ScienceInsider: November 2010 Archives

November 29, 2010 2:34 PM |

Sharks Fare Better Than Tuna at Conservation Meeting

by Erik Stokstad

Conservation groups are disappointed that the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) isn't doing more to halt the overfishing of bluefin tuna. The good news from...

November 29, 2010 2:15 PM

Iranian Nuclear Scientist Dies in Twin Bombings in Tehran

by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee

An Iranian nuclear scientist was killed and another wounded in two bomb attacks on Monday that Iranian authorities alleged was part of a conspiracy by the West to dismantle...

November 29, 2010 10:51 AM |

White House Science Panel Wants Quadrennial Energy Review

by Eli Kintisch

A new report to the White House by its committee of scientific advisers calls for a new mechanism to improve federal energy research: a quadrennial review of energy science...

November 26, 2010 9:02 AM

Bioethics Commission to Investigate Guatemala Experiments and Current U.S. Human Research

by Jocelyn Kaiser

President Obama has asked his bioethics council to review rules protecting human research subjects

November 25, 2010 6:15 AM |

Institute Director Forces Croatia to Alter Nuclear Waste Plan

by Mico Tatalovic

The Croatian government this week backtracked on a controversial decision to store all of the country's low- and medium-level nuclear waste at a major research institute in the heart of its capital, Zagreb.

November 24, 2010 2:19 PM |

Dutch Government Faulted in Massive Disease Outbreak

by Martin Enserink

AMSTERDAM—The Dutch government failed to mount a robust response in the face of the world's worst outbreak of Q fever, a disease transmitted from farm animals to humans, according...

November 24, 2010 1:35 PM |

U.K. Opens New Visa Route for Foreign Scientists, But May Still Curtail Their Number

by Jennifer Carpenter

The United Kingdom has finally begun revealing some of the details of its new immigration policies, although the information provided yesterday has done little to satisfy anxious universities, which...

November 24, 2010 12:03 PM |

Germany's High Court Preserves Restrictions on GM Crops

by Gretchen Vogel

Germany's high court today has upheld the country's law governing genetically modified (GM) crops. The law, originally passed in 2004 and modified slightly in 2008, holds farmers—and researchers—who plant...

November 24, 2010 10:31 AM |

China Hopes to Boost Basic Research as Overall R&D Spending Soars

by Hao Xin

China's science spending is rising fast and on track to meet a 2010 target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on research and development, according to...

November 22, 2010 5:51 PM

How BP Clashed and Cooperated With Scientists

by Eli Kintisch

A detail-rich, 39-page working paper from staff members of the oil spill commission says the government and BP have "much to take pride in" for their response to the...

November 22, 2010 3:30 PM |

Sherley's Institute Asks to Support Government in Stem Cell Suit

by Jocelyn Kaiser

In an ironic twist, the institute that employs James Sherley, one of two scientists who sued to block federally funded stem cell research, is weighing in on the other...

November 22, 2010 12:06 PM |

Second Trial Using Human Embryonic Stem Cells Gets Go-Ahead

by Gretchen Vogel

Advanced Cell Technology using retinal cells grown from ES cells to treat genetic eye disease

November 19, 2010 4:35 PM |

Duke Scientist Under Investigation Resigns

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

A Duke University oncologist who had been the focus of a misconduct investigation has resigned from the university. Anil Potti had published papers in prominent journals identifying gene signatures...

November 19, 2010 3:29 PM

Scientists Abuzz Over Peruvian Museum

by Antonio Regalado

Administrators at the University of San Marcos in Lima have unleashed a swarm of angry entomologists, mammalogists, and paleontologists with plans to construct a building next to the city’s...

November 19, 2010 3:13 PM

New Antarctic Research Plan for Russia

by Tom Parfitt

MOSCOW—Russia is planning to launch five new polar research ships as part of a $975 million effort to reassert its presence in Antarctica over the next decade. According to...

November 19, 2010 2:38 PM

New ITER Chief Aims to Get Some Financial Wiggle Room

by Daniel Clery

Cost cutting has been the name of the game for Osamu Motojima since he took the reins of the ITER fusion reactor project, the world’s most expensive science experiment,...

November 19, 2010 10:27 AM

European Research Body to Get New Head

by Gretchen Vogel

The European Research Council (ERC) is about to get a new leader, although not in the form most people expected. The ERC, perhaps the most popular science program to come...

November 18, 2010 5:46 PM

NIH Director Favors Merging Addiction Institutes

by Jocelyn Kaiser

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) will likely merge its two institutes that study addiction. In a statement today, NIH Director Francis Collins said he had received a formal recommendation...

November 18, 2010 4:56 PM |

In Controversial Move, Antarctic Fishery Called 'Sustainable'

by Erik Stokstad

A controversial fishery in one of the world's most remote oceans has been certified as sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC). Environmental groups and some scientists had objected...

November 18, 2010 4:36 PM |

Expert Panel: Studies for Biodefense Lab Lacking

by Jocelyn Kaiser

Federal officials are still stumbling in their efforts to analyze the risks of operating a high-security biology lab in Boston that would study dangerous pathogens such as Ebola virus...

November 18, 2010 2:44 PM |

Croatian Science and University Legislation Ignites 'Stormy' Debate

by Mico Tatalovic

Over the past few months, the academic and scientific communities of Croatia have been voicing their displeasure with proposed revisions to the national legislation governing the country's universities and...

