July 2010 Archives
July 30, 2010 4:40 PM
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FDA Lifts Hold on First-Ever Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
Regulators have given a green light to the world's first approved experiment using embryonic stem cells to treat a human disease. In the phase I clinical trial, Geron Corp....
New Director Shakes Up Management of Fusion Project
Just 2 days after becoming director-general of ITER, the international project aiming to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source, Osamu Motojima has a message he wants...
July 30, 2010 12:40 PM
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British Medical Council Trades One Knight for Another
The United Kingdom's Medical Research Council has named University of Edinburgh inflammation researcher John Savill as the successor to its current head, Leszek Borysiewicz, who will later this year...
July 30, 2010 12:30 PM
House Hearing Explores Debate Over Free Access to Journal Articles
The fight over mandating free access to papers based on research funded by taxpayer dollars is again heating up in Washington, D.C. Yesterday, lawmakers discussed expanding the National Institutes...
July 29, 2010 5:27 PM
EPA to Virginia: What Climate Conspiracy?
A group of critics of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) decision to regulate greenhouse gases as a public health hazard were rebuffed today in an administrative move by the...
July 29, 2010 1:11 PM
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After Carbon Cap Funeral, Renewables Mandate Probably Dead in Senate, Too
With the cap-and-trade option for carbon reduction buried in the U.S. Senate at least until 2011, yesterday Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) began to drive nails into the...
July 29, 2010 11:50 AM
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Scientists Balk at BP Recruitment Efforts, Restrictive Contracts
Last Thursday, the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) blasted BP for its "chilling" practice of slapping restrictive confidentiality agreements on the university scientists it has hired to study...
July 29, 2010 11:16 AM
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Report: U.S. Ill Prepared to Trace Exploded Nukes
If a terrorist group were to strike the United States with a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb, one of the first things authorities would have to do is...
July 29, 2010 10:50 AM
NOAA Has 10 Answers to Allegations That 'Climategate' Disproves Warming
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released a report today on 2009's climate, which says the decade of the 2000s was the warmest since readings were first kept....
July 28, 2010 6:39 PM
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Bat Caves Closed by Feds
To stop the possible western spread of white-nose syndrome, the U.S. Forest Service has issued an order to temporarily shut all caves and abandoned mines on federal lands in...
International Fusion Effort Finally Gets Go-Ahead, and a New Leader
As expected, the governing council of the ITER fusion effort today finally approved the project's so-called Baseline, the document outlining its design, schedule, and costs and confirmed Japanese fusion-scientist...
July 28, 2010 1:03 PM
This Is Your Brain Off Drugs: Why Pharma May Be Cooling on Psychiatry Drugs
Earlier this year, pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca announced it was ceasing drug-discovery research for psychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia. The move, along with cutbacks at other companies, has...
July 27, 2010 4:29 PM
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Senate Spending Panel Approves $1 Billion Boost for NIH
Like its House of Representatives counterpart 2 weeks ago, a Senate subcommittee today matched President Barack Obama's request for a $1 billion increase in 2011 for the National Institutes...
July 26, 2010 12:44 PM
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Data Leak: Galaxy Rich in Earth-Like Planets
NASA didn't plan it this way, but earlier this month a co-investigator on the Kepler satellite mission in the hunt for other Earth-like planets announced to a conference in...
World's Biggest Particle Physics Lab May Idle All Accelerators in 2012
PARIS—Particle physicists and science fans everywhere knew that the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva, Switzerland, would shut down the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world's largest atom...
July 23, 2010 4:46 PM
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Senate COMPETES With House on Priorities for NSF
A key Senate panel yesterday approved its version of a bill to reauthorize programs at the National Science Foundation (NSF). The America COMPETES Reauthorization Act (S.3605) reflects the interests...
July 23, 2010 4:29 PM
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With Cap and Trade Sidelined, Obama and States Can Still Cut a Lot
On the day after hopes for a mandatory U.S. cap on greenhouse gases evaporated, a new report by the World Resources Institute delivers a timely message: Using existing federal,...
July 23, 2010 3:26 PM
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Qualified Good News on Subsea Dispersed Oil Plumes: Continued Low Oil Concentrations, No Dead Zones
A second report by a multiagency team of government and academic scientists, working on five research vessels between 19 May and 19 June finds the distribution of the plumes...
July 23, 2010 12:59 PM
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New Chief for Child Health Institute
The nation's lead research institute devoted to child development and reproductive health has a new director. Alan Guttmacher, 60, who had been acting director of the National Institute of...
July 22, 2010 5:58 PM
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As Climate Bill Falters, Steve Schneider Might Have Counseled Optimism
Seeing the official downfall for the year of any climate legislation in Congress—a development so depressing to many—I thought of climatologist Steve Schneider, who passed away on Monday at...
