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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...
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...
January 10, 2012 5:24 PM
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Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) announced today that it is moving the hands of its Doomsday Clock to 5 minutes before midnight. This is 1 minute closer...
October 27, 2011 5:10 PM
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U.S. Weapons Lab Gets a New Director
A veteran of U.S. national security policy debates has been chosen as the next director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, one of the Department of Energy's two nuclear weapons...
October 12, 2011 5:09 PM
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U.S. Again Gets Low Marks on Biothreat Preparedness
The United States today brought home yet another ugly report card that says it's woefully unprepared to respond to a bioattack. Issued by the Bipartisan WMD Terrorism Research Center,...
October 11, 2011 5:50 PM
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New Challenge to FBI's Anthrax Investigation Lends An Ear to Tin
Where did the tin come from? Three scientists have raised that question in a new paper that attempts to poke holes in the U.S. government's case against Bruce Ivins,...
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 28, 2011 5:10 PM
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Fire Outside Los Alamos Lab Poses 'Low' Risk to Nuclear Waste: Fire Chief
The Albuquerque Journal reports on a press conference an hour ago in which authorities fighting the raging blaze downplayed the risk of the fire striking a huge cache of...
June 27, 2011 5:36 PM
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New Mexico Fire Hits Los Alamos Lab
The wildfire that earlier forced a shutdown of the Los Alamos National Laboratory has entered an outdoor area called Technical Area 49. From Los Alamos National Laboratory by e-mail...
June 27, 2011 12:44 PM
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New Mexico Wildfire Threatens Nuclear Weapons Lab
A wildfire that has burned more than 6000 acres is raging some 20 km southwest of the Department of Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. The federal...
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...
U.K. Abandons Study of Nationality Testing Using DNA and Isotopes
The U.K. Border Agency (UKBA) has completely abandoned its widely scorned investigation into DNA and isotope testing of human tissues as a means to verify the nationality claims of...
June 15, 2011 3:14 PM
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The Dirty 11: Panel Names Pathogens That Pose Biggest Security Risk for Research
A United States federal panel of scientists and security experts has identified 11 microorganisms that it wants designated as Tier 1 select agents, a new category of biological agents...
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...
Geographers Had Predicted Osama's Possible Whereabouts
Could Osama bin Laden have been found faster if the CIA had followed the advice of ecosystem geographers from the University of California, Los Angeles? Probably not, but the...
April 20, 2011 4:27 PM
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Institute: Soldiers Need Better Diet After Brain Injury
In a report released today, the Institute of Medicine recommends that soldiers who suffer a traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the field of battle must receive adequate calories and...
Should the U.S. More Tightly Control Nuclear Fuel It Makes?
One unheralded aspect of the Fukushima crisis is the fact that some of the fuel burned at the Daiichi reactors is made by U.S. companies. In 2010, Japanese nuclear...
March 11, 2011 11:36 AM
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Live Chat: Counting the Dead in Afghanistan With John Bohannon (Transcript)
A military data set of civilian casualties, provided exclusively to Science, indicates that the war in Afghanistan has become more lethal to the Afghan population, largely because of indiscriminate insurgent...
December 10, 2010 3:56 PM
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New FBI Material Delays Academy Report on Anthrax Attacks
The FBI has belatedly provided an expert panel with new information that will delay a long-awaited report on the scientific merits of the government's investigation into the deadly 2001...
November 18, 2010 4:36 PM
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Expert Panel: Studies for Biodefense Lab Lacking
Federal officials are still stumbling in their efforts to analyze the risks of operating a high-security biology lab in Boston that would study dangerous pathogens such as Ebola virus...
November 15, 2010 2:16 PM
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Panel Slams Review for Proposed Biodefense Megalab in Kansas
An expert panel today harshly criticized a federal study of the risks of building a giant new lab in Kansas to study the world's most dangerous animal pathogens. The...
October 27, 2010 1:27 PM
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U.S. Consortium Gets $17 Million to Study Military Suicides
The United States Army announced today that it has given a new research consortium $17 million to study how to prevent suicides in the military and the general population....
August 25, 2010 2:27 PM
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Castro: Worries Over Nuclear Winter
With its antique Chevrolets and outdated politics, the communist island of Cuba seems like a time capsule of 1950s. So is it any surprise that Fidel Castro is worried...
