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January 21, 2011 1:00 PM
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Canadian-Born Geologist Tapped for Key E.U. Research Post
A geologist born and raised in Canada is slated to take on a key role in the European Research Council (ERC), the E.U.'s agency for funding individual basic researchers....
January 19, 2011 2:57 PM
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U.K. Scientists: Budget Threatens Facilities
Heads of the United Kingdom's research councils today warned politicians that delaying capital investments due to funding cuts will harm the country's scientific standing. "It will in principle damage...
Budget Chaos at NASA After Mixed Signals From Congress
Conflicting guidance from Congress could result in NASA's spending $500 million on a rocket program that is due to be canceled. Last week, the NASA inspector general reported that...
U.S. Atom Smasher to End Quest This Fall for 'God Particle'
The search by U.S. physicists for the most coveted particle of all, the so-called Higgs boson, will come to an end in September. Researchers working at Fermi National Accelerator...
January 7, 2011 12:28 PM
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Despite Dire Budget Outlook, Panel Tells NIH to Train More Scientists
The world is mired in a recession, U.S. budgets for biomedical research are stagnant and could slide, and senior faculty are sticking around campus instead of retiring. But despite...
Energy Officials: Science Law Obama Signed Bolsters Research
The America COMPETES Act, signed on Tuesday by President Barack Obama, is light on specifics about the Department of Energy (DOE), but officials at that agency are grateful that...
How New COMPETES Science Law Broadens NSF Education Programs
Only one of the seven directorates at the National Science Foundation (NSF) has "education" in its title. But the reauthorization of the America COMPETES Act, which President Barack Obama...
Scientists Oppose Crime Lab Shutdown
Alec Jeffreys, the inventor of DNA fingerprinting, is among 33 scientists who signed a letter in The Times yesterday (subs. required) protesting the announced closure of the United Kingdom's...
December 27, 2010 1:23 PM
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In Congress, Small Business Research Is a Lame Duck Loser
Despite a surprisingly productive lame-duck Congress, Senate Democrats fell short last week on a last-minute attempt to spur U.S. innovation. A bill (S. 4053) to enlarge and broaden two...
December 23, 2010 11:36 AM
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Science in the Obama White House: An Interview With John Holdren
John Holdren has been discussing the nation's science policy with Barack Obama for nearly 2 years, first as an adviser to his 2008 campaign and then, since last year, as...
December 21, 2010 5:15 PM
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Comprehensive Science Legislation to Become Law
The lame-duck House of Representatives today accepted a stripped-down Senate version of the America COMPETES Act, a bill to strengthen research, education, and innovation at several federal agencies. Now the...
UPDATED: Details of Tight U.K. Science Budget Emerge
When the new U.K. government in October released its Comprehensive Spending Review, scientists breathed a sigh of relief, and some even celebrated, at the promise that science would maintain its...
Senate Passes COMPETES Bill, Now It's Up To the House
Racing against a looming adjournment, the U.S. Senate today passed a reauthorization bill that endorses the steady growth of research and education programs at three key federal research agencies....
Message to ITER Fusion Project: Keep Calm and Carry On
Managers from the ITER fusion reactor project in France held urgent meetings at the European Commission in Brussels today following Wednesday's collapse of the commission's plan for filling a...
Europe's ITER Budget Deal Falls Through, Threatening Fusion Project
A plan to cover a budget shortfall for the ITER fusion reactor project in France appears to have fallen apart just 2 weeks before the end-of-year budget deadline. The...
December 15, 2010 11:54 AM
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Senate Spending Bill Would Boost NSF, NIH Budgets
In some good fiscal news yesterday for the U.S. science community, a Senate spending panel has crafted a 2011 federal budget that would give several science agencies increases that...
NSF Balks at Continuing Design Work for Underground Science Lab
The oversight board for the National Science Foundation (NSF) has rejected a request for additional funding to design an $875 million underground laboratory in South Dakota. Its reasons suggest...
December 9, 2010 12:20 PM
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House Approves Flat 2011 Budget for Most Science Agencies
The three federal agencies that support the vast majority of academic research would receive no more money in 2011 than in 2010 under a spending bill that narrowly passed...
Amidst Bailout, Ireland Increases Science Budget
The Irish government has increased its funding for research in 2011 by 12.5% despite being forced to make €6 billion in cuts following its recent bailout. The budget, which...
