Biobaubles charm scientists and the people who love them

By Anne Harding Diversity efforts are unexplored territory for many European nations. The November 2005 riots across France made it clear why efforts to diversify Europe's workforce are important, and why these efforts may pose a particular challenge here. Frustrated at being shut out of the nation's economic and educational

By Anne Harding Diversity: The New Business Case Helping different departments collaborate is part of diversity's new meaning. For Paul Graves of Schering-Plough, managing diversity is about much more than hiring minorities — although that's certainly part of it. It's really about helping people from very

Disputed study sees the light of day after a lengthy controversy

Credit: COURTESY OF CURTIS RICHARDSON" /> Credit: COURTESY OF CURTIS RICHARDSON Duke University's Curtis J. Richardson, a wetlands expert, was part of the first scientific team to visit the Iraqi Mesopotamian marshes after Saddam Hussein's fall in 2003. Lying between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, the marshes - once nearly twice the size of the Everglades - were the main stopover on the Siberia-Africa bird migration route, and a crucial filter that cleansed the rivers as the

Critics charge the decision -- to prevent the spread of citrus canker -- has no scientific basis

Government seeks new solutions after giving up on eradication of bacterial disease

PNAS editor, pioneer in studying ?protein machines,? was 67

FEATURESeeing is Believing © ROBIN LYNNE GIBSON/GETTYGraphical presentation strives to make sense of exploding quantities of data BY ANNE HARDING The amount of information life scientists have at their fingertips has mushroomed and continues to grow. In a bid to better access and manipulate this flood of information rather than suffocate on its abundance, researchers are turning to evolving visual techniques. Without them, mor

The field of biocuration expands as the data grow

No funding -- and no plan -- to preserve data, biological specimens gathered in 25-year, $143 million project

Despite shortened delays, security measures still casting wide net for scientists hoping to visit the US