Science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)
Bird numbers in Britain and Ireland - monitored with the aid of citizen scientists - are falling. Tim Birkhead calls for action
Peers criticise ‘ad hoc’ spending announcements on infrastructure
But niche learning may not play well in jobs market, expert warns
Symposium considers drawing’s role in refining and communicating knowledge, from geology to surgery to unicorns
2013-14 figures assuage fears of course closures
In Cara lecture, Iraqi-born physicist calls for revival of region’s thirst for knowledge
Our cultural values, media and education system are pushing science to the margins, Dame Athene Donald warns
Engineering departments bidding for £200 million of new capital funds for teaching should only be eligible if they are signed up to Athena SWAN
The extraordinary forgotten story of a university science club which put the first Arab rockets into space is the focus of a new documentary film.
Nicolas Gompel explains how his pet obsession has inspired his investigations into biological diversity
The UK is the “biggest biosciences cluster in Europe” a report by the BioIndustry Association has said.
Scientists need to lose their “excessive fastidiousness” to make London the scientific capital of the world, the city’s mayor Boris Johnson has said.
Three scientists have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for laying the foundations for the computer modelling of chemical processes.
Scientists who developed a theory describing the origin of mass have won the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics.
Three scientists who elucidated a fundamental process in cell physiology have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.
Schools should teach the limits of scientific certainty so the public better understand scientific debate, says president of the Royal Society
Earthquake experts must communicate public risk more effectively to avoid a repetition of the Italian media fiasco that a year ago culminated in jail terms for the academics involved
Fee loans will be offered to students studying engineering and technology part time as second degrees in a bid to attract more women to the subjects.
Scott Armstrong’s 2013 Max Perutz Prize-winning essay on xenon’s potential to save lives
A career in science is built on hope and naviety as well as intellect, argues Russell Foster
A university has asked for a journal paper to be retracted after an investigation found no evidence that the study it described had been carried out.
Half of scientific papers published in 2011 can be accessed online for free, a new study has suggested.
In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.
Smart thinking on efficiencies funnels cash to research
Data show how much work conservation biologists do outside office hours
Female academics aim to boost women’s interest in computer science
The former chief scientific adviser is relishing his new advisory role at the Oxford Martin School, tackling global challenges
Laura Frost on the paradox of women’s lust that science struggles to comprehend
Research into replacing and reducing animal use in scientific experiments is to benefit from £4.8 million in public investment in 2013-14
Academics at King’s College London and the universities of Edinburgh and Oxford have won prizes in a heart science image competition
The pre-registration of study designs must be resisted, says Sophie Scott
A £30 million investment in research and innovation campuses from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been unveiled.
The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.
David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.
The number of scientific procedures started on animals in the UK has risen sharply, increasing by 8 per cent.
The South East Physics Network, created five years ago to counteract a decline in the subject in the English region, has launched its second phase.
Female researchers take to the streets to entertain the public with cutting-edge research
The £1.1 billion annual investment in science capital announced in last month’s spending round is the biggest “for decades” and must not be wasted.
Girls are outperforming boys in the sciences but are still not choosing to take such subjects ahead of university, a study on vocational qualifications has found.
A paucity of suitable sites, a “stand-offish” attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the Lords Science and Technology committee has been told.
The scientist who developed the first-ever prototype for an “invisibility cloak” has been given a top award by the Institute of Physics.
Students offered ‘fun, novel’ way to learn how to write paper ‘abstracts’
Pat Monaghan and Tim Birkhead call for variation to be the theme once more in university biology
We are paying too high a price for 100,000 genomes more, warns Bill Amos
The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.
Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.
For many a creationist or devout religious believer, it is a scene straight from a nightmare
The number of journals denied an impact factor for taking part in citation cartels has risen sharply this year, pushing up the total number of excluded journals.
The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.
George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review
Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title
The Science Museum Group may completely close one of its three museums outside London, its director has said.
The final frontier to UK space exploration is political but exhilarating nevertheless, says Kevin Fong
Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel
Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz
Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith
Research facility clusters mean the benefits are too localised, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers
A department of Imperial College London has withdrawn the offer of an internship placement being sold by auction after the move received heavy criticism.
But investigation finds that practice ‘did not always meet’ expected standards
