Museum drops race row scientist
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The Science Museum cancels a talk by American DNA pioneer Dr James Watson who claims black people are less intelligent than white people.
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A Dutch developer's withdrawal from a science park project is blamed on animal rights protesters.
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Science & environment: DNA pioneer James Watson has retired from his post as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory.
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Greeceâs culture minister pruned the powers of the countryâs new archaeology chief after the dismissal and suicide attempt of the politician who preceded him in that post.
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DNA scientist resigns as chancellor of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in New York following remarks about intelligence of black people.
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Arts & entertainment: The often controversial head of exhibitions at the Royal Academy in London, is to step down after 31 years
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James Watson, famous for DNA research but widely condemned for recent comments about intelligence levels among blacks, retired Thursday from his post at a prestigious research institution.
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A talk by Steven W. Running, a Nobel laureate and climate researcher, was canceled in Choteau, Mont., a small farming and ranching town.
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The Science Museum cancels a talk by a geneticist who claims black people are less intelligent than white people.
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Dr. Bennett Leventhal, a leading child psychiatrist and specialist in autism, has been removed as chief of child and adolescent psychiatry at the University of Chicago for undisclosed reasons.
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Private donations to the Smithsonian Institution actually declined under its former chief executive, Lawrence M. Small, an independent committee said in a scathing report issued yesterday.
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An artist who depicted Adolf Hitler as a pop art-style cartoon figure at an exhibition near the former Dachau concentration camp said Thursday he would close the 2-week-old show due to public outrage.
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Nobel laureate biologist James Watson was suspended Friday from his longtime post at a research laboratory and canceled his planned British book tour after controversial comments that black people are not as intelligent as white people.
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MP Derek Conway, who was reprimanded for over-paying his son as a researcher, will not contest the next election.
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Grigory Perelman, who claims to have solved one of maths' hardest problems, declines the prestigious Fields Medal.
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A hearing into allegations of racism against the Zimbabwe Cricket Union is scrapped after a row over procedure.
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James Watson, the Nobel laureate who sparked an international furor last week with comments about intelligence levels among blacks, has retired from his post at a prestigious research institution.