientists have heard such promises before. Whenever the European Union appoints a new commissioner for research, he or she always promises to make the E.U.'s Framework Program, a...
January 21, 2011 3:56 PM
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Balkan Countries Pin Hopes on More Science
The breakup of Yugoslavia in the early 1990s created a situation in which research was a luxury for many of its former republics struggling to make it as independent...
January 20, 2011 11:23 AM
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Montenegro's Young PM Creates Dedicated Science Ministry
Igor Lukšić, Montenegro's new prime minister and at 34 the youngest head of state in the world, has in one of his first official acts created a dedicated science...
January 18, 2011 12:20 PM
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Pope Appoints Protestant as Chief Science Adviser
Pope Benedict XVI has appointed Swiss microbiologist Werner Arber as the new president of the Vatican's scientific advisory body, the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. Arber, a Protestant, becomes the...
January 18, 2011 11:37 AM
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Former E.U. Research Chief Resigns From Greek Government Post
Greek scientists are greeting with dismay the news that Achilleas Mitsos has resigned from the country's education ministry. Mitsos, one of Europe's leading science policy wonks (he served as...
Meet Jordan's New Greenhouse-Power Plant Hybrid
A novel combination of technologies that has the potential to turn large areas of desert green, producing commercial quantities of food and energy crops, fresh water, and electricity, looks...
January 10, 2011 7:01 PM
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Report: Complex and Burdensome' Rules Thwart U.K. Medical Research
The United Kingdom has developed a needlessly cumbersome bureaucracy that stifles, or drives overseas, medical research, and the country should create a new agency dedicated to streamlining the approval...
December 30, 2010 4:07 PM
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Brazil Cuts a Deal to Join European Astronomers
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Hoping to secure time on some of the world's most powerful telescopes, Brazil will pay more than €250 million over a decade to become a member of...
Scientists Oppose Crime Lab Shutdown
Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, is among 33 scientists who signed a letter in The Times yesterday (subs. required) protesting the announced closure of the United Kingdom's...
December 24, 2010 4:14 AM
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Italy Funds New Particle Smasher With U.S. Components
Italy has approved funding for a major new particle accelerator that would use components from a now-defunct machine in the United States.
UPDATED: Details of Tight U.K. Science Budget Emerge
When the new U.K. government in October released its Comprehensive Spending Review, scientists breathed a sigh of relief, and some even celebrated, at the promise that science would maintain its...
December 17, 2010 1:16 PM
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London Superlab Gets Local Approval
LONDON—Plans to build a £500 million medical research institute in the heart of London were approved yesterday by the key local development committee overseeing the location. The U.K. government...
Europe's ITER Budget Deal Falls Through, Threatening Fusion Project
A plan to cover a budget shortfall for the ITER fusion reactor project in France appears to have fallen apart just 2 weeks before the end-of-year budget deadline. The...
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