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October 20, 2009 3:34 PM
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A Bonus? French Scientist Says Non, Merci
PARIS—Didier Chatenay is putting his money where his mouth is. To voice his opposition to a new bonus system in France that rewards scientific excellence, Chatenay, a top physicist at...
Accused Spy Was Hot on Trail of Lunar Ice
Before being arrested Monday and charged with trying to sell classified information to an FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence agent, planetary physicist Stewart Nozette was on a...
October 20, 2009 11:02 AM
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Space Scientist Charged With Spying
A former government scientist with a top security clearance has been charged with attempted espionage. Stewart David Nozette of Chevy Chase, Maryland, was arrested Monday afternoon and will appear in...
October 19, 2009 3:37 PM
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Exclusive: Congress to Explore Geoengineering Next Month
The U.S. Congress will explore deliberate tinkering with the climate in its first ever hearing on geoengineering early next month, ScienceInsider has learned.Congressional committees have shied away from focusing...
October 19, 2009 2:15 PM
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Colleagues Offer New Details on Al-Qaeda Suspect: Devout, Genial, They Say
Adléne Hicheur, the French physicist arrested 8 October on charges of having ties to Algerian terrorists, did not hide his religious convictions. The acknowledgements in his 2003 doctoral thesis in...
October 19, 2009 2:02 PM
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Plaintiffs in Jared Diamond Defamation Case File New Papers
Last week, attorneys for biologist and author Jared Diamond and Advance Publication Inc., publisher of The New Yorker, filed papers in New York state court in response to a...
October 19, 2009 11:56 AM
NIH Institute Director Tangles With Autism Politics
The head of neurological research at the U.S. National Institutes of Health has gotten into hot water after an autism advocacy blog posted a handwritten note she had left...
October 19, 2009 11:06 AM
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Australian Women Cool to Career in Science
CANBERRA—Just days after Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, became the first Australia-born woman to win a Nobel Prize, for work on telomeres, a report released...
October 16, 2009 3:51 PM
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Roundup 10/16: Total Enlightenment Edition
The Department of Energy and EPA are partnering to fix the broken Energy Star Program. Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy (D–VT) wants to work with Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV)...
October 16, 2009 3:24 PM
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Mouse Lab Getting Personal, Sniffs Florida Digs
The Jackson Laboratory, the mouse-research powerhouse in Bar Harbor, Maine, is thinking about building a branch in south Florida as part of a move into personalized medicine. The nonprofit...
October 16, 2009 3:17 PM
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Pandemic Vaccine Delivery Delayed in the United States
As the number of swine flu cases burgeons in the United States, vaccine is coming online much slower than the government had anticipated. Vaccine manufacturers have notified officials that they...
October 16, 2009 2:51 PM
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Mikulski Cites Nobel While Defending NSF From Coburn Attack
Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) has long been a critic of the National Science Foundation's funding of the political and social sciences, believing that the research it supports is more...
Just Chillin': Large Hadron Collider Cold and Ready to Start Up Again
After 13 months of repairs and modifications, the world’s largest particle smasher is once again ready to start circulating particles, officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva,...
October 15, 2009 4:43 PM
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Roundup 10/15: Voracious Appetites Edition
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced two new agricultural policy grants; the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa gets $15 million to aid African nations in developing policies...
October 15, 2009 3:16 PM
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Exclusive: Defendants in Jared Diamond Case Deny All Accusations
Last April, two tribesmen from Papua New Guinea sued Jared Diamond, the well-known biologist and author, for $10 million in damages, claiming that he had defamed them in an...
October 14, 2009 3:50 PM
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Roundup 10/14: Global Exchange Edition
The Environmental Protection Agency's Science Advisory Board will meet 9–10 November to discuss the agency's research strategy and its plans for FY 2010. Tomorrow morning at the National Academies in...
October 14, 2009 1:41 PM
Census Officials Want High-Tech Census in 2020
A top U.S. census official told a National Academies' panel today that the decennial enumeration reflects an era that doesn't exist anymore—and that the 2020 census can't be done...
October 14, 2009 12:00 PM
Libertarian Gives Smithsonian Millions for Evolution
Today, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has announced a $30 million privately funded initiative on human evolution that will sponsor a permanent museum exhibit, educational programs, and...
October 14, 2009 11:09 AM
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Iran: Verbatim Copying Not “Scientific Theft”
Iran has now taken a stand on the plagiarism scandal that has engulfed two government ministers after substantial portions of their research articles were discovered to be verbatim copies...
Roundup 10/13: Embracing Diversity Edition
Scientists and policymakers are meeting in Cape Town, South Africa, this week as part of the international DIVERSITAS program of biodiversity science. 300 farmers in 60 locations across Benin have...
