November 2011 Archives
On the Horizon? European Commission Outlines €80 Billion Research Budget
The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, is trying to not let the region's financial woes curb its commitment to scientific and technological research. Today, even...
November 29, 2011 7:05 PM
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CFS Researcher Reportedly Surrenders to Nevada Police
Judy Mikovits, an embattled researcher well known for her studies of chronic fatigue syndrome, turned herself in to police yesterday at the University of Nevada, Reno, reports a local...
November 29, 2011 1:28 PM
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Leonardo in a Garden Shed? U.K. Labs Get Cash Infusion, But Science Spending Still Down
The U.K. chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, today announced his autumn budget statement which included £200 million for research infrastructure. Researchers welcomed the new money, but pointed out...
November 28, 2011 3:13 PM
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French Ban on Genetically Modified Corn Loses Another Round
PARIS—The French government has lost the latest round in its battle to maintain a ban on growing genetically-modified (GM) corn in France, but the new ruling is not the...
In Wake of Fukushima Disaster, Japan's Scientists Ponder How to Regain Public Trust
TOKYO—Public confidence in Japan's scientists and engineers took a major hit from the 11 March earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. How to regain it was...
November 25, 2011 9:52 AM
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Occupy London's School of Hard Knocks
PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON—In the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral, across from a Starbucks papered in protest signs, London's newest "university" is gaining popularity. At Tent City University, members of Occupy...
November 23, 2011 4:48 PM
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Scientists Brace for Media Storm Around Controversial Flu Studies
ROTTERDAM, THE NETHERLANDS—Locked up in the bowels of the medical faculty building here and accessible to only a handful of scientists lies a man-made flu virus that could change...
Europe's Euclid Mission Gives NASA a Tiny Role
For nearly a decade, officials at NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have discussed a shared mission to study dark energy. But any substantive collaboration on Europe's dark...
November 23, 2011 12:20 PM
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Son of Climategate: 5000 New UEA E-mails Released, Jones Responds
LONDON—There's nothing really new in a second massive cache of e-mails that hackers have released from the University of East Anglia's (UEA's) Climate Research Unit, U.K. scientists at the...
ESA Picks Up Signal From Defunct Mars Probe
The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that last night it received a signal from the stricken Mars probe Phobos-Grunt. The Russian mission was launched on 8 November but...
November 22, 2011 10:49 PM
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Inmate Mikovits Meets Judge
VENTURA, CALIFORNIA—Judy Mikovits has been on trial of sorts ever since she led a team that published a heavily criticized report in Science 2 years ago that linked a mouse...
November 22, 2011 4:04 PM
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Details Emerge of the Criminal Charges Against Embattled CFS Researcher
After police in Ventura County, California, arrested and jailed Judy Mikovits on 18 November, they gave few details about the felony charges levied against the well-known chronic fatigue syndrome...
November 22, 2011 3:44 PM
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Anne Glover, Rumored E.U. Science Advisor, Wins Praise at Home
Rumors have been circling the past week that the European Commission is about to appoint Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover as its first science adviser, and yesterday, Nature felt confident...
Budget Cuts Threaten Denmark's Science Assessment Body
A small Danish outfit that is acknowledged to be a world leader in fostering greater public involvement in science policy has been put on the chopping block. This week,...
November 22, 2011 2:37 PM
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Berkeley Struggles with Student Diversity in Engineering
BERKELEY, CALIFORNIA—Privately funded scholarships are essential for attracting more women and underrepresented minorities into graduate engineering programs at the University of California (UC), Berkeley, according to College of Engineering...
U.K.'s Nuclear R&D Effort Lagging, Lords Conclude
With the United Kingdom committed to a major expansion of nuclear power, the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords—the U.K. Parliament's upper house—has taken a look...
November 21, 2011 4:20 PM
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UNAIDS Update Urges Countries to Rev Up Response
How to Get to Zero: Faster. Smarter. Better. That's the title of a new report issued today by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) to update the...
ITER and Monju on the Chopping Block?
An advisory panel on 20 November called on the Japanese government to cut funding next year for the ITER fusion reactor project and the Monju experimental fast breeder reactor....
November 19, 2011 6:46 PM
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Controversial CFS Researcher Arrested and Jailed
Judy Mikovits, who has been in the spotlight for the past 2 years after Science published a controversial report by her group that tied a novel mouse retrovirus to...
Inside Watchdog Suggests Radical Changes in DOE Labs
Want some provocative ideas for reforming the sprawling network of laboratories and environmental cleanup programs run by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)? Then pick up a copy of...
