Sustainability made simple
Niall MacKay and Roger Edgar assess what the UK government's new climate adviser has to say on energy
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Challenges in tackling climate change
In order to limit global warming by reducing carbon emissions, Lord Browne argues that the biggest barriers to a low-carbon economy in the UK are not scientific or technological but...
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Saudi Arabia opens huge new university
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology inaugurated with $10bn endowment
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Plan B for climate change
Techniques to manipulate the Earth's climate are now rightly entering mainstream debate
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Threats to ultra-high-field MRI
A new European directive designed to prevent workers from being exposed to high magnetic fields could potentially have a severe impact on research into magnetic resonance imaging, warns Denis...
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Foundation gives Canadian physics a boost
SNOLAB and Perimeter Institute benefit from infrastructure grants
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UK research council backtracks on funding ban
New rules will limit, not exclude, future applicants
Obama outlines science vision
US president commits to raising R&D spending
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It’s all over for Clover
UK pulls plug on telescope to detect gravitational waves
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In search of the black swans
The publish-or-perish ethic too often favours a narrow and conservative approach to scientific innovation. Mark Buchanan asks whether we are pushing revolutionary ideas to the margi...
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