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June 16, 2009 5:41 PM
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U.S. Report Says Act Now on Climate Change
With the U.S. Congress set to take up climate change legislation next week, Obama Administration officials today joined with leading climate scientists to emphasize that global warming is real, it’s...
June 16, 2009 5:36 PM
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Poor Grades for U.S. Math Students
Imagine a global math class: U.S. students would receive a grade of C while the top nations—Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, and Japan—would earn a B. The grades come from a...
Money Woes Strip Europe's Mars Mission of Instrument
Last November was crunch time for Europe’s ExoMars mission to the red planet when member governments of the European Space Agency (ESA) pinned back the project’s budget to €850 million....
June 15, 2009 11:32 AM
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U.S.-Based Chinese Scientists Ponder Their Influence at Home and Abroad
TAIPEI—With sessions ranging from aquaculture to structural biology and from neuroscience to entrepreneurship, the 12th International Symposium of the Society of Chinese Bioscientists in America (SCBA) that kicked off here...
June 12, 2009 5:12 PM
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Obama Calls for National Ocean Policy
Ocean advocates have long called for a better coordinated and more sustainable approach to managing the nation's oceans and the Great Lakes as a way to help lessen pollution and...
June 12, 2009 3:15 PM
Canadian Conference on Mideast Peace Is at Center of Academic Storm
A Canadian research funding body has agreed to think about its decision to support a conference later this month on prospects for peace in the Middle East after the Canadian...
June 12, 2009 12:22 PM
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Carbon-Capture Coal Plant Is Back, But Still Bleeding Red Ink
The Department of Energy announced this morning that it is willing to spend $1 billion on a cutting‑edge power plant in Illinois called FutureGen if the plant's industrial partners pay...
June 12, 2009 11:53 AM
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Novartis Reports Advance in Swine Flu Vaccine Production
Novartis announced in a press statement today that it has made the first batch of vaccine against the A (H1N1) influenza virus causing the swine flu pandemic. The Swiss-based pharmaceutical...
June 12, 2009 7:38 AM
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Whither Science and Universities in the U.K.?
Education officials, scientists, and politicians continue to buzz about last week's sudden demise of the U.K.'s Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the shift of its remit to...
June 11, 2009 4:31 PM
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FDA to Expand With New Tobacco Role
The Senate today voted 79–17 to approve a landmark tobacco bill that President Barack Obama said he will sign once it is reconciled with a similar House of Representatives measure....
June 11, 2009 4:20 PM
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The Continuing Mystery of How Canadian Pigs Caught the Novel Flu Virus
On 2 May, a pig farm in Alberta, Canada, made international news when officials revealed that the animals there carried that novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu outbreak in...
June 11, 2009 3:33 PM
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WHO Finally Raises Swine Flu Alert to Phase 6
The inevitable has become official. Today, the World Health Organization chief Margaret Chan announced that she had raised the pandemic alert scale to 6, the highest level, to indicate that...
June 11, 2009 11:20 AM
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Academic Groups Say More Drug Ties Should Be Reported
For the past year, the U.S. biomedical research community has been rocked by a Senate probe revealing that several prominent researchers have failed to properly disclose hefty payments that they...
June 11, 2009 11:18 AM
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AIDS Meeting Demands Lift of U.S. Ban on HIV-Infected Visitors
This item was updated with a list of other countries with similar bans and a statement from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The International AIDS Society (IAS),...
June 11, 2009 11:07 AM
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Los Alamos Scientist Picked for Nuclear Energy Post
The White House announced this week that it will nominate Warren (Pete) Miller, a long-time researcher and administrator at Los Alamos National Laboratory, as the Department of Energy's Assistant Secretary...
June 11, 2009 11:03 AM
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House Spending Panel Takes a Whack at Two NSF Programs
Turns out the stimulus package may not be pure gravy for the National Science Foundation after all. On Tuesday the appropriations committee of the U.S. House of Representatives cut out...
North Korea's Curious Nuclear Test
VIENNA—Researchers were scratching their heads earlier today at a meeting convened by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO) over puzzling results from last month's nuclear test by North Korea. While...
June 10, 2009 3:12 PM
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Panel Wants Math and Science to Lead School Reform Efforts
An all-star cast of educational leaders gathered this morning to push for a comprehensive reform of U.S. science and math education. The occasion was the release of a report from...
June 9, 2009 5:28 PM
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Swine Flu: WHO "Really Very Close" to Using the P Word
So can we call it a pandemic yet? Nope, the World Health Organization said today. Although the A (H1N1) virus has now spread to 76 countries and seems to be...
June 9, 2009 3:46 PM
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NIH Feeling Overstimulated
Details emerged this week on how the deluge of applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health's Challenge Grant competition could disrupt the normal grant cycle down the road,...
