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As high-energy physicists and astronomers learned long ago, when making the case for investments in science it is helpful or even essential to present a coherent front to outsiders, not [...]

CAMBRIDGE, U.K. -- On a visit to Iraq's science ministry one morning last March, Abdalla Alnajjar, president of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation (ASTF), recalls how impressed he was [...]

Physics, chemistry, biology and the environmental sciences can deliver wonderful solutions to some of the challenges facing individuals and societies, but whether those solutions will gain traction depends on factors [...]

TOKYO -- The job market for academic scientists has gone global. Job seekers routinely mail or e-mail applications across borders. Search committees are multinational, the better to ferret out candidates [...]

Late last week, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the US Department of Health and Human Services announced an immediate pause in all new government funding [...]

A Baltimore radiologist with an entrepreneurial bent is expected to be named the next director of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). The Washington rumor mill was humming last [...]

The U.S. government last week took the first steps toward developing a coordinated scientific effort to combat terrorism. Despite an official blackout on the event, Science has learned that White [...]

Australia's incoming government will do without a science minister--or so it seems from Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott's cabinet, announced on 16 September. Abbott avoided explicitly naming science in any minister's [...]

The 3-week shutdown of much of the federal government may have ended last week, but the impact on some science programs could linger for months as affected agencies dig out [...]

Spain no longer has a ministry of science. In the last days of 2011, its new government transferred national science policy to the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness, a duty [...]

'All the day dreams must go; it will be a wearisome return.' Written almost exactly a century ago, in the diary of doomed Antarctic explorer Robert Scott, those words mark [...]

The nomination of physicist Neal Lane provost of Rice University, to be the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF) is intended to send a clear signal to the [...]

Japan's budget: Science projects in Japan emerged with minor scars from the new government's 2010 budget, after researchers protested against recommendations for drastic cuts. A supercomputer project fell just [yen] [...]

President Obama's call for science to be restored to its proper place' excites science policy advocates. Science, it appears, may play an important role in informing societal decisions and restarting [...]

For nearly a century, the Bureau of Indian Affairs has been keeping detailed records of the growth of tens of thousands of trees as part of an effort to manage [...]

Next month, voters choose the next president of the United States. Whether they elect Senator Obama or Senator McCain, the president's responses in coming years to national and global problems [...]

The Second World War left the United States with enormous energy among its scientists and great advances in technology--for example, radar, the proximity fuse, nuclear weapons and the ability to [...]

Scientists--and the scientific press--are accessories to the crime of letting extreme voices dominate the public debate over science-based policies on everything from climate change to evolution. So says Rita Colwell, [...]

Two years ago, as head of the New Jersey Commission on Science and Technology, John Tesoriero handed out $25 million a year in research funding to universities and high-tech companies, [...]

A new player is set to burst on the U.S. science policy scene. Congress this week put the finishing touches on legislation to create the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), [...]

Science and Technology (S&T) strongly affect foreign policy, and vice versa. Although both are low-saliency topics in the public mind, the importance of this relation has been long recognized. Presidents [...]

In the spring of 1997, the assistant secretary of state for Oceans, International Environmental, and Scientific Affairs (OES) (1) triaged the last remnants of the Department's enfeebled science and technology [...]

Representative Robert Walker (R-PA), at the zenith of his carder in Congress, last week apparently took to heart the old saw of quitting while you're ahead. The House Science Committee [...]

The National Institute for Science and Technology (NIST)(*) is enjoying substantially enhanced funding and status at a time when most U.S. research and development (R&D) organizations face uncertain futures. Direct [...]

Tucked in among the ideas for cutting waste and red tape in Vice President Al Gore's plan for reinventing government is a proposal that could have a significant impact on [...]

'An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man,' said Ralph Waldo Emerson, and no institution fits that description better than the government of a country. Whether the title is [...]

Just last year, the suggestion that the National Science Foundation (NSF) needed a separate bureaucracy to fund social and behavioral sciences was greeted with disinterest--if not outright hostility--by NSF's top [...]