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March 16, 2010 5:35 PM
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Moon vs. Mars at Museum
The American Museum of Natural History had little idea of how prescient they were being when they picked the theme for this year's Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate. Shortly after...
March 16, 2010 5:29 PM
Should NIH-Funded Researchers Be Required to Publicly Reveal Conflicts?
A government watchdog group is urging the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to require its grantees to publicly disclose money they get for consulting for drug companies. The Project...
March 15, 2010 5:41 PM
Roundup 3/15: The Hunt Is On Edition
Tonight's the annual Isaac Asimov debate at the Hayden Planetarium. Its summary asks, "Should NASA return to the Moon, where man has already walked, or proceed directly to Mars?"...
March 15, 2010 3:59 PM
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Amid Fraud Allegations, Researchers Say Vaccine Science Solid
The anti-vaccine movement has been buzzing over a fraud investigation involving Poul Thorsen, a Danish scientist who co-authored key papers in 2002 and 2003 that found no link between...
Mars Mission (On Earth) Survives Budget Squeeze, Faces Fake Flares
Starting this summer, a crew of six people will begin the journey to Mars—without leaving Earth. The Mars500 experiment will be a simulation of a 520-day round-trip visit to...
March 15, 2010 2:11 PM
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Israel Steps Up Efforts to Bring Back Expat Scientists
The Israeli government has adopted a $350 million plan to lure back its scientists working abroad, Israeli media reported yesterday. According to Haaretz, the scheme will create 30 academic...
March 12, 2010 5:02 PM
Roundup 3/12: Go Fish Edition
Japan's predilection for marine delicacies underlines two of today's headlines. The government formally arrested an antiwhaling protester who boarded one of the country's research whaling vessels last month. And...
March 12, 2010 3:52 PM
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Spain Turns to Science for Stimulus
Spain's economy is in trouble. The country's real-estate bubble has collapsed and its unemployment rate is 20%. Can science provide a way out? That's the hope of the country's...
March 12, 2010 3:31 PM
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Scientists Case on Background Check Reaches High Court
A long-running legal battle between the United States government and a group of 29 scientists and engineers of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, has now reached...
March 12, 2010 1:36 PM
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MIT's Suresh Tapped to Be NSF Director
The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in line to become the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). ScienceInsider has learned that Subra...
March 11, 2010 5:47 PM
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Roundup 3/11: Like a Snake Edition
Vacationing in Florida? Want to bring your python? Tell the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, which today proposed a ban on the interstate transport of nine species of large snakes...
March 11, 2010 5:27 PM
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NIST Looks to Reorganize Its Labs, Top Management
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is reorganizing its eight laboratory divisions. Currently, they're set up along disciplinary boundaries—such as physics and materials science and engineering within a...
March 11, 2010 5:05 PM
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Should Social Scientists Help the U.S. Fight Terror?
Among the military brass giving testimony about global terrorism at a Senate hearing yesterday was a single academic: Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor....
March 11, 2010 2:25 PM
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Half a Million for Gene Sequencers
The 10th annual Albany Medical Center Prize—the U.S.'s biggest prize in biomedicine—will go to three scientists who conceptualized the Human Genome Project: Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes...
Fusion Delayed: ITER Start Date Moved Again
The scheduled start-up date for the ITER fusion reactor project looks set to slip again by 10 months to November 2019. The new date comes less than a year after...
Roundup 3/10: Do the Math Edition
Governors and school superintendents from 48 states have released a draft of common math and reading standards for students. The voluntary effort is in sync with the Obama Administration's...
March 10, 2010 5:28 PM
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Review of Climate Panel Aims for Summer Release
Yesterday the United Nations announced that a panel of scientists appointed by a global coalition of national science academies would launch an investigation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate...
March 10, 2010 2:26 PM
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Ocean Probe Lost at Sea
An accomplished deep-sea exploration robot met a mysterious and watery end while scoping the sea floor off the coast of Chile early last Friday morning, the Woods Hole Oceanographic...
March 9, 2010 6:21 PM
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Roundup 3/9: The Cleanup Edition
Ahead of an expected general election in May, there are two more calls for improving British science, one from the U.K. Campaign for Science & Engineering and another, written by...
March 9, 2010 5:14 PM
Berkeley's Fréchet to Head Research at KAUST
Jean Fréchet, an organic chemist at the University of California, Berkeley, has been named vice president for research at the new King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)...
March 9, 2010 2:54 PM
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Bill Introduced to Codify U.S. Stem Cell Rules
Congressional supporters of stem cell research have re-introduced legislation to codify President Barack Obama's 2009 executive order lifting restrictions on the number of human embryonic stem cell lines available...
