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October 12, 2010 11:14 AM |

U.S. Stem Cell Trial Treats First Patient

by Jocelyn Kaiser

The first approved U.S. clinical trial to use human embryonic stem cells to treat a disease has enrolled its first patient. Geron Corp., which is sponsoring the trial using...

October 8, 2010 11:54 AM |

Superlaser Begins Key Experiments

by Daniel Clery

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) announced this week that testing time is over: the lab's National Ignition Facility (NIF), the highest energy laser in the world, has fired its...

October 7, 2010 3:40 PM |

Universities Are Trying Too Hard to Cash In on Discoveries, Says Academy Panel

by Eliot Marshall

It's been 30 years since Congress revised U.S. patent laws to encourage universities to embrace the world of commerce. Critics predicted that the integrity of academic research would be...

October 7, 2010 3:17 PM |

FDA's $25 Million Pitch for Improving Drug Regulation

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is pressing for a big funding boost for "regulatory science"—research that can help it evaluate new treatments better and faster. Yesterday, FDA...

October 7, 2010 2:46 PM |

Europe Aims to Boost Economy in New Innovation Plan

by Martin Enserink

Europe has a new plan aiming to ensure that science will get the continent's economy humming again. The Innovation Union, adopted yesterday by the European Commission, is a new...

October 7, 2010 12:49 PM

Israel Sacks an Evolution-Doubting Scientist

by Daniel Clery

Israel's minister of education, Gideon Sa'ar, has fired his chief scientist for making comments "denying the tenets of evolution and global warming," according to the Israeli daily Haaretz. The...

October 7, 2010 11:11 AM |

NSF Celebrates 50 Years of U.S.-Japan Collaborations

by Dennis Normile

"Science diplomacy is a hot topic, but no one knows exactly what it means," Norman Neureiter, a chemist with a distinguished career both in the U.S. Government and at...

October 7, 2010 10:59 AM |

Does Britain Want World's Best Footballers, But Not Its Best Scientists?

by John Travis

It may be Nobel season in the rest of the world, but among Britain's scientists, it's protest week. On Saturday, a group called Science is Vital hopes to lead...

October 6, 2010 5:50 PM

Government Slipped Up on Oil Spill Estimates, Says Panel

by Richard A. Kerr

One of five staff member reports released today by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling criticizes the federal government's efforts to scientifically...

October 6, 2010 5:14 PM |

Oil Spill Panel Says EPA, NOAA Weren't Ready to Deploy Dispersants

by Erik Stokstad

The staff members of a presidential commission today criticized the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for being inadequately prepared to deal with...

October 6, 2010 2:28 PM

New NIH Research Award Will Let Young Scientists Skip the Postdoc

by Jocelyn Kaiser

Since he took the helm of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) last year, Francis Collins has been talking up the idea of helping a few talented young scientists...

October 5, 2010 5:12 PM

Gulf Coast Restoration Task Force Gets Under Way

by Erik Stokstad

Spurred by the oil spill's impact on the ecosystem, the White House is forming a task force to come up with a strategy to restore the entire damaged gulf...

October 5, 2010 4:10 PM |

Suit on Testosterone Labeling

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

A scientist at Health Canada has sued his boss, the Ottawa Citizen reports, claiming that his effort to modify the label of testosterone drugs led her to call him...

October 5, 2010 2:01 PM |

Spain's Science Budget Proposal: Not as Bad as Feared, But Not Good

by Elisabeth Pain

After weeks during which Spanish researchers fretted nervously about possibly significant cuts to their country's science budget, Spanish Science and Innovation Minister Cristina Garmendia tried this morning in a...

October 4, 2010 2:50 PM |

Plans for New Italian Particle Smasher Gather Steam

by Adrian Cho

Italy is increasing its investment in a planned €500 million particle collider outside Rome. The National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) may double funding next year for work on...

October 4, 2010 11:23 AM |

China's Second Lunar Probe on Its Way

by Li Jiao

BEIJING—China's second lunar probe, Chang'e-2, successfully deployed into an Earth-moon transfer orbit Friday after blasting into space aboard a Long March 3C rocket. The orbiter is expected to take...

October 1, 2010 6:01 PM |

U.S. Officials Apologize for 'Appalling' 1940s Syphilis Study

by Kristen Minogue

Sixty-four years after a U.S.-funded scientist ran an experiment that infected his Guatemalan patients with syphilis, the U.S. government today issued a formal apology to the Central American nation....

October 1, 2010 5:34 PM |

Nations Strengthen Pact to Stem Methane Pollution

by Eli Kintisch

A coalition of 38 nations and several international groups have launched the Global Methane Initiative, accelerating shared efforts to cut pollution of a gas that accounts for about one-fifth...

October 1, 2010 4:32 PM

EPA Proposes 62-mpg Fuel-Efficiency Standard by 2025

by Eli Kintisch

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed fuel economy and greenhouse gas emissions standards that could require cars and light trucks to get as much as 62 miles per...

October 1, 2010 4:27 PM |

Weather Satellite System Criticized in Review

by Eli Kintisch

Backup plans are inadequate for a key satellite system run by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, says the Government Accountability Office (GAO), which issued a critical report today....

October 1, 2010 11:10 AM

France Mourns Georges Charpak, Physicist and Wit

by Barbara Casassus

PARIS—French physicist Georges Charpak, who died on 29 September, aged 86, will be remembered for his contribution above all to science and humanity, but also for a lexicon of...