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.
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.
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.
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§.