June 8, 2009 1:10 PM
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U.K. Seeks to Adapt to Changing Environment
“We are determined we are going to do the hard science which actually is of value to people in a rapidly changing world.” That’s how ecologist Andrew Watkinson describes the...
June 8, 2009 11:57 AM
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Swine Flu: Out of Africa
Oddly, until now, no confirmed cases of the novel H1N1 virus have yet surfaced in any African country. But Egypt is now on the rosters at the World Health Organization...
June 5, 2009 6:08 PM
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Fuzzy Spots in Obama's Science Diplomacy
Administration officials are scrambling to add substance to President Barack Obama’s new Middle Eastern science diplomacy initiatives, mentioned Thursday in his speech in Cairo. The President promised new “science envoys,”...
June 5, 2009 3:14 PM
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Stem Cell Comments Top 49,000
The National Institutes of Health has received 49,015 comments on its proposed guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research, "and we're reading them all," said Lana Skirboll, policy office chief,...
June 5, 2009 1:28 PM
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Europe Makes It Easier to Build Big Science
While scientists celebrated at the end of last month that the European Spallation Source (ESS) had taken a step closer to reality when research ministers chose a site at Lund, Sweden, to...
June 5, 2009 1:17 PM
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U.K. Science Funding Shakeup: Goodbye DIUS
Alas poor DIUS, we hardly knew you. Born just 2 years ago, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills is no longer. Rumors had been flying of its demise today—DIUS...
June 4, 2009 5:59 PM
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Obama to Support Science in the Islamic World
In his speech in Cairo today, President Barack Obama indicated his intentions to support scientific initiatives in the Islamic world as part of his vision for promoting peaceful relations between...
New Dollars and Critique Lobbed at Swine Flu Response
On the heels of the Obama Administration's request that Congress put aside nearly $12 billion to combat the swine flu outbreak if needed, a nonprofit health advocacy group has...
June 4, 2009 4:29 PM
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House Panel Favors NOAA in 2010 Budget Proposal
Note: This item was updated at 5:15 p.m. to include the funding level for the National Climate Service.A House of Representatives spending panel has topped (pdf) the president's request for...
Merkel Shows German Scientists the Money
German scientists breathed a sigh of relief today: They will get their promised €18 billion in funding increases after all. The funding boost, spread over the next 10 years, was...
June 4, 2009 12:29 PM
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China Shutters Science Blogs for Tiananmen Anniversary
In response to the 20th anniversary today of the crackdown on democracy demonstrators in Tiananmen Square, government censors have blocked access to many international Web sites and caused temporary closures...
June 4, 2009 12:16 PM
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U.S. Speeds Visas for Foreign Students, Researchers
U.S. government officials say they have implemented changes to the visa process that will greatly shorten delays faced by foreign students and researchers traveling to the United States. Officials won't...
June 3, 2009 4:30 PM
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Supremes Rattle the Patent World
“Every patent lawyer in the country is on edge,” says Hans Sauer, speaking about a case that’s headed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sauer, a patent counsel for the...
June 3, 2009 1:53 PM
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Major U.K. University Goes Open Access
University College London has joined the growing list of universities that are moving forward with open access, which means they will post copies of faculty members' published journal articles in...
June 3, 2009 1:04 PM
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Accidental Release of U.S. Nuclear Sites Sparks Security Concerns
The U.S. Government Printing Office has come under criticism for accidentally publishing on its site a 266-page report that contains a list of "highly confidential" nuclear sites around the United...
June 2, 2009 5:22 PM
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Cold Spring Harbor Wants Scientist Bloggers to Follow Media Rules
At a recent meeting at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) in New York state, Daniel MacArthur from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge, United Kingdom, brought into focus...
June 2, 2009 2:52 PM
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Here Comes Swine Flu Phase 6, Severity 1
With a few countries in the Southern Hemisphere reporting a dramatic jump in swine flu cases, the World Health Organization is inching closer to declaring a full-scale, phase 6...
June 2, 2009 2:23 PM
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Swine Flu Hits Australia Hard
During the past week, confirmed cases of swine flu influenza in Australia have jumped from 17 to 501. The island nation now has more cases than any country outside of...
June 2, 2009 9:38 AM
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Academia Warming Up to Women Scientists, Says Report
A report out today by the U.S. National Academies contradicts the conventional wisdom that women face discrimination when it comes to being hired, promoted, and given equal access to resources...
June 2, 2009 8:32 AM
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Political Science in European Elections
Today, the Guardian's Science Blog contains a post lamenting "anti-science sentiment" infecting European politics and focusing on what it calls a lack of science clarity among the U.K. candidates for...
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