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May 20, 2010 3:34 PM
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Congress Hears Testimony on Concussions in Student Athletes
Recent research and media coverage highlighting long-term cognitive and emotional problems in professional athletes have raised worries about the potential effects of head injuries in student athletes. Today, the...
May 20, 2010 2:49 PM
NIH Wants More (Not Total) Disclosure of Financial Conflicts
The federal government today proposed an overhaul of regulations covering financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research. The widely anticipated rules would expand the amount of information that researchers...
May 20, 2010 2:35 PM
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Going to UC Berkeley? Bring Your Genome
A program designed to foster community among incoming freshmen and transfer students at the University of California, Berkeley, is getting some backlash, thanks to an unusual proposal. Instead of...
May 20, 2010 1:04 PM
Why Isn't the Oil Floating to the Surface?
Controversy continues to swirl over the size of the Gulf oil spill, with one estimate suggesting as much as 100,000 barrels of oil could be spewing into the water...
May 20, 2010 12:10 PM
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Canadian Universities Pick 19 Good Men
When the Canadian government created a $200 million pot to attract up to 20 of the world's best researchers in four target areas, university administrators had no trouble finding...
May 19, 2010 5:38 PM
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Oil and the Dead Zone
As oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, a "dead zone" is also having its annual growth spurt. It's not clear how these two complex systems will...
May 19, 2010 5:16 PM
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Three Academy Reports Urge Climate Action
The world's climate is changing, humans are causing it, and the United States should put a price on carbon soon to stanch emissions of the greenhouse gases responsible. That's...
May 19, 2010 3:52 PM
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Another Global Health Fund? Here's Why
The World Health Assembly, the annual gathering of health ministers in Geneva, Switzerland, served as a backdrop on Monday for the launch of a new idea to stimulate research...
May 19, 2010 2:49 PM
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COMPETES Loses Again in House After Failing to Clear Higher Bar
Representative Bart Gordon (D–TN) lost his gamble today on behalf of the U.S. research community. The retiring chair of the House Science and Technology Committee watched dejectedly as a...
May 19, 2010 12:32 PM
Britain's New Political Scientist; A Q&A With Julian Huppert
Julian Huppert has mixed politics and science since graduating from the University of Cambridge in 2000. On the research side, he stayed at Cambridge to get a biochemistry Ph.D....
May 19, 2010 10:52 AM
Specter's Defeat Ends a Career as Biomedical Booster
This item has been updated. Senator Arlen Specter (D–PA), a champion of biomedical research funding, has lost his bid to remain in Congress. The 80-year-old Specter, who switched parties...
May 19, 2010 10:01 AM
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National Academy Report Calls for Geoengineering Research
In a move long expected, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences has called for research into solar radiation management (SRM), the brand of geoengineering that involves blocking a fraction...
U.K. Science Minister: 'The Boom Has Come to an End'
David Willetts, the new U.K. minister for universities and science, held his first briefing with the press earlier today, gracefully dodging a cascade of questions about science funding but...
May 18, 2010 12:14 PM
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The Republican Assault on Science Funding: Could It Have Been Avoided?
Could supporters of the America COMPETES Act have headed off a Republican ambush last week of the bill on the House of Representatives's floor? That's what House Democrats, science...
May 18, 2010 12:02 PM
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Eight-Hundred Virginia Scientists Slam Attorney General on Mann Probe
Days after it emerged that the University of Virginia has hired a law firm to consider its options regarding the state's attorney general's investigation of climatologist Michael Mann, 800...
May 17, 2010 8:58 PM
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More on Obama's Pick for NCI
President Barack Obama today announced that he plans to appoint Nobel Prize–winning molecular biologist Harold Varmus director of the $5.1 billion National Cancer Institute. Varmus, now president of Memorial...
May 17, 2010 7:03 PM
It's Official: Varmus to Head National Cancer Institute
Confirming long-circulating rumors, President Barack Obama has named Nobel prize–winning cancer researcher Harold Varmus as director of the National Cancer Institute. Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes...
May 17, 2010 5:40 PM
Medical Hypotheses Editor Out; Editorial Advisers to Quit As Well
Bruce Charlton, the editor of the controversial journal Medical Hypotheses, was fired last week by publisher Elsevier for refusing to overhaul the review procedures at the journal. Now, a...
May 17, 2010 2:31 PM
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Fruit Bat Sex Chat Prompts Sexual Harassment Spat
Fellatio, fruit bats, and allegations of sexual harassment. These are the ingredients of a scandal boiling over in Ireland at the University College Cork (UCC). Last year, a formal...
May 17, 2010 1:20 PM
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Brain Science a Factor in Supreme Court Decision on Juvenile Crimes
Juveniles who have not committed murder should not be locked up for life, according to a U.S. Supreme Court decision today. In the case of Graham v. Florida, the...
