February 2011 Archives
February 28, 2011 5:19 PM
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NIH Begins Study of Oil Spill's Impact on Residents
Today, the U.S. government launched what's being billed as the largest study ever conducted of how an oil spill affects human health. The Gulf Long-Term Follow-Up Study will survey...
February 28, 2011 1:33 PM
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White House Launches New Tally of STEM Education Programs
An inventory by the Bush Administration of federal efforts to bolster science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education was too simplistic to be useful, according to a White House...
Big Increase for Indian Research Is Not Good Enough, Say Scientists
NEW DELHI—The Indian government plans to spend 21% more this year on science and technology, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee announced today. But some scientists think the government, which finances...
February 25, 2011 12:28 PM
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UC San Diego Protest Over Foreign Postdoc's Dismissal
On Wednesday, campus police at the University of California, San Diego, broke up a protest outside the office of university Chancellor Marye Anne Fox. Police threatened to arrest a...
February 25, 2011 12:14 PM
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U.S. Ocean Agency Mostly Unscathed on Climate E-mails Inquiry
The U.S. Department of Commerce inspector general appears to have given the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) a clean bill of health after reviewing the East Anglia e-mails...
February 24, 2011 5:56 PM
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Chu Asks Energy Maverick to Plug a Big Hole in the Department
From Tuesday’s The Hill: In a memo to staff Tuesday, Energy Secretary Steven Chu said that Acting Under Secretary of Energy Cathy Zoi will leave the agency next month...
February 24, 2011 5:41 PM
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Report Calls for Broad Reforms in Managing California’s Water
If California hopes to prevent further extinctions of native species of endangered fish, the state should abandon efforts to take desperate measures to save individual species under the Endangered...
February 24, 2011 11:45 AM
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How to Grow Your Own Army of Citizen Scientists
In 2007, astronomer Chris Lintott and colleagues were drowning under a data deluge—1 million images of galaxies to characterize and only one graduate student to do it. His student...
February 23, 2011 5:39 PM
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Research Center's Death Warrant Signed by NIH Advisers
A decision by National Institutes of Health (NIH) leaders to abolish one of the agency's institutes ran into little opposition today from a key advisory board. One board member...
February 23, 2011 2:44 PM
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Three-Quarters of Coral Reefs Threatened, Report Says
The news for coral reefs just got worse. Today, 75% of the world's coral reefs are threatened, a new report says, an increase from 58% a decade ago. Local...
February 23, 2011 11:07 AM
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Native Son Returns to Guide Catalonia's Research Through Spain's Troubled Economy
Noted mathematical economist Andreu Mas-Colell, who resigned his position as secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC) last September, is returning to his native Catalonia to help the...
February 22, 2011 5:37 PM
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NSF and Energy Department Agree to Keep Pumps on for Underground Lab Site
A plan to convert an abandoned gold mine in the Black Hills of South Dakota into the world's largest underground laboratory remains afloat, but just barely. The National Science...
February 22, 2011 5:26 PM
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Dissent in NIH's Ranks
An institute director at the National Institutes of Health sounded off today about NIH's plan to abolish its infrastructure center in order to launch a new center for translational...
February 22, 2011 4:44 PM
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Meet the Mastermind Behind That E. coli Google Logo
In a cage match between basketball star Amar'e Stoudemire and a duo of microbiologists, who will emerge victorious? Only time and users' votes will tell.
February 22, 2011 4:24 PM
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Vaccine Maker Wins in High Court
The U.S. Supreme Court came down firmly on the side of a vaccine manufacturer today, arguing that parents whose teenager daughter was apparently seriously injured by a vaccine she...
February 22, 2011 1:24 PM
Aussie Science Chief Resigns
MELBOURNE—Australia's chief scientist, astronomer Penny Sackett, surprised the scientific community last Friday by announcing her resignation effective 4 March—just halfway through her 5-year tenure. Pundits have suggested that her...
February 22, 2011 12:02 PM
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Egypt's Hawass Fires Back at Critics
Egypt's ancient monuments reopened to tourists Sunday as the country's beleaguered antiquities minister forcefully defended his stewardship of its treasures. "Under my direction, the SCA [Supreme Council of Antiquities]...
February 19, 2011 4:09 PM
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Scientists Criticize House Vote to Bar Climate Panel Funds
Last night the U.S. House of Representatives agreed to cut off funding for the rest of 2011 for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. “My constituents should not have to...
February 18, 2011 2:18 PM
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The News About Egypt's Antiquities Is Good—and Bad
After weeks of denials, Egypt's top archaeologist admitted yesterday that several ancient tombs and "many" storerooms were damaged or looted during the recent chaos that swept Hosni Mubarak out...
