From cancelled guest lectures to disrupted clinical trials, the damage to US science caused by a grant approval freeze is mounting, but further problems lie ahead
The outgoing prime minister was widely welcomed by researchers as something of a knight in shining armour after Stephen Harper¡¯s ¡®anti-science¡¯ administration. But his international student caps have made him look more like a horseman of the apocalypse to many observers. Patrick Jack reports
Institutions themselves may have escaped major damage but hundreds of staff and students have been displaced in most destructive fires in Californian history