All Government articles – Page 68
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News
Research bureaucracy put in crosshairs by Chinese government
New policy offers scientists greater independence and control of how they spending funding
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News
EU science funding boosts job prospects over the next decade
The now defunct FP7 scheme may still generate up to 130,000 new research positions per year
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News
Doubts raised about key BPA substitute
Mounting research suggests a favoured bisphenol A replacement has similar biological effects and may be no safer
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News
‘High risk’ research should be championed at German universities
Expert panel urges government to extend excellence initiative that would help institutes join global elite
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News
Australia falling behind on research commercialisation, government warns
New policies hope to boost academia-industry collaborations
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Business
ChemChina offers to buy Syngenta in $43bn takeover
Directors welcome deal that will allow agrochemicals giant to establish a presence in China
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News
Sexual harassment prompts research funders and government to act in US
Funding agencies take a stand against harassment in academic research, amid congressional pressure
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News
Use of Crispr on human embryos approved in UK
The UK’s fertility regulator will allow gene-edited human embryos to be used in research
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News
Scientists call on Iran to free jailed chemist
Open letter signed by chemistry Nobel laureates claims professor’s imprisonment is unlawful
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News
Funding boost offers new hope for Ukraine’s scientists
Reform will see academies merged and competitive bidding for research money
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News
New law on legal highs approved in UK
A blanket ban on New Psychoactive Substances has been given final approval and will come into force in April
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Science minister announces new UK funding
Government pledges additional support for international research and science centres
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News
Litvinenko inquiry unveils scientific sleuths at heart of investigation
Anonymous forensic investigators and chemists tracked trail left by dissident’s killers
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News
Reliance on numbers for funding threatens to stifle UK science
Concentrating funding at top institutes threatens country’s ability to respond to change
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China’s science enterprise challenging US leadership
40% of the world’s R&D is now carried out in south-east, south and east Asia
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Opinion
A farewell to chemical arms
As chemical weapons stockpiles dwindle, international efforts must guard against renewed arsenals, says Mark Peplow
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News
Singapore to ramp up research investment with new five-year plan
Record 18% increase will see science spend rise to S$19 billion over 2016–2020
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News
Obama kicks off new initiative to cure cancer
White House launches ‘moonshot’ effort to fight cancer and break down ‘silos’
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Business
Fixing the broken antibiotics business model
With rising resistance and doomsday warnings, focus is turning to alternative economic models to boost antibiotic R&D
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News
US bans three food packaging chemicals
Food agency prohibits the use of three perfluorinated compounds linked to cancers in food-contact materials