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Reports on the publication of a research paper that argues in favor of intelligent design in the "Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington" in the U.S. Impact of the publication of the paper on the advocacy of getting intelligent design into the curriculum; Use of information theory and other techniques to argue that the complexity of living organisms cannot be explained by Darwinian evolution; Overview of the arguments of Stephen Meyer, the author of the paper.

The article discusses the failure of U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) to fund the most impactful researchers in favor of more conformists scientists with interests similar to those of the grant reviewers.

The article reports on the efforts of U.S. government to make scientific research available for all. It reports that the accessibility offered by the Internet has transformed science publishing over the past decade. The government of the U.S. is making efforts to make all federally funded research available for free. The new system will make huge numbers of scientific articles publicly available for all. It reports that such archives will basically contain the final versions of the manuscripts written by the authors. There was an increase in public access in late 2007 when the U.S. Congress passed a bill and made it compulsory for scientists funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) to deposit their papers within 12 months of publication.

The article discusses about the research in science done by North American countries. Topics include the researchers and budget allocated for nature science and life science in the U.S. and Canada, National Institutes of Health of the countries, and the research profiles of Harvard University in Massachusetts and University of Toronto in Canada. Several charts of the research efficiency and strengths of U.S. and Canada, and articles published in journals of the universities.

The article presents a discussion on issues related to scientific collaborations among researchers in the United States. The paper focuses on the agreement between biologist Paul Weldon and chemist Andrew Evans to confirm the compound content of the bovidic-acid samples, a suspected gaur's natural mosquito repellant. However, disagreement arose over who owned the samples. These consequences of failed collaboration is said to be a common conflict over biotechnology papers, publications, and data ownership. To avoid the problem, documented agreement at the start is suggested. Relevant questions to discuss before starting collaboration are also offered.

The author reflects on the issues regarding the scientific claims of the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on arsenic bacterium. The author criticizes the failure of the NASA to respond to blogs and online criticisms of their published research. The author argues that bloggers and online commentators play a significant role in assessing the research findings because they provide better analyses of the true value of a scientific finding appeared in the mainstream media.

The article cites a U.S. report that states that Asian nations are catching up with Europe and the United States in terms of scientific output. According to the report, in 2004, countries from the Asia Pacific region including China, South Korea, Taiwan, Japan, Singapore and India produced 25 percent of the world's research papers. By comparison, Europe produced 38 percent of the world's scientific papers, and the United States produced 33 percent. Within Asia, China, South Korea, Singapore and Taiwan grew the most. In China, some institutions even pay researchers extra for publications in indexed journals, especially ones that carry widely cited articles.

The article reports on the declaration made by the White House that government-funded research in the U.S. would be made accessible for the public by 12 months after publication, rather than kept behind paywalls. It notes that federal agencies have been give until August 22, 2013 to produce plans for making the data and papers from the research they fund more accessible to all. Open-access advocacy group Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition called the memorandum a landmark.

The article focuses on information on racial bias in U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) research grants. It states that data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act to the NIH extended prior findings revealing racial disparities in NIH grants from 2000 to 2006. It mentions the study found black grant applicants were less likely to be funded during that period, while initial disparities between Asians and whites vanished when controlled for nativity.

The article reports that officials of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy are dissenting a finding of an investigation that the alleged scientific misbehavior at a national laboratory qualifies for public release. David Williams stresses that the investigators allotted time reviewing the papers received from Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee but failed to charge the management with misconduct despite the presence of errors. Lawyers of Oak Ridge claim that there was no conflict of interest in the case.

The article reports on the launch of a new science journal called "Answers Research Journal" (ARJ) by Answers in Genesis, a Christian ministry run by evangelical Ken Ham in Kentucky. This peer-reviews scientific research journal is a free, online publication devoted to research on new creation and the global flood within a biblical framework. Editor-in-chief Andrew Snelling said that the papers will be peer-reviewed by people who support the positions taken by the journal. Keith Miller, a geologist at Kansas State University in Manhattan, claimed that for the most part, creationism is ignored by the scientific community.

The article presents a perspective pertaining the diversity of the typical American research university. However, this concept is fashioned mainly on the basis of students and staff recruited from abroad. With this, the universities have done less well at harnessing the talents of the racial minorities within the U.S. population.

