June 2011 Archives
June 30, 2011 5:47 PM
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Why JFK's Runway Has Turtles All the Way Down*
So what was special yesterday about the runways of New York City's John F. Kennedy airport that drew over 150 diamondback terrapin turtles to cross its dangerous runways to...
Fallout from Strauss-Kahn Affair: France Gets New Research Minister
PARIS—One ripple effect of the arrest in New York of former International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn on charges of sexual assault is that a shuffling of...
June 29, 2011 5:58 PM
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Los Alamos Fire: Why Nuclear Waste Is Probably Safe
A key barrier between the New Mexico wildfire that started several days ago and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, a road which has been cleared of trees and debris,...
June 29, 2011 5:50 PM
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Breast Cancer Drug Gets a Unanimous Thumbs Down
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND—An advisory committee to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) sided this afternoon with the agency, agreeing in a unanimous vote, 6-0, that the drug Avastin...
June 29, 2011 5:35 PM
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DeGette Reintroduces Stem Cell Bill
In what may be an exercise in futility, Representative Diana DeGette (D-CO) this week reintroduced her bill that would codify the Obama Administration's 2009 policy easing restrictions on federally...
June 29, 2011 5:08 PM
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DARPA to Offer $30 Million to Jump-Start Cellular Factories
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Defense Department's high-risk granting body, is about to jump into synthetic biology in a big way. One of the latest...
June 29, 2011 2:18 PM
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Biosphere 2 Gets New Owner, Funding
The future of Biosphere 2 as a scientific facility is on a firmer footing, thanks to two major gifts announced this week. On Friday, the University of Arizona (UA),...
Investigation of Japanese Papers Entangles University President
TOKYO—The list of scientists who must regret co-authoring papers with University of the Ryukyus virologist Naoki Mori now includes the president of the university. Mori and colleagues have already...
June 29, 2011 12:17 PM
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California Universities Brace for More Cuts
Facing a persistent budget gap, the California legislature yesterday passed an austere budget that will bring yet more financial pain to the already cash-strapped state university system. The University...
June 28, 2011 5:13 PM
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Breast Cancer Drug Avastin Faces Uphill Battle
SILVER SPRING, MARYLAND—At an emotional hearing here today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) argued that a drug that it approved just 3 years ago for breast cancer,...
June 28, 2011 5:10 PM
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Fire Outside Los Alamos Lab Poses 'Low' Risk to Nuclear Waste: Fire Chief
The Albuquerque Journal reports on a press conference an hour ago in which authorities fighting the raging blaze downplayed the risk of the fire striking a huge cache of...
June 28, 2011 4:46 PM
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Candidate Pawlenty on Climate Change: 'The Science Is Bad'
Republican presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty has had a well-documented change of heart on climate change science. Today on the Fox and Friends morning show, the former Minnesota governor reiterated...
June 27, 2011 5:36 PM
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New Mexico Fire Hits Los Alamos Lab
The wildfire that earlier forced a shutdown of the Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered an outdoor area called Technical Area 49. From Los Alamos National Laboratory by e-mail...
June 27, 2011 3:45 PM
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Scientist-Politician-Atheist Offers Own Money For Origin of Life Prize
A millionaire scientist who once ran as a Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate has just launched a $50,000 prize to promote research on the origin of life. Yes,...
June 27, 2011 2:44 PM
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Three Biomedical Funders to Launch Open Access Journal
Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very best papers within a few weeks of...
June 27, 2011 1:48 PM
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White House Retools Advanced Manufacturing Efforts
Advanced manufacturing—developing new materials and processes to make things faster, cheaper, and more efficiently—isn't a very sexy topic. But it promises to give an edge to U.S. companies trying...
June 27, 2011 12:44 PM
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New Mexico Wildfire Threatens Nuclear Weapons Lab
A wildfire that has burned more than 6000 acres is raging some 20 km southwest of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The federal...
June 27, 2011 12:38 PM
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Mutated Bacteria Drives Scarlet Fever Outbreak
HONG KONG—A mutated strain of bacteria is apparently behind an outbreak of scarlet fever in Hong Kong that has killed two children and sickened more than 600 people so...
June 27, 2011 12:12 PM
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Italy's Funds for HIV/AIDS Research Running Dry
Despite Italian HIV/AIDS researchers earning a top tier berth in the field, the government has no plans to continue the National AIDS Research Program that, at its peak in...
China's Health Care Reform Looks to Science
SHANGHAI—No matter where you stand on "Obamacare," the derisive term given to President Barack Obama's attempt to mandate health care for Americans, you'll be blown away by the sheer...
