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February 14, 2012 12:50 PM
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First E.U. Science Adviser: 'We Are Sitting On a Goldmine'
Last month, Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover took office in Brussels as the first European chief scientific adviser (CSA). Glover will provide the European Commission with evidence-based policy advice and...
February 13, 2012 12:51 PM
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Italy's Geophysics Chief Quit, But He May Not Go
Controversy has erupted in Italy following the news that Domenico Giardini, who had announced late last year that he was to resign as president of the National Institute of...
A Big Step for Europe's Small Space Launcher
Today's inaugural flight of Europe's Vega rocket went off without a hitch as European Space Agency mission VV01 lit up the early morning sky above the Kourou spaceport in...
France Picks Five More University Groups for Major Investment
PARIS—French Prime Minister François Fillon today announced that five more conglomerates of universities and other institutes will receive a massive capital injection aimed at catapulting them into the international...
Russia Explores New Phobos-Grunt Mission to Mars
Russian space scientists this week floated the idea of building a new version of the Phobos-Grunt sample return spacecraft after the first model failed to escape Earth orbit and...
January 26, 2012 4:19 PM
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Italian Official Added to List of Defendants in Earthquake Trial
The former head of Italy's civil protection department, Guido Bertolaso, is to be investigated for manslaughter alongside seven scientists and technicians who are currently on trial for allegedly having...
January 19, 2012 3:42 PM
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Charity Funding Boosts Controversial Therapy for Mitochondrial Disease
LONDON—Wellcome Trust, the United Kingdom's largest biomedical research charity, today announced more than £4 million in support for a pioneering, and potentially controversial, IVF treatment that could prevent some...
U.K. Looks for Way Through Misconduct Maze
LONDON—Scientific misconduct is "alive and well" in the United Kingdom, according to around 30 ethicists, researchers, journal editors, advocates, and funders attending a meeting on that topic sponsored by...
Spanish Secretary of State for Science Promises to 'Do the Impossible'
BARCELONA, SPAIN—Spanish scientists generally think highly of the biochemist newly appointed to lead the country's science policy—but they're concerned that the government she serves in won't give science the...
January 11, 2012 1:39 PM
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Health Entrepreneur Beats Vatican Bank in Bid for Italian Research Center
A prestigious private biomedical research center in Italy has been saved—but not by the Vatican Bank, which had designs on it. In another surprising twist to a long-running Italian...
December 20, 2011 4:22 PM
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With New Law, France Revamps Drug Approval
PARIS— Triggered by the scandal over the diabetes drug Mediator, a law to reform how drugs are approved and regulated in France was adopted by the parliament here yesterday....
December 16, 2011 3:12 PM
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U.K. Police Seize Computers in Climate E-mails Investigation, U.S. Joins In
Blasted by media and scientists alike for their slow investigation into the hacker who stole a trove of e-mails from climate scientists at the University of East Anglia in...
Funding Snag Delays Italy's SuperB Collider
The start of construction of the €650 million SuperB particle collider in Italy has been delayed at least a year following difficulties in releasing project funding. Work on the...
December 15, 2011 12:55 PM
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Dublin Science Gallery to Take Vision Global
DUBLIN—An edgy Irish center that seeks to merge art and science and get young people hooked on discovery and technology will get a chance to export its model globally....
Ireland's Science Budget Avoids the Ax
Ireland's science budget for 2012 has largely been protected from the €1.4 billion in cuts to hospitals, schools, and other public expenditures announced last week. Full details have yet...
December 12, 2011 7:01 PM
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Courtroom Neuroscience Not Ready for Prime Time
LONDON—The tantalizing prospect of using a brain scanner to determine whether a witness is lying, or a genetic analysis to determine whether a murder suspect is predisposed to commit...
Business, Science, Fashion Meet at Flashy E.U. Innovation Show
BRUSSELS—To get into the spirit of innovation at the European Commission's Innovation Convention here this week, one needed look no further than orange-haired punk fashion designer Vivienne Westwood quizzing Chinese...
December 9, 2011 3:42 PM
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Europe's Extremely Large Telescope on Its Way
Today, the council of the European Southern Observatory (ESO) fired the starting gun for the construction of what will be, by a big margin, the largest optical-infrared telescope ever built....
December 5, 2011 6:09 PM
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U.K. to Open Patient Data and Boost Life Science Funding
As part of a suite of measures to support the country's life science sector, the United Kingdom plans to increase researchers' access to medical patient data and funnel £180...
