“SciDev.Net partnered with the London School of Economics (LSE) and Museu da Vida (Brazil) to examine science communication around the world: journalists’ background, workload, and opinions on science communication, work environment and capacity building needs.

We also investigated the climate of opinion among science journalists and found no evidence for a global sense of crises in science communication— contrary to the evidence presented by a feature published in Nature (Brumfield et al., 2009).”

“Episciences Project to launch series of community-run, open-access journals.”

“Much of our neural circuitry is fixed during childhood. Researchers are finding ways to unglue it, raising hopes for treating many brain disorders.”

“A centuries-old conjecture is nearing its solution.”

“Children who received an extra year of school in a post-war trial have reaped health benefits.”

“As physicists close in on the Higgs boson, they should resist calls to change its name.”

“A surge in withdrawn papers is highlighting weaknesses in the system for handling them.”