March 2009 Archives
March 31, 2009 6:03 PM
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Hughes Selects Its (Mostly Male) Early-Career Scientists
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has chosen 50 early-career biomedical scientists to each receive a 6-year, $1.5 million grant to chase their research dreams. The winners, chosen from nearly 2100...
March 31, 2009 1:04 PM
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Laser Fusion Facility Completed—Science Still to Come
Construction of the world’s largest and most energetic laser officially finished today, after more than a decade of hang-ups and controversy and 7 years later than initially planned. The...
March 31, 2009 9:35 AM
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On Climate, Bush + Kyoto = Obama
In Bonn, Germany, on Sunday, international negotiators to the U.N. climate change treaty have started to negotiate the successor to the Kyoto Accords, which lapses in 2012. They hope to...
March 31, 2009 8:33 AM
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Debate: Do Gobbled Algae Mean Carbon Fix Sunk?
According to the conventional wisdom in recent news accounts, the failure of a recent German-Indian expedition to grow and sink a massive algae bloom at sea is the death knell...
March 30, 2009 2:57 PM
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Zerhouni Returns to Johns Hopkins
Elias Zerhouni, who stepped down as the U.S. National Institutes of Health director last October, is returning to his roots as a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine....
March 27, 2009 6:04 PM
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Creationists Notch Win in Texas Showdown
A seesaw battle between creationists and their opponents in Texas ended this afternoon on a dismal note for scientists and educators. The Texas State Board of Education voted 13–2 to...
March 27, 2009 5:20 PM
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Climate Policy Roundup
Energy efficiency and renewable energy chief is named at the Department of Energy: It's Cathy Zoi, former CEO of Al Gore's climate nonprofit, Clinton Administration environmental official, and cleantech...
March 27, 2009 12:51 PM
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Virologist Exposed to Ebola Removed From Isolation, Appears Healthy
The lab researcher in Germany who was accidentally exposed to the deadly Ebola virus 2 weeks ago remains healthy, according to virologist Stephan Günther of the Bernhard Nocht Institute for...
March 27, 2009 9:56 AM
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Bioethics Panel vs. Obama
Ten members of the White House bioethics advisory board appointed by George W. Bush have slammed the president's stem cell decision, taking issue with Obama's characterization of Bush's 2001 decision....
March 27, 2009 6:04 AM
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A Database for Japanese Science, in Japanese
TOKYO—With the Internet awash in scientific information, does the world need another database of publications and researchers? The Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST) thinks so—if it's in Japanese. Its...
March 26, 2009 4:27 PM
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NIH Braces for Stimulus Impact, Children's Study Overruns
The mood was mostly upbeat today at a House of Representatives Appropriations Committee hearing to discuss how the National Institutes of Health is spending its $10 billion windfall in the...
March 26, 2009 1:37 PM
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Evolution Survives Vote in Texas
A new attempt to weaken the teaching of evolution in Texas failed this morning. Science standards under consideration by the Texas Board of Education will not contain existing language that...
Science's Celtic Tiger Tries to Keep Roaring
The Republic of Ireland’s economy boomed during the 1990s and the early part of this decade on the back of infrastructure funding from the European Union and inward investment from...
March 26, 2009 11:44 AM
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Okie Lawmakers Investigate Dawkins
Some members of the Oklahoma legislature are not happy that the University of Oklahoma hosted a talk by outspoken evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins last week for a lecture on evolution. Oklahoma...
March 26, 2009 11:38 AM
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Geoengineering Research Now!
A draft statement posted this week by the American Meteorological Society says that research into purposeful geoengineering of the climate should be pursued now. It's the first such statement by...
March 25, 2009 2:50 PM
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U.K. Bioscientists Lobby on Animal Experimentation Law
In the latest installment of what promises to be a long political drama, scientists and officials representing major U.K. biomedical organizations today released a joint declaration expressing concern that a...
March 25, 2009 10:11 AM
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Why Won't Obama Turn Down His Lights for Earth Hour?
The Obama Administration is apparently taking a pass on a major opportunity to lead Americans to confront climate change. On Saturday night at 8:30 p.m., wherever they are, millions...
March 25, 2009 8:10 AM
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Want to Help NIH? Specter Says GOP Is Your Party
Senator Arlen Specter (R–PA) was the driving force behind securing a $10 billion shot in the arm for the National Institutes of Health in last month's $787 billion stimulus package....
March 24, 2009 4:33 PM
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Stimulus Smiles on Autism Research
So far, the National Institutes of Health and National Science Foundation have said they plan to spend the bulk of the stimulus money on already-reviewed research projects proposed by investigators....
March 24, 2009 2:05 PM
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Who Will Sit at NASA's Helm?