The article presents several issues and developments related to nature conservation. Senators John Cornyn and Joe Lieberman have introduced as bill which would require researchers with public funding to make their papers freely available. Japan have created a major medical research prize wherein such prize will go towards research and clinical work on disease prevalent in Africa. The European Bioinformatics Institute has launched a project called FELICS (Free European Life-science Information and Computational Services).

The article reports that post doctoral fellow Kristin Roovers has been suspended by the Ottawa Health Research Institute after learning that she had manipulated and falsified data published in several papers in the United States. In July 2007, the U.S. Office of Research Integrity concluded that Roovers manipulated 19 panels of western blot data while a graduate student and postdoctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Roovers had used Photoshop to copy a set of bands and paste them into other blots representing data from different experiments.

Reports on the increasing number of Chinese students studying and doing research at laboratories and research centers in the U.S. Reasons behind their choice of study in the country; Concerns regarding the deficiency in meeting visitor expectations; Essentials to consider for the availability of resources for foreign researchers.

Reports that the U.S. National Institutes of Health has unveiled its plan for open access to research findings. Composition of the policy on archive papers; Criticism on the changes made to publication policy; Estimated cost to run the research publishing.

This article reports on research works in physics. During scientist Albert Einstein's youth, the focus of theoretical physics was in Europe. Scientist Niels Bohr was in Copenhagen, Max Planck was in Berlin. Today it is harder to find the centre of the theoretical universe, collaborative research is increasingly international, and most theorists, who need little more than a laptop, can work anywhere. But it seems that many young theorists opt to spend their formative years in the U.S. Although U.S. enrolment of foreign graduate students has fallen in recent years, they still make up about half of the total in physics, and of these some 40% are theorists.

Iranians struggling to secure free speech at home are facing a fresh set of restrictions from the U.S. government. The U.S. Department of the Treasury has ruled that editing or publishing scientific manuscripts from Iran, Libya, Sudan and Cuba violates the trade embargo on these countries. And U.S. publishers and scientific societies are divided over how to respond. At a meeting in Washington on 9 February, David Mills, the treasury official in charge of implementing the policy, told representatives of 30 publishers that anyone wanting to publish papers from Iran should seek a licence from the treasury department. He also suggested that U.S. scientists collaborating with Iranians could be prosecuted.

The article explores on the experiments undertaken by Harvard university to foster collaboration and interdisciplinary research across the facility in the U.S. To realize such vision, the institution expanded its campus in Allston, a neighbourhood of Boston, wherein it constructed a US$1 billion facility that will house the new Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology, thus bioengineering and systems-biology researchers will be moving and housed in the new complex. The institution has also launched a radical, university-wide experiment to create a more open, agile and collaborative research culture.

States that the United States leads the world in the impact its research makes in almost every scientific domain as of late 1998. Chart of impact measures rebased against world baseline; Super-Units of Assessment (UOA) performance for comparator countries, including England, Canada and France; Two key impressions that emerge from the international overview.

The article focuses on the criterion by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) on the required broader impacts of scientific researches and proposals to the society. NSF director Arden Bement in Arlington, Virginia says that the criterion was designed to make sure that the researches have connections with the society. However, the definition by the NSF of broader impacts is broad and vague in which the proposal guide includes appropriate involvement of students in the research, shared research infrastructure, and establishment of industrial and governmental collaborations. Meanwhile, the criterion makes scientists to think more on the connection of their work to the society. Moreover, the confusion of scientists on the criterion shows the issues on the relation of science and society.

The article discusses a 2006 survey of scientists holding National Institutes of Health (NIH) extramural research funds at 605 institutions about research misconduct in the United States. Between 2002-2005, 8.7% of respondents say they had observed or had direct evidence of researchers in their own department committing one or more incidents of suspected research misconduct. Around 58% of the observed incidents had been reported to official institutions. Responses suggest that 37% of incidents were not reported by anyone.

The article focuses on the innovation policy and the National Nanotechnology Initiative (NNI), authorized by the U.S. National Nanotechnology Research and Developmental Act of 2003. It states that the said Initiative is authorized to coordinate about 1.5 billion U.S. dollars in research across some two dozen agencies. In revision before Congress, the act highlights commercialization for international competitiveness as a driving rational on one hand, while requiring research into societal effects on the other. It mentions that the NNI has funded research to develop "anticipatory governance," which works by righting three unspoken and ill-formed premises that support these contradictions.

