February 2012 Archives
February 29, 2012 4:57 PM
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New NIH Database Brings Clarity to Genetic Tests
Hoping to clear up confusion about the growing welter of genetic tests, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) today unveiled a new database that lists thousands of tests voluntarily...
February 29, 2012 9:01 AM
U.S. Biosecurity Board to Reconsider Revised H5N1 Flu Papers
The U.S. government will ask a government biosecurity advisory board to conduct a new review of revised versions of two controversial H5N1 flu research manuscripts. The review could open...
February 28, 2012 6:08 PM
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Steve Chu's Very Lucky (Birth) Day
What a way to celebrate your 64th birthday—and your 15th wedding anniversary. Energy Secretary Steven Chu today spent part of this morning chatting with Microsoft tycoon Bill Gates before...
February 28, 2012 5:35 PM
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U.S. Proposes to Save Spotted Owl With Chainsaws and Shotguns
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) today formally proposed several actions, some of them controversial, to aid the iconic northern spotted owl, an endangered species in the Pacific...
February 28, 2012 3:52 PM
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Legislator Berates NSF for Rising Gas Prices
The National Science Foundation (NSF) likes to portray itself as the "engine of innovation" for the U.S. economy through its support of academic research. But much to the chagrin...
February 28, 2012 2:15 PM
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Lawmakers Drop Proposal to Block NIH Public Access Policy
In a victory for open access advocates, two U.S. lawmakers yesterday dropped a bill that would have banned the National Institutes of Health from requiring that its researchers submit...
February 28, 2012 12:55 PM
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Bill Gates on Insanity and Energy R&D
The U.S. government is "crazy" when it comes to funding for energy research and development, according to high-tech titan Bill Gates. "It's crazy how little we are funding this...
ITER Dodges Trouble With Superconducting Cables
A potential stumbling block that threatened to delay construction of the huge ITER fusion reactor—an international project based at Cadarache in France—looks like it has been resolved. Tests last...
February 27, 2012 1:13 PM
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Indian Space Scientists Protest the Blacklisting of Colleagues
NEW DELHI—India's scientific community is turning up the heat on the government over its controversial sanctions of four former officials of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for alleged...
February 24, 2012 2:34 PM
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Canada's Restrictions on Scientists' Speech Raise Concerns
VANCOUVER, CANADA—Government scientists in Canada are facing growing restrictions on their ability to speak directly to the public and the press—and could benefit from new policies being instituted south...
February 24, 2012 11:31 AM
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Official Word on Superluminal Neutrinos Leaves Warp-Drive Fans a Shred of Hope—Barely
The CERN particle physics laboratory in Geneva has confirmed Wednesday's report that a loose fiber-optic cable may be behind measurements that seemed to show neutrinos outpacing the speed of...
February 23, 2012 6:01 PM
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Penn Files a Second Suit Against Noted Cancer Researcher
Craig Thompson, president of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, yesterday was hit with a second lawsuit alleging that he made an improper business deal to...
February 23, 2012 3:57 PM
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Kansas Veterinary Biosecurity Lab Trampled in Spending Plan
A flagship government biodefense laboratory set to be built in Kansas is facing critical funding troubles—in part because of fierce opposition from cattle ranchers the facility is supposed to...
February 23, 2012 3:54 PM
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Advocates Win 'Exceptional' Boost for Alzheimer's Research
The 2013 budget proposed by President Barack Obama last week would give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) not a penny more than it received this year. But the...
February 23, 2012 3:49 PM
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Bigger Contribution to ITER Erodes Domestic Fusion Program
To remain at the cutting edge, U.S. fusion researchers must participate in the huge international experiment called ITER being built in Cadarache, France. But to pay for ITER—which aims...
February 23, 2012 2:03 PM
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Scientists Decry Cuts That Would Doom ExoMars Missions
Next week, planetary scientists building instruments for a 2016 Mars mission called Trace Gas Orbiter will update a committee advising NASA on its Mars exploration program. But they'll also...
February 23, 2012 11:08 AM
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Salvation in Sight for Australian Synchrotron
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—After months of uncertainty, a deal is taking shape to save the Australian synchrotron from going under. The synchrotron here is one of just two in the Southern...
February 22, 2012 1:45 PM
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BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results
It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS...
February 17, 2012 7:48 PM
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WHO Meeting of Flu Experts Calls for Full Publication of Controversial H5N1 Papers
A group of 22 international influenza experts convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has concluded that journals should publish the full details of two controversial experiments with the bird...