December 3, 2010 5:27 PM
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Creating One NIH Center Might Entail Dissolving Another
A proposal to create a new translational research center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is causing angst across the agency and beyond. As part of the plan...
December 3, 2010 3:57 PM
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In a Sciencey World, Does Congress Need More Staff or Less?
Among the less-noticed cost-saving recommendations that the White House debt commission has made that have flown beneath the radar is a call to cut the budget of the Executive...
Europe's X-ray Powerhouse Hit by Budget Cuts
The difficult financial straits of European nations are starting to have an impact on the funding of the region's large research facilities. The governing council of the European Synchrotron...
December 1, 2010 1:26 PM
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The Moment of Truth Spares U.S. Science
The final report by the U.S. National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, released this morning, contains a long list of tax increases and spending cuts needed to shrink...
U.K. Opens New Visa Route for Foreign Scientists, But May Still Curtail Their Number
The United Kingdom has finally begun revealing some of the details of its new immigration policies, although the information provided yesterday has done little to satisfy anxious universities, which...
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...
European Budget Snafu Could Delay Progress on Fusion Reactor
Progress on the international ITER fusion reactor could be slowed by an impasse over the 2011 budget of the European Union. On Monday, the E.U. Council of Ministers (representing...
November 12, 2010 3:19 PM
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More on NCI Travel: Junkets or Sharing Science?
Last month, ethics watchdog Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) raised a fuss about certain trips by National Cancer Institute (NCI) intramural scientists that were paid for by nonfederal sources. In...
November 12, 2010 1:42 PM
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Against Type, Deficit Panel Floats Permanent Tax Break for Corporate Research
Amid a report full of spending cuts and the elimination of many tax breaks, a bipartisan deficit panel has called for making permanent the research and development tax credit....
NASA Space Telescope Center of $1.5 Billion Fiasco
The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) project seems to be in even more financial trouble than we reported yesterday on ScienceInsider. An independent review of the project, led by...
Exclusive: Report Finds NASA Telescope $1 Billion Over Budget
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) may cost $800 million to $1 billion more than anticipated, ScienceInsider can reveal. The cost overrun could delay the planned 2014 launch of...
November 8, 2010 5:18 PM
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Federal Budget Rollback Could Slash NIH Grant Success Rates
Funding rates for biomedical researchers could drop by half, to a historical low of 10%, if Republicans follow through on their vow to cut overall federal discretionary civilian spending...
Fired Tenured Faculty Members Reinstated at Florida State
An arbitrator has found that layoffs of 12 tenured faculty members last year at Florida State University (FSU) were the result of an “arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable” process. Faced...
NIH Funds Six Projects to Promote Workforce Diversity
Brad Duerstock is a neuroscientist. He's also a quadriplegic. Last week he received $2 million from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to help others with disabilities who want...
October 29, 2010 4:56 PM
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In Tight Race, $cience Paying Off for Congressman-Physicist Foster
No congressional candidate running in next week's election has received more in campaign contributions from civil servants than Representative Bill Foster (D–IL). And most of those dollars have come...
October 26, 2010 4:58 PM
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Panel Wants U.S. to Chase 'God Particle'—If There's Money
ROCKVILLE, MARYLAND—Keep going. That's the advice today from a federal advisory panel to government officials responsible for running the last U.S. atom smasher. But the panel's caveat—only if you...
October 20, 2010 5:09 PM
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Research Avoids U.K. Budget Bloodbath
Was it the heavyweight reports produced by the likes of the Royal Society and the Research Councils UK that fund much of British science? Was it the roughly 2000...
Just a Flesh Wound? U.K. Science Budget Spared Deep Cuts
Today, many U.K. scientists will likely see the glass as half-full. The U.K. government's long-awaited Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) was released today, and it calls for a flat science...
October 7, 2010 3:17 PM
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FDA's $25 Million Pitch for Improving Drug Regulation
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is pressing for a big funding boost for "regulatory science"—research that can help it evaluate new treatments better and faster. Yesterday, FDA...
Does Britain Want World's Best Footballers, But Not Its Best Scientists?
It may be Nobel season in the rest of the world, but among Britain's scientists, it's protest week. On Saturday, a group called Science is Vital hopes to lead...
Spain's Science Budget Proposal: Not as Bad as Feared, But Not Good
After weeks during which Spanish researchers fretted nervously about possibly significant cuts to their country's science budget, Spanish Science and Innovation Minister Cristina Garmendia tried this morning in a...
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