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May 11, 2011 5:25 PM
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NIH Director: Fewer Than One in Five Grant Applications May Get Funded This Year
At a Senate hearing today, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins warned that the fraction of grant applications that are funded this year could drop below 20% for...
May 11, 2011 2:58 PM
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Australian Government Silent on Synchrotron Budget While Scientists Plan Expansion
One might think that the managers of the Australian Synchrotron would be panicking given the news that neither the federal government nor the Victoria state government has addressed in their...
Ethics Commission Recommends Swift German Nuclear Phaseout
BERLIN—Germany should phase out nuclear power by 2021, according to a leaked draft of a report from the "Ethics Commission on Safe Energy Supply" created by Chancellor Angela Merkel in...
Ten-Year Plan Aims to Make Slovenia a Regional Science Leader
Slovenia's parliament is expected to approve a 10-year strategy next week to give the country's research and innovation sectors a major facelift. The plan aims to boost government funding for...
May 11, 2011 11:50 AM
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Mega Gift Strengthens UPenn Med School
A power couple in Philadelphia philanthropy, Raymond and Ruth Perelman, have made one of the largest gifts ever to a medical school, The New York Times reported last night: $225...
May 10, 2011 4:46 PM
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In Spain, a High-Profile Spat Over Drug Development Funds
Spain's top cancer scientist is fighting with the government over a plan to use private funding to develop drugs against lung cancer—and both parties have chosen the media as their...
May 10, 2011 3:18 PM
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Authorities Shut Controversial German Stem Cell Clinic
BERLIN—Health authorities in Germany have shut down a large clinic that had been peddling unproven stem cell treatments for a variety of physical disorders, including cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease, and...
May 10, 2011 2:30 PM
Scientists Try to Counter Rome Earthquake Fear
Empty schools, semiabandoned offices, and huge traffic jams. That is the potential scenario in Rome tomorrow, as inhabitants flee the Italian capital for fear that a catastrophic earthquake will strike...
May 10, 2011 11:05 AM
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Experts Sifts 'Tens of Thousands of Photos' in Post-Catastrophe Tornado Analysis
Doppler radar helped quantify the initial assessment of the impact of the historic outbreak of 305 tornadoes in the last week of April from Texas to New York that killed...
May 9, 2011 5:07 PM
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More Briefs Coming in Stem Cell Lawsuit
After months of inactivity, a lawsuit challenging the legality of National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding for human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research could soon be moving again. Today,...
May 6, 2011 5:41 PM
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More Bad News for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and the Mouse Virus Thesis
A large, thorough hunt for a mouse retrovirus known as XMRV in people who have chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)—including in patients who tested positive for the virus in other...
May 6, 2011 5:24 PM
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Indigenous Peruvian Tribe Blocks DNA Sampling by National Geographic
Complaints by indigenous leaders and local officials have blocked a plan by geneticists with the National Geographic Society to collect DNA from the remote Q'eros tribe in Peru as...
U.S. Nuclear Watchdog Says Fukushima Safety Guidance Was Meant 'for U.S. Citizens'
The chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today defended his advice that Americans living within 80 km of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant should leave their homes...
May 5, 2011 5:54 PM
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U.N. Forces Introduced Cholera to Haiti, Panel Concludes
The evidence "overwhelmingly" suggests that cholera was inadvertently introduced to Haiti by U.N. peacekeepers, an independent panel concludes in a report to U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon that was released...
May 5, 2011 5:37 PM
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Science Is Lacking in California Bay Delta Conservation Plan
A draft plan to restore endangered habitat and fish species in the California Bay Delta east of San Francisco is incomplete and contains major scientific gaps, according to a...
May 5, 2011 2:36 PM
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European Science Foundation Members Fumble Merger Plans
The long-planned creation of a new body to speak for European science was thrown into disarray yesterday at a special general assembly of the European Science Foundation (ESF) when...
May 5, 2011 2:33 PM
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French Appeals Court Clears Scientists in Growth Hormone Scandal
PARIS—After 2 decades of legal wrangling, a French appeals court today threw out charges of involuntary manslaughter and other crimes against two scientists involved in a growth hormone scandal...
May 5, 2011 12:42 PM
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CIRM Awards $25 Million for Geron's Embryonic Stem Cell Trial
California's stem cell research agency has made its first award for a clinical trial. The recipient of the $25 million award is Geron Corp., the biotechnology company in Menlo...
May 4, 2011 5:54 PM
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Chesapeake Recovery Hampered by Sparse Data, Academy Finds
For decades, the Chesapeake Bay—the largest estuary in the United States—has suffered from excess nutrients and sediments that pour into its waters. In 2009, six states and the District...
Holdren's Response to Ban on China Science Partnerships Draws GOP Ire
The Obama Administration has carved out a loophole in the recent congressional ban on scientific interactions with China that would permit most activities between the two countries to continue....
May 4, 2011 5:06 PM
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10 Billion Plus: Why World Population Projections Were Too Low
The United Nations yesterday revealed unsettling news about the world's population: Instead of leveling off at around 9 billion by 2050, the population will now reach 10.1 billion people...
Fuel Costs, Budget Woes Cut U.S. Ocean Drilling
The continuing high cost of ship fuel and budget constraints at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have forced scientific ocean drillers to tie up their drill ship for a...
May 3, 2011 5:06 PM
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French Researchers Balk at Limits on African Travel
French scientists are up in arms about the freeze their universities and research organizations have placed on field work in Mauritania, Mali, and Niger in response to the deteriorating...
May 3, 2011 3:49 PM
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Open Letters Fly as ESF Nears Key Vote on Future
A flurry of open letters have been flitting across Europe this week in the run-up to a special general assembly of the European Science Foundation (ESF), which is about...
Indian Scientists Plan to Delve Deep for Earthquake Precursors
NEW DELHI—Indian scientists are about to embark on an ambitious effort to drill into the Indian plate to monitor tremors and other seismic signatures of impending earthquakes. Indian science...
Geographers Had Predicted Osama's Possible Whereabouts
Could Osama bin Laden have been found faster if the CIA had followed the advice of ecosystem geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles? Probably not, but the...
May 2, 2011 5:40 PM
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Entries Flood Naming Contest for European Science Funding Program
It hasn’t quite reached the fever of the upcoming EuroVision Song Contest, but the European Commission’s contest to find a more inspiring name for its key science and technology...
May 2, 2011 5:31 PM
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Princeton's Tilghman Wants to Shake Up Biomedical Research Training
Princeton University President Shirley Tilghman, who as we wrote last week is co-chairing a review of the biomedical research workforce for the National Institutes of Health (NIH), speaks out...
May 2, 2011 2:53 PM
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Brain Damage Found in NFL Veteran Who Took Own Life
Researchers this morning confirmed what former National Football League player Dave Duerson must have feared when he shot himself in the abdomen back in February, killing the 51 year...
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