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Two years after House Republicans threatened not to raise the government's debt ceiling, the full brunt of that once-unthinkable offense is now hitting the NIH. As Annie Lowrey reported in The Times this morning, 2013 has been the "darkest ever" year for the agency, because the budget cuts demanded by Republicans are taking a significant toll on research into medical cures.
Laura Niedernhofer is counting her pennies. The mid-career molecular biologist moved last year to the Scripps Research Institute's campus in Jupiter, Florida - a risky decision that saw her building a new laboratory group at a time when the US government was cutting its support for science.
A new joint survey out today found that nearly half (46%) of 3,165 scientists in the United States reported they've laid off scientists due to sequester budget cuts or they will have to lay off scientists. Also, more than 54% or those surveyed know a colleague who has lost his or her job or expects to soon.
Rescuers working on the front lines of massive marine mammal die-offs on both U.S. coasts have been dealt a hard blow during an already difficult year. On Tuesday, dozens of rescue centers learned they wouldn't be getting any federal financial help for the next year.
The latest Federal Scientific Activities report indicates that Canada's federal government expenditures on science and technology for 2013/2014 will decline 3.3 per cent from the previous year.
Italy - Two well-known Italian scientists have been appointed "senator for life" by President Giorgio Napolitano to honor their contributions to society. Physicist Carlo Rubbia, 79, and brain stem cell biologist Elena Cattaneo, 50, received the honor along with conductor Claudio Abbado and architect Renzo Piano on 30 August. Senators for life—o...
When the members of the Harvard Business School class of 2013 gathered in May to celebrate the end of their studies, there was little visible evidence of the experiment they had undergone for the last two years.
The "American Nobels" will go this year to three scientists who helped deaf people to hear, two others who made fundamental discoveries about how the brain works, and two of the world's best-known philanthropists, Bill and Melinda Gates.
As the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change prepares to release its Fifth Assessment Report (AR5) -- the latest installment of its comprehensive assessment of climate science -- early next year, the science is already under attack. As the U.S. Global Change Research Program puts the final draft
Mit Werbeveranstaltungen versucht der Bund, deutsche Wissenschaftler aus den USA zurückzuholen. Doch die fürchten die schlechten Karrierechancen diesseits des Atlantiks - und scheuen die miese Bezahlung.
European collaboration is not far behind that in the United States, but there is still work to be done on cross-border funding and financial inequalities, says Paul Boyle.
The route to open-access publishing endorsed by the British government puts unacceptable strains on research budgets at a time of funding shortages. The report also argues for more transparency and competition in the costs of publishing research.
The effects of federal budget cuts provide an opportunity to revisit the funding structure of the National Institutes of Health.
Open Data soll Tausende Arbeitsplätze schaffen Am 16. September lanciert der Bund ein Open-Data-Internetportal. Verschiedene Bundesämter stellen dort der Öffentlichkeit Behördendaten frei verwendbar über eine zentrale Plattform zur Verfügung. Der Bund verfügt über umfangreiche Datenbestände von hoher Qualität. Heute sind diese Daten dezentral abgelegt. Einen Teil davon will der Bund ab dem 16.
Deutschland hat keine Rohstoffe, daher braucht es das beste Wissenschaftssystem. Gleich nach der Wahl müssen wichtige Entscheidungen getroffen werden.
Four out of five postgraduate research students are happy with their university experience, a new study has suggested.
Immer mehr Studierende wagen den Schritt in die Selbstständigkeit. Die Hochschulen begrüssen und fördern den wachsenden Unternehmergeist.
Only one in 20 black South Africans succeeds in higher education, and more than half who enrol at university drop out before completing their degree, according to research published this week.
La ruée vers les écoles américaines de tous les bons élèves du monde entier s'essouffle, d'après le Council of graduate schools. Sauf pour les Brésiliens et les Indiens, qui sont toujours plus nombreux à faire leur migration académique.
A team leader at the Latvian Institute of Organic Synthesis in Riga is looking to leave Latvia in search of a paying job in science, trying to escape what he calls the 'catastrophic' situation in research.
The World Academic Summit Innovation Index finds that university scientific researchers from many Asian nations are attracting substantially more industry funding per researcher than their American counterparts.
The amount of government funding for science and technology in Canada is expected to decline for another year.
Eleven of the most selective universities in the US have a combined $26 billion (£16.8 billion) in debt on the books, according to a new analysis.
Many biases affect scientific research, causing a waste of resources, posing a threat to human health, and hampering scientific progress. These problems are hypothesized to be worsened by lack of consensus on theories and methods, by selective publication processes, and by career systems too heavily oriented toward productivity, such as those adopted in the US.
Science stands as an ideological force insofar as it offers the answers to a variety of fundamental questions and concerns; as such, those who pursue scientific inquiry have been shown to be concerned with the moral and social ramifications of their scientific endeavors.
Efforts to promote interdisciplinary research that addresses complex interactions between humans and their environment have become commonplace in recent years, but success is often elusive.
The main factors determining the success of crowdfunding campaigns, and a comparison with the use of traditional funding sources.
Today's academic publishing system may be problematic, but many argue it is the only one available to provide adequate research evaluation. Pandelis Perakakis introduces an open community platform, LIBRE, which seeks to challenge the assumption that peer review can only be handled by journal editors.
Auf der neusten Rangliste der weltbesten Universitäten ist die ETH in die Top 20 vorgerückt. Die Uni Zürich dagegen ist zurückgefallen - zum vierten Mal in Folge.
