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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...
November 15, 2011 12:44 PM
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NOAA Environmental Satellites Win Funding
Congress has apparently decided to allow the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to move ahead with a troubled new Earth-observing satellite system, but at the cost of cuts...
November 15, 2011 12:31 PM
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NSF Slated for a 2.5% Boost in 2012 Budget
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is due to receive a surprising 2.5% increase in its 2012 budget. That good news came from a conference report filed last night for...
Congress to Keep Funding NASA's Webb Telescope
Congress appears to have preserved funding for the James Webb Space Telescope. Last night lawmakers from both the House of Representatives and the Senate issued a final spending bill...
November 9, 2011 3:04 PM
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New NSF Program Sidesteps External Peer Review
U.S. researchers with an unorthodox idea in two or more scientific fields now have the chance to bypass the normal peer-review process at the National Science Foundation (NSF). A...
November 9, 2011 5:00 AM
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Archaeologists Fear Outcome of Congressional Debate on Highway Bill
When engineers rebuilding a beach near Lewes, Delaware, in 2004 began finding bits of Colonial-era pottery mixed in with the sand, archaeologists quickly realized they had found a historic...
October 18, 2011 5:16 PM
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NIH Seeks Advice on Budget Crunch
The grim outlook for biomedical research funding is causing much angst at the $30.7 billion National Institutes of Health (NIH). In an unusually candid move this week, NIH described...
October 18, 2011 4:13 PM
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Ron Paul Would Erase Billions in Research Spending
Presidential hopeful Ron Paul's new proposal to slash federal spending would wipe out large chunks of the government's research portfolio. The congressman from Texas and Republican candidate unveiled a...
October 17, 2011 6:11 PM
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Super Science Suggestions: House Panel Lays Out Spending Preferences
The Republican leaders of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology have some suggestions on where to cut $1.5 billion from the fiscal year 2012 research...
Russian Scientists Rally to Protest Funding Freeze
MOSCOW—Several hundred researchers, many wearing lab coats, rallied here today to protest a funding freeze at Russia's two grant organizations and on procurement regulations that they say are major...
October 12, 2011 2:45 PM
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GAO Says White House Broke the Law by Holding Science Meetings With China
The watchdog agency for Congress has sided with an influential House of Representatives Republican in his attempt to block bilateral scientific exchanges with China. But the Obama Administration insists...
October 7, 2011 5:34 PM
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NIH Grant Success Rate Likely Hit Historic Low in 2011
Grant success rates at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appear to have plunged to an all-time low in 2011. ScienceInsider has learned that an early estimate from the...
France Hangs On To Generous Research Tax Credit
PARIS—Despite its increasingly dire financial situation, the French government has decided to keep its controversial Research Tax Credit (CIR), which is among the most generous in the world. The...
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 4:38 PM
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NIH's 2012 Budget Would Get 3.3% Boost in House Bill
A House of Representatives panel released a 2012 draft spending bill today with surprisingly good news for the National Institutes of Health (NIH): The agency's budget would rise $1 billion...
September 23, 2011 2:57 PM
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NIH Chided on Translational Center, Warned of More Budget Cuts
A Senate spending panel has praised a new translational center at the National Institutes of Health but scolded NIH officials for how it was created. The language accompanies the...
September 20, 2011 5:11 PM
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Senate Panel Trims NIH Budget By $190 Million
A Senate panel today approved a 2012 spending bill that would slightly trim the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), cutting it by $190 million to $30.5...
NSF Prepares for Review of Two Giant Telescopes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) is gearing up for a long-awaited competition between two California-based consortia seeking federal support to build the next giant ground-based telescope. But a perception...
September 16, 2011 3:04 PM
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Senate Plan Gives NSF a Choice on Facilities vs. Research
A Senate proposal that would reduce next year's budget for the National Science Foundation (NSF) by $162 million includes unprecedented flexibility for the agency to decide how best to...
September 14, 2011 5:28 PM
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Hope, With 'Stringent' Orders, for NASA's Webb Telescope
In July, the U.S. House of Representatives cancelled the over-budget and behind-schedule James Webb Space Telescope, sinking the hearts of NASA officials and U.S. astronomers. Today, the U.S. Senate...
September 14, 2011 4:57 PM
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Senate Panel Cuts NSF Budget by $162 Million
"We've gone beyond frugality and are into austerity. … We didn't want to do this, but that's the way the world is." Those gloomy words, from Senator Barbara Mikuski...
U.K. Masks Cuts to Science By Redefining 'Science Budget'
Despite promises by the U.K. government last year that its science budget would stay level between 2010 and 2015, a new analysis concludes that the government has masked cuts...
Senate Budget Bill Holds Energy Department Science Level
Scientists usually howl like wounded puppies at the prospect of a flat budget for an important U.S. science agency. But given the budget-cutting mood of the current Congress, scientists...
U.S. Firms Pledge More Engineering Internships
PORTLAND, OREGON—A group of U.S. companies has promised to create thousands of internships for engineering students as a way to increase the number of U.S. citizens who earn engineering...
Going It Alone Deep Under the Ocean
Succumbing to budgetary pressures, the National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to pull out of the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program (IODP) when it expires in September 2013. The decision...
Webb Telescope Delayed, Costs Rise to $8 Billion
It's hardly the most opportune time to announce a huge cost overrun for a major science facility. But last week NASA told Congress that its proposed successor to Hubble,...
August 17, 2011 3:55 PM
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FDA Hones Its Regulatory Science Plans
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today released a fleshed-out version of a road map it put out last fall on how to bolster regulatory science at the...
August 2, 2011 5:45 PM
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A First Look at the Debt Agreement and U.S. Research
The legislation President Barack Obama signed today to avert a government default offers few details on how the United States will achieve a now-mandated $917-billion cut to discretionary spending...
July 21, 2011 3:04 PM
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Using Nuclear Fuel for Future NASA Missions Gets Boost
The Obama Administration's plan to resume domestic production of the nuclear material needed to power future space missions has won its first, partial victory in Congress. Last week, the...
Lavish Makeover of French Campuses Is Under Way
PARIS—Concern over France's ballooning public deficits seemed momentarily forgotten at a meeting here yesterday where nine clusters of universities and schools presented a series of lavish projects, some already...
July 19, 2011 4:53 PM
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Will NIH Embrace Biomedical Research Prizes?
Centuries after the British government offered up to £20,000 for anyone who developed a precise method to determine a ship's longitude—a British cabinetmaker won with his invention of a...
July 15, 2011 5:00 PM
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House Appropriators Propose Big Cuts to Earth Sciences
Deep cuts in earth science budgets for several U.S. agencies are in store next year under a proposed budget that awaits a vote by the House of Representatives. Under the...
July 12, 2011 4:27 PM
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House Spending Panel Punishes OSTP Over Links to China
Bad things can happen to federal agencies when they cross swords with their budget overlords in Congress. The latest example of that political adage comes in the 2012 spending...
Proposed U.S. Underground Lab of 'Paramount Importance,' Blue-Ribbon Panel Says
Plans to build a gigantic underground lab in the United States may be in limbo. But the science that would be done there has received a stamp of approval...
July 8, 2011 5:14 PM
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New U.S. Program Funds Research Collaborations in Developing World
The 13 million people living in Dhaka, Bangladesh, sit on an "earthquake bomb," says seismologist Syed Humayun Akhter of the University of Dhaka. But as recently as a decade...
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