January 2010 Archives
January 31, 2010 9:16 AM
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Encouraging Clues on Tomorrow's Budget for Research Fans
The New York Times offers vague hints about good news for supporters of scientific research in the budget that will be released at 10 a.m. tomorrow. Given the lack...
January 29, 2010 5:20 PM
Roundup 1/29: Monday, Monday Edition
NIH Director Francis Collins today announced that he has approved the 43rd line in the NIH stem cell registry, which includes cell lines approved subsequent to the Bush deadline of...
January 29, 2010 2:39 PM
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Gates Call for "Decade of Vaccines," Pledges Assault on Child Mortality
Philanthropists Bill and Melinda Gates called on the world today to launch a "decade of vaccines" that would dramatically reduce childhood mortality in poor countries—and they pledged to raise...
January 28, 2010 5:02 PM
Roundup 1/28: Ad Astra, Ad Infinitum Edition
Andrew Wakefield, an author of a controversial 1998 Lancet study that ignited public concern over whether certain childhood vaccines cause autism, “dishonestly and irresponsibly" carried out research, the U.K. General...
January 28, 2010 4:34 PM
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Senator Wants the National Institutes of Health to Spend More on Small Businesses
A U.S. senator from Maryland wants the home-state National Institutes of Health (NIH) to spend what he sees as its rightful share of stimulus funds on small businesses trying...
January 28, 2010 1:25 PM
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Baylor College of Medicine to Remain Independent
After long and controversial discussions about merging with a university, Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, has decided to remain an independent institution. William Butler, BCM interim president,...
January 28, 2010 1:05 PM
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If E.T. Rings, Let It Go to Voicemail?
R = Q x δ Astronomer Ivan Almar suggests the brief formula above might help scientists decide how to tell the world that we are not alone in the universe....
January 28, 2010 12:04 PM
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FASEB Says the National Institutes of Health Needs 19% Raise in 2011
Undaunted by tight fiscal times, the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is recommending a whopping 19% increase, to $37 billion, for the 2011 budget of the...
January 28, 2010 11:47 AM
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Climatic Research Unit Broke British Information Law
Climate researchers at the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom broke the law by withholding data from public scrutiny, say various reports today. The university’s Climatic Research...
January 27, 2010 10:12 PM
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What Obama Didn't Say While Making a "Climate Bill" Part of the Jobs Pitch
"Copenhagen"? Omitted. His pledge of "17% by 2020"? No mention. Even "cap and trade" was left on the cutting-room floor for tonight's State of the Union address, if it...
January 27, 2010 5:51 PM
Roundup 12/27: Net Negative Edition
Tomorrow, attorneys in a lawsuit over whether genes can be patented will have their day in federal court in New York City. Arun Majumdar, head of the Energy Department's ARPA-E...
January 27, 2010 4:15 PM
Is a Full-Economy Cap-and-Trade Program Dead in the Water?
Progressive David Roberts of Grist argues that Senator Lindsey Graham's (R-SC) retreat on comprehensive energy legislation is the death knell for an economywide system that caps industrial carbon dioxide...
January 26, 2010 6:01 PM
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Cosmologist Andrew Lange Remembered
Colleagues remember Andrew Lange as a brilliant scientist with a large streak of generosity. A Caltech cosmologist known for his work on the general geometry of the early universe, Lange...
January 26, 2010 5:28 PM
Roundup 1/26
Would the $3.5 billion fund for deforestation that nations agreed to in Copenhagen actually be a good thing? Not only is China the fastest growing scientific power, but a new...
January 26, 2010 4:36 PM
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Spirit Rover to Rest Forever on Mars But More Data Expected
The rover may have stopped roving, but its Spirit lives on. It's been quite a run for NASA's golf-cart-sized, solar-powered rover originally designed for a 90-day jaunt on the...
January 26, 2010 2:21 PM
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Sanford Donates $50 Million for Biomedical Research
South Dakota banking mogul Denny Sanford has donated $50 million more to the Burnham Medical Research Institute in San Diego, California, which will be renamed the Sanford-Burnham Institute in honor of...
January 26, 2010 2:10 PM
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Bill Gates Funding Geoengineering Research
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has been supporting a wide array of research on geoengineering since 2007, ScienceInsider has learned. The world’s richest man has provided at least $4.5 million...
January 26, 2010 1:29 PM
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CDC Director Demotes Chief of Environmental Health
Howard Frumkin, the controversial director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's environmental health branch, has been reassigned by CDC Director Thomas Frieden. Frumkin directed the Agency for...
January 26, 2010 1:14 PM
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Has Russian Science Hit the Skids?
Russia's research output has continued to slide since the collapse of the Soviet Union nearly 20 years ago and produced only 127,000 papers, 2.6% of the world's total, over...
