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French investigators outraged as English and German scientists help to evaluate projects

University ponders how to replace director of its ancient DNA lab, who quit under a cloud.

Scientists hunger strike and the Pope intervenes ahead of a poll on assisted reproduction

A new strategy aims to ensure universities are more proactive in dealing with extremist campaigns

Government is preparing advice for scientists who want to collaborate with overseas teams

Government plans to reorganize science funding and evaluation leave researchers worried

Scientists praise 'first step,' but raise concerns about whether the new bill will be vetoed

Hong Kong Uni puts a donor's name on med school, triggering worries about academic freedom

If you could teach the world one thing about science, what would it be?

It's been hard to miss the recent antagonism between elements in the religious and scientific communities over issues such as evolution and the ethics of embryonic stem cell research.

A touch of acrimony is infused into many diplomatic relationships between the United States and European nations.

Three decades and 6,000 papers since the term was first coined, scientists are still debating the mechanisms of long-term potentiation (LTP).1 Defined in 1973 as an increase in synaptic strength following experimentally induced high-frequency stimulation,2 LTP has been consistently controversial. Now at last, "There is a consensus beginning to emerge," says Columbia University Nobel laureate, Eric Kandel, as years of research have begun to make sense of what once seemed irreconcilable contradict