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Chemistry World
November 17, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
US science agencies poised for tough times Current political and economic conditions in the US could mean bad news for the nation's science agencies and the researchers.   |
Chemistry World
November 20, 2007
Hepeng Jia |
China Leaps up Research League Table China has overtaken Japan and the UK to become the world's second largest producer of science and technology (S&T) papers. |
Chemistry World
October 26, 2011
Maria Burke |
Europe risks being outstripped by R&D rivals EU companies are lagging behind in R&D investment compared with major competitors from the US and some Asian economies, according to the European Commission's 2011 EU Industrial R&D Investment Scoreboard. |
Chemistry World
September 25, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
US budget bears good news for chemistry President Obama's budget proposal for fiscal year 2010 - due to start 1 October - represents very good news for chemical science and for the general research community. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Senate looks to trim $162 million from NSF US Senators plan to cut the National Science Foundation's budget by 2.4 per cent to $6.7 billion ( 4.2 billion) in 2012, and this $162 million reduction has set alarm bells ringing throughout the research community. |
IndustryWeek
April 21, 2010 |
The Competitive Edge -- Is U.S. R&D Investment Holding Up? Data trends suggest that U.S. dominance of high-technology manufacturing is under pressure. |
Chemistry World
March 24, 2011 |
Mild S&T budget growth in China China's science and technology (S&T) budget has increased by 12.5 per cent compared to last year, but its growth momentum has slowed |
Chemistry World
May 16, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
NSF five year plan to keep US science on top The agency plans to ensure that the US remains pre-eminent in S&E research and education. |
Chemistry World
April 15, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Delayed US budgets finally agreed The Obama administration says it no longer plans to keep the budgets of the key physical science agencies on a trajectory to double between 2006 and 2016, but it is still vowing to provide them with 'strong investments'. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Russian science losing its edge Research in Russia, considered a scientific powerhouse during the cold war years, has faded in global importance since the break-up of the former Soviet Union in the early 1990s and now is lagging behind China and India. |
Chemistry World
October 21, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
OECD urges China to innovate Despite China's impressive investment in research and development, the country lags behind others when it comes to innovation. |
Chemistry World
January 2008
Gurney & Adams |
Comment: How Good is UK Chemistry? Using bibliometrics as the key measure, the author compares the publication output of different countries. |
Chemistry World
October 14, 2010
Laura Howes |
France and Spain commit funds to research The 'knowledge economy' has been declared a priority for the governments of both France and Spain, as they announce extra funds for higher education and research in their 2011 budgets. |
Chemistry World
February 2, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Science shines in Obama's budget proposal US science agencies would fare quite well under President Obama's newly unveiled budget proposal for fiscal year 2011, despite his plan to reduce the nation's trillion-dollar deficit by freezing non-defence discretionary spending. |
Chemistry World
April 30, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Obama issues scientific call to arms President Obama has pledged billions of extra dollars towards scientific research and development (R&D) in a bid to maintain the US's position at the forefront of science and technology. |
Chemistry World
December 6, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
US urged to triple energy R&D investment US President Obama's panel of science advisers has recommended a tripling of the country's federal investment in energy-related research and technology to $16 billion ( 10.2 billion) annually. |
Chemistry World
May 12, 2011
Ned Stafford |
Eastern European research blighted by funding shortfall While the recently released 2012 draft EU budget is set to increase research spending by 13 per cent, scientists in eastern Europe are continuing to struggle. |
Chemistry World
August 9, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
US debt deal is a mixed bag for researchers It has become clear that the news is mixed for US science agencies and the researchers who depend on their funding. |
Chemistry World
November 7, 2011
Eugene Gerden |
Russia Books Place at Science Top Table The Innovative Russia 2020 scheme should see science funding rise to at least 2.5 per cent of GDP. However, some critics think the scheme is overambitious and predict that implementation will run into bureacratic problems. |
Chemistry World
January 8, 2008
Ned Stafford |
Young Chemists Win Share of ERC Windfall Jerusalem-based chemist Assaf Friedler wins one of the European Research Council's (ERC) prestigious grants for young researchers. |
Chemistry World
November 24, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
US universities face federal R&D funding fall American universities experienced a continuing decline in federal research and development funding in fiscal year 2014, according to new data from the US National Science Foundation. |
Chemistry World
January 6, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
Obama moves to protect research agency budgets President Obama has signed legislation to enable key US physical science agencies to enjoy consistent budget boosts over the next several years. |
Chemistry World
October 8, 2010
Akshat Rathi |
India calls for ambitious increase in science funding The Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India has advised the government to increase its science funding from less than 1 per cent of GDP to up to 2.5 per cent by 2020. |
Chemistry World
March 2010 |
News in brief Updates on hydrogels, DNA origami, graphene transistors, the European Research Council, and other science news. |
Chemistry World
February 2007
Mark Peplow |
Science Stars Rise in the East Collaborate or die. That's the message of a series of reports from the independent thinktank Demos, claiming that British science is in danger of being sidelined unless it tries harder to work with booming Asian nations such as China, India and South Korea. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2009
