March 2010 Archives
Public Universities Rally for Increased Support
The leading public research universities in the United States have begun a campaign for increased government support. Tomorrow the University of Texas, Austin, will host the first of five...
March 31, 2010 11:03 AM
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California Rethinks Its Fight Against Moth Invader
After 3 years of developing a $89.5 million program to eradicate the invasive light brown apple moth (LBAM) from California, agriculture agencies have admitted that it is no longer...
March 30, 2010 8:01 PM
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U.K. Parliament Committee Gently Chides Climate Scientists
A new report on the brouhaha over the hacking of e-mails at the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia (UEA) in the United Kingdom is...
March 30, 2010 3:51 PM
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U.S. Judge Rejects Breast Cancer Gene Patents
The most controversial patents in biotechnology—covering breast cancer genes BRCA1 and BRCA2—were declared invalid yesterday by a U.S. district court. Judge Robert Sweet, of the federal court in New...
Japan's Science Budget Faces Scrutiny—Again
A Japanese cabinet member said today that research institutes will be among the targets of a new effort to identify wasteful governmental spending launched by the ruling party. Yukio...
Roundup 3/29: Treetop Edition
The 2010 Public Service Award from the National Science Board goes to forest canopy researcher Nalini M. Nadkarni and the education network called Expanding Your Horizons. The U.S. Department...
March 29, 2010 4:26 PM
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Brazil Goes for Olympic Gold With New Research Lab
Brazil hopes that science will help it become an Olympic powerhouse in time for the 2016 games it will host. This month, Brazil’s Research and Projects Financing Agency announced...
March 26, 2010 4:50 PM
Full Text of 'Asilomar 2' Statement
This document was crafted by the approximately 175 scientists attending the Asilomar meeting, but approved only by the Scientific Organizing Committee of the conference:PRESS RELEASE - ASILOMAR INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON...
March 26, 2010 4:18 PM
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Scientists Call for 'Climate Intervention' Research With 'Humility'
PACIFIC GROVE, CALIFORNIA—An international group of scientists, ethicists, and governance experts meeting here this week has agreed that research into large-scale modification of the planet is "indispensable" given the...
March 25, 2010 5:26 PM
Roundup 3/25: Large and Small Edition
The situation is growing graver for wild gorillas. A report released yesterday by INTERPOL and the United Nations Environment Programme says that poaching could wipe out gorillas in the...
March 25, 2010 3:35 PM
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Cold Spring Harbor Sues Law Firm for Mishandling Patent Applications
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory has sued its own law firm, Ropes & Gray in Boston, charging that an attorney there "committed malpractice" in his filing of patent applications on...
March 25, 2010 2:10 PM
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European Research Infrastructure: Good Intentions, But Not Much Progress
Science policymakers, funders, and researchers spent 2 days this week in Barcelona, Spain, mulling over the problem of how to shift much needed big-ticket research facilities from drawing-board to...
Labour's Parting Shots? Twenty-Thousand Students, £250 Million for London Super Lab, and More
With less than 2 months before the expected date of a general election, the United Kingdom's Labour government is making the best of its bully pulpit. Yesterday it released...
Chu Comes Out Swinging in Defense of Energy Hubs
Energy Secretary Steven Chu has steamed to the rescue of one of his flagship research programs less than a week after a congressional spending panel fired a warning shot...
March 25, 2010 11:11 AM
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Objecting to Science Advice Principles on Principle
Not everyone is happy with the U.K. government's new Principles for the Treatment of Independent Scientific Advice. Evan Harris, a Liberal Democrat Member of Parliament who is one of...
March 24, 2010 4:48 PM
Roundup 3/24: Getting Fit Edition
The U.S. Department of Energy is aiming to better coordinate its research with the agencies that operate and regulate hydropower facilities. The intent is to increase hydropower generation while...
Japan Nears Restart of Experimental Fast Reactor
Japan's Monju experimental fast-breeder reactor faces one last hurdle before restarting 14 years after an accident and a botched coverup shut it down: An OK from the governor of...
March 24, 2010 2:25 PM
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NIH's Mental Health Chief Speaks Out on Drug Money in Psychiatry
Thomas Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, weighs in this week on financial conflicts in psychiatry, decrying a "culture of influence" from drug companies. In a...
March 23, 2010 4:56 PM
Roundup 3/23: Blastoff Edition
On 1 April, the United Kingdom will finally have its own space agency, ending its unique status as the only major economy without one. At the same time, the...
