Global Advances Challenge U.S. Dominance in Science
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The United States remains the world leader in scientific and technological innovation, but its dominance is threatened by economic development elsewhere, particularly in Asia.
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As Boston and Cambridge have become global hubs for life sciences, the demand for laboratory space has skyrocketed.
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Britain's performance in a league table of universities has improved, but the US still dominates.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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The US is poised to push Japan off the top of the supercomputing chart with IBM&#39;s prototype Blue Gene/L machine. It is being assembled for the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, a US Department of Energy lab (DOE).
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As the world's largest emitter of greenhouse gases, the United States has come under heavy criticism, including from people who live almost on top of the world.
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Scientists have struggled for years to make electricity from the sunâs light, at a cost competitive with other power sources. Now they are close, using the sunâs heat instead.
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By Scarborough, Robert  FOR CAREER AND TECHNICAL EDUCATION, THE GLOBALIZATION OF the American economy is a challenge and an opportunity.
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For many, Sputnik was proof that Americaâs science education, had fallen behind. But, since then, how far have we come?
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The American sweep of Nobel Prizes in science this year has filled the nation's science educators with pride over what's done well in labs and classrooms &#151; and angst over what's not.
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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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The U.S. government should create a body to foster the free flow of scientific knowledge and researchers from other countries while balancing the threat from enemies, an expert panel said on Thursday.
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A panel of leading computer scientists warned in a report issued on Monday that unless the federal government significantly increases support for advanced research on supercomputing, the United States will be unable to retain its lead on that
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The main challengers to U.S. economic power &#151; Brazil, Russia, India and China &#151; have overtaken the United States in dominating the global energy industry, according to a new study by Goldman Sachs.
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WASHINGTON -- By 2020 the world's economy will have grown by 80 percent and average incomes will have risen by half as India and China -- which together will account for more than a third of the planet's population -- surpass Europe and compete with the United States as the major global powers, top US intelligence analysts forecast yesterday.
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Scientists discuss their preferred targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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UC Santa Barbara researchers present their findings on the state of Chinese nanotechnology at the AAAS annual meeting. China aims to leapfrog the United States in technological development with substantial investment in nanotechnology, but whether those efforts will actually pay off is still unclear. Alexis Madrigal reports from Boston.