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July 8, 2011 4:00 PM
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Wolf Says No-Growth Budget is Good News for NSF—and Lobbyists Agree
Zero is starting to look like a pretty nice number to some U.S. scientists. Yesterday, a congressional spending subcommittee proposed holding next year's budget for the National Science Foundation...
July 6, 2011 4:28 PM
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House Budget Panel Wants to Cut Oceans Agency by $103 Million
The draft of the House of Representatives Appropriations Committee's 2012 budget for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) calls for a $103 million cut below current spending of...
July 6, 2011 3:53 PM
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House Spending Panel Flatlines NSF, Squeezes New Facilities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) would receive no increase in 2012 under a spending plan unveiled today by the U.S. House of Representatives' panel that funds several science agencies....
House Spending Panel Wants to Kill Webb Telescope
A draft bill before a spending panel in the U.S. House of Representatives would eliminate funding for the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), a flagship instrument that NASA wants...
July 1, 2011 5:19 PM
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U.S. National Parks' Cultural and Natural Resources Threatened
Unchecked development, thousands of invasive species, climate change, and reduced budgets and staff all threaten America's national parks, says a decade-long study released earlier this week by the National...
June 29, 2011 5:08 PM
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DARPA to Offer $30 Million to Jump-Start Cellular Factories
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Defense Department's high-risk granting body, is about to jump into synthetic biology in a big way. One of the latest...
June 24, 2011 4:19 PM
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House Science Panel Spars With Lubchenco Over Climate Service
The science committee of the U.S. House of Representatives this week criticized steps that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has taken to create a National Climate Service,...
June 24, 2011 2:51 PM
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Firing of Utah Archaeologists Alarms Community
The Utah archaeological community is in an uproar over the abrupt firing earlier this week of Kevin Jones, Utah's state archaeologist, and two of his colleagues. State officials have...
Underground Physics Lab to Cost U.S. Energy Department at Least $1.2 Billion
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND—Physics fans, hold your breath: An underground lab that's absolutely vital to the future of particle physics in the United States will cost the Department of Energy (DOE)...
June 23, 2011 5:56 PM
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U.S. Patent Reform Survives a Shakedown in the House
A plan to make sweeping changes in the U.S. patent system passed the House of Representatives this afternoon by a vote of 304-117. The bill initially ran into trouble...
Earmarked Research By Any Other Name
Walter Pincus of The Washington Post illustrates today how members of the House of Representatives have proposed "programmatic requests" to sidestep the ban on earmarks in the 2012 military...
House Panel Tells Energy Department to Cull Underperforming Research Grants
First, the silver lining for scientists: When the spending panel for the House of Representatives sliced $6 billion from the $30.7 billion budget requested for 2012 by the Department...
Europe Downscales Monster Telescope to Save Money
The world's biggest telescope is getting smaller—but more affordable. The designers of the future European Extremely Large Telescope (E-ELT) have decided to shrink the telescope's primary mirror from a...
Germany's Withdrawal of Funding Threatens Plan to Save Ecuador Forest
The Ecuadorian government's plan to keep oil in the ground in Yasuni National Park in exchange for compensation from world governments has taken a severe blow in recent days....
June 6, 2011 7:00 PM
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U.K. Cystic Fibrosis Researchers Short of Cash for Gene Therapy Trial
Yesterday the U.K. press was full of the news that a gene therapy trial to treat cystic fibrosis is on hold after the sponsor ran out of money. Although...
House Trims Homeland Security Science Spending
Next year's budget for science and technology at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) would be drastically downsized under a spending bill passed yesterday by the House of...
June 3, 2011 11:35 AM
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Social Sciences Face Uphill Battle Proving Their Worth to Congress
Anyone attending yesterday's congressional hearing on funding the social, behavioral, and economic (SBE) sciences at the National Science Foundation is likely to have come away thinking that NSF had...
May 27, 2011 5:37 PM
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Panel Wants NIGMS to Stop Funding Glue Grants
An expert panel has urged the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) to scrap an 11-year, $368 million foray into big biology. Only two of the NIH institute's five...
May 26, 2011 5:22 PM
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Senator's Criticism of Science Foundation Draws Fire
Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) has long railed against wasteful government spending and urged his colleagues to shrink the federal budget. His latest salvo is a 73-page report released today...
