October 2009 Archives
October 30, 2009 5:46 PM
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Swine Flu Spread Continues to Outpace Efforts to Treat and Prevent Disease
Health officials today reiterated that the novel H1N1 virus continues to spread rapidly around temperate zones of the Northern Hemisphere, hospitalizing and killing an unusual number of children, young adults,...
October 30, 2009 5:37 PM
Roundup 10/30: Limits and Plenty Edition
An international commission is meeting until 6 November to discuss Antarctic fisheries policy; a consortium of conservationists, meanwhile, called this week for more research and monitoring of Antarctic krill populations,...
October 30, 2009 5:30 PM
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Interior Department Urged to Identify Arctic Unknowns
Congress wants the Department of Interior to figure out what it doesn't know about Arctic ecosystems in order to better plan for oil and gas exploration. Tucked into a...
October 30, 2009 3:13 PM
Viral Ecology Research Hit by Filter Shortage
Researchers studying viruses in the environment are scrambling to stockpile tiny laboratory filters called Anodiscs after GE Healthcare announced it would stop making them at the end of the...
October 30, 2009 2:22 PM
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Top U.K. Drug Adviser Out
Illicit drugs, science and politics can be a volatile mix, no doubt. So it's not a total surprise that David Nutt, a respected psychopharmacologist at the Bristol outpost of...
October 29, 2009 6:07 PM
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Can You Unleash the Prius Effect in Your House?
Dan Reicher, former assistant U.S. secretary of energy and now director of climate change and energy initiatives at Google, testified yesterday as part of the Senate climate hearings and...
October 29, 2009 6:04 PM
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In Celebrated Reversal, a South African President Finally Confronts Country's HIV/AIDS Epidemic
South African President Jacob Zuma unequivocally declared today that his country had to step up its efforts against HIV/AIDS. "We need to do more, and we need to do...
October 29, 2009 5:51 PM
Roundup 10/29: Power in Numbers Edition
by Eli KintischThe House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee's Energy and Environment Subcommittee held the first hearing on fusion energy in 13 years. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV)...
October 29, 2009 12:14 PM
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Where NIH's Stimulus Money Went
The results are in for National Institutes of Health's much-discussed Challenge Grants, and the news is only slightly better than expected: The agency funded 840 projects, which puts the...
October 28, 2009 6:19 PM
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ARPA-E: Three Answers and Three Questions
On Monday, the Department of Energy announced $151 million in grants for ARPA-E, its pie-in-the-sky, high-risk energy research program. Thirty-seven grantees got funded, and Energy Secretary Steve Chu said...
October 28, 2009 5:36 PM
Roundup 10/28: Controlled Burn Edition
Malaria Research takes center stage in a web summit 12 November. A biosecurity bill that would have transferred oversight of biocontainment labs to the Department of Homeland Security has stalled...
October 28, 2009 4:45 PM
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Brazil Weighs Curbs on Greenhouse Gases
Brazilian Environment Minister Carlos Minc this week floated an ambitious proposal for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, Reuters reports. The plan calls for Brazil to cut emissions by 2020 to...
October 28, 2009 1:46 PM
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How Swine Flu Vaccines Are Like Disco
Pandemics make strange bedfellows—in this case, public health advocates and defense hawks....
October 28, 2009 1:28 PM
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Judge Throws Out Stem Cell Lawsuit
A federal judge has rejected a lawsuit challenging the Obama Administration's policy lifting restrictions on using federal funds to study human embryonic stem cells. Christian groups had sued the...
October 28, 2009 12:07 PM
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Might Google Have Been Israeli? The Little Choices That Shape U.S. Innovation
Google has been an American technological success story if there ever was one, leading to billions of dollars in technological innovation, and, recently, fledgling research in important fields like energy,...
Study Suggests U.S. Could Use Fewer, Not More Science Students*
*The headline of this story has been changed, see note at end.It's an article of faith: the United States needs more native-born students in science and other technical fields. The...
October 27, 2009 5:44 PM
Roundup 10/27: Powerful Passages Edition
A hearing tomorrow will scrutinize the issue of brain injuries and the National Football League, but medical scientists who have questioned the link between the two are conspicuously absent....
October 27, 2009 5:22 PM
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Boxer: Low 2009 Greenhouse Emissions Could Be Politically Useful
Not many surprises this morning at the first of three mega climate hearings at the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by Barbara Boxer (D–CA) though some early...
October 27, 2009 4:55 PM
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Why Isn't Science at Homeland Security Peer Reviewed?
Since being established 6 years ago, the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security has been the black sheep (subs. required) of the federal scientific community,...
