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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TRIESTE, Italy, Oct 5 (IPS) - U.S. embargos on 'dual use' technology  are stifling knowledge vital for development, scientists say.
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SAN FRANCISCO A panel of leading computer scientists has warned in a report 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 U.S. needs to overhaul its education system to encourage innovation and focus more federal funding on high-risk research to maintain a competitive edge over other nations, according to a report endorsed by leading U.S. companies and universities.
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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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It's not exactly light reading, but there's plenty of good news in a report from the National Academy of Engineering. It's a list of the "Grand Challenges" in engineering this century compiled by an array of experts like the genetics researcher J. Craig Ventner and Google's Larry Page. What's encouraging isn't so much the list [...].
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Science & environment: Innovative study suggests scientific solutions to global transport problems within the next 50 years.
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The White House's focus on technology to address global warming contrasts sharply with the course embraced by most of America's allies.
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The United States must &quot;rededicate&quot; itself to the strength of its universities if the nation is to maintain its place as a world leader in technology and innovation, Microsoft Corp.
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Eighth-grade students in the United States scored better in both mathematics and science last year than in 1999, but still lagged their peers in a number of other industrial countries, according
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American eighth-grade students have made gains in math and science compared with their worldwide counterparts, but performance at the fourth-grade level appears to have reached a plateau, according to a major international study released yesterday.
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Scientists discuss their prefered targets for the next "flagship" mission to another world.
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Americans fear that the United States has frittered away 35 years of space superiority, and a new generation of rivals is about to shove it into second place.
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The United States is the richest nation on Earth, the world&#39;s biggest beneficiary of the global economy. But will it last? Not that long ago, the ``global economy&#39;&#39; meant that routine factory jobs were going overseas.
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US researchers say world population will continue to grow at a vigorous pace in decades to come, even as overall global fertility rates continue on a downward trend.
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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.
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A series of X-Prizes for breakthroughs in science or technology that solve the world's greatest challenges are planned.