October 13, 2009 12:16 PM
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Vote Likely on $172 Million Cut From NOAA Budget
Ocean-research advocates are rallying the troops today to build opposition to a proposed $172 million cut from the 2010 budget of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as part...
October 12, 2009 3:51 PM
Economics Nobel Looks Beyond Financial Markets
Last year, financial markets took the worst drubbing since the Great Depression, so perhaps not surprisingly this year’s “Nobel Prize” in economics honors two researchers who studied economic behavior...
Ultimate Sacrifice at Indian Lab?
Lighting up the Internet in India are bizarre allegations that a researcher at the country's premier defense lab was attacked with an ax in a bungled attempt at human sacrifice....
October 9, 2009 3:40 PM
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CDC: Get Your Swine Flu Shots
As the availability of swine flu vaccine steadily increases, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is stepping up its efforts to combat a growing sense of complacency...
Spanish Science Budget a Gamble for the Future
First impressions can be deceiving. The 2010 science budget the Spanish Science and Innovation Ministry presented to Parliament last week has now spread concern and uncertainty among the Spanish...
October 9, 2009 2:07 PM
French Nuclear Physicist in Custody; Terror Ties Alleged
AP has the story today: French police have arrested a nuclear physicist on suspicion that he had links to terrorist organizations in Algeria, the European Organization for Nuclear Research said...
October 9, 2009 1:37 PM
Lawyers Defeat Patent Office Bid To Limit Follow-on Patents
Biotech execs and patent lawyers are cheering a decision this week by the new head of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, David Kappos. Under pressure of a lawsuit...
October 9, 2009 12:06 PM
Roundup 10/9: Taking Aim Edition
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) is holding up Senate consideration of the 2010 spending bill that funds the Department of Energy, concerned that the bill ensures public access to various...
Russian Expats Challenge Country's Support of Science
Last Friday, in the leading Moscow business newspaper Vedomosti, a letter addressed to Russia’s president and its prime minister and signed by more than 100 Russian researchers who permanently...
October 8, 2009 5:51 PM
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Roundup 10/8: Around the World With Google Edition
Started last November in coordination with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Google Flu Trends this week increased its coverage from four to 20 countries. This innovative effort...
October 8, 2009 2:41 PM
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Congress Goes Easy on Two Science Agency Nominees
The nominees to head the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the Department of Energy breezed through their joint Senate confirmation hearing...
October 8, 2009 11:20 AM
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Hurry Up and Wait for Kansas Agro-Bio Lab
A Homeland Security spending bill that received final approval from Congress yesterday will grant the Department of Homeland Security $32 million the next fiscal year to continue planning the...
October 8, 2009 11:15 AM
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Obama Honors Science Medalists, Present and Future
President Barack Obama spent time yesterday looking at the stars—both real and those in the scientific firmament. In a formal ceremony in the East Room of the White House,...
October 7, 2009 5:38 PM
Roundup 10/7: Hell in a Handbasket Edition
The French answer to Al Gore, environmental activist Nicolas Hulot, released his own feature-length film about the dire state of the planet today. Reviews of Le Syndrome du Titanic...
October 7, 2009 3:50 PM
NIH Loses an Icon, Ruth Kirschstein
Researchers at the U.S. National Institutes of Health and beyond are mourning the loss of a beloved leader, mentor, and friend, former NIH Deputy Director Ruth Kirschstein. Kirschstein, 82,...
October 7, 2009 2:18 PM
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A New Journal for Translating Biomedical Discoveries
Moving discoveries out of the lab and into clinics has become one of the top goals of biomedical research leaders. They've called for programs to deploy research findings more rapidly...
October 7, 2009 11:18 AM
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European Union Unveils Plan for Low-Carbon Economy
The European Union has some pretty ambitious goals for energy use and climate change, such as cutting 80% of greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. Today the European Commission unveiled...
October 7, 2009 6:12 AM
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Visionary or Unrealistic? The Latest Prescription for European Research
Raise R&D spending in Europe to a gargantuan 5% of GDP by 2030. Triple the share of the European Union's budget spent on science, and triple national outlays on...
October 6, 2009 5:30 PM
Roundup 10/6: In the Zone Edition
On Thursday the National Science Foundation will release new data about the Pacific Northwest's dead zones, at its Web site. (Photo courtesy NOAA, blue indicates dead zones.) Tomorrow the Senate...
October 6, 2009 4:36 PM
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Lots of Work to Do in Copenhagen
From a new analysis by the World Resources Institute on developed countries and the emissions cuts they've agreed to make: WRI’s analysis reveals that commitments by these industrialized country parties...
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