Public must 'help direct science'
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The public needs to have greater say in scientific decision-making, the British Association leader says.
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By Sun Xiaohua  Experts have urged the government to make climate change an integral part of its development planning in order to address the problem global warming.
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Isotopes of lead and polonium could help scientists to form more accurate estimates of when people have died.
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A Department for Science should be created in Whitehall to boost the subject's profile, a Tory task force says.
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Science & environment: Service claims to offer insight on risk of inherited disease, but experts warn science is not exact
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The government is to review its funding for physics after scientists warned of an Â£80m research shortfall.
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A watchdog seeks public opinion on women donating their eggs for scientific research.
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Work by British scientists could mean people paralysed by spinal injuries may one day be able to walk again.
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A new report released by an American Physical Society (APS) Special Committee on NASA Funding for Astrophysics has questioned the space agency's Moon, Mars and Beyond initiative. The APS assessment warns that t  he cost of overcoming technological challenges to make real the plan could far exceed budgetary projections and that numerous&nbsp;approved science programs could be jeopardized.
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If the 2008 presidential candidates are forced, kicking and screaming, to debate science, what questions should they be asked? An impressive array of scientists, academics, politicians and journalists have joined Science Debate 2008, the grass-roots group urging the candidates to have a debate on science and technology. I can't imagine the candidates' handlers are happy [...].
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A new federally funded project should help scientists learn how some animals regenerate body parts so well. They hope to apply the lessons to humans. By the Associated Press.
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A new commission should be established to help balance the need for scientific openness and security concerns in a world facing terrorism, the National Research Council urged Thursday.
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Comment is free: James Randerson:  Scientists will have to work hard to persuade a cynical public to tuck in to the idea of cloned meat.
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Comment is free: Madeleine Bunting: The new honesty of community leaders must be matched by a strategy from government that is patient and painstaking.
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Standards chief calls for more transparency to repair the damage done to public confidence
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Do clinical trials actually benefit the volunteers who take part? Is scientific research used as a tool by political spin doctors?
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Royal Society: we'd like to see the word 'science' somewhere ... One of Gordon Brown's first acts as Prime Minister has been the abolition of the Department of Trade &amp; Industry (DTI).â¦