If you are concerned that British science is on life support, you should worry no more. British science, it turns out, has been saved.

As one of the world's biggest funders of biomedical science, the Wellcome Trust can usually gather scientists to a party like honey attracts bees.

Politicians suggest focusing research in regional hubs to stem tide of department closures

This time last year, the British research community was fuming over a piece of draft legislation that was, in the general view, a potential disaster for science.

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Report in Nature details disease density of sex chromosome and surprises about X inactivation

When Frankfurt University said last month that anthropologist Reiner Protsch von Zieten had engaged in repeated scientific fraud for much of the past 30 years, the question naturally arose of how on earth he'd gotten away with it for so long.

Back in 1973, when Julia Goodfellow finished her PhD at Britain's Open University, like many of her peers, she jumped on a plane to California to take up the de rigueur three-year overseas postdoc.

Researchers in China, South Korea, and Singapore are testing the lead taken by Western countries in the field of stem cell research, according to members of a UK government mission.

The pressure from US religious groups to unseat the teaching of evolution as the sole construct in public schools shows no sign of slowing.

When the Huygens probe landed on Titan last month, astrobiologists were realistic about what they hoped to gain from the mission.

British government's reaffirms it will not require deposits in free-access repositories