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February 13, 2012 12:01 PM
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World Bank Frets Over Urban Flooding in Asia
TOKYO—"Flooding is the most common of natural disasters [and] it is increasingly an Asian phenomenon," Abhas Jha, a World Bank disaster management expert, said today at a briefing here,...
February 8, 2012 10:54 AM
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Japan Snares First Kavli Institute
The University of Tokyo announced today that the Kavli Foundation is giving $7.5 million to its Institute for the Physics and Mathematics of the Universe (IPMU). The award is...
Japanese Experts Question Safety of—and Need for—Nuclear Power
TOKYO—Japan is preparing for the possibility of a summer without nuclear power as utilities and safety experts squabble over the safety of the country's remaining reactors. And a key...
January 25, 2012 10:58 AM
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Whistleblower Uses YouTube to Assert Claims of Scientific Misconduct
An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images by a prominent Japanese scientist. Alleged image fraud by Kato lab at the University of...
January 25, 2012 10:21 AM
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Leukemia Drug and Magnet Material Net Japan Prizes
TOKYO—A trio of American researchers will share one of this year's Japan Prizes for bringing their work on a leukemia drug from a basic discovery to a clinical success,...
University of Tokyo Considers Shifting Academic Year
Worried about being left behind in the globalization of higher education, the University of Tokyo is laying plans to shift the start of its school year from April to...
January 19, 2012 11:28 AM
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Japan's Reconstruction Plans Hit Some Walls
How do you protect coastal areas from a once-in-a-millennium tsunami? You don't, planners in Japan have concluded. So they are rebuilding the coastal seawalls washed away by the 11...
January 12, 2012 4:21 PM
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India Marks 1 Year Without Polio, But Global Eradication Remains Uncertain
Today, India celebrated a long-sought milestone in its fight against polio: By all indications, the country has gone 1 year without a single case. (Final confirmation is expected in...
Singh Promises Windfall for India's Scientists
BHUBANESWAR, INDIA—India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has vowed to more than double his nation's spending on R&D over the next 5 years and build two major research facilities. The...
December 13, 2011 4:05 PM
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Francis Collins on Partnering With India
While in India last week to sign an agreement on diabetes research, Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), spoke with ScienceInsider about his visit. Collins...
December 12, 2011 11:43 AM
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Beijing Lands $1.5 Billion Merck Research Commitment
Merck may be a latecomer among the giant pharmaceutical companies setting up research shops in China, but it has made by far the largest single research investment to date....
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...
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 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,...
Japan's New Okinawa Institute Officially Becomes Graduate University
A budding new Japanese graduate school backed by the likes of Nobel laureates Sydney Brenner, Susumu Tonegawa, Jerome Friedman, and others has cleared the last hurdle required to start...
October 17, 2011 11:49 AM
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UPDATES: Floods in Thailand and The Scientist Finds a New Owner
As of today, the Thailand Science Park north of Bangkok was still dry despite heavy flooding, but because of high water in surrounding areas the park will remain closed...
October 14, 2011 12:14 PM
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Thai Floods Threaten Public and Private Research
Flood waters creeping toward Thailand's biggest research park have forced the evacuation of dozens of public and private labs. Emergency personnel are piling sandbags around facilities in hopes of...
East Asia's Universities Need To Play Bigger Economic Role, Says World Bank
TOKYO—Universities in East Asia aren't giving their countries the economic boost they should because of educational and research shortcomings, concludes a report released today by the World Bank. In...
New Center to Battle Future Food Crises
NEW DELHI—Hoping to kick-start another green revolution, the Indian government on 5 October announced the creation of a research center to develop wheat and maize varieties that thrive in...
Japan to Boost Science Spending, Reduce Support for Nuclear Power
TOKYO—Japan's ministry of education wants to boost overall science-related spending next year by 5.8%, to $14.7 billion. But amid increasing support for most programs there is one big loser:...
September 29, 2011 3:26 PM
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Lasker Award Rekindles Debate Over Artemisinin's Discovery
The Lasker Foundation's first ever award to a Chinese scientist working on the mainland has reignited a 30-year controversy over whether one person should be recognized for developing a powerful...
September 23, 2011 12:44 PM
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Protests Drive Out Egypt's Antiquities Chief
Just 2 months after Zahi Hawass was removed as chief of Egypt's antiquities, his successor has submitted his resignation. Mohammad Abdel Fatah, a former Cairo University professor, told ScienceInsider...
Indian Scientists Blast Proposal to Improve Animal Welfare
Indian scientists are calling for a major rewrite of a proposed animal welfare law that they say could undermine research involving animals. A government draft of the legislation is...
Chinese University Fires Administrators, Offers Compensation After Lab Accident
On the heels of a damaging laboratory outbreak that sickened 27 students, leaders at China's Northeast Agricultural University last week dismissed two administrators, apologized for insufficient safety practices, and...
Indian Professors Charged Over Radiation Death
NEW DELHI—Six senior professors at the University of Delhi face up to 2 years in prison over their roles in India's first fatality from accidental exposure to radiation. On...
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...
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 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...
Japan Reconsiders Nuclear Power and the Monju Fast-Breeder Reactor—Or Maybe Not
The difficulty of changing Japan's decades-old nuclear-centric energy policy was in evidence this week. On Tuesday, Environment Minister Satsuki Eda, a member of the ruling Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ),...
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 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...
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 2, 2011 5:50 PM
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DNA Sequence Yields Clues to Germany's 'Super Toxic' E. coli Outbreak
Just from the high number of deaths and severe cases, scientists and public health experts battling Germany's massive E. coli outbreak knew they were up against something unusual. Now,...
Bracing Tour of China Leaves E.U. Science Chief Impressed
BEIJING—Visiting China for the first time last week, Europe's top research official, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, admitted that she was bowled over by how quickly the rising power is muscling up...
Chinese Journalists Barred From Shuttle Launch
Chinese journalists were denied access to this week's space shuttle launch in what is believed to be the first application of a congressional ban on interactions between NASA and...
Utility: Fukushima Cores More Damaged Than Thought
TOKYO—Over the last several days, evidence has emerged indicating that the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was far more dire than previously recognized. The main evidence...
Japan’s U-Turn on Nuclear Power: Reaction
Yesterday, Japan’s prime minister, Naoto Kan, announced that the government was scrapping a planned expansion of nuclear power, which currently provides about a third of Japanese electricity. Instead, the...
U.S. Nuclear Watchdog Says Fukushima Safety Guidance Was Meant 'for U.S. Citizens'
The chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) today defended his advice that Americans living within 80 km of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant should leave their homes...
Holdren's Response to Ban on China Science Partnerships Draws GOP Ire
The Obama Administration has carved out a loophole in the recent congressional ban on scientific interactions with China that would permit most activities between the two countries to continue....
Indian Scientists Plan to Delve Deep for Earthquake Precursors
NEW DELHI—Indian scientists are about to embark on an ambitious effort to drill into the Indian plate to monitor tremors and other seismic signatures of impending earthquakes. Indian science...
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