February 2009 Archives
February 27, 2009 12:56 PM
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Gordon Brown: U.K. Science Won't Be an Economic Victim
Challenging the economic gloom that seems to hit the news everyday, Gordon Brown, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, today assured the scientific community that U.K. research will not...
February 27, 2009 12:15 PM
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White House Requests New Funding for Autism
Autism research will get a funding boost if U.S. President Barack Obama has his way. In his budget overview released yesterday, Obama requested $211 million as part of the Department...
February 27, 2009 10:50 AM
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Obama and Yucca
President Barack Obama has come through on a campaign promise to oppose plans to build a storage vault for nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain in Nevada. Yesterday's budget request scales...
February 26, 2009 5:26 PM
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Cap and Trade and the Budget
Chris Mooney makes an interesting point about the $15 billion the 2010 budget assumes a cap-and-trade system to battle greenhouse emissions will deliver to the Treasury next year: So now,...
February 26, 2009 4:47 PM
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Obama Supercharges CO2 Monitoring
The crash of a NASA mission this week to monitor the flows of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a big blow to climate scientists hoping to learn more about...
February 26, 2009 4:08 PM
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More on NASA 2010 Budget Request
With an emphasis on earth science, NASA gets a welcome boost in President Barack Obama's new budget released today. The Administration will request $18.7 billion for 2010, which is...
February 26, 2009 11:36 AM
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AIDS Czar Named
President Barack Obama today tapped Jeffrey Crowley to fill the top slot in the Office of National AIDS Policy (ONAP)....
February 26, 2009 10:25 AM
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2010 Science Budget ... Big But Sketchy Numbers
In a decidedly old-school style for the digitally minded Obama Administration, this morning the Government Printing Office released a booklet on the 2010 budget. (The sparse document will be released online...
February 25, 2009 4:44 PM
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International Polar Year Wraps Up
Today from the $1.2 billion International Polar Year (IPY) project is a report on results from the last 2 years. From the press release: IPY has provided a critical boost...
February 25, 2009 4:11 PM
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Volcano Monitoring Criticized as "Eruption of Spending"
The Daily Beast covers Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal's attack on the U.S. Geological Survey's monitoring of volcanoes. The speech was the Republican Party's response to the president's address to...
February 25, 2009 2:48 PM
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And Win the War on Cancer, Too
In addition to saving the banks, shoring up the cratered real estate market, and capping greenhouse gas emissions, President Barack Obama had another ambitious goal for the stimulus package in...
We're Already on Top, Mr. President
In his speech last night to Congress, President Barack Obama promised that his education policies would help more people attend college, ensuring that "by 2020, America will once again have...
February 25, 2009 2:06 PM
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Obama vs. Bush: Yes, Climate Change Is Unhealthy
Howard Frumkin of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works today about the impacts of climate change on health. You...
Why School Rankings Don't Matter—and What Does
TOKYO—Junichi Hamada is still a month away from taking office as the next president of the University of Tokyo, and it's clear he's already weary of one question. After Hamada...
Obama on Energy: "We Will Lead Again"
In his "State of the Union"-like address just now, President Barack Obama touted the stimulus package's multibillion-dollar boost to renewable energy research, deployment, and infrastructure, as well as basic research...
February 24, 2009 3:21 PM
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Obama Loses Another Pick
Note: This item has been updated Poor President Barack Obama. His would-be appointees keep slipping through his fingers. Now, even as the president prepares to make a third try at...
February 24, 2009 12:07 PM
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Federal Science Budget Schedule 101
It's a confusing week with essentially three budgets crashing into one another. Here are the basics: Last week, President Barack Obama signed the $787 billion stimulus package, with roughly $21...
February 24, 2009 11:48 AM
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Indian Space Program Progresses
BANGALORE, INDIA—India is a step closer to fulfilling its aspiration of putting a human in space by 2015. A blue-ribbon government panel gave a nod last week to the Indian...
February 24, 2009 11:39 AM
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Journal Latest to Confront Conflicts of Interest
Journal editors are always keen to ask authors to disclose individual contributions to papers and potential conflicts of interest. Today, the editors of PLoS Medicine published an editorial calling for...
February 24, 2009 9:51 AM
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CO2 Monitoring Satellite Fails
A $280 million NASA satellite designed to monitor carbon dioxide emissions failed early this morning because of a problem with the Taurus XL rocket. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory was a...