May 17, 2010 1:02 PM
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Obama Adviser John Holdren on Why We Don't Know the Size of the Oil Gusher
Academic scientists quoted in stories late last week by NPR and The New York Times suggested that the amount of oil spewing out from the broken pipe on the...
May 14, 2010 5:20 PM
Tweets Lockdown Eases at Cold Spring Harbor
Scientist-tweeters seem to have found an easy solution to a ban on using social media to discuss talks given at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's (CSHL's) meetings. The Long Island...
May 14, 2010 2:49 PM
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fMRI Lie Detection Hearing Ends, Decision Still to Come
A federal court in Tennessee heard arguments yesterday and today on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in a criminal case...
May 14, 2010 1:01 PM
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NIH Awards Another $1 Billion in Stimulus Money
The Department of Health and Human Services today announced $1 billion in awards to construct and upgrade biomedical research labs and facilities. The 146 grants range in size from...
May 14, 2010 12:09 PM
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Can Brain Scans Detect Lying? Exclusive New Details From Court Hearing
After nearly 12 hours of testimony yesterday by scientists, a hearing on whether lie detection technology based on fMRI scans of brain activity should be admitted in court continues...
May 13, 2010 5:35 PM
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House Nixes More Research Spending in COMPETES Bill
The House of Representatives rebelled today against the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, employing an unusual mixture of money and sex. Catching the Democratic leadership by surprise, members...
May 13, 2010 5:22 PM
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Over-the-Counter Genetic Test Needs Authorization, Says FDA
Hot on the heels of an announcement that Walgreens would sell an over-the-counter saliva-based DNA test starting this Friday, The Washington Post reports that the drug store has halted...
May 13, 2010 1:09 PM
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British Science and Climate/Energy Ministers Named
Following the formation of the United Kingdom's Conservative–Liberal Democrat coalition government, Conservative Member of Parliament David Willetts has been named as the new minister of state for universities and...
May 13, 2010 1:00 PM
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fMRI Lie Detection Gets Its Day in Court
A hearing under way in a federal court in Tennessee today represents the most formal legal test yet for the use of lie-detection technology based on functional magnetic resonance...
May 13, 2010 12:22 PM
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New Extra-Disturbing iPhone App Allows You to Be a "MEanderthal"
The Smithsonian Institution has released an iPhone app to allow users to morph their faces into those of Neandertals. Explains the Christian Science Monitor: First you upload a portrait...
May 12, 2010 5:49 PM
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EPA, BP Eyeing Mega-Dispersant Operation
So far the government and BP have conducted several tests a mile deep in the ocean to deploy an oil spill cleanup technique that's never been attempted before: dispersing...
May 12, 2010 5:21 PM
Science Backer Loses House Seat in Primary Race
The U.S. research community is losing another influential supporter in Congress. Representative Alan Mollohan (D-WV), the chair of the House of Representatives spending panel that controls the budget for...
May 12, 2010 3:01 PM
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Kerry/Lieberman 'American Power Act' Released
Helpful chart after the jump for comparing this proposed climate and energy bill, released today by senators John Kerry (D–MA) and Joe Lieberman (ID–CT). The main differences, from the start:...
May 12, 2010 12:49 PM
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Do You Heart 'The Hartwell Paper'?
On the eve of today's rollout of the Kerry-Lieberman climate bill (that was leaked yesterday) in the U.S. Senate, The Economist has delved into a potentially influential new paper...
May 12, 2010 12:23 PM
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Byrne Burned By 'Evolutionist' Smear
Bradley Byrne, a Republican candidate in the Alabama governor's race, vehemently denies that he is an "evolutionist." The issue was raised in an AstroTurf attack ad sponsored by a...
May 11, 2010 5:40 PM
Roundup 5/11: Mutants and Moolah Edition
A challenger to Texas Governor Rick Perry is questioning whether the $50 million awarded in 2005 to create the Texas Institute for Genomic Medicine, which specializes in studying mutant...
Harpoons Fly as Pro-Whaling and Antiwhaling Nations Fight Over 'Scientific Whaling'
Appealing for objectivity, the chair and vice-chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) are asking the organization's 88 member nations via a press release to give their draft peace...
May 10, 2010 6:11 PM
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Gulf Spill: Did Pesky Hydrates Trigger the Blowout?
Methane-trapping ice of the kind that has frustrated the first attempt to contain oil gushing offshore of Louisiana may have been a root cause of the blowout that started...
May 10, 2010 11:04 AM
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Australian Academy Taps First Female Leader
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Hailed as a trailblazer for women scientists in Australia, Suzanne Cory this week added to her reputation by being elected the first female president of the Australian Academy...
May 7, 2010 12:23 PM
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With Hung Parliament, British Scientists Wonder Who's the Boss?
Britain this morning woke up to an uncertain political future—and British scientists continue to remain in the dark about how expected government funding cuts will slice into research efforts....
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