March 9, 2010 10:47 AM
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Place Mammoth Telescope on Our Island, Not in Chilean Desert, Says Spain
The European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced last week that its site selection committee had recommended building its next giant facility, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), in Chile, not far...
March 8, 2010 7:37 PM
Elsevier to Editor: Change Controversial Journal or Resign
The editor of the journal Medical Hypotheses—an oddity in the world of scientific publishing because it does not practice peer review—is about to lose his job over the publication...
March 8, 2010 7:02 PM
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Royal Society: Protect U.K. Science to Ensure Economic Health
Hot on the heels of the U.K. Council for Science and Technology's (CST's) Vision for UK Research last Monday, the Royal Society this week releases its own report on...
Roundup 3/8: Mind Games Edition
Karl Tryggvason, Karolinska Institute's former dean of research speaks on why he was recently dismissed from the famous neuroscience Institute in Stockholm, Sweden. "Nuclear energy has a vital role...
March 8, 2010 4:53 PM
Hog in the Limelight: Swine Flu's Got New Genes On
The novel H1N1 virus behind the swine flu pandemic has in many ways proved less frightening than initially feared. It has not overwhelmed health-care systems, led to massive deaths, or...
March 7, 2010 9:53 AM
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Varmus Dispels Cancer Institute Rumor
Could science superstar Harold Varmus be named the next director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI)? Last week, that rumor swept through the cancer research community. But Varmus, a...
March 5, 2010 5:44 PM
Researchers in Chile Hit Hard by Quake
Scientists at research universities in several Chilean cities are reeling from last week's earthquake, which overturned microscopes, set fire to laboratories, washed years of research out to sea, and...
March 5, 2010 5:31 PM
Roundup 5/5: Tiny Bubbles Edition
A federal judge in San Francisco, California, put off a ruling in a key case on genetically modified beets. The methane emissions discovered in the Arctic may or not...
March 5, 2010 3:37 PM
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Canadian Budget Light on New Research Dollars
Relief was the order of the day for Canadian scientists on Thursday as the federal government brought down its fiscal blueprint for 2010-11. Finance Minister Jim Flaherty moved to...
March 5, 2010 10:10 AM
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In Annual Rite, Chinese Science Showered With Riches
BEIJING—Last year, Chinese researchers were over the moon when the central government bestowed a 30% increase in R&D spending. This year, they are being brought back to earth—but really...
March 4, 2010 5:39 PM
Roundup 3/4: Chew on This Edition
The White House Council on Environmental Quality today released a roadmap for improving federal efforts to restore Gulf Coast ecosystems ravaged by decades of drilling, dredging, and other human...
March 4, 2010 5:35 PM
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Elephant Research Facility Doomed
A flash flood of the Ewaso Ng'iro River in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, washed away a major research center devoted to the study of wild elephants this morning. The...
March 4, 2010 5:18 PM
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Researchers Seek Funding to Study How Climate Change Influenced Human Evolution
Researchers have often proposed that dramatic changes in ancient climates triggered major events in human evolution, such as the emergence of a new species or migrations of our ancestors...
March 4, 2010 2:46 PM
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U.K. Research Council Protected by Funding Changes
Britain's beleaguered Science and Technology Funding Council (STFC), the government body which funds astronomy, particle and nuclear physics, and space science in the U.K., is to get new funding...
March 4, 2010 2:20 PM
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Risks of New Army Biodefense Lab Downplayed, Says Academy
A National Academies study released today says the U.S Army downplayed or overlooked a number of environmental risks while planning the expansion of biocontainment facilities at the United States...
Chile Poised to Host Biggest Telescope in the World
The largest astronomical instrument in the world, the European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT), will likely be built at Cerro Armazones in northern Chile, the European Southern Observatory (ESO) announced...
March 4, 2010 11:14 AM
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UPDATED: New Study Suggests Little Change Under Obama On Science Politicization
Has President Barack Obama pulled off his pledge to boost integrity in government science, as he promised a year ago? A new study (see p. 89) says yes and...
March 3, 2010 5:23 PM
Roundup 3/3: Spuds Edition
The European Union announced yesterday that it would allow large-scale cultivation of the genetically modified potato variety called Amflora, which produces extra starch for paper and glue production. At...
March 3, 2010 5:19 PM
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Hopes Dashed for (Another) Alzheimer's Drug
Alzheimer's researchers have faced a series of frustrations in recent years as one promising compound after another has flopped in late-stage clinical trials. Unfortunately, the string continues with the...
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