Academics from universities across Indonesia conveyed Thursday their wishes and woes to a number of listeners in Jakarta, including a representative of the White House, through a video conference.

The Israel Space Agency signed a deal that will make it a member of the NASA Center for Moon Research and promote cooperation between the two agencies.

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?