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Finishing line in sight for libel reform

29 April 2013 News and Analysis

After travelling a rocky road, the libel reform bill is set to enter English law and will provide more protection for journalists and scientists

MPs call for a bridge over ‘valley of death’

14 March 2013 News and Analysis

Small businesses are being let down by the UK government and new models of financial support are urgently needed

GSK commits to AllTrials data disclosure

7 February 2013 Business

Company will begin publishing all clinical study reports

Plan for UK's 'eight great technologies' outlined

28 January 2013 News and Analysis

Government announces where funding will go to enable the country to bridge the technological 'valley of death'

Global convention to limit mercury agreed

21 January 2013 News and Analysis

World signs up to treaty to ban export of mercury but sticking points remain over artisanal mining and coal power plants

Push for renewables may have unforeseen consequences

3 December 2012 News and Analysis

Countries need to synchronise policies to ensure that their energy supply is sustainable

Analytical test for shellfish poisoning saves 14,000 mice

8 November 2012 News and Analysis

Liquid chromatography technique could save a million animal tests a year if rolled out globally

GSK pledge on trials transparency

17 October 2012 News and Analysis

Pharma giant tackles critics by announcing that it will publish all clinical trials data regardless of the result

Illegal medicines seized in worldwide operation

10 October 2012 News and Analysis

Largest crackdown on illegal internet pharmacies ever nets £6.5 million of fake and unlicensed drugs

Orphan drugs set for 'tremendous growth'

11 September 2012 News and Analysis

Drugs for rare diseases are rapidly becoming very profitable with growth predicted to outstrip non-orphan drugs

EU and UK bitten by the open access bug

18 July 2012 News and Analysis

UK gives thumbs up to open access, while the European commission vows to throw its €80 billion research budget behind the idea

Nanosilver in consumer goods under the spotlight

16 July 2012 News and Analysis

Danish environment agency finds no evidence of a risk to the public from goods with antibacterial properties

Wellcome Trust to enforce open access rules

28 June 2012 News and Analysis

UK charitable foundation will cut the grants of scientists who do not make their research freely available

Mystery metal revealed by UK atmospheric inventory

27 June 2012 News and Analysis

Pollution survey finds that acid rain is abating but puzzlingly high levels of metals in the environment have been uncovered

Finch report backs open access for UK

19 June 2012 News and Analysis

Country should embrace open access but there are warnings that universities could spend as much as £60 million extra a year on author fees

Chief scientific advisers ignored by UK government

2 March 2012 News Archive

House of Lords says that science advisers need to be given funding and access to ministers

Settlement ups UK universities' dependency on fees

30 January 2012 News Archive

Grant letter holds research funding steady while student numbers are set to drop next year

Government launches UK life sciences strategy

8 December 2011 News Archive

Life sciences industry receives a cash boost to bridge the gap between an idea and a product

India won't boycott Olympics over Dow sponsorship

1 December 2011 News Archive

Bhopal campaigners have objected to Dow's sponsorship of the London 2012 games, but have been overruled

Australian carbon tax passes into law

14 November 2011 News Archive

Top 500 polluters will have to pay per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted in 2012

Europe risks being outstripped by R&D rivals

26 October 2011 News Archive

Investment in R&D by top European firms grew by 6 per cent last year, but competitors are growing faster

Half of young Australian academics ready to quit

6 October 2011 News Archive

Dissatisfaction with poor job security and low pay is rife in Australian universities

Patching up patients with a heart of gold

27 September 2011 News Archive

Cell communication in a patch designed to heal damaged hearts can be improved using gold nanowires

Higher education funding rises around the world

19 September 2011 News Archive

Between 2000 and 2008 funding for universities rose, while private funding of institutions increased substantially

Crystallising safer explosives

6 September 2011 News Archive

Co-crystallising two explosives has allowed researchers to make a compound that is safer but still highly energetic

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