Queensland researchers are closer to finding a vaccine for a little known disease that affects many unborn babies, after receiving a $100,000 state government grant.

The Grains Research and Development Corporation, which has invested over $16 million into soil and water management over the last two years, will step up its soil science focus through the new Soil Biology Initiative.

A family of drugs being developed by scientists is designed to strip cancerous tumours of their immortality. As cancer develops, the timer controlling a cell's life span goes wrong allowing it to divide and multiply.

A research laboratory just opened in the UK has been designed to help produce forensic science techniques and services for use in the fight against crime.

A team led by Professor Guy Maddern, Adelaide University's Department of Surgery, has presented its preliminary results of trials to the Annual Scientific Meeting of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons.

From November 17th, Mexico is making changes to its internal dialing codes.

The acquisition of one of the most advanced electron microscopes in the world will propel the University of Technology Sydney into the global forefront of imaging and analysis facilities associated with emerging fields such as nanotechnology and nanoengineering.

On 30 October Minister Nick Minchin and Shadow Minister Martyn Evans took part in the 'great science debate', discussing various questions raised by the science community.

The Knowledge Nation proposals announced in the ALP policy launch were warmly welcomed by the science and technology community.

Geneticists at Dartmouth Medical School have discovered a family of unusually small genes that act in the finely tuned yet remarkably versatile orchestration of development and behaviour, adding still another dimension to the diversity and complexity of the cell.

Brisbane-based Occupational & Medical Inventions, and other producers of retractable needles, received a boost when John Howard, prime minister, said a future coalition administration would set aside $27million to introduce retractable needles in Australia.

Led by researchers from the University of Michigan Health System scientists have found a gene for a rare leg-weakening nerve disease that slowly robs children of their ability to walk.

A poisonous fish, eaten as a delicacy in Japan, may hold the key to decoding the human genome, said MRC researchers in Cambridge, UK.

Extracting nitrogen from the air to make fertiliser is one of the biggest commercial chemical enterprises in the world, involving a complex process of heating dangerously combustible hydrogen under very high pressures.

Senator Nick Minchin, Minister for Industry, Science and Resources, is going to debate science policy with Martyn Evans MP, ALP spokesperson for Science and Resources.