Declan Butler

TL;DR: Foundation pledges results within a few years to improve access to quality of life for people living in developing countries and to provide information on how to improve the quality of their lives.

TL;DR: Examiners at the European Patent Office (EPO) are losing confidence in its ability to ensure the quality of the patents it issues, according to two separate staff surveys, and the office is currently preparing a thorough report on its approach to quality.

TL;DR: The American Institute of Biological Sciences has announced plans to combine up to 200 of the journals published by its member societies within a single, searchable website.

TL;DR: The vote to carry through the threat showed that senior members of the scientific establishment were prepared to act, and opened up the debate about how to overhaul France’s centralized and bureaucratic science system.

TL;DR: For example, the authors found a strong ally in Rita Colwell, the new director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF), who was the first woman to become head of the NSF.