June 24, 2011 6:39 PM
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Stem Cell Briefs Probe Whether Grants 'Incentivize' Embryo Destruction
The two sides in a high-stakes legal battle over stem cells expanded on their arguments in briefs filed today in a case being heard by Chief Judge Royce Lamberth...
June 24, 2011 4:39 PM
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Growing Evidence on Climate Change Affecting U.S. Gardens
Federal climate scientists are teaming up with horticulturalists to inform the public about the potential effects of climate change on gardens. Today, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
June 24, 2011 4:19 PM
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House Science Panel Spars With Lubchenco Over Climate Service
The science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives this week criticized steps that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has taken to create a National Climate Service,...
June 24, 2011 2:51 PM
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Firing of Utah Archaeologists Alarms Community
The Utah archaeological community is in an uproar over the abrupt firing earlier this week of Kevin Jones, Utah's state archaeologist, and two of his colleagues. State officials have...
June 24, 2011 2:28 PM
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FDA Fires Warning Shot at Australian Vaccine Maker
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—A warning letter from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to Australian vaccine maker CSL Biotherapies has shaken confidence in the country's biotech superstar. The 15 June...
June 24, 2011 3:01 AM
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Studies in Microwaves, Fluids Nab Scientists Big Cash
A Russian astrophysicist who pioneered the study of fluctuations in the cosmic microwave background to learn more about the universe and an American chemist whose work led to the...
Underground Physics Lab to Cost U.S. Energy Department at Least $1.2 Billion
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND—Physics fans, hold your breath: An underground lab that's absolutely vital to the future of particle physics in the United States will cost the Department of Energy (DOE)...
June 23, 2011 5:57 PM
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Scary New Cigarette Labels Not Based in Psychology
There's no question that the nine new graphic cigarette warning labels designed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which will be on all cigarette packages sold in the...
June 23, 2011 5:56 PM
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U.S. Patent Reform Survives a Shakedown in the House
A plan to make sweeping changes in the U.S. patent system passed the House of Representatives this afternoon by a vote of 304-117. The bill initially ran into trouble...
June 23, 2011 4:47 PM
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U.S. Faces New Suits on Climate From Left and Right
Lawyers at NASA and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are girding to defend the government against new lawsuits on climate change, coming from opposite ends of the ideological spectrum....
June 23, 2011 4:31 PM
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Diabetes Pill Deaths Prompt French Drug Regulation Reform
PARIS—Saying he hopes to prevent a repeat of the Médiator scandal, French health minister Xavier Bertrand today unveiled what he described as the most important overhaul to the drug...
June 23, 2011 1:20 PM
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Report Says Instruction, Not Schools, Is Key to Successful Science Programs
What do specialized U.S. math and science schools do differently that allows them to churn out graduates who ace national and international tests on those subjects? And can those...
June 23, 2011 12:19 PM
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Bond Financier Elected to Chair California Stem Cell Agency
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has elected southern California investor Jonathan Thomas to be its next chair. Thomas will succeed Robert Klein, the real estate investor who...
June 22, 2011 5:39 PM
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Insider To Take Over Troubled Spanish Cancer Institute
Spanish molecular biologist María Blasco, 45, will take over the leadership of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) in Madrid, where she is now a vice-director. The announcement,...
June 21, 2011 8:05 PM
And We're Calling It: Horizon 2020
Its size and scope are still under discussion, but at least the next 7-year installment of Europe's massive research and innovation program now has a name. Today, the European...
June 21, 2011 5:48 PM
Failure in Science, Quantified
A recent chat on ScienceLive featured a scientist and an author/economist discussing whether policymakers should be more forgiving of failure among scientists funded with public dollars, and if so,...
June 21, 2011 5:44 PM
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Court Delays Controversial Patagonian Dams
COYHAIQUE, CHILE—An unexpected decision by an appeals court in Puerto Montt, Chile, yesterday put on hold a proposal to build five dams on the Baker and Pascua rivers in...
Earmarked Research By Any Other Name
Walter Pincus of The Washington Post illustrates today how members of the House of Representatives have proposed "programmatic requests" to sidestep the ban on earmarks in the 2012 military...
June 21, 2011 5:19 PM
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Legislator Asks NIH To Halt Search for Translational Center Director
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is again taking flak from Congress for its plan to create a center for translational research. Representative Denny Rehberg (R-MT), chair of a...
June 20, 2011 1:40 PM
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Supreme Court Rejects 'Nuisance' Argument Against Plant Emissions
The U.S. Supreme Court today rejected the argument that large utility companies can be sued to force them to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions because those emissions constitute a...
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