November 17, 2010 5:20 PM |

Bioethics Panel Finalizes Advice for Synthetic Biology

by Jocelyn Kaiser

A presidential bioethics commission concluded this week that the U.S. government should not clamp down too hard on research on synthetic biology. But the commission struggled with what to...

November 17, 2010 5:18 PM |

Research on U.K. Nuke Plant Workers Ignored Consent Law

by John Travis

The British government has apologized for 40 years of postmortem research done on nuclear plant workers—and other individuals—without proper consent. A report released yesterday blames British pathologists "profoundly ignorant...

November 17, 2010 3:54 PM |

Update: Expert Report Deplores Poor Decisions Leading to Gulf Oil Spill

by Richard A. Kerr

A series of ill-advised decisions by operators that saved time and money likely contributed to the eventual blowout and explosion that oiled the Gulf of Mexico this year. That's...

November 17, 2010 10:55 AM |

European Budget Snafu Could Delay Progress on Fusion Reactor

by Daniel Clery

Progress on the international ITER fusion reactor could be slowed by an impasse over the 2011 budget of the European Union. On Monday, the E.U. Council of Ministers (representing...

November 17, 2010 10:15 AM |

Live Coverage: House Climate Hearing

by Eli Kintisch

ScienceInsider is blogging live from the House of Representatives Science and Technology Committee's hearing on climate science going on right now, along with NASA climate scientist Gavin Schmidt (who usually...

November 17, 2010 9:06 AM |

NRC: Gulf Spill Resulted From 'Insufficient Consideration of Risk'

by Richard A. Kerr

In an interim report on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill released this morning, a committee of the U.S. National Academy of Engineering and the National Research Council finds that...

November 17, 2010 9:00 AM

Can 'Rock Stars of Science' Cut Through the Noise?

by Kristen Minogue

Last year, men's fashion magazine GQ featured an unusual ad in their June 2009 issue: six full-page photos of scientists rocking out with pop stars. The ad, named Rock...

November 16, 2010 7:08 PM |

Live Blogging House Science Committee, 10:30 A.M. Wednesday

by Eli Kintisch

I'll be providing live coverage of the House science committee hearing on climate science using Cover-it-Live, which will mean rolling, real-time transcript here on ScienceInsider starting at 10:30 a.m. Offering...

November 16, 2010 5:22 PM |

GM Mosquito Trial Strains Ties in Gates-Funded Project

by Martin Enserink

About a year ago, genetically modified (GM) mosquitoes were released into the wild—and they have been flying under the world's radar screen until last week. On 11 November, British...

November 16, 2010 4:26 PM |

Report: Energy Grid Insufficient for Green Power

by Robert F. Service

Thirty states and the District of Columbia now mandate minimum levels of electricity be generated from renewable sources such as wind and solar. These so-called renewable energy standards are...

November 16, 2010 2:22 PM

London's Natural History Museum Delays Expedition (Updated)

by Jennifer Carpenter

*This item has been updated with translated content from the letter by Isabel Basualdo London's Natural History Museum (NHM) has suspended a month-long scientific expedition to a remote region of...

November 15, 2010 2:16 PM |

Panel Slams Review for Proposed Biodefense Megalab in Kansas

by Jocelyn Kaiser

An expert panel today harshly criticized a federal study of the risks of building a giant new lab in Kansas to study the world's most dangerous animal pathogens. The...

November 15, 2010 1:57 PM |

China Drives the Boom in Foreign Students at U.S. Schools

by Eliot Marshall

China now leads the world in sending students overseas to study in the United States. An annual survey by the Washington, D.C.-based Institute of International Education released today, known...

November 15, 2010 11:34 AM |

OPEC on the Road to World Oil Dominance

by Richard A. Kerr

Experts can't agree just when the world's production of precious oil will stop growing, but the authoritative International Energy Agency (IEA) based in Paris has made an ominous forecast....

November 12, 2010 3:19 PM |

More on NCI Travel: Junkets or Sharing Science?

by Jocelyn Kaiser

Last month, ethics watchdog Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) raised a fuss about certain trips by National Cancer Institute (NCI) intramural scientists that were paid for by nonfederal sources. In...

November 12, 2010 3:09 PM |

Scientist: Spirit Mars Rover May Have Died

by Richard A. Kerr

Mired in dry quicksand, chilled to the bone by the martian winter, and silenced by its feeble wintertime supply of solar power, the Spirit rover should have, with luck,...

November 12, 2010 1:42 PM |

Against Type, Deficit Panel Floats Permanent Tax Break for Corporate Research

by Eli Kintisch

Amid a report full of spending cuts and the elimination of many tax breaks, a bipartisan deficit panel has called for making permanent the research and development tax credit....

November 11, 2010 3:19 PM

Expression of Concern About Centenarians Paper

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Four months after a paper it published on the genetics of centenarians was criticized for possible flaws, Science published an Editorial Expression of Concern about the work, noting that...

November 11, 2010 3:13 PM

As Science Heavyweights Fall, UNESCO Highlights the Contenders

by Antonio Regalado

Reports assessing the world's science and technology output are nothing less than a cottage industry. But UNESCO's Science Report 2010: The Current Status of Science around the World, with...

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