November 18, 2011 3:09 PM
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Researchers Rush to Recover Whale Fossils From Highway Project
In Chile's dry, hot, desert-like Atacama Region, a group of Smithsonian researchers are digging up whales. The fossil site, near the port city of Caldera in northern Chile, was...
November 18, 2011 1:08 PM
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More From the 'Minibus': USDA, NIST Research Programs Survive Rough Ride in New Spending Bill
Both the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives yesterday approved a package of spending bills that include money for a range of science programs and President Barack Obama is...
November 18, 2011 12:48 PM
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FDA Pulls Avastin for Breast Cancer
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced today that it was stripping the drug Avastin of its approval for use to treat breast cancer. The move comes 4...
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos: OPERA Confirms and Submits Results, But Unease Remains
New high-precision tests carried out by the OPERA collaboration in Italy broadly confirm its claim, made in September, to have detected neutrinos travelling at faster than the speed of...
November 17, 2011 2:50 PM
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University Suggests Releasing Info on Primate Experiments Could Break U.K. Law
Last week, an animal rights group won the upper hand in its freedom of information request when the United Kingdom's Information Tribunal Court ruled on 11 November that Newcastle...
European Nations Want Ousted Science Projects Reinstated Into E.U. Budget
In the fraught negotiations underway to negotiate a new 7-year budget for the European Union, officials at the European Commission—the E.U. executive branch—came up with the idea of removing...
November 16, 2011 4:07 PM
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Italy Names New Research Minister: Francesco Profumo
Italy's new government has chosen Francesco Profumo, the relatively green chief of the national research agency, to be Minister for Education, Universities, and Research. Prime Minister Mario Monti made...
Spanish Sea Research Consortium in Peril
High interest rates on a loan may scuttle plans to create an international center of excellence in marine research in southern Spain. If ongoing talks don't succeed within a...
November 16, 2011 10:00 AM
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Study Ranks European Universities on Autonomy
When it comes to European universities, the United Kingdom is the land of the free, according to a new report from the European Universities Association (EUA), launched yesterday. The...
November 15, 2011 5:46 PM
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Congress Slashes Budget of White House Science Office
First words, then deeds. Frustrated that White House officials have ignored congressional language curtailing scientific collaborations with China, legislators have decided to get their attention through a 32% cut...
November 15, 2011 3:48 PM
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International Ocean Drilling to Follow Simpler Structure
A decision by the United States to leave an international consortium for ocean drilling doesn't mean that every country must now fend for itself. That's the message from a...
November 15, 2011 3:38 PM
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NIH Institute Directors Prepare for a Bumpy Budget Ride
This week more than 30,000 neuroscientists are in Washington, D.C., for the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. Yesterday the directors of several components of the National Institutes...
November 15, 2011 1:09 PM
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Geron Bails Out of Stem Cells
Geron, the company that helped pioneer human embryonic stem (hES) cell research, said yesterday that it is stopping its first-in-the-world clinical trial and pulling out of further stem cell...
November 15, 2011 12:44 PM
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NOAA Environmental Satellites Win Funding
Congress has apparently decided to allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to move ahead with a troubled new Earth-observing satellite system, but at the cost of cuts...
November 15, 2011 12:31 PM
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NSF Slated for a 2.5% Boost in 2012 Budget
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is due to receive a surprising 2.5% increase in its 2012 budget. That good news came from a conference report filed last night for...
November 15, 2011 11:38 AM
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National University of Singapore Clears Ito of Misconduct Charge
The National University of Singapore (NUS) announced today that it has found no evidence of research misconduct by Yoshiaki Ito, a high-profile cancer researcher accused of data fabrication. However,...
Congress to Keep Funding NASA's Webb Telescope
Congress appears to have preserved funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. Last night lawmakers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate issued a final spending bill...
November 14, 2011 5:46 PM
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Lawsuit Filed Against Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Researcher by Former Employer
The protracted saga of Judy Mikovits, the lead researcher who tied a mouse retrovirus to chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), has taken yet another dizzying turn. A little more than...
November 14, 2011 1:56 PM
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Dutch Physicist and Science Educator Robbert Dijkgraaf to Head IAS
Dutch theoretical physicist and prolific science popularizer Robbert Dijkgraaf has been tapped as the new director of the prestigious Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) in Princeton, New Jersey, the...
November 11, 2011 1:30 PM
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DOE's Exiting Science Boss Steven Koonin: 'I've Been Effective'
Two days ago, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced that Steven Koonin, undersecretary for science, would step down on 18 November. Yesterday, Koonin ticked off some of his...
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