All articles by Maria Burke – Page 12
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NewsWellcome Trust to enforce open access rules
UK charitable foundation will cut the grants of scientists who do not make their research freely available
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NewsMystery metal revealed by UK atmospheric inventory
Pollution survey finds that acid rain is abating but puzzlingly high levels of metals in the environment have been uncovered
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Finch report backs open access for UK
Country should embrace open access but there are warnings that universities could spend as much as £60 million extra a year on author fees
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Sweden bans BPA in food packaging for under-threes
Government says it is taking a precautionary approach to the chemical to protect children
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Chief scientific advisers ignored by UK government
House of Lords says that science advisers need to be given funding and access to ministers
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Settlement ups UK universities' dependency on fees
Grant letter holds research funding steady while student numbers are set to drop next year
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Government launches UK life sciences strategy
Life sciences industry receives a cash boost to bridge the gap between an idea and a product
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India won't boycott Olympics over Dow sponsorship
Bhopal campaigners have objected to Dow's sponsorship of the London 2012 games, but have been overruled
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Australian carbon tax passes into law
Top 500 polluters will have to pay per tonne of carbon dioxide emitted in 2012
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Europe risks being outstripped by R&D rivals
Investment in R&D by top European firms grew by 6 per cent last year, but competitors are growing faster
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Half of young Australian academics ready to quit
Dissatisfaction with poor job security and low pay is rife in Australian universities
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Patching up patients with a heart of gold
Cell communication in a patch designed to heal damaged hearts can be improved using gold nanowires
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Higher education funding rises around the world
Between 2000 and 2008 funding for universities rose, while private funding of institutions increased substantially
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Crystallising safer explosives
Co-crystallising two explosives has allowed researchers to make a compound that is safer but still highly energetic
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London rolls out dust suppressant technology
Chemical dust suppressant cuts small particulate levels by up to 14 per cent by 'gluing' them to the road
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Report concludes BBC science is good but has weaknesses
The BBC Trust's review of the corporation's science reporting finds that marginal opinions get too much airtime
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Innovation: Europe must do better
Head of innovation institute pushes for entrepreneurship in research
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What's in store for European biotech?
The global economic crisis has made funding even harder to come by, but positive long-term trends provide some cause for optimism, as Maria Burke discovers
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Armageddon in slow motion
Nobel peace prize winner and doctor Eric Chivian believes environmental change poses a serious threat to human health. Maria Burke talks to him
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Something in the water
Drugs have been finding their way into our water supplies for as long as they have been in use, so should we worry? Maria Burke reports