April 2011 Archives
April 29, 2011 5:35 PM
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Stem Cell Ruling Brings Relief for Now, But Legal Battle Continues
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and biomedical research groups are jubilant that a federal appeals court today overturned a preliminary injunction that briefly halted research on human embryonic...
April 29, 2011 5:11 PM
Beachy to Leave Key Agriculture Research Post in Washington
Roger Beachy, the director of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is leaving his post next month after serving less...
April 29, 2011 4:22 PM
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Women's Share of NIH Grants Drops With Age
A new analysis from the National Institutes of Health puts in stark relief the widening imbalance between men and women researchers as their careers progress. NIH grants’ staff members...
April 29, 2011 2:30 PM
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Worries Mount Over Smithsonian Shipwreck Exhibit
Smithsonian Institution officials are still debating whether to proceed with a controversial exhibit of shipwrecked artifacts as critics level a new charge that legal matters dogging the corporate owner...
April 29, 2011 2:08 PM
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Anti-Royal Anthropologists Arrested for Planned Protest
Yesterday evening, while Prince William and Kate Middleton (now the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge) were making last minute preparations for their royal wedding, two well-known anthropologists were arrested...
Government Adviser Quits Post to Protest Japan's Policy on Radiation Exposure for Fukushima Schools
TOKYO—A prominent Japanese radiation safety specialist has resigned his governmental advisory post in protest over what he calls "inexcusable" standards for school children in Fukushima Prefecture. The Yomiuri Online...
April 29, 2011 11:13 AM
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NIH Wins Appeal of Stem Cell Injunction
A federal appeals court has ruled in favor of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a high-stakes law suit challenging the legality of the Obama Administration's policy on...
April 28, 2011 3:31 PM
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NIH Panel Tackles Makeup of the Biomedical Workforce
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has launched what may be its most comprehensive study ever of the biomedical research workforce. Over the next year, an expert panel will...
April 28, 2011 2:22 PM
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Declining Chinese Birth Rate Could Doom One-Child Policy
Preliminary results from China's census, released today at a press conference in Beijing, reveal a population that is older, rapidly urbanizing, and growing more slowly, with a widening gap...
April 28, 2011 1:25 PM
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New U.K. Plant Science Lab Receives the Royal Treatment
Most people think the major royal event of the week in England is a small wedding tomorrow, but plant biologists might disagree. Yesterday, the Queen, resplendent in a blue...
April 27, 2011 4:36 PM
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Scientists Urge Greater Protection for Arctic as Ice Recedes
A group of scientists and representatives of indigenous Arctic communities has identified areas around the Arctic Ocean that they consider especially worthy of consideration for protection as sea ice...
April 27, 2011 2:55 PM
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Preventable Chronic Diseases Are Now the World's Biggest Killers
The chronic health problems of post-industrial societies have now spread to the developing world, says a new report by the World Health Organization. Diabetes, heart disease, and cancer now...
April 27, 2011 1:00 PM
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Scientists Lobby European Court to Maintain Stem Cell Patents
Thirteen European stem cell scientists have issued a public appeal to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) not to prohibit patents on discoveries made with human embryonic stem (hES)...
April 26, 2011 4:51 PM
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NIH Trims Grants in Wake of Budget Cuts
U.S. biomedical researchers will need to tighten their belts as a result of the 1% drop in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 2011 budget that became law 2...
April 26, 2011 4:29 PM
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Mixed Feelings Over Migration of ScienceBlogs.com to National Geo
The word started to spread over the weekend at a science writing conference in Washington, D.C.: The popular and sometimes controversial Web site ScienceBlogs.com would soon be taken over...
April 26, 2011 1:38 PM
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The $23 Million Textbook
The Making of a Fly, by Peter Lawrence of the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, is a classic in the field of developmental biology. But is a...
April 26, 2011 12:01 AM
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Fukushima Crisis Shouldn't Blunt Long-Term Investment in Nuclear Power, Says MIT Report
A long-awaited report by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) sees nuclear power as an important component of the U.S. energy supply, a message not affected by last month's...
April 25, 2011 4:54 PM
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Donations Kickstart Cervical Cancer Program in Rwanda
The Rwandan government, in collaboration with two companies, today announced the start of a national cervical cancer prevention program—the first African country to do so. The companies, Merck and...
April 25, 2011 3:32 PM
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Details Revealed on BP's Funds for Continued Oil Spill Research
WASHINGTON, D.C.—Just over a year since oil began gushing into the Gulf of Mexico from BP's blown Macondo well, there is now a plan for distributing the biggest pot...
April 25, 2011 12:29 PM
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Science Publishes Replication of 2007 Hauser Study
An investigation at Harvard University last year found prominent cognitive scientist Marc Hauser guilty of research misconduct and raised questions about several publications, including a 2007 Science paper on...
