Physicists at one of Russia's top research institutes say that policies being imposed by the government are hindering their work and have mounted an Internet campaign to recruit help from colleagues elsewhere

Plans for restricted access to bird flu papers expected 'within the next few weeks' 

Major reforms and extra funding will help free country’s researchers from communist legacy 

Fund to support small business innovation will be a key element of modern innovation infrastructure

GCHQ says the competition has a certain level of difficulty 

Mykola Paladij: "Ukrainian universities are converting into research centers and have strong links with the industry"

David Amaral wanted to watch the young brain take shape. He thought that studying post-mortem brains under the microscope would help him to work out why children with autism often have abnormalities in the key structures that drive emotion and behaviour

In 2012 will be increased the size of grants of the President of Ukraine and Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine for young scientists and established long-term loans without interest rates for the construction (reconstruction) and purchase of housing

It is reassuring that retractions are so rare, for behind at least half of them lies some shocking tale of scientific misconduct — plagiarism, altered images or faked data — and the other half are admissions of embarrassing mistakes. But retraction notices are increasing rapidly

The European Space Agency (ESA) will forge ahead with ExoMars, an ambitious two-part robotic mission that would look for signs of life on the red planet, even though NASA has reneged on its promise to provide a launch rocket for the first stage of the mission

Several hundred researchers, many wearing lab coats, rallied here to protest a funding freeze at Russia's two grant organizations and on procurement regulations that they say are major obstacles for research

The SuperB factory, a particle accelerator to be built on the campus of the University of Rome Tor Vergata over the next six years, was officially launched on Friday. But the project faces uncertain funding and competition from a Japanese project

How much radiation is 'unsafe' for humans? For those exposed to fallout from the disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, the question is all too real. But there is still no good answer: the accident has highlighted the enormous difficulties in estimating the long-term health risks of relatively low doses of radiation

One of Russia's most prominent inter­national science projects has fallen foul of cold-war-era concerns. An expedition to study carbon transport around Siberia's Yenisey River has been postponed for a year after officials blocked the use of sampling equipment and put some sites off-limits

Sticklers for geographical correctness will roll their eyes, but Israel is joining CERN, the European particle physics laboratory just west of Geneva, Switzerland. Officially, Israel has become an associate member of the lab, which is home to the world's biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider

Researchers who developed ground-breaking leukemia drugs, discovered dendrimers and delved into the intricacies of what Einstein dubbed "spooky action" are among Thomson Reuters 2011 top tips to win Nobel prizes for science

When genes for enhancing the amount of antioxidants and vitamin C are transferred to fresh produce, consumers are willing to pay 25 percent more than for a plain product. Consumers’ acceptance of genetically modified plants is a turnaround from previous research, economist Wallace Huffman says  

Despite its distance from the region in question, in late August Reykjavik hosted the third workshop on the Third Pole Environment (TPE) — a region centred on the Tibetan Plateau and the Himalayas that boasts the largest store of ice outside the Arctic and Antarctic

A desert may need no defining, but desertification is not so easy to pin down. Although the loss of soil nutrients and moisture threatens roughly a third of the world's land area, imperilling farming and biodiversity, scientists lack a clear definition of it or agreed standards to measure its causes and progression

The non-profit programe MyMicrobes is inviting people to have their gut bacteria sequenced for about €1,500 (US$2,100). Acting as both social network and DNA database, the website offers a place for people to share diet tips, stories and gastrointestinal woes with one another. In exchange, researchers hope to gather a wealth of data about the bacteria living in people's guts