All Policy articles – Page 26
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Opinion
Are trade sanctions fair?
How much should markets be protected from cheaper imports? When does healthy competition become ‘dumping’?
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News
White House urged to consider climate change consequences
Weather events may have cost the US federal government over $350 billion
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News
New guidelines to standardise toxicity testing for nanomaterials
OECD hopes methods will ensure companies are singing from same song sheet on nanosafety
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News
EPSRC chief executive will stay on for another six months
Philip Nelson will remain head of UK physical sciences agency as research councils merge to form UKRI
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News
Uproar over EPA’s plan to ban its grantees from science committees
EPA chief says members of its scientific advisory panels get ‘millions of dollars’ in grants from the agency, which poses conflicts of interest
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News
Public health scientists speak out against Trump nominee
Dozens of scientists ask the Senate not to endorse Trump’s pick to head the Environmental Protection Agency’s chemical safety office
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News
Litany of security breaches at US government science institute revealed
National Institute of Standards and Technology’s security lapses persist, more than two years after illegal meth production was uncovered at one of its sites
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News
Universities to be assessed on business collaborations
Ref and Tef are set to be joined by Kef – the Knowledge Exchange Framework – in a new ranking to assess commercialisation of research
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News
Root and branch reform urged for Polish universities and research
EU report paints picture of out-of-date system
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News
Obama era clean power plan to be binned
US environment agency to end dalliance with country’s first limits on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants
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Opinion
Independent banking
Research shouldn’t be held ransom by the Spanish government in the fight over Catalonia
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News
Catalan independence vote fallout sees research centres’ bank accounts frozen
Spanish government seized control of regional public finances prior to the referendum and may hold them indefinitely
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News
Home Office blunder sees materials scientist told to 'leave the UK'
Electron microscopist’s case highlights the uncertain future facing European scientists in the UK
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News
Trump’s latest immigration edict worries US research community
White House’s updated and expanded rules will harm the US’s scientific enterprise, science advocates and research universities warn
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Opinion
Scientists become bedeviled advocates
Scientists need to stand up for rational thinking at a time when it is under threat around the world
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Business
Helium and rubber added to EU critical raw materials list
New classification sees nine materials pass threshold of supply risk, while two are downgraded
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News
Energy and gene editing could be sticking points for German coalition
Merkel will have to team up with two opposing parties amid nationalist surge
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Opinion
Should individual companies be blamed for climate change?
Argument ignores consumers’ responsibility driven by our energy demands
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News
US rules for ‘dual-use’ research found lacking
Regulations may overlook studies of concern and needlessly hamper other work
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News
Science fails to make an impact in forthcoming German elections
Researchers find election commitments to science wanting as Angela Merkel appears on course to secure a fourth term on Sunday