Gair Rhydd

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£1 million grant for Engineering

Cardiff’s School of Engineering has been given £1.23 million from the Welsh Assembly as part of their Academic Expertise for Business programme.

Two year sentence for stem cell scientist

A South Korean scientist has been sentenced after five years of controversy in the science world

Let us journey back to February 2004. Headlines in the press herald a breathtaking and terrifying breakthrough in science.

With the publication of two papers in leading scientific journal Science, Woo Suk Hwang and his team in South Korea claim the generation of the first patient-specific embryonic stem cell clones. The implications for treatment of disease are immense. The scientific community and the rest of the world draw their breath in admiration as we congratulate ourselves on human ingenuity in conquering the next frontier.

Third of species under threat

New IUCN Red List released with alarming results

The latest review of the world’s plant and animal species shows a third of all species are still under threat.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of threatened species is a constantly reviewed assessment of the known living species and their conservation status.