China often views the ideas of foreigners, from missionaries in the 17th century to 21st-century Internet entrepreneurs, as subversive imports. The tumultuous history behind the class with Google. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704878904575031263063242900.html?m…
This website has information on possible health and environment risks and on societal aspects of nanotechnologies. http://nanotrust.ac.at/nano.ita.en/index.html
Will the new European Research Council lead EU science to success or lose its way? Once in a generation, perhaps, a new research agency is born that does unprecedented things. […]
Welcome to the brave new world of accelerating change. The 21st century is throwing up different types of crises at a breathtaking and unprecedented pace with domino effects. Hall marks […]
The National Institutes of Health and the US Food and Drug Administration announced a new collaboration on February 24th, 2010 that will support efforts in translational and regulatory science, including […]
The Open Street Map project is a very ambitious attempt to create a user contributed vector map of the entire world. Open Street Map allows you to view, edit and […]
About eight years ago, Glenn Albrecht began receiving frantic calls from residents of the Upper Hunter Valley, a 6,000-squaree-mile region in southeastern Australia. For generations, the Upper Hunter was known […]
Africa’s growing biotech business relies heavily on public and foundation money, small startups, and R&D collaborations between universities and private labs. There are a lot of potential and possibilities for […]
“The out-of-power right has built a counterculture, just as the left did in the 60’s” says Michael Lind in Salon, an online news/opinion website. Street theater. Communes. Manifestoes. Denunciations of […]
Fed up with government gridlock, but put off by the flavor of the Tea Party, people in cities across the country are offering an alternative: The Coffee Party. Growing through […]