February 18, 2011 11:30 AM
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War and Peace Over Holdren's Climate Testimony
A fleeting peace broke out yesterday on Capitol Hill over the contentious issue of climate change. For a few minutes it looked like a détente had been reached between...
Japan's Research Whalers Head Home Early
TOKYO—Japan officially called an early halt to this year's research whaling expedition to Antarctic waters, blaming the activist group Sea Shepherd Conservation Society for making it impossible to continue....
February 17, 2011 4:32 PM
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Fourteen More Senators Question NIH Reorganization
A group of senators has registered concerns about the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) plan to abolish its National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) to make way for a...
February 17, 2011 1:33 PM
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U.K. Start-Up Aims to Cash in on Small Fusion Reactor
A company in Oxfordshire, U.K., is aiming to make a business out of fusion with a design for a super compact fusion reactor, or tokamak, that it hopes to...
February 17, 2011 12:59 PM
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First U.S. Cowpox Infection: Acquired From Lab Contamination
A student laboratory worker at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, is the first person in the United States to come down with cowpox, a less dangerous relative of smallpox,...
February 17, 2011 11:30 AM
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Nobel Insults, Radical Departures, and Budget Battles
A conversation with E.U. Commissioner Máire Geoghegan-Quinn
DOE's Chu Says Proposed House Cuts Could Trigger Brain Drain
Energy Secretary Steven Chu warned today that proposed cuts to energy research as part of a spending plan by House of Representatives Republicans for the rest of 2011 could...
February 16, 2011 3:37 PM
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Physicist-Politico Pursuing Fund to Elect Scientists
Having lost his seat in a tough election in November, physicist and former Representative Bill Foster is telling his fellow scientists: You should run for office, too. Foster, a...
February 16, 2011 1:58 PM
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Foreign Scientists Will Move to Front of U.K. Visa Line
Fleshing out the details of its controversial new immigration cap, the UK Border Agency announced today that it will give priority to scientists and engineers. This represents a partial...
February 16, 2011 12:44 PM
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India May Join U.S. MoonRise Mission
NEW DELHI—India hopes to join the United States on a sample return mission to the moon, according to K. Radhakrishnan, chair of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). He...
February 15, 2011 6:20 PM
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Proposed Rise for Oceans' Agency Budget as Satellite Costs Mount
Although 2012 budget documents for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency (NOAA) are still being vetted by the Department of Commerce and the White House, the big picture has...
February 15, 2011 5:43 PM
Frustrated Researchers to Petition NIH to Change Rule on Resubmitting Grants
A draft petition urging National Institutes of Health (NIH) leaders to rescind a recent rule limiting the number of times a grant application can be submitted is generating a...
February 15, 2011 1:14 PM
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Grad Student to Serve Six Months for Freeing Ferrets
Scott DeMuth, a sociology graduate student at the University of Minnesota, was sentenced yesterday to 6 months in federal prison for his role in a 2006 raid on a...
February 15, 2011 11:12 AM
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Study Questions Government Case on Anthrax Attacks
The science behind the U.S. government's investigation into the 2001 anthrax mailings does not rule out the possibility that the spores used in the attacks came from a source other...
February 15, 2011 8:10 AM
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Will Obama's SunShot Initiative See the Light of Day?
Applied and basic energy research was proposed to receive big increases in the 2012 budget released today. Underscoring the nearly exalted status of energy research in a budget that...
February 14, 2011 9:25 PM
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White House Proposes Modest Funding Increase for Global Health Programs
In the face of a Republican-led effort to slash funding for global health programs, the Obama Administration proposed budget for 2012 calls for slightly increasing the investment on its Global...
February 14, 2011 6:50 PM
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Energy Science: Obama's Darling, Congress's Target
It's a comforting idea for many scientists but may prove to be only a fantasy: The Obama Administration has requested a healthy increase for the Department of Energy's (DOE's)...
February 14, 2011 6:24 PM
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In 2012 Drama, Science an Early Budget Winner ... But Fight Has Just Begun
Do big proposed increases for science in today's budget mean Obama cares more about it than other programs, like support for the needy? On today's 2012 budget request to...
February 14, 2011 5:51 PM
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EPA Research Would Be Cut—But Not As Much as Other Programs
A steady rise in research funding at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the Obama Administration would come to an end in the FY 2012 budget, according to the...
February 14, 2011 5:46 PM
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NIST Picked for Healthy Increase to Support Advanced Manufacturing and Measurement Research
If you want to see budget fireworks in the coming months, keep your eye on the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). This lesser known science agency has...
February 14, 2011 5:45 PM
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FDA's Expanded Mandate in Limbo
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) could get a big budget boost this year, with the president requesting $4.3 billion, more than a third of it from regulatory...
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