Roundup 10/27: Powerful Passages Edition

by Science News Staff on 27 October 2009, 5:44 PM | 0 Comments

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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.

Scientists and policymakers from several federal agencies will meet tomorrow to analyze procedures for assessing outcomes of federally funded research.

Eight panels of witnesses remain for 2 days of wall-to-wall hearings for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on the Senate version of the climate bill.

President Barack Obama is promoting the use of $3.4 billion in federal funding to launch a variety of projects to modernize the power grid.

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