October 27, 2009 4:31 PM
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Austria Nominates Controversial Science Minister For Top E.U. Post
The conservative Austrian government has nominated its science minister, Johannes Hahn, 52, for the top job in European science policy, that of Commissioner for Research. Hahn has been dogged...
October 26, 2009 3:02 PM
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That's Cold: Freezers Eyed in Plan to Save Corals From Climate Change
The BBC on the urgent plight of the corals:The prospects of saving the world's coral reefs now appear so bleak that plans are being made to freeze samples to preserve...
October 26, 2009 1:48 PM
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No Jail Time for Hwang in Stem Cell Fabrication Case
Reuters on the conclusion of a 3-year case on the disgraced researcher in Korea: "He was guilty of fabrication," the Seoul court said in a verdict in the trial that...
October 26, 2009 10:55 AM
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PCAST Tackles Science Education
Does the United States need another high-powered panel recommending ways to improve how students learn science and math? The President’s Council of Advisors for Science and Technology (PCAST) thinks...
October 23, 2009 6:07 PM
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Roundup 10/23: The Future's So Bright Edition
President Barack Obama didn't launch any new initiatives in his visit today to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he highlighted clean energy technology and the need for climate...
October 23, 2009 5:34 PM
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Pandemic Vaccine "Will Arrive Too Late for Many," CDC Concedes
The prospect that Americans will receive the swine flu vaccine in time to protect them from this second wave of the U.S. epidemic continues to dim. With the pandemic virus...
October 23, 2009 1:11 PM
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Cancer Center Stumbled on Clinical Trials, Ex-Employee Charges
Molecular biologist Suzanne Stratton was working to improve clinical trials at the Carle Cancer Center of Urbana, Illinois, when she was fired late last year—prompting an investigation of the...
October 23, 2009 12:37 PM
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Bill McKibben: "Physics and Chemistry Have Stated Their Bottom Line"
Writer Bill McKibben has built an international climate activism movement around a concentration: 350 ppm. Two years ago he launched 350.org after NASA climate scientist Jim Hansen told him...
October 22, 2009 5:55 PM
Roundup 10/22: Acclimations Edition
Harvard University is reassessing options for its $1 billion Allston science complex, says its president, Drew Faust. Construction has started, but the school is worried that the 27% drop in...
October 22, 2009 3:08 PM
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NIH Heart Institute Director Heading for Harvard
Elizabeth Nabel; director of the $3 billion National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute; told staff in a memo today that with "bittersweet emotions" she is leaving at the end of...
No to NASA: Augustine Commission Wants to More Boldly Go
NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on...
It's On! "God Particle" Race Intensifies as Obama Tries to Keep Particle Smasher in Hunt
Watch out, Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the U.S. is not quitting the race to find the famed Higgs boson just yet. If all goes as planned, physicists at the last dedicated...
October 22, 2009 2:05 PM
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Lost in Translation: Climate Science Not Sinking in
Two stories from today: The latest national survey by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted Sept. 30-Oct. 4 among 1,500 adults reached on cell...
Texas = Energy Efficient?
Results are out today from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's yearly report card of states' energy-efficiency policies. No surprise: California leads the way, same as last year....
October 21, 2009 4:06 PM
Roundup 10/21: Emphemeral Energy Edition
by Eli Kintisch The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that its voluntary Methane to Markets program has reduced methane emissions equivalent to 26 million tons of carbon dioxide by reusing...
Science in Charge: Scientist to Lead Europe's Research Flagship
A "distinguished scientist"—and for the first time not a civil servant—will become the next head of the European Research Council. ScienceInsider has learned that the European Commission will announce...
October 21, 2009 12:13 PM
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Eighteen Top Science Groups to Congress: Cut U.S. Carbon Emissions
Hearings begin 27 October on the Senate version of the climate bill. The American Geophysical Union, the American Chemical Society, and 16 other major science groups groups are urging Congress...
October 21, 2009 10:57 AM
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Childhood Vaccinations at All-Time High
There's good news today for global health: More children than ever before are being vaccinated against deadly childhood diseases, and vaccine production is up, according to a report from...
Royal Society Report Backs GM Crops, Other Measures to Boost Food Production
LONDON—A call for more money for agricultural science and greater attention to soil management and irrigation schemes? With recommendations such as those in a new report on how to...
October 20, 2009 4:38 PM
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AIDS Vaccine Study Reassures Skeptics
PARIS—The fog around the largest AIDS vaccine study ever conducted began to lift today, as Thai and U.S. researchers for the first time publicly presented a detailed analysis of their...
October 20, 2009 3:49 PM
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Novel H1N1 Continues to Wallop Younger U.S. Population
A new analysis from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) of severe disease caused by the novel H1N1 virus again emphasizes that people under 65 suffer...
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