Science

Data show how much work conservation biologists do outside office hours

Female academics aim to boost women’s interest in computer science

The former chief scientific adviser is relishing his new advisory role at the Oxford Martin School, tackling global challenges

Laura Frost on the paradox of women’s lust that science struggles to comprehend

Research into replacing and reducing animal use in scientific experiments is to benefit from £4.8 million in public investment in 2013-14

Academics at King’s College London and the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford have won prizes in a heart science image competition

The pre-registration of study designs must be resisted, says Sophie Scott

A £30 million investment in research and innovation campuses from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been unveiled.

The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.

David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.

The number of scientific procedures started on animals in the UK has risen sharply, increasing by 8 per cent.

The South East Physics Network, created five years ago to counteract a decline in the subject in the English region, has launched its second phase.

Female researchers take to the streets to entertain the public with cutting-edge research

The £1.1 billion annual investment in science capital announced in last month’s spending round is the biggest “for decades” and must not be wasted.

Girls are outperforming boys in the sciences but are still not choosing to take such subjects ahead of university, a study on vocational qualifications has found.

A paucity of suitable sites, a “stand-offish” attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the Lords Science and Technology committee has been told. 

The scientist who developed the first-ever prototype for an “invisibility cloak” has been given a top award by the Institute of Physics.

Students offered ‘fun, novel’ way to learn how to write paper ‘abstracts’

Pat Monaghan and Tim Birkhead call for variation to be the theme once more in university biology

We are paying too high a price for 100,000 genomes more, warns Bill Amos

The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.

For many a creationist or devout religious believer, it is a scene straight from a nightmare

The number of journals denied an impact factor for taking part in citation cartels has risen sharply this year, pushing up the total number of excluded journals.

The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.

George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review

Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title

The Science Museum Group may completely close one of its three museums outside London, its director has said.

The final frontier to UK space exploration is political but exhilarating nevertheless, says Kevin Fong

Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel

Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Research facility clusters mean the benefits are too localised, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers

A department of Imperial College London has withdrawn the offer of an internship placement being sold by auction after the move received heavy criticism.

But investigation finds that practice ‘did not always meet’ expected standards

A new grouping of southeast institutions accounts for a third of EPSRC-funded work. Paul Jump reports

A “big data” health research centre at the University of Oxford has been announced as the latest to benefit from the government’s UK Research Partnership Investment Fund.

Critic says Nature Materials is breaking its own rules

Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.

Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.

Scientists in the UK have won a major Czech research contract worth £10 million to develop laser technology.

In a world untouched by the Sun for millennia, a UK scientist found research heaven and arachnophobe hell

US president Barack Obama’s announcement that $100 million (£66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the country’s higher education institutions.

Graduates with science degrees are less likely to be out of work during a recession than those who studied humanities, according to new research on more than 6,000 young Americans.

In a further demonstration of the lure of the so-called golden triangle, pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has announced plans to relocate its UK-based research and development activities from Cheshire to Cambridge.

Five engineers who laid the foundations for the modern internet have won the inaugural Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering.

The UK needs to boost its output of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates by almost 50 per cent to satisfy market demand, a thinktank has calculated.

Nancy Hopkins identifies remaining obstacles to gender equality

There is no case for further scientific investigation into the “manifestly nonsensical” mechanism by which homeopathy is supposed to work, the government’s outgoing chief scientific advisor has said.

Religious sense ‘cover-up’ in emphasis on embryonic work

Regulator to review range of options for institutions falling short on quality measures

A Tory MP renowned for pro-homeopathy views has been has been provisionally appointed as a member of the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee.

The government is being urged not to implement immigration proposals that it is claimed could have a damaging effect on UK science, engineering and wider academia.

Projects focussing on graphene and research into the human brain have won what the European Commission has called “the largest research excellence award in history”.

Research Councils UK plans strategy to benefit from global collaboration. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Council’s chair ditches ‘misleading’ wording on strategic importance of research. Paul Jump writes

Graphene discoverer takes aim at applied bias and short-term thinking. Paul Jump reports