May 25, 2011 11:06 AM
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NSF Hopes Time Could Mean Money for Some Biologists
Researchers under the gun to win a federal grant and facing declining success rates may be tempted to crank out another application. Data from the National Science Foundation (NSF)...
New Consortium to Run Arecibo Observatory
After 4 decades under the direction of Cornell University, the fabled Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico will have a new manager. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to...
Chu Calls NSF's Decision to Abandon DUSEL 'Disappointing'
Energy Secretary Steven Chu says that he's "very disappointed" with the National Science Foundation (NSF) for pulling out of a planned $875-million underground science lab in South Dakota. In...
U.K. Parliament Panel Slams Physics, Astronomy Cuts
British parliamentarians have expressed concerns about the impact last year’s government funding cuts will have on the future of astronomy and particle physics in the country. When combined with some...
May 11, 2011 5:25 PM
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NIH Director: Fewer Than One in Five Grant Applications May Get Funded This Year
At a Senate hearing today, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Francis Collins warned that the fraction of grant applications that are funded this year could drop below 20% for...
May 11, 2011 2:58 PM
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Australian Government Silent on Synchrotron Budget While Scientists Plan Expansion
One might think that the managers of the Australian Synchrotron would be panicking given the news that neither the federal government nor the Victoria state government has addressed in their...
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....
Fuel Costs, Budget Woes Cut U.S. Ocean Drilling
The continuing high cost of ship fuel and budget constraints at the National Science Foundation (NSF) have forced scientific ocean drillers to tie up their drill ship for a...
April 26, 2011 4:51 PM
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NIH Trims Grants in Wake of Budget Cuts
U.S. biomedical researchers will need to tighten their belts as a result of the 1% drop in the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) 2011 budget that became law 2...
April 21, 2011 2:04 PM
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Spending Bill Prohibits U.S.-China Collaborations
A little-noticed clause in the 2011 spending bill signed into law last week cuts off funding for a host of scientific exchanges between the United States and China. Representative...
April 20, 2011 5:13 PM
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Hopes Brighten for Embattled Australian Medical Researchers
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—After a week of nationwide protests, Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard on 19 April sought to reassure scientists that her government was rethinking a rumored $423 million (AUD...
April 15, 2011 10:00 AM
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Federal Funds for Climate Panel Saved, But Foe Plans New Assault
The U.S. government will be able to continue supporting the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change after language banning those contributions was dropped from the compromise spending bill for 2011....
April 14, 2011 11:04 AM
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Australian Medical Scientists Protest Hefty Budget Cuts
MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—Chanting "cures not cuts," some 7000 medical researchers took to the streets in five Australian cities this week to protest a steep cut—about 20% per year—to medical research...
April 13, 2011 9:21 PM
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Budget Cuts Mean '18-Month Gap' in Crucial Weather Data, Says Ocean Agency
If passed into law, the federal budget for 2011 that lawmakers will vote on this week will harm key efforts in daily weather forecasting, search-and-rescue operations, and long-term weather...
April 12, 2011 6:10 PM
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Budget Battle Leaves Applied Energy Research Relatively Unscathed
How did energy research do in the 2011 budget negotiations? Depends on what flavor you prefer. The Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy programs did relatively well. Its...
Energy Department's National Labs Avoid Major Disruptions
Since early February, scientists supported by the Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Science have been bracing for massive layoffs at the department's 10 national laboratories and the temporary...
April 12, 2011 5:16 PM
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As Congress Slashes EPA Budget, Research Least Harmed
Science and technology at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will be sliced 3.9%, to $815 million, under the new budget for FY 2011. That's a deeper cut than at...
April 12, 2011 4:34 PM
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NSF Gets 1% Trim in 2011, but New Budget Battle Looms
The figure may be $563 million below its 2011 request, and a cool $1 billion south of where the Obama Administration wants the National Science Foundation's budget to be...
NASA Science Budget Holds Steady
In Congressional hearings over the past few weeks, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden has warned lawmakers that the space agency would have to scale back its plans for exploration and...
April 12, 2011 12:55 PM
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2011 Spending Deal Spares NIH Major Cuts
Just as White House officials promised over the weekend, the 2011 funding bill agreed to by Congress and the White House last Friday spares biomedical research from major cuts....
April 12, 2011 11:22 AM
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Research Survives in 2011 Budget After Earlier Scare
Whew. That's what officials at U.S. science agencies and science lobbyists are saying this morning after learning the details of the weekend agreement between the White House and Congress...
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