Nobel, Fields Medal winners launch campaign against EU research austerity
European Nobel and Fields Medal prize winners have launched a continent-wide campaign to protect European Union research funding from austerity. Read more
European Nobel and Fields Medal prize winners have launched a continent-wide campaign to protect European Union research funding from austerity. Read more
Responding to a significant drop in support for the use of animals in research in the UK, the country’s leading research universities, medical charities and drugs companies on today launched a new transparency initiative aimed at winning over members of the public to the need for animal research. Read more
The good news is that tuberculosis prevention efforts appear to have broken the back of the spread of the disease, according to the World Health Organisation’s latest annual report on the scourge, with new cases of TB falling by 2.2% between 2010 and 2011. The mortality rate has decreased 41% since 1990 and access to TB care has expanded considerably since the mid nineties, when tuberculosis was declared a global emergency by the UN body, with the WHO estimating that some 20 million lives have been saved since 1995. Read more
The frequently caustic battle over European biofuels policy has kicked off again this week as the European Union is set to reverse gear and end years of support for the controversial energy source. Read more
The US-based MacArthur Foundation selected its annual crop of MacArthur Fellows – American citizens working in any field who are awarded ‘no-strings attached’ grants, popularly referred to as ‘genius grants’ of $500,000 paid out in quarterly instalments over five years. This year, 10 of the 23 fellows are scientists. Read more
Great ape habitat in Africa has shrunk precipitously in the past two decades, according to the first continent-wide survey of the state of environmental conditions suitable for the animals. Read more
South Korea has announced that it hopes to launch a programme of ‘scientific’ whaling, a development that would make it the second such country to engage in the practice alongside Japan. Read more
Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ as it is popularly known, presents a “very low risk” of contaminating drinking water or triggering forceful earthquakes in the UK, and can safely be performed so long as companies engage in different practices to those that have produced concern in the United States. Read more
Bahrain and Syria are imprisoning doctors for treating wounded anti-regime protesters, a tactic that aims at extinguishing medical neutrality in order to undermine anti-regime protests, the International Human Rights Network of Academies and Scholarly Societies has warned. Read more
The sudden government-ordered destruction of a 30-year-old publicly-funded research project in Italy involving transgenic olive trees, cherry trees and kiwifruit vines – one of the longest-running GM trials in Europe – began on Tuesday under pressure from a green group. Read more
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