March 2011 Archives
March 31, 2011 1:52 PM
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Energy Expert Annotates Obama's Energy Speech
President Barack Obama's speech to Georgetown University on energy policy, delivered yesterday, forges a new direction on energy policy after big failures in his first two years to cut U.S....
March 31, 2011 11:14 AM
Hawass Is Back as Egypt's Antiquities Minister
Some archaeologists and Egyptian activists thought Zahi Hawass was ancient history. But yesterday, according to several news reports, the controversial head of the country's antiquities has been reappointed to...
March 31, 2011 10:00 AM
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Live Hearing: NASA's Schmidt, Pew's Gulledge, and Science's Kintisch on Climate (Transcript)
A hearing in the House Energy and Commerce Committee (live feed at their site) tomorrow at 10 a.m. EST will explore the science behind the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's...
March 30, 2011 5:26 PM
House Panel Takes Next Step Toward New Patent Rules
A sweeping overhaul of the U.S. patent system appears to be gaining momentum in Congress. Today, Representative Lamar Smith (R-TX), chair of the House Judiciary Committee, unveiled his panel's...
March 30, 2011 4:46 PM
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Patent Foe Sues Monsanto on Modified Crops
The Public Patent Foundation (PUBPAT), an opponent of patents with very expansive claims, has sued St. Louis, Missouri-based company Monsanto, makers of various genetically modified seeds. PUBPAT is a...
March 30, 2011 4:31 PM
Bart Gordon Takes Job With D.C. Lobbying Firm
Bart Gordon, the former chair of the science committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, has joined one of Washington's biggest law and lobbying firms. On Monday, the Tennessee...
India's Prime Minister Seeks More Nuclear Transparency
NEW DELHI—In a speech here today, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh exhorted his government to strive for "accountability and transparency in the functioning of our nuclear power plants." The...
March 30, 2011 11:02 AM
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Experts: Long Road to U.S. Quake Resilience
A National Research Council (NRC) report released today warns that the United States is underfunding its program intended to increase the country's resistance to the next catastrophic earthquake. The...
March 30, 2011 10:23 AM
Watch: on Colbert, Nation's Chief Infectious Disease Scientist
UPDATED: Watch the video below.Catch Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, tonight on The Colbert Report on Comedy...
Should the U.S. More Tightly Control Nuclear Fuel It Makes?
One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies. In 2010, Japanese nuclear...
Indian Survey Finds More Tigers, but Some Wonder
A new survey by the Indian government reports a 12% increase in the country's adult tiger population. But some tiger experts think the numbers don't really add up. A...
March 28, 2011 4:54 PM
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Royal Society Report Documents Globalization of Science
LONDON—"Emerging nations are transforming the scene, although traditional powers remain." That's how physicist and former CERN director Christopher Llewellyn Smith today summarized a new Royal Society report on the...
March 28, 2011 1:37 PM
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In German Elections, Major Research Region Goes Green
Yesterday's state elections in Germany were a clear setback for Angela Merkel's coalition. It also means a significant political change for Baden-Wuerttemberg, the state in southwest Germany that is...
March 28, 2011 10:55 AM
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Ambitious Survey Offers Window Into Chinese Society
Results just in from a pathbreaking survey reveal a wealth of information about everything from economic behavior to happiness in China. Last April, interviewers with the 2010 Chinese Family...
March 25, 2011 6:14 PM
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Japan Soil Measurements Surprisingly High
Concerns about radiation in Japan have now spread to the soil surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. One level that was reported this week was high enough to...
March 25, 2011 5:36 PM
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Johannesburg University Ends Research With Israeli School
A South African university is ending a research collaboration with an Israeli university, a step hailed as a "boycott" by proponents of an international academic campaign to shun Israeli...
March 25, 2011 1:59 PM
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UPDATED: Whistle-Blowing Cardiologist Sued Again Under U.K. Libel Law
In the latest so-called libel tourism case under the United Kingdom's controversial laws, cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst has been hit with another defamation suit. The same U.S. company that had...
March 25, 2011 12:45 PM
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Europe Nudges Top Scientists to Market
Some of Europe's top scientists will get financial help to see whether the results of their research could succeed in the marketplace. The European Research Council (ERC), the European...
China to Tune in to the Music of Dark Energy
BEIJING—China is about to join the hunt for dark energy. At a cosmology workshop held here on 20 March, scientists unveiled Tianlai, or "Sound of Heaven," a project to...
March 25, 2011 10:48 AM
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Japan Radiation Map Roundup
If you want to know what's going on, ask the nerds. As fears swelled over radiation from Japan's battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after the 11...
