August 2011 Archives
August 31, 2011 6:41 PM
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U.S. Agency to Consider, Again, If Captive Chimpanzees Deserve Endangered Status
Resurrecting a heated debate that began in 1987, a petition has led the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to announce today that it has initiated a review of...
August 31, 2011 6:18 PM
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California Science Center to Pay $110,000 Settlement Over Intelligent Design Film
In what antievolution proponents praise as a great victory and scientists and science educators rue as a case of poor judgment, the California Science Center (CSC) has agreed to...
August 31, 2011 3:22 PM
Census Bureau Wants to Kill Statistical Abstract
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a free, fact-filled compendium of miscellaneous data that has been published by the U.S. Census Bureau annually since 1878. But it...
August 30, 2011 3:21 PM
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Panel Blasts Ethics, Science of 1940s Guatemala Studies
An exhaustive high-level review of unethical syphilis experiments conducted in Guatemala by U.S. researchers in the 1940s has found little to redeem the work or its lead researcher. The...
August 29, 2011 3:33 PM
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New ERC Secretary General: 'It's About the Sausage'
On Thursday, experimental volcanologist Donald Dingwell of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich will become the new secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC). Dingwell, 53, was born in...
August 29, 2011 1:58 PM
Italy Lacks Money to Interpret Data From New Telescope in Chile
ORVIETO, ITALY—After spending €15 million to help build a powerful survey telescope in Chile, Italy doesn't have the €250,000 a year needed to analyze the exquisite data that the...
August 29, 2011 12:54 PM
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Icebreaker Deal to Keep Antarctic Research Afloat
Antarctic researchers funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) may need to throw on another blanket at night to ward off the chill. But Thursday's agreement to lease...
August 26, 2011 5:29 PM
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Edison Liu Leaves Singapore to Head Jackson Lab
Cancer researcher Edison Liu, 59, will be the new president of the Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine, the lab announced today. Liu will take charge in January 2012,...
August 25, 2011 5:52 PM
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NSF Leases Russian Icebreaker for Antarctic Resupply
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has resolved a problem that threatened research in the Antarctic this winter by hiring a Russian icebreaker to clear a path through McMurdo Sound....
August 25, 2011 2:51 PM
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Cancer Institute Invites Studies of Provocative Questions
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has unveiled a pot of up to $17.5 million to study so-called "provocative questions"—unsolved, paradoxical, or neglected research questions that deserve a closer look....
August 25, 2011 2:42 PM
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University Turns Over Some of Climate Scientist's Documents
Months after a request from a Virginia politician and a conservative think tank, the University of Virginia (UVA) has turned over documents related to embattled scientist Michael Mann's research...
Going It Alone Deep Under the Ocean
Succumbing to budgetary pressures, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to pull out of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) when it expires in September 2013. The decision...
Webb Telescope Delayed, Costs Rise to $8 Billion
It's hardly the most opportune time to announce a huge cost overrun for a major science facility. But last week NASA told Congress that its proposed successor to Hubble,...
August 25, 2011 12:45 PM
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Live Chat: The State of Minorities and Women in Science
A new report finds that black biomedical scientists are 10 percentage points less likely to receive research funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). And earlier this month, a...
August 23, 2011 4:45 PM
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Public Health Service Issues Final Conflicts of Interest Rule
The U.S. government released new final rules today that will tighten up oversight of financial conflicts of interest in biomedical research. The rules are similar to draft regulations released...
August 22, 2011 4:25 PM
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Sri Lanka's New Flashpoint for Human-Elephant Conflict
Conservationists are up in arms over what they consider a potential threat to endangered Asian elephants from a banana plantation bordering a Sri Lankan national park and activities in...
August 22, 2011 10:35 AM
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Indian Leader Goes to Bat for Nuclear Energy
BANGALORE, INDIA—In a major boost for the embattled nuclear industry, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on 21 August voiced strong support for nuclear power. "I am convinced that nuclear...
August 19, 2011 6:25 PM
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EPA Science Advisory Board Urges Action on Nitrogen Pollution
The Environmental Protection Agency and other agencies should take action to cut the amount of nitrogen pollution by 25% over the next 1 to 2 decades, according to EPA's external scientific advisors.
August 19, 2011 4:05 PM
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Departing Director Reflects on NCRR Breakup
Barbara Alving, who heads the doomed National Institutes of Health (NIH) National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), announced earlier this week that she's resigning at the end of September....
August 19, 2011 2:21 PM
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Turin Reformer Promises Shake-Up of Italy's National Research Council
The Italian National Research Council (CNR)—a €1 billion basic research agency with 100 institutes around the country—may be headed for some major changes. On 13 August, Italy's Minister of...
