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Japan's IKAROS Solar Sail Mission Extended for a Year
TOKYO—Success is paying off for Japan's IKAROS solar sail mission: The team behind the spacecraft confirmed today that it flawlessly completed all the performance tests set for it during...
January 25, 2011 11:11 AM
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Japan Prizes Honor Immune System and Computer Science Research
TOKYO—The minds behind a breakthrough drug and a basic but ubiquitous operating software share the laurels of this year's Japan Prize, announced here today. For their work in taking...
Joint U.S.-China Energy Research Takes Shape
Bilateral talks this week between the two superpowers have pinpointed three areas of collaboration for the newly established U.S.-China Clean Energy Research Center. Those are efficient buildings, clean vehicles,...
Japanese Virologist Loses Job, Gets Publishing Ban for Image Manipulation
TOKYO—A virologist who has retracted several papers in recent weeks because of problems with images has been dismissed from his position at the University of the Ryukyus in Nishihara,...
January 12, 2011 5:12 PM
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WHO Launches Attack on Emerging Malaria Resistance
The World Health Organization (WHO) released a plan today to deal with a threat that could undermine the recent success in malaria control: the emerging resistance against artemisinin drugs,...
December 16, 2010 12:06 PM
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South Korean Court Reduces Hwang's Sentence
Disgraced South Korean scientist Woo Suk Hwang had his conviction upheld yesterday by an appeals court in South Korea, which knocked 6 months off Hwang’s suspended sentence. The court’s...
December 10, 2010 1:01 PM
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China's Great Firewall Blocks Nobel Site
Chinese scientists may have to learn to scale the "Great Firewall" if they want to visit the official Web site of the Nobel Prize. Within China, typing the site's...
Shanghai Students World Champs on Science, Math, Reading Test
A group of teenagers from Shanghai, China, have posted the top scores on the latest version of an international test of practical knowledge in reading, mathematics, and science. It's...
December 1, 2010 11:26 AM
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Japan's Whaling Research Faces Another Tough Year
TOKYO—The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society will once again be harassing Japan's research whaling efforts in Antarctic waters over the next few months, Scott West, an organization official said here today....
China Hopes to Boost Basic Research as Overall R&D Spending Soars
China's science spending is rising fast and on track to meet a 2010 target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product (GDP) on research and development, according to...
November 10, 2010 12:50 PM
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Defying Critics, China’s Science Ministry Defends Research Culture
In a 3 September editorial in Science, two prominent Chinese scientists alleged that China’s mega-science funding system is corrupt and antithetical to innovation. The Chinese scientific establishment has at...
November 9, 2010 8:43 AM
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Obama Visit Boosts India-U.S. Science Ties
NEW DELHI—President Barack Obama's unprecedented 3-day visit to India, which ended today, yielded a bumper crop of diplomatic agreements on topics including disease surveillance, agricultural research, clean energy, and...
In China, No Meeting of the Minds on GM Crops
WUHAN, CHINA—If anyone is under the impression that the Chinese public is ready to embrace genetically modified (GM) crops, they are mistaken. At a hastily arranged session at a...
October 12, 2010 2:14 PM
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Doctor Sentenced in Beijing for Attack on Critics
After a quick trial, a local court in Beijing convicted urologist Xiao Chuang-Guo on 10 October of assaulting two well-known advocates of academic integrity in China. Xiao, head of...
October 7, 2010 11:11 AM
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NSF Celebrates 50 Years of U.S.-Japan Collaborations
"Science diplomacy is a hot topic, but no one knows exactly what it means," Norman Neureiter, a chemist with a distinguished career both in the U.S. Government and at...
September 28, 2010 12:17 PM
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Plagiarized Report Presents New Hurdle to GM Eggplant in India
NEW DELHI—In an embarrassing revelation, a landmark report from India's six science academies backing commercial planting of genetically modified (GM) brinjal, or eggplant, has been found to contain materials...
September 23, 2010 4:15 PM
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Chinese Threat on Rare Earth Minerals Could Revitalize U.S. Mines
Action is heating up in the world of rare earth minerals. China has blocked exports of rare earths to Japan over a fishing dispute between the two countries. Earlier...
September 23, 2010 11:00 AM
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Urologist Arrested for Attacks on Chinese Whistleblowers
BEIJING—The police bureau here announced Tuesday evening that they have detained the suspected mastermind behind assaults on China's science misconduct watchdog Fang Shimin (aka Fang Zhouzi) and journalist Fang...
Japan's Government Aims High in Budget Plan
TOKYO—Funding to complete a controversial supercomputer, plan a second Hayabusa asteroid sample retrieval mission, and dramatically expand research into induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells is on the agenda of...