Tsinghua Celebrates Centennial in Style
BEIJING—Tsinghua University marked its 100th anniversary in a grand ceremony here on 24 April in the Great Hall of the People. Founded in 1911 with war reparations imposed on...
April 22, 2011 11:17 AM
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A Map of Fukushima's Radiation Risks
A new map from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) shows the long-term radiation risks to people living near Japan's ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. DOE-sponsored aerial surveys began...
April 21, 2011 7:24 PM
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Harvard Researcher Banned From Teaching Next Year
The Boston Globe reports today that Harvard University cognitive scientist Marc Hauser, who is on leave after a university investigation found evidence of research misconduct in his lab, will not...
April 21, 2011 5:01 PM
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Tennessee 'Critical Thinking' Education Bill Dead in the Water—For Now
A bill in the Tennessee Legislature encouraging science teachers to explore controversial topics, which opponents claim opens the door to anti-evolution rhetoric, was put on hold today. The bill...
April 21, 2011 2:04 PM
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Spending Bill Prohibits U.S.-China Collaborations
A little-noticed clause in the 2011 spending bill signed into law last week cuts off funding for a host of scientific exchanges between the United States and China. Representative...
Italy Puts Nuclear Power on Indefinite Hold
Plans to build a new generation of nuclear reactors in Italy have run aground following the accident at the Fukushima plant in Japan last month. The center-right government of...
April 20, 2011 5:19 PM
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A Roadmap for Stalking Extremophiles
From the interior of desert rocks to hydrothermal vents at the bottom of the ocean, life has adapted to extraordinary environments. And yet many such species are threatened by...
April 20, 2011 5:13 PM
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Hopes Brighten for Embattled Australian Medical Researchers
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—After a week of nationwide protests, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 19 April sought to reassure scientists that her government was rethinking a rumored $423 million (AUD...
April 20, 2011 4:27 PM
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Institute: Soldiers Need Better Diet After Brain Injury
In a report released today, the Institute of Medicine recommends that soldiers who suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the field of battle must receive adequate calories and...
April 19, 2011 6:31 PM
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Can States Sue on Greenhouse Gas as a 'Nuisance'? High Court Asks
As the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is busy girding itself for a fight over new greenhouse gas emissions rules, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments today in a case...
April 19, 2011 12:01 AM
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Emphasis on Earlier Diagnosis in New Alzheimer's Guidelines
For the first time in 27 years, researchers have released new criteria for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease. With tests to pick up the earliest stages of the disease not yet ready...
April 18, 2011 5:11 PM
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Fukushima Plan: Achieving Cold Shutdown Could Take 6 Months
Officials with Tokyo Electric Power Co. have outlined their plans for ending the saga of the stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daichi power plant. In the first 3 to...
April 15, 2011 5:21 PM
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Should Japan Bank Stem Cells From Fukushima Nuclear Workers?
Several Japanese medical experts want to bank blood stem cells from workers at the ailing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. The cells would be used as a treatment in case...
April 15, 2011 12:19 PM
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Court Releases Indian Doctor Binayak Sen
NEW DELHI—The Indian Supreme Court gave bail today to Binayak Sen, 61, a doctor who has been detained in Raipur in Chhattisgarh since May 2007 on charges of sedition....
April 15, 2011 10:00 AM
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Federal Funds for Climate Panel Saved, But Foe Plans New Assault
The U.S. government will be able to continue supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after language banning those contributions was dropped from the compromise spending bill for 2011....
April 14, 2011 5:31 PM
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Congress Delists Endangered Wolf: A Roundup
As part of the 2011 budget bill passed today by the House of Representatives, Congress for the first time removed a species from the Fish and Wildlife Service's list...
April 14, 2011 11:04 AM
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Australian Medical Scientists Protest Hefty Budget Cuts
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Chanting "cures not cuts," some 7000 medical researchers took to the streets in five Australian cities this week to protest a steep cut—about 20% per year—to medical research...
April 13, 2011 9:21 PM
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Budget Cuts Mean '18-Month Gap' in Crucial Weather Data, Says Ocean Agency
If passed into law, the federal budget for 2011 that lawmakers will vote on this week will harm key efforts in daily weather forecasting, search-and-rescue operations, and long-term weather...
April 13, 2011 2:06 PM
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Tomorrow on ScienceLive: 50 Years in Space
Tune in tomorrow for the inaugural running of ScienceLive, our new weekly 1-hour live chat where the hottest topics in science get discussed by the top experts, with Science...
April 13, 2011 12:58 PM
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Yale Undergraduate Dies in Machine Shop Accident
Yale University is mourning the loss of an undergraduate who died after an accident Tuesday night in a chemistry machine shop. According to a statement today from school officials,...
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