The article highlights the results of several scientific researches. Researchers at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado note that the aerosols produced during the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines have slowed down the Earth's hydrologic cycle. Scientists disclosed the degradation and protein matrix invasion activities of tumors around healthy cells throughout the body. Chemist Núria Marcelino and colleagues discovered propene in the interstellar cloud of the constellation Taurus.

The article offers research news briefs in the U.S. American chemists report an improved procedure for preparing boronate ester. Matthew Holden of the University of Oxford and his co-workers showed that artificial cell-like compartments could be linked into networks that act as devices. A preliminary gene-therapy trial has improved brain function in patients with Parkinson's disease.

The article reports research developments in the U.S. A recent study addresses how gene-rich clusters in mammalian chromosomes may be associated with the three-dimensional arrangement of chromosomes within the nucleus. An investigation has found that floods on the Russian River in California coincided with atmospheric rivers. A scientific discovery has indicated that wobbles in the Earth's axis of rotation are caused by changes in weather patterns.

The article focuses on the issue on whether the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) meets the needs of young postdoctoral researchers. The NIH is the largest funding source for postdoc research in the U.S. Many postdocs crave for career training according to the research society Sigma Xi. Four postdocs are profiled in their struggles to become fledging scientists.

Focuses on the growing number of professional physical scientists shifting a career in biology in the U.S. Plan of physicists to transfer their skills to biological research; Challenges in the field of biological science; Link between earth science and the biology.

Reports on the dedication of many aged scientists to conduct productive and innovative research programs despite their retirement age in the U.S. Attitude of scientists in the country; Level of productivity of aged scientists in the laboratory works; Concerns on the issue of mandatory retirement in the country.

This article reports that serious misbehaviour in research is important because it damages the reputation of and undermines public support for science. As recently as December 2000, the U.S. Office of Science and Technology Policy defined research misconduct as fabrication, falsification, or plagiarism (FFP) in proposing, performing, or reviewing research, or in reporting research results. A proper understanding of misbehaviour requires that attention be given to the negative aspects of the research environment. Findings of a survey suggest that the U.S scientists engage in a range of behaviours extending far beyond FFP that can damage the integrity of science.

Examines the implications of the increase in public funds for life-science research in the U.S. in creating academic positions. Career opportunities for scientists; Competition among biomedical research experts; Status of academic science and engineering doctor of philosophy degree holders; implications for scientific research.

Reports on projects developed by the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) as of December, 2000. Changes being made to the amount of time and funding invested in such projects; Scrutiny of projects carried out under the leadership of NASA administrator Dan Goldin that are thought to have been overly ambitious and under-funded; Renewed focus on biological and microgravity research.

An interview is presented with the Chinese virologist Jin Dong-Yan of the University of Hong Kong, discussing his experiences working in several different national research systems. Questions address topics such as his work in the United States, Hong Kong, and mainland China; the tenure and recruitment policies of the University of Hong Kong; and changes occurring in the Chinese research system.

The article presents issue related to ice-core research that were featured in the blog Climate Feedback of Nature Reports: Climate Change (NRCC) in the U.S. Accordingly, assistant editor Anna Barnett of NRCC explains the reasons why ice-core records are not aligned proxies for climatic history. She stresses that their data stretch back 800,000 years and are handily located in some of the most climatically sensitive regions in the world.

The article discusses blogs that are inquiring about what U.S. President Barack Obama will do to bolster science within the nation. Policy recommendations are summarized from three groups that support lifting the federal ban on embryonic stem-cell research. Within this administration, Steven Chu has been appointed as scientist to head the Department of Energy, and Jane Lubchenco has been invited to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

The article features the weekly commentary of graduate students' activities on the web in the U.S. Craig Rowell, a research associate at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, looks beyond his post doctoral studies by sharing scientific researches and ideas between his colleagues. Anthony Power, a graduate student at the Ottawa Health Research Institute in Canada, encourages other members in the institute to share its experiences and ideas about how to find the right laboratory approach and secure fundings for the project.