President Barack Obama chatted today with the astronauts completing work on NASA's international space station, joking with the crew for nearly half an hour. But he gave no sign of...
$50 Million Texas Biomedical Building Stirs Debate
Some Texas lawmakers are crying foul after the governor diverted $50 million from a fund designed to help state businesses close tech deals to Texas A&M for a new science...
March 24, 2009 12:11 PM
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Oceans Chief Lubchenco Stresses Scientific Integrity
In an interview yesterday with ScienceInsider and Nature, newly confirmed National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Administrator Jane Lubchenco made little news but did reiterate her concern about maintaining high standards...
Singh Makes Science Election Issue in Reelection Bid
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of the ruling Congress Party today made science an important element in his party’s election manifesto for the upcoming polls for the Indian Parliament that...
March 23, 2009 6:25 PM
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Bush Plan B Decision Slammed as Unscientific
A federal court today chided the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for putting politics before science in assessing Plan B, the emergency contraceptive. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
March 23, 2009 6:16 PM
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Space Station Colbert?
No joke, as the AP is reporting: NASA's online contest to name a new room at the international space station went awry. Comedian Stephen Colbert won. The name "Colbert" beat...
March 23, 2009 6:10 PM
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No Red Lights for Indo-U.S. Nuclear Deal
A nuclear deal signed between the United States and India last fall is on track to be implemented despite a leadership change in the United States and a possible change...
March 23, 2009 5:36 PM
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We Want Open Access Free-for-All, Says MIT
The world of open access is widening. The faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology voted last week to make their published papers freely available on the Internet. The move...
DOE Allocates $1.2 Billion in Stimulus Funding to Labs and Universities
It's time to call in the bulldozers at many of the Department of Energy's national laboratories. Officials at the 10 laboratories have been waiting, wish lists in hand, to hear...
March 23, 2009 12:52 PM
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Meet Steve Koonin, Chu's Science Man at DOE
Another brainy Steve has joined the Obama Administration's science effort. Steven Koonin, a former provost of the California Institute of Technology who has been BP's chief scientist for the...
March 23, 2009 11:03 AM
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British Research Charities See Funds Dry Up
In the United Kingdom, medical charities provide a vital supplement to government funding of biomedical research, with organizations such as the Wellcome Trust and Cancer Research UK investing heavily in...
March 23, 2009 2:15 AM
Stimulus $eekers Swamping Grants.gov
President Barack Obama's plan to pump money to scientists to help jump-start the economy has hit a snag: Grant seekers are overwhelming Grants.gov, the main site for applying for federal...
March 20, 2009 4:26 PM
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Chu Lights a Fire Under DOE
The thing that seemed to shock Steven Chu most when he took over as secretary of energy—he talked about it constantly during his first month in office—was how long it...
March 20, 2009 3:22 PM
King's Head to Be Returned to Ghana
The head of a Ghanaian king, preserved in formaldehyde in an academic collection in the Netherlands, will be returned to Ghana for burial, Dutch science minister Ronald Plasterk announced after...
March 20, 2009 9:15 AM
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White House Nabs Science Money Whiz
The science wonkocracy knows well the work of Kei Koizumi, Washington, D.C.'s, premier research budget number cruncher. That includes newly confirmed science adviser John Holdren, who's hired Koizumi away from...
March 19, 2009 7:14 PM
Holdren, Lubchenco Confirmed by Senate
White House OSTP director and NOAA head now officially in place with late vote today; Senator Jay Rockefeller, chair of the Commerce Committee, pleased. No word yet on how the...
March 19, 2009 5:06 PM
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NIH to Improve Its Behavior(al Science)
Or so says the interim director, taking matters into his own hands while he still can. The U.S. National Institutes of Health may finally be heeding behavioral scientists' plea for...
March 19, 2009 3:27 PM
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Bomb Labs Should Not Be Run By Military, Say Lawmakers
Congressional defenders of the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories are trying to stamp out any talk of turning control of the labs over to the Pentagon. In a letter released yesterday,...
March 19, 2009 3:23 PM
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Stimulu$ Funds to Follow Soon at Energy, NSF
The National Science Foundation is only a few weeks away from awarding the first portion of its $3 billion in stimulus funding, and the Department of Energy's Office of Science...
March 19, 2009 3:16 PM
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Republicans Interested in Conflicts of Interest
Scientists who receive grants from agencies like the National Institutes of Health (NIH) should not be trusted to “self-regulate” on matters involving a potential conflict of interest, suggests a letter...
March 19, 2009 11:08 AM
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Debate: Did Copenhagen Organizers Exaggerate the Science?
Last week's Copenhagen Climate Congress billed itself as an update on the 2007 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report, because much of the data reviewed in that authoritative study is...
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