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May 6, 2009 3:56 PM
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FBI Anthrax Investigation Under Scientific Review
A long-awaited review of the scientific evidence relating to the investigation of the 2001 anthrax letter attacks is finally getting off the ground. The study, to be conducted by the...
April 30, 2009 12:00 PM
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How Powerful Are the Pentagon's Hackers?
The National Research Council stepped into the shadowy world of cyberwarfare this week, issuing a call for open discussion of the Pentagon's efforts to build computer viruses or other novel...
April 30, 2009 11:30 AM
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Experts Want Scientists to Monitor Their Colleagues
University researchers who work with dangerous pathogens should keep an eye on each other and report any signs of suspicious behavior to lab managers, says a panel of life scientists...
April 27, 2009 2:23 PM
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AP: New Tally of Deaths in Iraq Match Lower Estimates
Offering new data on the controversial question of how many violent deaths have happened in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion, the Associated Press has obtained an Iraqi government tally...
April 23, 2009 11:24 AM
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Did the CIA Misuse Sleep Studies?
At least three scientists who study sleep deprivation are calling foul on the agency's use of their work in the torture memos....
April 23, 2009 11:21 AM
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Missing USAMRIID Samples No Cause For Worry: Army
The three vials that went missing at the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, were likely destroyed with other samples when a freezer malfunctioned, say...
April 22, 2009 2:59 PM
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Report: Army Infectious Disease Lab Investigated
The U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases in Frederick, Maryland, is in the news once again—this time as the subject of an investigation by the Army’s Criminal Investigation...
March 18, 2009 5:32 PM
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Researchers Worldwide Rally to Help Scientist Exposed to Ebola
The accidental exposure of a scientist to the Ebola virus last week has triggered a series of teleconferences by Ebola scientists on two sides of the Atlantic united around a...
DARPA to Explore Geoengineering
An official advisory group to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is convening an unclassified meeting next week to discuss geoengineering, ScienceInsider has learned. DARPA is the latest in a...
March 3, 2009 1:48 PM
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We Like Our Nuclear Weapons the Way They Are, Thanks
Should the United States listen to Defense Secretary Robert Gates and others who call for new nuclear weapons to replace our aging stockpile? Physicists Francis Slakey and Benn Tannenbaum,...
February 9, 2009 2:15 PM
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Bioweapons Lab "Stand Down" Letter Posted
Obtained by reporter Yudhijit Bhattacharjee: To: ALL USAMRIID USERS Sent: Wed Feb 04 16:58:26 2009 Subject: BSAT Inventory Stand down (UNCLASSIFIED) Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: NONE USAMRIID, I will institute...
India's Nuclear Ostracism Is Over
NEW DELHI—India's long nuclear winter has come to end. On Wednesday, the government’s nuclear power utility inked a deal to buy at least two power reactors from France—India’s first major...
February 5, 2009 1:25 PM
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Biosecurity Concerns on Scientists' Minds
Some biomedical researchers are changing their behavior inside and outside the lab because of concerns that malefactors might misuse knowledge about their research, according to a new survey of U.S....
February 5, 2009 12:03 PM
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Proposal to Move Nuke Labs Hits Hill and Explodes
The Albuquerque Journal reported yesterday that the Obama Administration is considering transferring control of the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories to the Defense Department from DOE. The newspaper reports that it...
Biodefense Gets Its Billion
The stimulus package adds $900 million to the biodefense gravy train, which has received billions in federal funds since 2001. About $420 million of the money would go to the...
January 9, 2009 11:05 AM
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Army Anthropologist Dies After Injuries Sustained in Duty in Afghanistan
Science Careers Blog reports on the third social scientist killed in the U.S. Army's controversial Human Terrain Program, who was attacked in November while speaking to villagers in Afghanistan: Wired's...
January 8, 2009 1:16 PM
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Raining Cannonballs on the "Fortress America" Mentality
Rules meant to protect the United States from sharing important scientific secrets with its enemies have created a thicket of red tape that is hindering the work of high-tech companies,...
December 10, 2008 5:11 PM
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Psychological Tests for Bioagent Researchers?
Should academics who work on dangerous pathogens be required to undergo periodic psychological evaluations to ensure that they are not mentally imbalanced as U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins appears to...
December 4, 2008 11:59 AM
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Brain Trauma From Blasts Prevalent But Hidden
Many U.S. soldiers exposed to blasts in Iraq and Afghanistan may have suffered brain injuries that never got diagnosed, says the Institute of Medicine today in a report that raises...
December 3, 2008 3:14 PM
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Biosafety Lab Will Be Manhattan Project
Word has leaked out: The new $450 million federal lab to replace the aging Plum Island Animal Disease Center will be built in Manhattan, Kansas. The Associated Press broke the...
December 2, 2008 2:19 PM
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Bioterror Trumps Nuclear Threat
A congressionally appointed commission has been grabbing headlines with its message that the threat of a bioterrorist attack outweighs the risk of a nuclear weapons attack. In its report, World...
November 26, 2008 1:59 PM
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Extension for Gates as Defense Secretary, A Plus for Research
The news that U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates will serve for at least a year in the new Administration should be good news for basic science funded by the military....
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