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Robert F. Service
Supercomputer scientists who were watching the release of the Obama Administration's budget closely to see if contained new pots of money for exascale science came away both pleased and disappointed.
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David Malakoff
One of the big winners in today's rollout of the Obama Administration's 2013 budget request was the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Its budget...
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David Malakoff
Overall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) gets a 3% boost, to $5.06 billion, in the budget request released today. A major satellite program would remain roughly on...
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Erik Stokstad
Science was favored in today's federal budget rollout for several agencies with sizable research portfolios, with increases for hot topics such as the environmental impact of "fracking" for natural...
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Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would see a minuscule increase in total funding in the 2013 budget—$39 million—bringing its total to $11.2 billion. However, more than...
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Adrian Cho
Overall, the budget numbers for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, the single largest funder of physical sciences research in the United States, look reasonably good. The...
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Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
The not-so-bad news in the president's 2013 budget proposal for NASA is that his request for $17.71 billion is only marginally less than what the agency got in 2012,...
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Jocelyn Kaiser
There's little to cheer biomedical researchers in the president's budget proposal released today: the proposal would hold the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget at the current level of...
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Jean Friedman-Rudovsky
Rat study suggests antioxidants could help
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Eliot Marshall
Science appears to be on offense at the Department of Defense (DOD). As the Pentagon prepares to downsize by about $5 billion, it's making an exception in its budget...
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Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
Like many agencies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have a relatively flat budget if President Barack Obama has his way, with one notable exception. While the...
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Sid Perkins
Crops account for 92% of fresh water used each year, according to new global analysis
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Sid Perkins
Hurricanes a substantial threat to offshore wind farms along some U.S. coasts
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Michael Balter
Rock recovered from musician's property may shed light on ice age Britain
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Jeffrey Mervis
One of the big three research agencies appears to be lagging behind its doubling peers in the president's 2013 budget request released this morning. The $4.9 billion budget of...
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Edwin Cartlidge
Controversy has erupted in Italy following the news that Domenico Giardini, who had announced late last year that he was to resign as president of the National Institute of...
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Dennis Normile
TOKYO—"Flooding is the most common of natural disasters [and] it is increasingly an Asian phenomenon," Abhas Jha, a World Bank disaster management expert, said today at a briefing here,...
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Daniel Clery
Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in...
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Kim Krieger
Equation explains why hair grows differently on each person
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Jane J. Lee
Noshing on poisonous plants helps bluetongues resist deadly cane toad