The French treasury has trimmed 8 per cent off this year's science ministry budget as part of the country's general spending cuts, leaving many laboratories in financial difficulty. (newscientist.com)
Meanwhile, on Wednesday the Japanese science ministry began to report measurements of cesium - 137 in upland soil around the plant. (sciencemag.org)
So when the time came for Schwartz, 29, to choose a Ph.D. program, he utilized a CIFRE agreement, a funding mechanism supported by the French science ministry through which young researchers are employed by a company and obtain a doctorate in partnership with a public lab. (sciencemag.org)