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The inexorable rise of global renewable energy stocks--as measured by the WilderHill New Energy Global Innovation Index (symbol NEX on the US stock exchange) juddered to a halt last month. [...]

With the collapse of both the dollar and the housing market undermining confidence about the general economic outlook in the United States, 2007 has been a pretty grim year for [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain [illus. 1] The global plunge in stock markets over the past three weeks has taken the wind out of the sails of clean-energy stocks, ending a powerful [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain [illus. 1] Nanotechnology stocks in the United States have held up well in the past two months -- unless, that is, they had the misfortune to be [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Bonny island, Nigeria Oil and gas companies have set up a three-year project to tackle the rapid spread of AIDS around one of the largest facilities in [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain [illus. 1] The agricultural biotechnology industry is ten years old, and the story of its first decade has largely been about one company selling crops with single [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain The humble tick isn't often viewed as an ally of human health (see page 524), but one British biotechnology company is banking on its hidden charms. Reading-based [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Clean-energy stocks have slipped back over the past two months after hitting record highs in the summer, when oil price increases to $70 a barrel alerted investors [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington [illus. 1] Hundreds of tonnes of genetically modified corn seeds sold to farmers by mistake over the past four years contained a gene for antibiotic resistance, [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington [illus. 1] A strain of genetically modified corn that does not have regulatory approval has been distributed by accident over the past four years, Nature has [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington Concern is mounting among US biologists that unconfirmed reports of the birth of cloned babies could force through legislation that will outlaw any cloning of human [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington President George W. Bush announced his proposals for a 'war budget' on 4 February, which would see a record $112 billion spent on research and development [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington Craig Venter, founder of Celera, is stepping down as president of the Rockville, Maryland-based biotechnology company, which last year published a version of the human genome [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Few relationships are more central to the progress of science than that between a US president and the nation's researchers. Rarely has this relationship got off to [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington The White House has fuelled growing fears among scientific leaders that the recent era of expansion in US science funding is coming to a close. On [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington US high-energy physicists, gathered at a three-week meeting in a ski resort in Colorado, gave their backing to the idea that the construction of a large [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington Researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) in California have confirmed an important tenet of the standard model of high-energy physics. They have successfully measured [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington Genome assemblers from the private and public human genome sequencing projects finally met in peace at a workshop on 6 June, and found plenty of areas [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain [1] Washington [illus. 1] Military research is up, environmental work is drastically cut, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) will grow while the rest of civilian [...]

Author(s): Paul Smaglik; Colin Macilwain San Francisco Should scientists, like medical doctors, pledge to do no harm? The question, which has largely lain dormant for years, was revisited this week [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington A moderate Republican with a keen interest in environmental and energy issues has been named as chair the Science Committee in the US House of Representatives. [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington [illus. 1] The quality of fusion research in the United States is on a par with other areas of the physical sciences, according to an assessment [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington Princeton University has been awarded $15 million from the petrochemical company BP and $5 million from the car maker Ford to set up a project to [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington When marine biologist Rita Colwell, newly appointed head of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), announced in 1998 that 'biocomplexity' would be a priority for the [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Cambridge, Massachusetts Eight months after the United Nations Biosafety Protocol became the first fully fledged international treaty to incorporate the 'precautionary principle', scientists and lawyers remain deeply [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington The hopes of US scientific societies that Congress would pass a bill to double research spending in each of the major non-military research agencies collapsed last [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain [illus. 1] Scientific societies and research foundations plan to set up a lobbying body in Washington to boost public support for investment in the physical sciences, mathematics [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington A prominent US economist has criticized Western governments and the World Bank for failing to acknowledge the full potential of science, technology and innovation in alleviating [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington The largest steerable, single-dish radiotelescope ever built will be dedicated this week at Green Bank, West Virginia, in a ceremony to be attended by astronomers, politicians [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington High-energy physicists are declaring 'full house' after detecting the last remaining basic building block of matter predicted by the Standard Model. A team at Fermilab outside [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain Washington [illus. 2] US climate-change activists are up in arms again. But for once it is not against the fossil-fuel lobby. This time the focus of their [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain The simmering tension between commercial publishers and those who believe that scientific literature should be available free on the Internet boiled over last week -- at a [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) is caught in the crossfire over one of the most contentious issues in the US presidential campaign: the high cost [...]

Author(s): Colin Macilwain [illus. 1] The presidents of America's top research universities have come up with a set of proposals for tightening up the policing of research on human subjects. [...]