The two influenza researchers whose work has triggered a far-reaching debate on the limits of scientific freedom could hardly have handled their publicity more differently.

This coming summer, China'sÊJiaolongÊsubmersible will carry out its first research mission in the South China Sea. But China's claims of sovereignty there have sparked territorial disputes with six neighbors.

Cornell University and Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have won a competition to build the applied research university that, they hope, will transform New York City into Silicon Valley East.