Sarah Boseley, Drug giant GlaxoSmithKline pledges cheap medicine for world's poor, The Guardian, February 13, 2009.The world's second biggest pharmaceutical company is to radically shift its attitude to providing cheap drugs to millions of people in the developing...

The worst fears of the satellite community have been realised. Two satellites, Kosmos 2251 and Iridium 33 crashed into each other approximately 800 km over northern Siberia. How this happened is unclear as the orbits of these satellites were pretty well known,...

This week Carnival o’ Space is at 21st Century Waves, and wouldn’t you know, it has a Valentine’s theme! I cardioid it....

Science News reports on Holly Gibbs talk on biofuels and land clearing at AAAS: Two papers published last year suggested that clearing tropical forests to plant biofuel crops might actually worsen climate change, but that planting biofuels crops on “degraded”...

You've eliminated measles in Australia.High take-up rates of the infant measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine has led to the elimination of the endemic measles virus in Australia, immunisation experts say. Researchers from the University of Sydney, writing in...

On February 3rd, Dave Conyers of the US House of Representatives re-introduced a bill to repeal the National Institute of Healths public access policy, which says that research funded by this agency must be made freely available on a database called PubMed...

As the annual meeting of the world's largest scientific society kicks off in Chicago, Illinois, this morning, there's an atmosphere of celebration despite the chilly temperatures outside. It's not just the double anniversary of both Darwin's and Lincoln's birth....

Joachim Gudmundsson and Pat Morin are discussing the possibility of establishing a new open access computational geometry journal, which would be completely free to both readers and authors. So far, there are three relevant posts at Joachim's blog:The initial...

At least according to most Americans. The full report of the Pew Religious Landscape Survey has some data not available on the website. There is a question of the form: When it comes to questions of right and wrong, which of the following do you look to most...

ScienceDaily has a report on a presentation Mark Shriver gave at AAAS meething this year:"We started with 22 landmarks on the faces that could be accurately located in all the images," said Shriver.These landmarks might be the tip of the nose, the tip of the...