August 19, 2011 11:58 AM
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Geologists Ship Out, Hoping to Claim Piece of Arctic for Canada
With two research icebreakers, over 100 geologists and geographers from Canada and the United States, three Inuit mammal spotters on the watch for vulnerable wildlife, and two underwater autonomous...
August 18, 2011 2:00 PM
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Black Scientists Have Lower Odds of Winning Grants, NIH Study Finds
A study published today in Science may shed new light on why African American scientists are so rare in biomedical research—and raises troubling questions about possible bias during grant...
August 17, 2011 3:55 PM
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FDA Hones Its Regulatory Science Plans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a fleshed-out version of a road map it put out last fall on how to bolster regulatory science at the...
August 16, 2011 4:47 PM
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Did Unsafe Machine Contribute to Yale Student's Death?
Science Careers Blog notes the latest twist in the April death of Michele Dufault, a physics and astronomy major at Yale University who was active in undergraduate research projects....
U.K. Slashes Science and Engineering Ph.D.s
The United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) has revealed that it may fund 1000 fewer new Ph.D.s in the upcoming academic year than in 2010-11. The research...
August 12, 2011 1:03 PM
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Where to Locate Taiwan? Chinese Co-Authors Disagree
Collaborations between scientists on Taiwan and the Chinese mainland have been steadily increasing for the past decade, reflecting the gradual rapprochement between the two governments. But a bit of Cold...
August 11, 2011 3:13 PM
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New Hughes Fellowships Help International Graduate Students
In 2009, Chaolong Wang had already spent a year as a graduate student in bioinformatics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, when his adviser told him that he didn't...
August 11, 2011 12:01 AM
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Federal Committee: Shale Gas Needs More Openness, Better Data
A U.S. Department of Energy committee has waded into the fracas over the production of natural gas from shale using the controversial hydrofracturing, or fracking, technology, with a call for...
August 10, 2011 6:42 PM
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Senator Inhofe Has Questions About Polar Bear Researcher Charles Monnett
"Polarbeargate," the federal investigation into suspended wildlife biologist Charles Monnett over undisclosed allegations, took further strange turns yesterday. First, Monnett was interviewed a second time by investigators from the U.S....
August 10, 2011 4:11 PM
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Most Himalayan Glaciers Retreating; 21% Stable or Expanding, Survey Finds
NEW DELHI—A new study by the Indian Space Research Organization and the Geological Survey of India in Kolkata reports that although 21% of India's Himalayan glaciers are showing no increase...
August 10, 2011 3:32 PM
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It's Alive! SETI to Go Back Online
The truth is out there: at least 2300 people believe that the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) is worth continuing. After hitting its $200,000 fundraising goal on 3 August, SETI...
August 9, 2011 3:18 PM
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Mass Exodus Roils Brazilian Neuroscience Institute
A rebellion in the scientific ranks has created some recent turmoil at Brazil's most famous brain research center, the Edmond and Lily Safra International Institute of Neuroscience of Natal...
August 8, 2011 4:51 PM
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Former NIH Director Bernadine Healy Dies
Bernadine Healy, a cardiologist who was the first woman to direct the National Institutes of Health (NIH) from 1991 to 1993, died on Saturday from brain cancer. Appointed by...
August 5, 2011 5:36 PM
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U.K. Needs to Stop 'Muddling' on Gene Patents, Says Report
LONDON—The Human Genetics Commission (HGC), an independent group that advises the U.K. government, issued a plea today to health and research institutions to develop a coherent policy on intellectual...
August 4, 2011 11:47 AM
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Women in Science Work for Less Money
Study hard, receive a science or engineering degree, and your reward will be a well-paying job in your chosen field. That's part of the sales pitch for those trying...
August 4, 2011 11:41 AM
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In Italy, Academe Is a Family Business
It's no secret that nepotism plays an important role in Italy's academic world. In a paper published yesterday in PLoS ONE, Stefano Allesina of the University of Chicago's Computation...
August 3, 2011 5:39 PM
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U.S. HIV Infection Rates Rise in Black Men Who Have Sex With Men
A new study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that new rates of HIV infection between 2006 and 2009 remained stable in the country...
August 3, 2011 4:48 PM
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U.S. Judge Rejects Latest Salmon Recovery Plan
For the third time in a decade, a federal judge in Portland, Oregon, has rejected as inadequate the U.S. government's plan for making hydroelectric dams safer for endangered salmon...
August 3, 2011 2:27 PM
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Researchers Welcome Promised U.K. Copyright Reform
Score one for the open-access movement: The U.K. government has decided to make the country's copyright laws more compatible with research practices in the internet age—bringing them "into line...
August 2, 2011 5:45 PM
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A First Look at the Debt Agreement and U.S. Research
The legislation President Barack Obama signed today to avert a government default offers few details on how the United States will achieve a now-mandated $917-billion cut to discretionary spending...
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