February 17, 2012 2:46 PM
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Journals Warned to Keep a Tight Lid on Diesel Exposure Data
A protracted legal battle over an $11.5-million health study into whether diesel exhaust damages the lungs of miners has suddenly widened to take on scientific peer review. Editors with...
February 16, 2012 3:04 PM
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MIT's First Woman President to Step Down
Neuroscientist Susan Hockfield, the first woman and first biologist to run the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), announced today that she is stepping down as president after 7 years....
February 16, 2012 12:06 PM
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Flu Experts—and One Ethicist—Debate Controversial H5N1 Papers
Exactly how much and which parts of two controversial H5N1 flu studies will be published could be decided today and tomorrow at a meeting in Geneva. The World Health...
February 15, 2012 3:11 PM
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Swiss Want to Build a Satellite That Removes Space Litter
Space researchers in Switzerland are seeking funding to build a spacecraft that will home in on a redundant satellite, grab it, and drag it down to burn up when...
Obama's Budget Shuffles STEM Education Deck
The president's 2013 budget for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education programs at the Department of Education has a very familiar ring to science educators. That's the case...
February 14, 2012 3:21 PM
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Global Health Advocates Aren't Impressed With Budget Plan
The budget proposal unveiled yesterday by President Barack Obama is getting negative reviews from some public health advocates. In particular, they say the Global Health Initiative, which targets HIV/AIDS,...
Planned Kansas Biodefense Laboratory Over the Rainbow?
Four years ago, scientists and lawmakers in Kansas rejoiced when the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that it had chosen Manhattan, Kansas, as the site for a...
February 14, 2012 12:50 PM
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First E.U. Science Adviser: 'We Are Sitting On a Goldmine'
Last month, Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover took office in Brussels as the first European chief scientific adviser (CSA). Glover will provide the European Commission with evidence-based policy advice and...
February 14, 2012 11:41 AM
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NSF Tops Research Agencies With a $340-Million Boost
Once again, the National Science Foundation's (NSF's) reputation as a jack-of-all-research has stood it in good stead with the man in the Oval Office. Yesterday, President Barack Obama proposed...
February 13, 2012 9:55 PM
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Exascale Computing Off to Slow Start in DOE Budget
Supercomputer scientists who were watching the release of the Obama Administration's budget closely to see if contained new pots of money for exascale science came away both pleased and disappointed.
February 13, 2012 9:23 PM
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At NIST, 14% Budget Increase Would Measure Up Nicely
One of the big winners in today's rollout of the Obama Administration's 2013 budget request was the Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Its budget...
February 13, 2012 8:11 PM
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Turbulence for Oceanic and Atmospheric Research
Overall, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) gets a 3% boost, to $5.06 billion, in the budget request released today. A major satellite program would remain roughly on...
February 13, 2012 8:00 PM
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Good News for Research Funding at EPA, USDA, USGS
Science was favored in today's federal budget rollout for several agencies with sizable research portfolios, with increases for hot topics such as the environmental impact of "fracking" for natural...
February 13, 2012 6:20 PM
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Mixed Numbers at CDC
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) would see a minuscule increase in total funding in the 2013 budget—$39 million—bringing its total to $11.2 billion. However, more than...
At DOE, Body Blows to Fusion, Nuclear Physics, and Particle Physics
Overall, the budget numbers for the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science, the single largest funder of physical sciences research in the United States, look reasonably good. The...
Failure to Launch: Mars Missions Sidelined in New NASA Budget Proposal
The not-so-bad news in the president's 2013 budget proposal for NASA is that his request for $17.71 billion is only marginally less than what the agency got in 2012,...
February 13, 2012 5:13 PM
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A Flat Budget for NIH in 2013
There's little to cheer biomedical researchers in the president's budget proposal released today: the proposal would hold the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget at the current level of...
Basic Research Gets A Pass at Pentagon
Science appears to be on offense at the Department of Defense (DOD). As the Pentagon prepares to downsize by about $5 billion, it's making an exception in its budget...
February 13, 2012 4:31 PM
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FDA Stays the Course, But Asks Firms to Kick In More Fees
Like many agencies, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will have a relatively flat budget if President Barack Obama has his way, with one notable exception. While the...
February 13, 2012 2:01 PM
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A Mystery Meteorite From the House of Sting
Rock recovered from musician's property may shed light on ice age Britain
February 13, 2012 1:10 PM
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Obama Budget Asks for 1% Boost in Research
One of the big three research agencies appears to be lagging behind its doubling peers in the president's 2013 budget request released this morning. The $4.9 billion budget of...
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