Radioecologists Developing Japan-Response Recommendations
Two months ago, to little fanfare, the U.S. Department of Energy launched a new research center at its Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in Georgia. Now, thanks to the...
March 23, 2011 5:44 PM
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What's the Current Radiation Threat to Japan's Food and Water?
Health concerns have been rising in Japan after the government found unacceptable radiation levels in milk and vegetables from several regions and in drinking water in Tokyo. The radiation...
March 23, 2011 4:51 PM
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Wanted: Out-of-the-Box Ideas on Clean Energy From Postdocs
The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is soliciting applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship program that comes with a novel twist:...
U.K. Unearths £100 Million More for Research Infrastructure, Launches Agency to Eliminate Clinical Trial Red Tape
The United Kingdom's budget for 2011-12, announced today by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has some good news for scientists with a £100 million boost in spending on...
March 23, 2011 2:11 PM
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Conflicting U.S. and Japan Evacuation Policies Sow Confusion
TOKYO—There is no shortage of contradictory information concerning the danger of the radiation emanating from the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant. But critics here and in the United States...
March 23, 2011 2:00 PM
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Researchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary Theory
Online today in Nature, nearly 150 evolutionary biologists challenge Harvard University's Edward O. Wilson, one of the world's most preeminent scientists, and two colleagues. At issue is the usefulness...
March 23, 2011 1:43 PM
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Congress and Science Education: Wolf Berates NSF on Overdue Report
A long-overdue report on U.S. science education has put the National Science Foundation (NSF) in hot water with an influential legislator. The issue boiled over earlier this month at a...
March 23, 2011 12:21 PM
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Canadian Budget Targets Brain Research, But Critics See Political Motives
A private foundation's brain research initiative would receive significant government support in a new budget unveiled yesterday by Canada's minority Conservative Party. But that approach to research is exactly...
March 22, 2011 5:48 PM
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Quake Question #14: Will Radiation Reach Hawaii?
Readers ask: Will radiation from the Japan quake and tsunami affect the Hawaiian Islands by May 2011? Should we cancel trips to Hawaii for our families? Science answers: You...
March 22, 2011 5:43 PM
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Bug Expert Snags Enviro Prize
For more than 35 years, May Berenbaum has been a champion of insects, studying how they interact with plants and humans and conveying her fascination with bugs to the...
March 22, 2011 5:17 PM
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Quake Question #13: Are There Any Radiation Drugs Available Beyond Potassium Iodide?
Readers ask: Is the military's drug Rad-X being made available to the people of Japan? Science answers: Government health clinics in Japan are distributing potassium iodide pills which can...
Quake Question #12: Can Nuclear Reactors Survive Blackouts?
Readers ask: Are there any commercial nuclear plants that, when deprived of all electric power for a day, don't self-destruct and blow radiation? Science answers: All of the most...
Quake Question #11: How Is Japan's Energy System Affected?
Readers ask: I see reference to natural gas explosions, a refinery fire (now out), a hydroelectric break washing away hundreds of homes, etc. What other energy problems, besides the...
March 21, 2011 5:49 PM
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Quake Scuttles Mission to Study Deep-Sea Carbon
Japan's half-billion-dollar deep-sea drilling vessel was also a casualty of the tsunami following the massive 11 March earthquake. The Chikyu was docked at Hachinohe, 250 kilometers north of Sendai,...
March 21, 2011 4:48 PM
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New Study of Fukushima Crisis Under Way at U.S. Nuclear Agency
Commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced two studies into the Japan nuclear crisis at a meeting today. The first is a 90-day task force looking to obtain a...
March 21, 2011 4:15 PM
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Mine Fire That Threatened Physics Lab Doused
Firefighters have almost completely snuffed out a fire that was threatening an underground physics lab. The fire broke out Thursday in the shaft to the Soudan Underground Mine State...
March 21, 2011 3:18 PM
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MIT Report Cites Progress for Women Faculty
Men still far outnumber women on the science and engineering faculties at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But a new MIT report says women have made so much progress...
March 21, 2011 2:55 PM
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The Aftermath in Japan: Send Us Your Questions
Last week, we asked you to send us your most pressing questions on the crisis in Japan. You responded in droves, and we answered a number of them on...
March 21, 2011 11:04 AM
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Q&A With Australia-Bound Stem Cell Ace
Martin Pera of the University of Southern California (USC) announced on 7 March that he will return to Australia in June to lead Stem Cells Australia (SCA), a new...
Radiation Plume Modelers Chafe at Scarcity of Data
Atmospheric modelers are still warily watching the spread of radionuclides from the stricken Fukushima nuclear plant as workers there struggle to bring the situation under control. "The wind is...
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