August 3, 2010 12:33 PM
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Panel Recommends Defining Select Agents by DNA Sequence
Anthrax, Ebola, and smallpox are all dangerous pathogens that belong to a list of so-called select agents whose handling and storage are subject to special government regulations. But what...
July 29, 2010 11:16 AM
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Report: U.S. Ill Prepared to Trace Exploded Nukes
If a terrorist group were to strike the United States with a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb, one of the first things authorities would have to do is...
July 2, 2010 5:46 PM
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Obama Orders Select Agents To Be Ranked by Risk Level
The Obama Administration today announced that it will overhaul the program that governs U.S. research involving dangerous pathogens and toxins such as anthrax, which are collectively known as select...
June 24, 2010 4:33 PM
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U.S. Military Dedicates New Research Hospital for Brain-Injured Soldiers
The Department of Defense cut the ribbon today on a new center for the diagnosis, treatment, and study of traumatic brain injury and post-combat psychological problems, including post-traumatic stress...
May 20, 2010 4:43 PM
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Pentagon Directs Basic Research Funds to Applied Projects, Says Report
A scientific advisory group has found that the Department of Defense is spending a considerable portion of its basic research dollars to fund short-term, applied research projects, weakening the...
May 4, 2010 4:34 PM
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U.S. Reveals 5113 Nukes in Stockpile, Estimate by 'Nuclear Geek' Was Off by Only 87
Yesterday, the Obama Administration released the total number of nuclear warheads in the U.S. stockpile, a number that had been classified for decades. Nonproliferation experts hailed the move as...
April 26, 2010 5:32 PM
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Military Officials Have a Hard Time Using Climate Data, New Report Says
A new report suggests that "multiple barriers" are impeding the flow of information between climate scientists and U.S. national security officials who need the work to inform their decisions....
Audit Office Slams Weapons Lab Megalaser
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has lambasted the National Ignition Facility (NIF)—the most powerful laser ever built—in a new report out today. "Scientific and Technical Challenges and Management Weaknesses,"...
April 6, 2010 3:57 PM
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Obama Lays Out New Nuclear Policy
The United States has decided not to use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear countries as long as they comply with their nonproliferation commitments under different international treaties. The new policy,...
March 11, 2010 5:05 PM
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Should Social Scientists Help the U.S. Fight Terror?
Among the military brass giving testimony about global terrorism at a Senate hearing yesterday was a single academic: Scott Atran, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor....
March 4, 2010 2:20 PM
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Risks of New Army Biodefense Lab Downplayed, Says Academy
A National Academies study released today says the U.S Army downplayed or overlooked a number of environmental risks while planning the expansion of biocontainment facilities at the United States...
February 19, 2010 3:44 PM
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FBI Closes Anthrax Case, Says Bruce Ivins Was Sole Culprit Behind Letter Attacks
Nearly a year-and-a-half after implicating U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, the United States government has formally closed the case. In a press...
Budget Boosts Pentagon's Basic Research Funding to $2 Billion Mark
The U.S. Department of Defense proposes to spend $2 billion on basic research in 2011, an increase of $200 million or 10% over its current spending level. The request is...
Slain Iranian Physicist's Campus Talk Suggests Strong Reformist Ties
Who killed Masoud Alimohammadi, the Iranian physicist who was blown up outside his apartment in Teheran on 12 January by a remote-controlled motorcycle bomb? Emerging details of the professor's...
January 8, 2010 5:23 PM
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Government Panel Proposes New Rules for Handling Dangerous Pathogens
The White House has released a much-awaited report on ways to strengthen biosecurity in the United States. Produced by an intragovernmental working group that was set up by President...
December 4, 2009 12:20 PM
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Researcher at Army Lab Infected With Rabbit Fever
A researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick, Maryland, has contracted rabbit fever—also known as tularemia, USAMRIID officials announced today. The...
December 3, 2009 3:54 PM
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Anthropologists Slam Using Social Scientists in Mideast Wars
Since 2007, the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has deployed teams of anthropologists and other social scientists in Iraq and Afghanistan. The goal is to make better military decisions...
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