Ned Stafford |
Light on the horizon for chemicals sector Production in the worldwide chemical industry, battered and bruised by the global economic meltdown, appears to have stabilized and could even show mild annual growth by the fourth quarter of this year. |
Chemistry World
August 2008 |
Putting women in their place It's in all our interests to promote the career progression of women in chemistry, says Annette Williams |
Chemistry World
July 1, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
US research agencies get extra millions The US research community has won an extra $400 million for four science agencies, after successfully arguing that the nation's scientific enterprise is in a state of emergency. |
Chemistry World
May 19, 2009
Karen Harries-Rees |
Major increase in Australian science spending The Australian government has surprised the science community with a major increase in spending on science and innovation in its 2009 budget, despite tough economic conditions. |
Chemistry World
April 12, 2011
Hepeng Jia |
China sets modest energy saving plan After forced power cuts last year in a bid to save energy, China has released more realistic figures on energy saving and carbon emission reduction. |
Chemistry World
October 16, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
Credit crunch may boost Chinese science China's research budget is unlikely to be hit by the global financial crisis, and may even receive a further boost, according to policy experts. |
Chemistry World
October 25, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
US STEM graduates look beyond science for careers Concern that the US is losing its scientific and technological pre-eminence has been growing for some time, accelerated by recent economic turmoil, but a new report suggests that the issue goes beyond the need for more professional scientists, engineers and mathematicians. |
Chemistry World
August 2008 |
Editorial: Balancing up the equation Academic chemistry is a less welcoming environment for women than it is for men. |
Chemistry World
December 23, 2009
Sean Milmo |
2009 marks the start of the great divide The recession is opening up a big gap in output performance between the chemical industries of the developed and developing worlds, which will continue to widen over the next few years. |
Chemistry World
July 19, 2011
Ned Stafford |
German Science Receives a 10 Per Cent Funding Boost Angela Merkel's government has unveiled a 10 per cent boost in funding for research. |
Chemistry World
August 4, 2009
Matt Wilkinson |
Chemicals sector bumping along the bottom Despite a general feeling that the world's economies are taking the first steps on the painful road to recovery, the chemical industry is less than bullish about the outlook for the near future. |
Chemistry World
September 27, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
America's scientific lead remains on the brink An influential US National Academies committee that sounded an alarm five years ago about the precarious position of American leadership in science and technology has renewed its call to action. |
Chemistry World
Ned Stafford |
ERC concludes first phase of advanced grants The European Research Council (ERC) has announced the final cash handouts from its first ever 'Advanced Grants' competition, worth a total of 542 million, and launched the competition's second phase of funding. |
Chemistry World
September 19, 2011
Maria Burke |
Higher education funding rises around the world 'While our universities are experiencing cuts, other nations are pumping billions more into their universities to gain a competitive edge,' says Wendy Piatt, director-general of the Russell Group, which represents 20 research intensive UK universities. |
Chemistry World
January 14, 2010
Ned Stafford |
Japan research funding safe The proposals of major cuts in researching funding triggered howls of criticism from Japanese scientists and academics, who appealed for support from the global scientific community. |
Chemistry World
October 22, 2008
Lewis Brindley |
Investment rekindles interest in science A recent upturn in the number of university students taking science and maths in England suggests interest in the sciences is on the rise again |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2010 |
Chemistry at Sussex under threat again The department, which topped The Guardian's 2010 university league table for chemistry, is set to lose some 40 per cent of its faculty, according to Phil Parsons, head of organic chemistry at Sussex. |
Chemistry World
June 19, 2008
Hepeng Jia |
Chemistry dominates list of China's most influential papers The Thomson Reuters Research Fronts Award recognized a total of 24 key journal articles - including seven chemistry papers and two from the material sciences - for their outstanding contribution to international R&D. |
Chemistry World
October 2010 |
A renaissance in school chemistry John Holman, former director of the UK's National Science Learning Centre, is optimistic about the current state of chemistry education. But important caveats remain |
Chemistry World
December 10, 2012
Andrew Turley |
EU companies increasing R&D Companies in the EU are increasing their investment in R&D, despite the difficult economic conditions, according to a report from the European Commission that looked at the global top 1500 R&D investors. |
Chemistry World
November 18, 2013
Philip Ball |
Novelty hits top the charts Chemistry scores highly as an interdisciplinary subject on the basis of how often papers within the discipline cite ones from outside -- it is second only to biology, comparable to medical research, and better than, say, physics or earth sciences. |
Chemistry World
June 11, 2008
James Mitchell Crow |
GSK Job Cuts Hit Chemists GlaxoSmithKline is cutting the jobs of hundreds of scientists as it restructures its drug R&D operations. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2010
Matt Wilkinson |
More pharma R&D budget cuts GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Pfizer are both following AstraZeneca's lead in cutting their research and development budgets. |
Chemistry World
February 4, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Obama wants to boost R&D funding 6% in 2016 President Obama has outlined his ambition of growing R&D funding by 6%, to $146 billion in his 2016 budget proposal. |
Chemistry World
May 17, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
Congress pulls bill to increase science budgets A political fight between Democrats and Republicans in the US Congress has derailed legislation authorising funding for basic research and innovation. |
