China and the United States yesterday said they will open a dialogue on space cooperation, a move experts say will increase understanding and benefit both sides in the long run.

Researchers in China and India have joined forces to explore the best ways of turning unpromising drylands into productive farming land.

From 2 to 4 December, an advanced research workshop in Ferrara, Italy, aims to define a system for detecting and preventing soil erosion, sea level changes and pollution, and exploitation of fish stocks in the Caspian region.

While there are lots of serious reasons to object to the Obama Administration’s opening up an expanded relationship between NASA and the Chinese National Space Administration (CNSA) it is probably too late to stop the process.

Harmonizing 'science for development' funding would make science aid more effective, benefiting both donors and recipients.

Science will play a key role in addressing global problems, expert have said. They argue a global science pact is needed to make solutions to problems accessible to all nations.

Twitter has had a phenomenological influence on the international news media in the post-Iranian elections period in June 2009 onwards. Through the continuous 24 hour- cycle of tweets, the micro-blogging site was challenging the censorship applied by the Iranian government on all news media covering the confrontations following the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad . After years of state monopoly and censorship twitter and other social media sites and applications are making governments more concerned over news.