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Critic says Nature Materials is breaking its own rules

Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.

Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.

Scientists in the UK have won a major Czech research contract worth ?10 million to develop laser technology.

In a world untouched by the Sun for millennia, a UK scientist found research heaven and arachnophobe hell

US president Barack Obama¡¯s announcement that $100 million (?66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the country¡¯s higher education institutions.

Graduates with science degrees are less likely to be out of work during a recession than those who studied humanities, according to new research on more than 6,000 young Americans.

In a further demonstration of the lure of the so-called golden triangle, pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has announced plans to relocate its UK-based research and development activities from Cheshire to Cambridge.

Five engineers who laid the foundations for the modern internet have won the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

The UK needs to boost its output of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates by almost 50 per cent to satisfy market demand, a thinktank has calculated.

Nancy Hopkins identifies remaining obstacles to gender equality

There is no case for further scientific investigation into the ¡°manifestly nonsensical¡± mechanism by which homeopathy is supposed to work, the government¡¯s outgoing chief scientific advisor has said.

Religious sense ¡®cover-up¡¯ in emphasis on embryonic work

Regulator to review range of options for institutions falling short on quality measures

A Tory MP renowned for pro-homeopathy views has been has been provisionally appointed as a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

The government is being urged not to implement immigration proposals that it is claimed could have a damaging effect on UK science, engineering and wider academia.

Projects focussing on graphene and research into the human brain have won what the European Commission has called ¡°the largest research excellence award in history¡±.

Research Councils UK plans strategy to benefit from global collaboration. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Council¡¯s chair ditches ¡®misleading¡¯ wording on strategic importance of research. Paul Jump writes

Graphene discoverer takes aim at applied bias and short-term thinking. Paul Jump reports

Sir John O¡¯Reilly will soon become the sector¡¯s most powerful civil servant. He talks to Elizabeth Gibney