UK to invest long-term in science
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Chancellor Gordon Brown announces a long-term plan for investment in science education and hi-tech industry.
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The UK public is being invited by the government to have its say on the future of science and technology.
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UK tissue engineering experts are teaming up with NASA to find treatments for diseases back on Earth.
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Gordon Brown may rejig departments in making science a top priority, the education secretary says.
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Regulators are due to make a decision on whether to allow human-animal embryos to be used for research in the UK.
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The approval of a new drug is a long-term opportunity.
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Crop research groups agree to ensure long-term funding of the world's largest repository of rice samples.
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The next five years are critical if the UK is to avoid losing the next generation of scientists, a new consortium warns.
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Science & environment: BT is to spend Â£250m building wind farms around the country in the UK's biggest single renewable investment outside of the energy sector.
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Science and engineering clubs for young teenagers in England are to receive Â£5m in support.
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A proposal for the UK to join the International Space Station (ISS) project is put forward by a group of scientists and engineers.
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British scientists have created human embryos with three parents in a development they hope could lead to effective treatments for a range of serious hereditary diseases within five years.
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The US National Institutes of Health invests $28bn annually in research. European spending is lower, although the European Union is closing the gap, helped by a shortsighted American policy of &quot;flatlining&quot; many scientific research budgets. (Perhaps this is because scientists have an annoying tendency to discuss things that conflict with the Bush administration&#39;s view of reality, such as global warming, evolution, the insufficiency of the New Orleans levee system and the medical potential of stem cells.)
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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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The UK must play an active and central role in future human space missions, a report concludes.
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SCOTTISHPOWER plan to fuel the next generation of scientists by supporting the Edinburgh International Science Festival's touring education programme Generation Science this year.
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Scientists and entrepreneurs call for the creation of a charitable foundation to promote and fund UK stem cell research.