A post on the NPR website which responds to the New York Times article by John Tierney on research sponsorship, corporate or otherwise.

A University of Arkansas researcher and his colleagues are traveling to Haiti as part of a National Science Foundation expedition to continue taking geologic measurements and better understand what happened, what is happening now, and what might yet occur.

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has been heavily criticized for erroneous projections. In the following editorial, climate researchers Richard Tol, Roger Pielke and Hans von Storch call for a reform of the IPCC.

An international research collaboration, supported financially by the European Union and by the Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Korean, Russian and US governments, has recently embarked upon one of the world's greatest and most ambitious scientific challenges.

Political turmoil, a brain drain of scientists and waning interest have transformed Russia from a nation that launched the first satellite into an increasingly minor player in the world of science, according to a Thomson Reuters report released on Tuesday.

Everyone agrees that better science and technology is vital, but as Watkins and other World Bank staff at the Global Forum asked, what should the Bank’s role be in this process?

A delegation from the Vietnam Ministry of Science and Technology visited Finland from January 16-25 to gather ideas for promoting science and technology.

Researchers from science and public health organizations in China and the United States met in China, to discuss collaboration in cancer epidemiology, environmental monitoring, and tobacco control, and how to foster translational research.