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Science system needs a total overhaul if the nation is to avoid falling behind, societies say

Policy, which will now be debated, requires deposition in a repository 'at the earliest opportunity'

Collapse of budget talks may be a good thing for research, commissioner suggests

Researcher infected with E. coli O157:H7 wasn't responsible for experiment, he says

A science career can sometimes bear more than a passing resemblance to leading a life on the stage.

FameLab's approach focuses on entertainment, new faces, and diversity, but another recent science communication effort takes a different approach.

During the six years that Robin Batterham served as Chief Scientist of Australia, from 1999 until last month, he weathered repeated accusations that his independence was sullied by conflicts of interest.

These papers were selected from multiple disciplines from the Faculty of 1000, a Web-based literature awareness tool http://www.facultyof1000.com.J. Roos et al., "STIM1, an essential and conserved component of store-operated Ca2+ channel function," J Cell Biol, 169:435–45, May 9, 2005.This paper reports that STIM1, an integral membrane protein expressed in endoplasmic reticulum (ER) and the plasma membrane, is required for store-operated Ca2+ entry in diverse cell types. An RNAi-based scre

Displaying an unprecedented dual role for a transcription factor, activating transcription factor 2 (ATF2) also responds to DNA damage, according to Ze'ev Ronai and colleagues at the Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif.

Harvard University's Junying Yuan and colleagues identified a chemical that blocks a programmed cell-death pathway that is non-apoptotic.

Shortly after the invention of the laser, Bell Labs physicist Arthur Ashkin began exploring the range of the new devices.

More than $27 billion worth of cut flowers are sold in the global marketplace every year.