March 22, 2010 7:11 PM
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Carl Wieman Chosen for White House Science Post
Physicist Carl Wieman has been picked to be associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). A 2001 Nobelist for creating a...
March 22, 2010 6:05 PM
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University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit Panel Named
The members of the panel conducting a scientific assessment of the work done by the University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit have been named. ...
March 22, 2010 5:01 PM
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The Health Bill's Cures for Research
The landmark health care reform bill passed by the House of Representatives last night and headed to the White House for President Barack Obama's signature is mostly about expanding...
March 22, 2010 4:56 PM
New Report Explains 'Why So Few' Women in Science
Anyone familiar with the cultural and environmental factors that make it harder for women to become scientists and engineers may not learn much from reading a new report, Why...
March 22, 2010 2:48 PM
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Internet Pioneer to Chart Web's Next Leap
Tim Berners-Lee, the non-Al Gore inventor of the World Wide Web, is teaming up with Web science expert Nigel Shadbolt of the University of Southampton, Highfield, in the United...
March 22, 2010 1:54 PM
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Tackling Human-Relevant Climate Change
Three federal agencies announced the launch Monday of a joint program to predict climate change and its impacts on local scales over a few decades, information that decision makers...
Biologist Petitions Russia to Save Its Sacred Sea
A Russian-born evolutionary biologist at an American university has recently started a petition to persuade the Russian government to stop a paper mill from once again dumping its waste...
March 19, 2010 9:03 PM
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Winners of the Intel Science Talent Search Announced
At an awards ceremony on Tuesday in Washington, D.C., Intel Corp. and the Society for Science & the Public announced the winners of the most prestigious U.S. high school...
House Panel, DOE at Loggerheads Over Energy Hubs
Getting to the nub of the hubs is still a problem for the U.S. Department of Energy. Last year a key House of Representatives spending panel balked at a...
March 19, 2010 10:40 AM
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Royal Institution Leadership Showdown Looms
The spat over the leadership of the Royal Institution (RI) of Great Britain continues, with a showdown set for next month between fans and critics of Susan Greenfield, who...
March 18, 2010 3:06 PM
Fresh Ideas on Diversity Wanted for New NIH Competition
Is there a new way for academics to promote diversity in science? The National Institutes of Health is betting $10 million that there is.
March 18, 2010 2:46 PM
NIH Wants to Hear About Genetic Tests
Kathy Hudson has been worrying about the quality of genetic tests for years, and now—after becoming chief of staff to National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins—she's doing something...
March 18, 2010 2:05 PM
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Multi-Drug Resistant TB Reaches Record Levels in Western Russia
Three areas in Russia now have the highest rate of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis ever recorded, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization. Globally,...
March 18, 2010 12:47 PM
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Proposed Ban on Atlantic Bluefin Tuna Defeated
Efforts to ban international trade of Atlantic bluefin tuna were dealt a blow today by a vote designed to end debate at the Convention on International Trade in Endangered...
March 17, 2010 5:55 PM
Roundup 3/17: Recharge Needed Edition
Innovation in Europe is behind compared with the United States and Japan, and while the European Union was catching up for a number of years, that trend flattened out...
March 17, 2010 4:53 PM
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Varmus to Head Cancer Institute After All?
The Cancer Letter , a trusted Washington, D.C.-based newsletter, is reporting that the White House plans to name Nobel prize-winner Harold Varmus as director of the National Cancer Institute....
March 17, 2010 4:00 PM
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New Ways the U.S. Could Target Soot
Scientists at a hearing yesterday held by the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming tackled the question of regulating black carbon. Researchers know the...
March 17, 2010 3:25 PM
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New Cancer Approach: Fast, Cheap, and Radical
Frustrated by the cost and the dead-slow pace of drug development, a group of researchers today launched a unique new strategy for running clinical trials. Their aims are bold....
March 17, 2010 12:12 PM
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Red Tape Holding Up Stem Cell Work?
Stem cell researchers are worried that they'll have to stop work with some of their favorite cell lines, NPR reported yesterday. Geneticist Julie Baker of Stanford University says she...
March 17, 2010 11:27 AM
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Japan Maps Out Big Science Plans
TOKYO—For the first time ever, Japanese scientists have produced a roadmap of where they see major research programs heading in the mid-term-about 10 years out—and a list of large-scale...
March 16, 2010 5:40 PM
Roundup 3/16: Making Your Mark Edition
"We have missed our 2010 biodiversity target, obviously," European Environment Commissioner Janez Potočnik told a meeting of environmental ministers at which the European Union set out a new plan...
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