February 24, 2009 8:36 AM
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Good Day at the Office (of Science)
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science comes out a big winner in the draft budget for 2009 formulated by the U.S. Congress yesterday. But a closer look shows that...
February 23, 2009 6:16 PM
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Sustainable Ag Prof Nominated for #2 Spot at USDA
When Tom Vilsack was picked to lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture, some environmental and organic groups grumbled that the former Iowa governor and proponent of ethanol was too close...
February 23, 2009 5:10 PM
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2009 Looking Sweet for the National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation would get a 6.7% increase, to $6.49 billion. Although that's half of its overall requested boost for this year, it comes on top of a $3...
February 23, 2009 4:28 PM
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2009 Budget: Winners and Losers
After last week's stellar stimulus bill for U.S. federally funded research, science fans have a mixed result coming from Capitol Hill this afternoon. The House of Representatives released the draft...
February 23, 2009 4:26 PM
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Four Charged in Animal-Rights Incidents
On Friday, the FBI announced that it had arrested four animal-rights extremists suspected of harassing researchers who work at University of California (UC) campuses in Berkeley and Santa Cruz. The...
February 23, 2009 2:20 PM
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Odd Ban on Minority Ph.D. Stats Lifted
The National Science Foundation (NSF) on Friday reversed a controversial policy that reduced the amount of information available on new minority Ph.D.s. The move follows widespread complaints that the new...
February 23, 2009 11:52 AM
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Do Computers Help Students Learn Math Better?
They may not, says a new study. It may not be what companies want to hear, but the math scores of U.S. students using educational software are no better...
February 23, 2009 8:35 AM
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Indian Science Minister: We're Not Worthy
NEW DELHI--In a rare confession of inadequacy, India's science minister, Kapil Sibal, told Parliament last week that India competes poorly with developed nations in science. He blamed India's "comparatively low"...
February 21, 2009 8:09 AM
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New Mercury Treaty = New U.S. Internationalism on Environment?
Environmentalists are hoping so. They're hailing yesterday’s announcement by the United Nations Environment Programme that more than 140 countries have agreed to negotiate a treaty to reduce mercury pollution....
February 20, 2009 1:10 PM
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Dr. Chu Goes to Washington
"I feel like I've been dunked into the deep end of the pool," Department of Energy Secretary Steven Chu confessed to reporters at a sit down hosted by energy...
Energy Research Budget a Walk on the Wild Side, Says Official
Mild-mannered Anna Palmisano, head of DOE's biological and environmental research arm, said at an advisory board meeting yesterday that "the past 3 weeks have been as wild as any as...
February 19, 2009 3:10 PM
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Lawmakers to Get Cracking on Forensics Report
The New York Times reports today that members of the U.S. Congress have already committed to holding hearings on the recommendations of a long-awaited National Academy of Sciences report on...
Museums and Zoos Go Ape Over Stimulus Stigma
By signing the $787 billion stimulus bill Tuesday at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, which draws part of its power from rooftop solar panels built by a local...
New Group Plans a Solar Japan
TOKYO—Japan "has not shown leadership" on environmental issues, former investment banker Yasuyo Yamazaki said here yesterday at the inaugural press conference of the Sun-Based Economy Association. Yamazaki, who heads the...
February 18, 2009 5:24 PM
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Harvard Biomedical Construction Slowed
As was rumored last week, Harvard University has announced that it will slow the construction of its new science complex in Allston, across the Charles River from its main Cambridge...
February 18, 2009 4:55 PM
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NIH Grant Pipeline Now Flush With $timulus
The National Institutes of Health will dedicate most of its $8.2 billion for research from the economic stimulus bill to funding grant applications it has already received and to supplementing...
February 18, 2009 4:45 PM
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Science Hero Specter Talks
PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA—Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), fresh off earning the distinction of being one of just three Republicans to vote for the Obama Administration’s economic stimulus plan and savoring a successful...
February 18, 2009 3:40 PM
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Tale of Two Reports
So who do you think will be more effective at getting their recommendations listened to: 1) the Natural Resources Defense Council, out with a report listing ways in which the United States...
February 18, 2009 3:21 PM
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Why a Science Booster Couldn't Support the Stimulus Bill
No House Republican voted for the $787 billion stimulus package that President Barack Obama signed into law yesterday. But there's at least one who was tempted to do so...
Jupiter Beats Saturn in Solar System Throwdown
The hottest competition in the solar system is over. NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) said today that each agency will launch a probe to Jupiter in 2020...
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