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December 9, 2010 5:16 PM
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Wolf Politics and the Endangered Species 'End Run'
Negotiations between the Interior Department and the governors of three western states—Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming—to remove the Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf (Canis lupus) from the federal endangered species...
NSF Balks at Continuing Design Work for Underground Science Lab
The oversight board for the National Science Foundation (NSF) has rejected a request for additional funding to design an $875 million underground laboratory in South Dakota. Its reasons suggest...
Europe's Nuclear Scientists Plan for the Future
European nuclear physicists released a long-range plan today that aims to cement their world-leading position in the field. The roughly 6000 nuclear scientists and engineers across the continent are...
December 9, 2010 1:03 PM
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WHO Endorses 'Revolutionary' New Diagnostic Test for TB
LONDON—A new rapid test for tuberculosis (TB) has received an important thumbs-up from the World Health Organization (WHO), a move expected to lead to its worldwide rollout over the...
December 9, 2010 12:24 PM
'A Democratic Society Needs Republican Scientists'
Or so argues Arizona State University science policy expert Daniel Sarewitz in Slate, who says that the country's scientific corps is too left-leaning: During the Bush administration, Democrats discovered...
December 9, 2010 12:20 PM
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House Approves Flat 2011 Budget for Most Science Agencies
The three federal agencies that support the vast majority of academic research would receive no more money in 2011 than in 2010 under a spending bill that narrowly passed...
Amidst Bailout, Ireland Increases Science Budget
The Irish government has increased its funding for research in 2011 by 12.5% despite being forced to make €6 billion in cuts following its recent bailout. The budget, which...
December 8, 2010 3:24 PM
Author of Controversial Arsenic Paper Speaks
A firestorm has erupted over the online publication in Science of the discovery of bacteria that use arsenic instead of phosphorus in their DNA. In response, the paper’s lead author,...
December 7, 2010 5:13 PM
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Minnesota Bioethicists Critique Their University
Eight bioethicists at the University of Minnesota are charging that their own institution has committed an "alarming series of ethical violations" in a clinical trial where a young man...
December 7, 2010 4:54 PM
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WikiLeaks Reveals Ulterior Motive Behind Record-Setting Marine Reserve
A leaked U.S. State Department cable shows that the British government had more than protecting fish on its mind when it was designing the world's largest marine protected area,...
December 7, 2010 4:18 PM
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NIH to Create Translational Science Center
National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins said today that he is moving ahead with a plan to create a new center focused on translational science—his biggest initiative...
December 7, 2010 2:15 PM
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Citing Fraud, Global Fund Suspends Grants to Mali
Mali has arrested 15 people accused of embezzling grant money meant to help the country battle malaria and tuberculosis. The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to...
Shanghai Students World Champs on Science, Math, Reading Test
A group of teenagers from Shanghai, China, have posted the top scores on the latest version of an international test of practical knowledge in reading, mathematics, and science. It's...
December 6, 2010 5:12 PM
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Stem Cell Funding Has Day in Court
Three federal appeals judges today questioned lawyers on both sides of the lawsuit over whether federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is illegal. The U.S. government...
December 6, 2010 5:09 PM
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NIGMS Director Berg Steps Down
Jeremy Berg, director of the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), announced today that he will step down next June to take a job at the University of...
December 6, 2010 12:48 PM
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WHO Shines a Light on Traditional Medicine
TOKYO—Traditional medicine could gain a bit of scientific rigor from a new World Health Organization project to draft an International Classification of Traditional Medicine (ICTM) that gets under way...
December 3, 2010 5:27 PM
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Creating One NIH Center Might Entail Dissolving Another
A proposal to create a new translational research center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is causing angst across the agency and beyond. As part of the plan...
December 3, 2010 4:24 PM
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New Poll Suggests U.K. Libel Laws Threaten Science Publishers
As the U.K.'s Libel Reform Campaign celebrates its first birthday, one of its member, the charity Sense About Science, today released a preview of a poll trying to estimate...
December 3, 2010 4:12 PM
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After Nomination Glitch, Klein Likely to Stay as Stem Cell Institute Chair
California's stem cell research institute received embarrassing news this week: The leading candidate to replace Robert Klein as chair of the board had to be disqualified because he's not...
December 3, 2010 3:57 PM
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In a Sciencey World, Does Congress Need More Staff or Less?
Among the less-noticed cost-saving recommendations that the White House debt commission has made that have flown beneath the radar is a call to cut the budget of the Executive...
December 3, 2010 11:50 AM
A Serving of Arsenic for the Press
The chaos surrounding the release of yesterday's Science paper ...
December 3, 2010 11:32 AM
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New Google Earth Engine
Calling all developing nations, underfunded scientists, and satellite imagery hobbyists. Care for a free "planetary-scale platform for environmental data & analysis"? That's what search giant Google calls its Google...
December 2, 2010 6:15 PM
Plan for Creationist 'Ark' Park Draws Paleontologists' Ire
Kentucky scientists are slamming Governor Steve Beshear's (D) announcement yesterday that the state is partnering with Answers in Genesis (AIG), a creationism group, to create "Ark Encounter," a park related...
December 2, 2010 5:56 PM
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In Cancún, Brazil Touts Progress Stopping Deforestation
Brazil's delegation is heading to the COP16 meeting in Cancún with something to crow about. At a ceremony Wednesday in Brasília, officials said that deforestation in the Amazon has...
December 2, 2010 4:01 PM
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NIH Considering New Translational Medicine Institute
Weeks after deciding to trim one of its 27 institutes and centers, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is now looking at creating a new center focused on translational...
Biologist Prevails in Case of 'Fruit Bat Fellatio' Harassment Allegations
Dylan Evans is breathing a sigh of relief. The biologist at University College Cork in Ireland was required by the school to attend 2 years of counseling for reading...
Europe's X-ray Powerhouse Hit by Budget Cuts
The difficult financial straits of European nations are starting to have an impact on the funding of the region's large research facilities. The governing council of the European Synchrotron...
December 2, 2010 11:29 AM
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NIH Defends Cancer Researchers' Sponsored Travel
Trips that researchers at the U.S. National Cancer Institute (NCI) accepted from nonfederal sponsors to present data at scientific meetings or institutions were a valid part of carrying out...
December 1, 2010 5:04 PM
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What U.S. Universities Need to Do to Stay on Top
What are the biggest threats to the preeminence of U.S. research universities? Last week a National Academies' panel and several dozen invited guests circled around that question during a...
December 1, 2010 1:26 PM
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The Moment of Truth Spares U.S. Science
The final report by the U.S. National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, released this morning, contains a long list of tax increases and spending cuts needed to shrink...
December 1, 2010 1:17 PM
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Dig Fusion? Now You Can Call the Shots
Fancy yourself as an armchair fusion scientist? Well, there's no need to build a tokamak in your garage anymore. Instead, you can use the Internet to carry out your...
December 1, 2010 11:26 AM
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Japan's Whaling Research Faces Another Tough Year
TOKYO—The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will once again be harassing Japan's research whaling efforts in Antarctic waters over the next few months, Scott West, an organization official said here today....
December 1, 2010 6:00 AM
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Howard Hughes to Launch Labs of New Investigators Abroad
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) announced today a new competition to help foreign-born scientists trained in the United States build research programs after they return to their home...
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