December 5, 2011 11:48 AM
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European Commission Confirms New Chief Science Adviser
BRUSSELS—Two years after announcing that he will be appointing the European Union's first chief science adviser, European Commission President José Manuel Barroso has confirmed today that Scottish microbiologist Anne...
December 5, 2011 11:27 AM
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Science Academies at Odds Over New Law in Montenegro
A new law in Montenegro aimed at strengthening science and innovation for development has sparked a war of words between the country's two science academies, including a call for...
On the Horizon? European Commission Outlines €80 Billion Research Budget
The European Commission, the executive body of the European Union, is trying to not let the region's financial woes curb its commitment to scientific and technological research. Today, even...
November 28, 2011 3:13 PM
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French Ban on Genetically Modified Corn Loses Another Round
PARIS—The French government has lost the latest round in its battle to maintain a ban on growing genetically-modified (GM) corn in France, but the new ruling is not the...
Europe's Euclid Mission Gives NASA a Tiny Role
For nearly a decade, officials at NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have discussed a shared mission to study dark energy. But any substantive collaboration on Europe's dark...
ESA Picks Up Signal From Defunct Mars Probe
The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported that last night it received a signal from the stricken Mars probe Phobos-Grunt. The Russian mission was launched on 8 November but...
November 22, 2011 3:44 PM
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Anne Glover, Rumored E.U. Science Advisor, Wins Praise at Home
Rumors have been circling the past week that the European Commission is about to appoint Scottish microbiologist Anne Glover as its first science adviser, and yesterday, Nature felt confident...
Budget Cuts Threaten Denmark's Science Assessment Body
A small Danish outfit that is acknowledged to be a world leader in fostering greater public involvement in science policy has been put on the chopping block. This week,...
U.K.'s Nuclear R&D Effort Lagging, Lords Conclude
With the United Kingdom committed to a major expansion of nuclear power, the Science and Technology Committee of the House of Lords—the U.K. Parliament's upper house—has taken a look...
Faster-Than-Light Neutrinos: OPERA Confirms and Submits Results, But Unease Remains
New high-precision tests carried out by the OPERA collaboration in Italy broadly confirm its claim, made in September, to have detected neutrinos travelling at faster than the speed of...
November 17, 2011 2:50 PM
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University Suggests Releasing Info on Primate Experiments Could Break U.K. Law
Last week, an animal rights group won the upper hand in its freedom of information request when the United Kingdom's Information Tribunal Court ruled on 11 November that Newcastle...
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...
November 16, 2011 4:07 PM
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Italy Names New Research Minister: Francesco Profumo
Italy's new government has chosen Francesco Profumo, the relatively green chief of the national research agency, to be Minister for Education, Universities, and Research. Prime Minister Mario Monti made...
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...
Germany to Look for New Nuclear Waste Site
BERLIN—Germans are starting over in their search for a permanent nuclear waste storage site. For more than 3 decades, the country has been storing its waste at a site...
Engine Trouble Leaves Russian Phobos Probe Stranded in Orbit
Russia's first solar system exploration mission since 1996 hangs in the balance today as the probe failed to ignite its engines to start the journey to Mars. The mission...
November 8, 2011 2:23 PM
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One-Third of Turkish Academy Resigns in Protest of Government Takeover
Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) are making good on their threat to resign in protest of what they see as government intrusion on the autonomy of...
November 7, 2011 1:41 PM
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'Elixir of Youth' Sparks Clash of Croatian Scientists
A Slovenian company that makes an antioxidant pill some media have dubbed an "elixir of youth" is threatening to file lawsuits against scientists who have publicly spoken out against...
Report: Dutch 'Lord of the Data' Forged Dozens of Studies (UPDATE)
One of the Netherlands' leading social psychologists made up or manipulated data in dozens of papers over nearly a decade, an investigating committee has concluded. Diederik Stapel was suspended...
October 31, 2011 2:40 PM
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Court Endorses Vatican Bank's Rescue of Italian Research Center
One of Italy's most prestigious private biomedical research centers may have gained a new lease on life. On Friday, 28 October, an Italian bankruptcy court gave the green light...
Faster-Than-Light Result to Be Scrutinized
The OPERA collaboration, which made headlines around the world last month when it announced that it had apparently observed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, has decided...
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