The blog of Richard Black, environment correspondent for the BBC News website
The U.S. economy needs a game-changing jolt of innovation. The good news: R&D is getting a big boost in funding from the federal government and it's going to fuel the kind of growth that spreads jobs around.
NASA's launch of the Mars Science Laboratory -- hampered by technical difficulties and cost overruns -- has been delayed until the fall of 2011, NASA officials said at a news conference Thursday in Washington.
The Christian Science Monitor - Despite President Obama’s initial policy of engagement toward Iran, the outstretched US hand is now looking more like an index finger.
The Christian Science Monitor - Yesterday’s 5-to-4 decision on campaign finance reform was bold and sweeping. The parties on both sides of the case, Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, offered the Supreme Court narrow ways in which to resolv
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from views of Mars to blood clots, from sea slugs to pond scum, we share the week's science news as told through eye-popping pictures
