July 2011 Archives
July 29, 2011 5:43 PM
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Nuclear Waste Report Calls for Interim Storage, New Approach on Repository
The first full report by a presidential commission on how to deal with nuclear waste has, as predicted, called for interim storage of nuclear waste off site from nuclear...
July 29, 2011 5:27 PM
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U.S. Appeals Court Backs Gene Patents in Myriad Case
Biotech companies got a break today when a U.S. appeals court handed down a long-awaited ruling on gene patents in a case prompted by a suit involving Myriad Genetics...
July 29, 2011 5:19 PM
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Jack Marburger, Controversial Presidential Science Adviser, Dies
He survived bitter battles with the scientific community, but Jack Marburger, the science adviser for President George W. Bush, has lost his fight with cancer. The following are some...
July 29, 2011 5:16 PM
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Suspended Polar Bear Researcher Defended by Advocates
Veteran wildlife researcher Charles Monnett, whose 2006 paper suggesting that polar bears may be drowning due to melting sea ice was featured in Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, has...
July 29, 2011 2:10 PM
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Panel Calls for Rewrite of Medical Device Rules
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) should scrap its current oversight strategy for medical devices and, with legislation from Congress if needed, create a new system to ensure...
July 28, 2011 5:08 PM
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Canadian Fish Scientist 'Muzzled' by Government
A scientific study of fish genes has turned a spotlight on a lesser-known facet of the Canadian government: rigid control over its scientists' contact with the media. In an...
July 28, 2011 2:08 PM
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House Strikes Proposed Ban on Endangered Species Listings
The House of Representatives voted down yesterday legislation which, critics say, would have effectively hamstrung endangered species protection in the United States. The measure, part of a larger appropriations...
July 27, 2011 7:01 PM
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U.K. Parliament Panel Reviews Peer Review
Following an enquiry into peer review in scientific research, U.K. parliamentarians have concluded that, despite many criticisms and little evidence of its effectiveness, the traditional practice of having research articles evaluated by anonymous colleagues before publication is valued by the community and shouldn't be completely abandoned.
July 27, 2011 4:21 PM
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Stem Court Ruling a Decisive Victory for NIH
The biomedical research community is elated by today's federal court decision to throw out a lawsuit that threatened to shut down federally funded research on human embryonic stem cells...
July 27, 2011 1:30 PM
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U.K. Panel: Primate Research Is Justified, But Don't Overstate Its Benefits
Most research using monkeys, baboons, and other nonhuman primates in the United Kingdom produces results that justify the animal welfare costs, according to a comprehensive review made public today....
July 27, 2011 11:52 AM
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Researchers Question NSF's Changes to Merit Review Criteria
Debate is heating up over proposed changes to the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) merit review process' "broader impact" criterion, which requires that research have benefits to society beyond merely...
July 27, 2011 10:59 AM
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Federal Judge Dismisses Stem Cell Suit Against NIH
In a surprise decision, a federal judge ruled today in favor of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in a court battle over the legality of human embryonic stem...
July 26, 2011 10:30 PM
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Blue Planet Prizes for Science, Activism
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration head Jane Lubchenco is the winner of one of this year'sBlue Planet Prizes. The Tokyo-based Asahi Glass Foundation cited both Lubchenco's research and her...
July 26, 2011 4:23 PM
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Science an 'Asset' for Diplomacy, Says New State Department Adviser
For its top job linking science and diplomacy, the U.S. State Department has chosen a consummate Washington insider. E. William Colglazier, recently retired National Academies executive officer, was named...
July 25, 2011 4:37 PM
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New Prevention Data Leads WHO to Delay Guidelines for Couples
Upbeat new HIV prevention findings presented last week at an international AIDS conference held in Rome have complicated attempts by the World Health Organization (WHO) to draft much-anticipated guidelines...
July 22, 2011 5:32 PM
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U.S. Needs to Do a Better Job of Charting Ecosystem Trends: White House Panel
U.S. ecologists and environmental scientists have long wanted to know the overall state and trends of the nation's ecosystems. But their repeated calls for a comprehensive suite of indicators have...
July 22, 2011 5:15 PM
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Research Journal Pirate Finds a Crewmate
The open-access publishing movement, which seeks to make information on scientific research freely available, seems to have found some questionable allies in the hacker crowd. After 24-year old computer programmer...
July 22, 2011 4:19 PM
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HHS Unveils Plan to Tighten Human Subjects Rules
After 20 years, it's time for an overhaul. That was the message today from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), which wants to beef up protections for...
July 22, 2011 3:21 PM
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Royal Society Grudgingly Accepts Role as U.K. Border Guard
As if Paul Nurse wasn't busy enough—he's just become president of the Royal Society and will head a new mammoth London biomedical research facility—the biologist has reluctantly agreed to involve...
