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The Japanese Government has presented five robots to Canberra's Questacon Science and Technology Centre.

Last week, the White House invited me to a signing ceremony overturning the Bush executive order on stem cell research.

A $1 billion 'sustainable village' of research facilities, classrooms and housing is planned on 75 acres of the former Moffett Field Naval Air Station, officials of two local colleges and NASA Ames Research ...

In announcing his policy on federal funding of stem cell research, President Barack Obama inadvertently cast a bright light on a dangerous temptation in science policy that ought to give Americans pause.

Turkey's feuding political factions are embroiled in a row over academic freedom after state officials forced a science journal to scrap an article celebrating the work of Charles Darwin.Bilim ve Teknik (Science and Technology) withdrew the 16-page feature from this month's issue under orders from its publisher, the state-run Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (Tubitak). The magazine's editor, Cigdem Atakuman, was also sacked for 'exceeding her authority' by commissioning the article, which Tubitak said was 'not planned or scientifically evaluated beforehand'.The incident has prompted accusations of censorship from academics and opposition politicians, who accuse the Islamist-rooted Justice and Development party government of trying to impose religious ideas on academic institutions. It has also led to renewed warnings from European officials that continued restrictions on freedom of speech could harm Turkey's drive for EU membership. The government has denied playin

The discovery by Indian and British scientists that the Earth's strong outer shell -- the 'lithosphere' -- within the central Indian Ocean began to deform and fracture 15.4--13.9 million years ago, much earlier than previously thought, impacts our understanding of the birth of the Himalayas and the strengthening of the Indian-Asian monsoon.