August 3, 2010 3:43 PM
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China Launches Center for Combustion Research
BEIJING—Tsinghua University this week unveiled a new research center that aims to tackle the twin challenges of combating pollution and developing sustainable energy sources. The Center for Combustion Energy,...
WWF Wants Japanese Consumers to Join the Fight to Save Bluefin Tuna
TOKYO—The conservation organization WWF is taking its campaign to save Atlantic and Mediterranean bluefin tuna to the source of the threat facing the species: Japanese consumers, who eat 80%...
New Director Shakes Up Management of Fusion Project
Just 2 days after becoming director-general of ITER, the international project aiming to prove the viability of fusion as an energy source, Osamu Motojima has a message he wants...
Former SLAC Director to Lead New Japanese Graduate University
When it finally accepts students in 2012, the Okinawa Institute for Science and Technology (OIST) aims to provide a new model of a Japanese research university, scrapping the division...
China's Largest Global Change Research Effort Is Break From the Past
BEIJING—At a conference here today, Chinese science leaders bemoaned critical gaps in knowledge about climate change—while unveiling a major new research initiative. Compared with developed nations, "China's understanding of...
Controversial KAIST President Wins a Second Term
Nam Pyo Suh has been elected to a second term as president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) after overcoming some unexpected opposition. Suh, a...
India Joins Mega-Telescope as Astronomy Battle Heats Up
For some time now, the teams behind two rival megaprojects—the $1 billion Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT), led by the University of California, and the $700 million 24-meter Giant Magellan...
Will Hayabusa's Success Lead to a Space Encore?
TOKYO—The heart-warming story of the Hayabusa spacecraft, which overcame failed engines, degraded solar panels, fuel leaks, and faulty communications to touch down on asteroid Itokawa and return to Earth,...
June 18, 2010 7:58 AM
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Stem Cell Pioneer Shinya Yamanaka Bags Yet Another Prize
TOKYO—The hot streak of stem cell researcher Shinya Yamanaka of Kyoto University in Japan and the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease in San Francisco, California, continues. The Inamori Foundation...
Harpoons Fly as Pro-Whaling and Antiwhaling Nations Fight Over 'Scientific Whaling'
Appealing for objectivity, the chair and vice-chair of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) are asking the organization's 88 member nations via a press release to give their draft peace...
May 10, 2010 11:04 AM
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Australian Academy Taps First Female Leader
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Hailed as a trailblazer for women scientists in Australia, Suzanne Cory this week added to her reputation by being elected the first female president of the Australian Academy...
Japan Restarts Troubled Breeder Reactor
TOKYO—Fourteen years after a coolant leak and botched cover-up led to its shutdown, Japan's Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor Monju was restarted today with the hope of moving the controversial...
Asian Countries Want Roaming Students to Stick Close to Home
TOKYO—China, Japan, and Korea would like to keep more of their foreign university exchange students within the region. To do so, a trilateral committee representing the three governments meeting...
Japan's Science Budget Faces Scrutiny—Again
A Japanese cabinet member said today that research institutes will be among the targets of a new effort to identify wasteful governmental spending launched by the ruling party. Yukio...
Japan Nears Restart of Experimental Fast Reactor
Japan's Monju experimental fast-breeder reactor faces one last hurdle before restarting 14 years after an accident and a botched coverup shut it down: An OK from the governor of...
March 18, 2010 2:05 PM
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Multi-Drug Resistant TB Reaches Record Levels in Western Russia
Three areas in Russia now have the highest rate of multi-drug resistant (MDR) tuberculosis ever recorded, according to a new report released today by the World Health Organization. Globally,...
March 17, 2010 11:27 AM
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Japan Maps Out Big Science Plans
TOKYO—For the first time ever, Japanese scientists have produced a roadmap of where they see major research programs heading in the mid-term-about 10 years out—and a list of large-scale...
March 5, 2010 10:10 AM
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In Annual Rite, Chinese Science Showered With Riches
BEIJING—Last year, Chinese researchers were over the moon when the central government bestowed a 30% increase in R&D spending. This year, they are being brought back to earth—but really...
February 12, 2010 5:40 AM
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Take a Deep Breath, Beijing! U.S. Embassy Deploys Ozone Monitor
BEIJING—For many of the expats here in one of the world’s most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air-quality readings. This week, a trusted source—the...
February 9, 2010 11:47 AM
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Medvedev Talks Science in Moscow
Russian science has been getting some bad press recently, what with a recent report on its declining productivity in scientific papers and a letter from expatriate scientists to the Russian...
January 25, 2010 2:42 PM
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China Questions Warming Cause While Backing IPCC
by Pallava Bagla and Eli KintischAs outsiders continue to heap criticism on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, China has to introduce new doubt on the scientific consensus regarding the...
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