July 22, 2011 3:10 PM
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Indian Scientists Seek More Flexible U.S. Visa Rules
NEW DELHI—At a high-level diplomatic meeting here this week on U.S.-India technological cooperation, India’s junior science minister Ashwani Kumar complained to U.S. presidential science adviser John Holdren that a new...
July 22, 2011 2:17 PM
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Geologic Enigma Is Target of Next Mars Rover
With the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum providing a suitably themed backdrop, NASA officials announced today that its next Mars rover, Curiosity (a.k.a. Mars Science Laboratory), will be...
July 22, 2011 1:22 PM
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A Common TB Test Is Inaccurate, WHO Warns Countries
This week the World Health Organization (WHO) blasted the use of unreliable blood tests commonly used to diagnose active TB, as well as the aggressive marketing used to promote them....
July 22, 2011 11:46 AM
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Texas School Board Sidesteps Intelligent Design Debate
An expected showdown between opponents and supporters of teaching creationism in the classroom has been averted in Texas. For now, at least, science textbooks approved by the Texas State Board...
July 22, 2011 11:40 AM
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Chinese Geoscientist Accused of Misusing Funds
A prominent Chinese geophysical chemist, Duan Zhenhao, was detained by police in Beijing on Thursday for alleged embezzlement of research funds, according to a statement from his employer, the Institute...
July 21, 2011 7:01 PM
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Mice With Human Brain Cells? More Oversight, Please, Says U.K. Panel
Mice with human-derived livers, goats with human blood cells, and other animals that contain human genes or cells are arguably valuable tools for medical research, but they also can...
July 21, 2011 4:39 PM
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Global Farm Research Centers Reorganizing, Expect to Top $1 Billion
Following on a major structural reform last year, the $670 million Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) continues to reorganize the research efforts at its many centers into crosscutting...
July 21, 2011 3:04 PM
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Using Nuclear Fuel for Future NASA Missions Gets Boost
The Obama Administration's plan to resume domestic production of the nuclear material needed to power future space missions has won its first, partial victory in Congress. Last week, the...
July 21, 2011 2:00 PM
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Science Longevity Paper Retracted
The authors of a controversial genetics paper published last year in Science published a retraction today, acknowledging "technical errors" in their gene-finding strategy. The work, led by Paola Sebastiani...
Decades Late, Russian Space Telescope Finally Launched
Russian space science got a long overdue shot in the arm this week with the launch of Spektr-R, a radioastronomy satellite that was originally designed in 1982 but whose...
July 20, 2011 5:46 PM
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Review of BBC Science Coverage Finds Room for Improvement
More than a year after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Trust announced it would conduct a major evaluation of the BBC's science coverage, the resulting review has concluded that accuracy...
Lavish Makeover of French Campuses Is Under Way
PARIS—Concern over France's ballooning public deficits seemed momentarily forgotten at a meeting here yesterday where nine clusters of universities and schools presented a series of lavish projects, some already...
July 20, 2011 11:36 AM
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Australia Resorts to Gunboat Climatology
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Under threat from pirates, Australian researchers have enlisted naval muscle to plug a critical gap in climate monitoring in the Indian Ocean. Over the past 2 years, pirates operating...
July 20, 2011 6:17 AM
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Behavioral Scientist Marc Hauser Resigns From Harvard
Cognitive scientist Marc Hauser will resign his post in the Harvard psychology department as of 1 August.
July 19, 2011 4:53 PM
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Will NIH Embrace Biomedical Research Prizes?
Centuries after the British government offered up to £20,000 for anyone who developed a precise method to determine a ship's longitude—a British cabinetmaker won with his invention of a...
July 19, 2011 4:29 PM
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Report Sets Out Framework for Improved Science Teaching
A new National Academies' report on science in U.S. elementary and secondary schools elevates the importance of teaching engineering concepts in the classroom. It also says that teachers should...
July 19, 2011 4:25 PM
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New York Offers Land for University Tech/Science
Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced this morning that three sites will be opened up for new university science and technology campuses on city land, given free to schools who want...
July 19, 2011 3:41 PM
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Royal Society 2011 Award Recipients Announced
Today, the U.K. Royal Society announced the recipients of its awards, medals, and prize lectures for 2011. Among the winning scientists, recognized for their achievements in fields ranging from...
July 19, 2011 10:55 AM
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Delayed by Cricket, Science Minister Reports for Duty
NEW DELHI—A week after being named India's science minister, on 19 July Vilasrao Deshmukh assumed the post. He is the fourth science minister since Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's second...
July 18, 2011 7:00 PM
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Lawmakers Hold a Grudge Against the 'Nudge'
When push comes to shove, it looks like it's going to take more than a "nudge" for people to change their bad habits. So says the United Kingdom's House...
July 18, 2011 3:29 PM
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Eqypt's Antiquities Boss Is Sacked
After nearly a decade as chief of Egypt's antiquities, Zahi Hawass is now out of a job. The 64-year-old archaeologist was fired yesterday by Prime Minister Essam Sharaf as...
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