| Current Science & Technology Articles |
|---|
 |
InternetNews
February 4, 2010 |
Microsoft Offers Free Use of Azure to NSF National Science Foundation to oversee project grants.   |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2010
Robert Tjian |
Beyond Our Borders Ray Wu. Gifted scientist, mentor, advocate, and friend, he was all of these and more to several generations of researchers across the United States and China. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Anna Lewcock |
Budget cuts hit university teaching University teaching is bearing the brunt of cuts to higher education funding, while science has been afforded a degree of protection, according to the latest figures announced by the Higher Education Funding Council for England |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Science shines in Obama's budget proposal US science agencies would fare quite well under President Obama's newly unveiled budget proposal for fiscal year 2011, despite his plan to reduce the nation's trillion-dollar deficit by freezing non-defence discretionary spending. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India. |
Chemistry World
February 2010 |
Column: In the pipeline Fraudulent scientific results can terrorise a company's patent claims. Chemical patents have (especially among academic researchers) a reputation for unreliability and deliberate obscurity. |
Chemistry World
January 26, 2010 |
The Royal Institution: two centuries of impact Richard Catlow, former director of research at the Royal Institution, tells us why it's important to remember the key role the RI has played throughout the history of science and the cutting edge research it continues to foster. |
Chemistry World
January 25, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
US science lead slips The US appears to be losing its global lead in science and technology according to data released by the US National Science Foundation. |
Chemistry World
January 22, 2010
Kate McAlpine |
Chaos at French nanotech debates Protestors have caused the public to be banned from four debates on nanotechnology taking place across France. |
Chemistry World
January 21, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Chemist named new CNRS head Chemical engineer Alain Fuchs, head of the French chemistry research institute Chimie ParisTech, has been appointed the new president of the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France's massive government funded research organisation. |
Chemistry World
January 15, 2010
Ned Stafford |
China: act on scientific fraud The Chinese government is being called on to do more to ensure the scientific integrity of its researchers after UK-based journal Acta Crystallographica Section E was forced to retract dozens of papers describing over 70 crystal structures found to have been fabricated by Chinese researchers. |
Popular Mechanics
January 15, 2010
Joe Pappalardo |
Researchers Decry Proposed Rules to Secure Bio Research Labs New proposals put forward by Congress and supported by a recently released federal study are roiling researchers at labs that work with biological agents. |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Japan research funding safe The proposals of major cuts in researching funding triggered howls of criticism from Japanese scientists and academics, who appealed for support from the global scientific community. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2010
Leila Sattary |
Hefce takes more hits over impact A poll of UK professors finds that over a third would consider pursuing their academic career abroad if current UK plans to assess and reward research impact are implemented. |
Chemistry World
January 2010
Philip Ball |
Column: The crucible What a joy it is, then, to visit Test Tube, a website stemming from a project at the University of Nottingham, UK. The site offers a clutch of short videos that claim to take you 'behind the scenes in the world of science'. |
Chemistry World
January 2010 |
Column: Undercover academic Must all research have immediate and tangible economic impact? Not all applied research has appreciable economic impact, and much pure science research will open up routes to unimagined benefits and financial gain. |
Chemistry World
January 2010
Palmer & Felwick |
Safety in numbers Regulators struggle with nanotechnology. It's time for more self-regulation, say the authors |
Chemistry World
January 7, 2010
Rajendrani Mukhopadhyay |
Chemists slam Science paper A paper published in the prestigious journal Science has caused a commotion in the chemistry community, with the synthetic processes discussed in the paper dismissed as nonsense and accusations of a failure in Science's peer review system. |
T.H.E. Journal
January 5, 2010
Scott Aronowitz |
MIT and FIRST Ally To Encourage STEM Education Careers The cornerstone of the alliance is a pilot program to teach robotics to K-12 students after school. |
Chemistry World
January 6, 2010
Ned Stafford |
UK libel laws threaten scientific debate A libel lawsuit brought by GE Healthcare has succeeded in silencing an eminent Danish radiologist who questioned the safety of one of the firm's drugs, but the firm is now being accused by some in the scientific community of trying to stifle legitimate scientific discussion. |
Chemistry World
January 5, 2010
Leila Sattary |
Red card for REF Universities, learned societies and educational establishments have raised concerns about the UK's proposed new Research Excellence Framework, with particular controversy surrounding the impact assessment element of the evaluation process. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2010
Sally Adee |
Cat-Brain Fever Two simulations and an angry e-mail reveal the conflicting goals of supercomputer brain modeling |
HHMI Bulletin
November 2009
Robert Tjian |
Season of Change An update on the research scientists and medical explorations at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute from the director. |
| There are 494 old articles available for this category. |
