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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 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 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...
Ed Weiler Says He Quit NASA Over Cuts to Mars Program
Next week, President Barack Obama will propose a $300 million cut in NASA's planetary science programs as part of his 2013 request for the agency, ScienceInsider has learned. If...
February 8, 2012 5:33 PM
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NIH Scrambling to Shift $50 Million Into Alzheimer's Research
Yesterday, the Obama Administration announced that it wants to beef up the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) investment in Alzheimer's disease research with $80 million in new funding in...
January 20, 2012 5:25 PM
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NIH Examines What Drove Its Grant Success Rate to a Record Low
Last week, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) announced that the success rate for research grants, a closely watched indicator of how well investigators are doing in the struggle...
January 13, 2012 5:42 PM
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Rough Sailing for Plan to Move NOAA?
The Obama Administration's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Commerce Department to the Interior Department is drawing mixed reactions from former senior staff,...
Spanish Secretary of State for Science Promises to 'Do the Impossible'
BARCELONA, SPAIN—Spanish scientists generally think highly of the biochemist newly appointed to lead the country's science policy—but they're concerned that the government she serves in won't give science the...
January 5, 2012 4:37 PM
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Can Science Spending Survive Partisan Politics?
What does the future hold for science funding in the United States? And can politicians get along when it comes to research spending? Today on ScienceLive, we chatted with...
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...
Giant Telescopes Face NSF Funding Delay
For nearly a decade now, two university consortia in the United States have been in a race to build two ground-based telescopes that would be several times bigger than...
Funding Snag Delays Italy's SuperB Collider
The start of construction of the €650 million SuperB particle collider in Italy has been delayed at least a year following difficulties in releasing project funding. Work on the...
December 15, 2011 12:21 PM
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NIH, DOE Appear Headed For Small Budget Increases in 2012
A fit of Congressional pique is giving researchers their first solid look at 2012 spending levels for two major science agencies—and the news appears to be relatively good for...
Conferees Strike a Deal on Programs for High-Tech Startups
After 5 years of tough negotiations, Congress has agreed to increase funding for two programs that try to turn scientific discoveries into profitable businesses by increasing how much 11...
December 13, 2011 5:35 PM
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NIH's Stimulus Money Created at Least 21,000 Jobs
As expected, the $8.2 billion for extramural research that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) received from the 2009 stimulus act put many scientists and their staffs to work....
Ireland's Science Budget Avoids the Ax
Ireland's science budget for 2012 has largely been protected from the €1.4 billion in cuts to hospitals, schools, and other public expenditures announced last week. Full details have yet...
Business, Science, Fashion Meet at Flashy E.U. Innovation Show
BRUSSELS—To get into the spirit of innovation at the European Commission's Innovation Convention here this week, one needed look no further than orange-haired punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood quizzing Chinese...
Gulf Restoration Bill Gets House Hearing, But Obstacles Remain
Legislation that would steer billions of dollars in fines from the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill to ecological and economic restoration projects along the Gulf of Mexico got a...
December 1, 2011 2:43 PM
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Europe Finds €1.3 Billion Needed for ITER Overruns
For more than 18 months the European Union has been trying to find €1.3 billion to pay for its 2012-13 contribution to the ITER fusion reactor, a €16 billion...
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 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...
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,...
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....
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 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...
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...
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 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 3:38 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...
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