July 22, 2010 5:37 PM
Good News in Gulf: Government Reduces Area Closed to Fishing by One-Third
For the first time in months, the government has good news for Gulf of Mexico fishermen: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has decided to reopen a 68,345...
July 22, 2010 5:26 PM
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Senate Panel Tells NSF to Train More Cyber-Security Personnel
A Senate spending panel wants the National Science Foundation (NSF) to triple its investment in training the next generation of cyber-security professionals. But pleading poverty, it's trimmed in half...
July 22, 2010 5:19 PM
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Storm Headed for the Gulf Spill Could Delay Final Fix
Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, have designated an atmospheric disturbance just south of the Bahamas as Tropical Depression 3. They are calling for it to...
July 22, 2010 4:47 PM
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Yale Prof: Cap and Trade Got Ditched ... Because Voters Didn't Know What It Was
The recriminations will be coming fast and furious as to why Democrats holding the White House, House of Representatives, and essentially 60 seats in the Senate weren't able to...
July 22, 2010 3:38 PM
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Reid Says Climate Bill Dead in Senate
As of 2 p.m. EDT today, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he just didn't have the required 60 votes to beat a promised filibuster on the floor for...
July 22, 2010 2:10 PM
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New Molecule Turns Italian Artifacts—And International Scientists—Blue
Scientists have found a new organic molecule that may be the mysterious culprit that is turning some ancient stone tools blue and casting a blue sheen over other irreplaceable...
July 21, 2010 7:01 PM
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Scientists to Thad Allen: Stop 'Massive Re-Engineering' of Gulf Coast
More than two dozen coastal scientists are asking Thad Allen, who heads the federal oil spill response, to halt coastal engineering projects that are intended to prevent damage from the...
U.S. Energy Research 2011 Funding Outlook Decent as ARPA-E Cashes In
The Senate spending panel that oversees science at the Department of Energy (DOE) has released a few details about a draft 2011 appropriations bill that passed out of subcommittee...
July 21, 2010 4:39 PM
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Planned Trial of Diabetes Drug Avandia Runs Aground
A large study to test the safety of the controversial diabetes drug Avandia has been put on partial hold by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA held a...
July 21, 2010 2:23 PM
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Senate Panel Backs Budget Increases for NSF, NASA
A Senate panel largely supported President Barack Obama's requested budget increases for several research agencies today as part of its markup of a $60 billion spending bill. In a...
July 21, 2010 2:09 PM
NIH Asks for Input on Closing Loophole in Conflict-of-Interest Rule
Responding to yet another flap about the influence of drug companies on biomedical research, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) has decided it needs more time to revise its...
July 20, 2010 5:51 PM
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Duke Suspends Clinical Trials After Scandal Over Padded Resumé
Duke University has suspended three cancer clinical trials in response to allegations that a key researcher on the studies embellished his resumé. The uproar began last week when The...
July 20, 2010 5:10 PM
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Zooming In on Future Water Shortages
A new analysis suggests that by 2050 climate change will raise the risk of water shortages in one-third of U.S. counties. The report was commissioned by the Natural Resources...
House Joins Senate in Rebuffing Obama on Crewed Space Flight
In yet another sign that Congress and the White House are a long way off from agreeing on NASA's fate, the House science committee is considering an authorization bill...
European Bureaucrats Raid Research, Ag Funds to Pay for Fusion Reactor
The European Commission, the E.U.'s executive body, revealed today how it intends to pay for the ballooning cost of the international ITER fusion reactor, which is due to begin...
July 19, 2010 5:19 PM
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Should Smuggled Madagascar Frogs Be Returned Home?
Conservation biologists are celebrating last week's bust of Madagascar animal smugglers at the airport in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. But in an ironic twist, they're now scrambling to ensure that...
July 19, 2010 5:10 PM
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Obama's National Ocean Policy
It wouldn't have prevented the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, but a new national ocean policy, announced today by the White House, was welcomed by environmentalists. The...
July 19, 2010 4:16 PM
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Prominent Duke Cancer Researcher Put On Leave Over Allegedly Embellishing Credentials
A cancer genomics researcher at Duke University has been put on leave after administrators learned that he falsely claimed to have been a Rhodes scholar. The school took the...
July 19, 2010 4:04 PM
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Climate Scientist-Activist Stephen Schneider Has Died
Stephen Schneider, 65, died today of a heart attack as his flight to London from a science meeting in Sweden was landing—a sad but fitting end for a busy...
Energy Research Takes a Hit in House Spending Bill for 2011
Not-so-happy days may be here again for scientists supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). In a mark-up of the budget for 2011, a spending panel in the...
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