January 25, 2010 4:52 PM
Roundup 1/25: The World Is Hanging in the Balance Edition
Scientists may have devised a new way to detect tsunamis using existing undersea telecommunication lines. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is teaming up with Google to better display and...
January 25, 2010 4:41 PM
Going to AAAS 2010 in San Diego? We Want You to Blog!
In addition to our team of science journalists attending the yearly meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, which publishes this blog, we're opening up our site...
January 25, 2010 4:08 PM
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Europe Research Patriarch Stepping Down
Fotis Kafatos, the molecular biologist who co-founded the European Research Council (ERC), is stepping down. After 3 years as the ERC's first President and chair of its Scientific Council,...
January 25, 2010 4:01 PM
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Three Scientists Criticize IPCC, Pachauri's Leadership
The German magazine Der Spiegel has an op-ed today by climate researchers Richard Tol, Roger Pielke, and Hans von Storch criticizing a range of procedures at the Intergovernmental Panel on...
January 25, 2010 2:42 PM
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China Questions Warming Cause While Backing IPCC
by Pallava Bagla and Eli KintischAs outsiders continue to heap criticism on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, China has to introduce new doubt on the scientific consensus regarding the...
January 23, 2010 12:44 PM
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German Medical Institute Director Will Lose Job
Citing a wish to avoid distractions such as disputed expense accounts, the board of the German Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care has decided to not renew...
January 22, 2010 5:42 PM
Roundup 1/22: Evolutions Edition
The annual Arctic Frontiers conference begins on Monday in Norway, and the opening policy talks will be broadcast over the internet. John Beddington, the U.K.’s chief scientific adviser, is facing...
Experts: U.S. Asteroid Danger Plans Insufficient
A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and...
January 22, 2010 1:59 PM
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Canada's Vision for Alzheimer Research Hits a Snag
OTTAWA—Alain Beaudet, almost from the moment he became president of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research 2 years ago, has been talking about the need for a multibillion-dollar initiative...
January 21, 2010 10:19 PM
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Clinton Lays Down Gauntlet on Internet Freedom
BEIJING—In a speech yesterday at the Newseum in Washington, D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton gave a hard-hitting speech in defense of a free and unfettered Internet. The...
January 21, 2010 5:38 PM
Roundup 1/21: Wile E. Coyote Edition
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R–AK) has introduced a resolution that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from restricting greenhouse gas emissions, raising heckles from environmentalists. Three moderate Democrats, senate agriculture chair...
January 21, 2010 1:58 PM
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deCODE Genetics Rises From the Ashes
deCODE genetics, the Icelandic genomics company that declared bankruptcy in November, has made a comeback. Today it reappeared as "the New deCODE," a renamed version of the previous deCODE's...
French Science Agencies Fare Well With Review Panels
PARIS--At the end of 2008, France's Evaluation Agency for Research and Education (AERES) offered a devastating critique of the country's of the country's National Institute for Health and Medical...
January 21, 2010 11:13 AM
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How Many Have Died Due to Congo's Fighting? Scientists Battle Over How to Estimate War-Related Deaths
The battlefield for scientists fighting over how to best estimate war-related deaths has moved from Iraq to the Congo. Yesterday, a new report looking at the overall picture of wartime...
January 21, 2010 8:14 AM
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U.N. Climate Change Chief Takes IPCC to Task
NEW DELHI--Yesterday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) expressed "regret" for having erred when it stated in a 2007 global review that Himalayan glaciers were "very likely" to melt...
January 21, 2010 8:12 AM
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Elite University Jump-Starts Its Earth Science Revival
BEIJING—China’s stance at the Copenhagen climate summit last month riled many critics, but the country is earning praise on the research front. In the latest sign of the government’s...
January 20, 2010 4:56 PM
Roundup 1/20: Broad Mandate, Slim Odds Edition
The John Templeton Foundation has revamped the way it gives out money to promote dialogue on science and religion. Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim is pouring $65 million into a genomics...
January 20, 2010 4:50 PM
Scientists: Shower Haitians With Food From the Sky
Could raining food willy nilly on the survivors of last week's devastating earthquake be a better way to help starving Haitians than an organized food drop? On Monday the...
January 20, 2010 4:27 PM
White House Stops Counting Recovery Jobs "Created or Retained"
The Obama Administration has tacitly acknowledged that requiring recipients of federal recovery money to count the number of jobs "created or retained" was a bad idea. In a memo...
January 20, 2010 3:40 PM
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Grassley Goes Fishing
As part of his ongoing investigation of conflicts of interest in biomedicine, Senator Charles Grassley (R–IA) now wants to comb through the e-mails of Thomas Insel, director of the National...
January 20, 2010 1:23 PM
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Scott Brown/Climate Bill Fallout Roundup
Newly elected Senator Scott Brown (R–MA) says that he wants more alternative energy but explicitly opposes a cap and trade bill. That of course complicates President Barack Obama's efforts to...
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