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January 16, 2009 4:15 PM |

Ocean Scientists See Waves of Change Lapping Up

by Robert F. Service and Eli Kintisch

[Editor's note: the following text has been corrected in italics.] The only funds directed towards the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in the House of Representative’s draft stimulus package is...

January 16, 2009 3:40 PM |

CDC Would Spend Stimulus Dough on Bricks, Mortar

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Facilities are a big focus of the House stimulus bill, the thinking being that scientific construction provides jobs now and offers intellectual investment for the future. Thus more spacious lab...

January 16, 2009 2:16 PM |

A $3 Billion Bonanza for NSF?

by Jeffrey Mervis

Officials at the National Science Foundation are still pinching themselves over the agency's high profile in the $825 billion package of proposed tax cuts and new spending that Democrats introduced...

January 16, 2009 11:36 AM |

House Cash Would Bring NASA Down to Earth

by Andrew Lawler

Space program critics often complain that spending money on space doesn't benefit people stuck within the confines of this planet. But in the midst of the biggest financial crisis since...

January 15, 2009 6:03 PM |

Your Definitive Stimulus Source ...

by Science News Staff

... is budget analysis ace Kei Koizumi of AAAS. And not just because he works for the same company as ScienceInsider, and his office is downstairs. His initial take on...

January 15, 2009 12:58 PM |

Research Gets Billions in House Recovery Plan

by Jeffrey Mervis

House Democrats today unveiled an $825 billion plan to boost the U.S. economy that includes $10 billion for research and instrumentation and another $6 billion to modernize academic laboratories. A...

January 8, 2009 12:36 PM |

Science Plays Key Role in Obama Economic Recovery Plan

by Jeffrey Mervis

Barack Obama has put science in the middle of his economic recovery plan. Speaking today at George Mason University, the president-elect ticked off the elements of a plan that, while...

January 7, 2009 3:49 PM |

Will Science Be Part of Recovery Package? Pelosi Says Yes

by Jeffrey Mervis

Image via Wikipedia House Democratic leaders this morning strongly signaled their support for including research, training, and scientific equipment in a massive economic recovery package being crafted this month....

December 15, 2008 5:17 PM |

U Penn Museum Criticized for Staff Cuts (Updated)

by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel

Archaeologists around the world are condemning the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology for laying off 18 researchers, in particular one of the world's leading archaeobotanists, Naomi Miller,...

December 15, 2008 4:52 PM |

IOM to Obama: Get Your Act Together on Global Health

by Jon Cohen

A new Institute of Medicine report released today by a prominent group of scientists and former public officials on a global health committee has a message for President-Elect Barack Obama:...

December 12, 2008 4:36 PM |

Scientists Seeking Stimuli

by Jeffrey Mervis

A collection of U.S. research universities is making the case for science to be included in legislation aimed at reviving the moribund economy. In a letter today to President-elect Barack...