Nature

In the face of dwindling national budgets, scientists and science lobbyists must convince policy makers that investing in Science has direct economic benefits.

Scientists conducting arctic research are force to contend with a new climate that has made the arctic the newest frontier in industrial shipping and the subject of numerous international territorial disputes.

The US National Academy of Sciences was charged with tabling a report that addressed long term revenue and endowment problems at American research universities. The Academy's report will recommend that universities significantly reduce research costs by sharing equipment and pooling together resources with other local institutions.

The US Supreme Court this week gave its opinion on American Electric Power v. Connecticut, a closely watched lawsuit that seeks to force some of the nation's largest electricity generators to cut their greenhouse-gas emissions because they contribute to climate change, which is a public nuisance.

Canadian physicists at Simon Fraser University, the University of Calgary, York University, the University of Victoria TRIUMF National Laboratory, and the University of British Columbia have contributed to the groundbreaking achievement of trapping antimatter for 16 minutes. As part of the ALPHA collaboration based at the particle physics laboratory CERN, in Switzerland, physicists are now one step closer to understanding fundamental questions about the relationship between matter and antimatter.