Most Middle Eastern and Northern African countries spend less than 0.3% of GDP on research. But there are signs this may be changing. The Arab League is about to present a strategy for science and technology throughout the region, and recent political revolts may play to the favor of science in the region

DAVID SEGARRA | FEBRUARY 16TH, 2011

The BOINC initiative uses the computing power of home PCs to fuel research projects in various fields of science on everything from the search for extraterrestrial life to studies on climate change. Worldwide, there are about 350,000 volunteers who share their computing power to this end.

ÀNNIA MONREAL | OCTOBER 4TH, 2010

The British science system is a very powerful system, according to many gauges, both economic and of scientific excellence. It comes second in the podium behind American scientist.

18 March 2010

Cristina Jimenez | London

He mumbles some rather good expressions in Catalan and feels at home at the Barcelona Graduate School of Economics, where he attends twice a year to take part in a seminar. This professor of economics from the University of Minnesota and an adviser to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis travels constantly to Europe, aged 57, to teach economics that simmers across the Atlantic. Well acquainted with what is happening in the markets and financial systems, he confirms that there is a crisis and a recession but not a depression.

Jordi Montaner | 17 February 2010