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November 19, 2009 5:37 PM
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NIH Undergoes Behavior (Research) Modification
Social and behavioral research is finally getting some of the high-level attention it has sought for years at the National Institutes of Health. Yesterday NIH Director Francis Collins announced...
November 19, 2009 1:27 PM
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ITER Fusion Reactor Faces New Delay
The scientific and engineering team building the ITER fusion reactor was hoping for a green light today for its final design, schedule, and cost estimate, but given the project...
November 17, 2009 5:19 PM
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Pelosi Leads Partisan Rally on Impact of Stimulus on Science
Has science become a one-party issue in Congress? A coalition of university organizations with a new Web site touting the benefits to the country from the $21 billion being...
November 12, 2009 6:06 PM
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Roundup 11/12: The Chemical Regulations Edition
With both houses of Congress getting ready to take up legislation to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act, a new poll out today reveals that most Republicans and Independents, as...
November 12, 2009 4:41 PM
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End of the Line for Spirit Rover?
The Mars rover that has been stuck in talcum-powder-like soil the past 6 months is in a bad way, its NASA team reported in a press conference today. After months...
November 12, 2009 11:29 AM
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New Policy Internships for Physics Students
The American Institute of Physics is looking for undergraduates with Potomac Fever. The new AIP Mather Public Policy Intern Program aims to broaden the institute's summer research internships to include...
October 19, 2009 2:15 PM
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Colleagues Offer New Details on Al-Qaeda Suspect: Devout, Genial, They Say
Adléne Hicheur, the French physicist arrested 8 October on charges of having ties to Algerian terrorists, did not hide his religious convictions. The acknowledgements in his 2003 doctoral thesis in...
October 8, 2009 2:41 PM
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Congress Goes Easy on Two Science Agency Nominees
The nominees to head the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the new Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) at the Department of Energy breezed through their joint Senate confirmation hearing...
October 8, 2009 11:15 AM
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Obama Honors Science Medalists, Present and Future
President Barack Obama spent time yesterday looking at the stars—both real and those in the scientific firmament. In a formal ceremony in the East Room of the White House,...
October 6, 2009 4:00 PM
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Landrieu: The Business of NIH Should Be Small Business
A senior U.S. National Institutes of Health official took a step toward mending fences with the chair of the Senate Small Business Committee today by assuring her that the...
October 1, 2009 5:42 PM
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U.S. Physical Science Headed for Modest Boost
The U.S. House of Representatives has approved a $33.5 billion spending bill for energy and water spending in fiscal year 2010, and Senate action could come next week. In...
September 15, 2009 11:33 AM
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Forensic Science on Trial: Part II
In Part I, ScienceInsider interviewed a fire investigator on the topic of arson and forensic science in the United States, an issue brought to the forefront by the controversial...
September 14, 2009 5:10 PM
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Forensic Science on Trial: The First of Two ScienceInsider Interviews
In February, a landmark report by the National Research Council (NRC) in February criticized nearly every aspect of the nation's forensics science system, including unreliable techniques for analyzing hair...
August 6, 2009 12:17 PM
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Impending Ban on Ship Fuel Squeezes U.S. Antarctic Program
Two workhorses of the U.S. Antarctic research program may need to be put out to pasture because the fuel they burn is likely to be banned from the Southern Ocean....
July 29, 2009 5:27 PM
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SLAC Worker Accused of Melting Protein Crystals
A former employee at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Palo Alto, California, was arrested Monday for allegedly destroying at least 4000 protein crystal samples by removing them from cryogenic...
July 27, 2009 5:40 PM
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Third Time at Bat, But No Cheer for Mammoth-Killing Hypothesis
Proponents of the idea that an impact wiped out the mammoths and roiled early North American human culture have struck out, at least by baseball’s rules. Their third paper in...
July 21, 2009 8:37 AM
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CERN: LHC Restart Delayed for Months
Wired.com looks to have been first among the mainstream media to report that the planned restart of the Large Hadron Collider will be pushed back from September to at least...
July 16, 2009 5:44 PM
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Nobelists Plead for More Money for Clean Energy Research
Thirty-four U.S. Nobel Laureates today called on President Barack Obama to push for a steady funding mechanism in upcoming climate legislation to support clean energy research. Many billions of dollars...
July 10, 2009 9:25 AM
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McNutt Named to Lead U.S. Geological Survey
President Barack Obama has nominated a prominent oceanographer to lead the U.S. Geological Survey. Marcia McNutt, a geophysicist and CEO of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute in Moss Landing,...
June 18, 2009 12:35 PM
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ITER Chooses a Cautious, Slower, Approach To Fusion
Governments responsible for the ITER fusion project approved a conservative approach to its construction today in which just a bare-bones reactor will first fire up in 2018. Meeting on 17–18...
May 19, 2009 12:15 PM
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Austria Reverses Course, Stays in CERN
Austria will remain a member of CERN. Yesterday, Austrian chancellor Werner Faymann overruled his science minister, Johannes Hahn, and said that Austria would not pull out of the European particle...
May 14, 2009 4:12 PM
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NSF Tags $400 Million From Stimulus for New Facilities
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has decided to begin building three major new scientific facilities: a research ship, a solar telescope, and a network of ocean observatories. NSF Director Arden...
May 12, 2009 5:12 PM
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Mars Rover Stopped in Its Tracks
The Spirit rover has bogged down on Mars, a development that could end its long-running mission of exploration. NASA announced late yesterday that Spirit had dug its wheels deep into...
May 5, 2009 2:03 PM
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Chu Pegs ILC Cost at $25 Billion
The International Linear Collider (ILC), a proposed 40-kilometer-long particle smasher, would cost a lot. But how much? U.S. Secretary of Energy Steven Chu and the leader of the project don’t...
April 20, 2009 5:19 PM
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A Bell Labs Reunion at the DOE
When William Brinkman retired in 2001 as head of research for Bell Labs after 35 years with the company and joined the Princeton University physics department, he thought that would...
April 13, 2009 2:30 PM
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Does Big Physics Have to Be So Big?
Wired wonders:... A team of German and Russian physicists have pioneered a new technique for particle acceleration, called proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration (PWFA). The technique may one day allow machines a...
April 7, 2009 4:02 PM
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Anthropologists Get Reprieve in Fight for Bones
Officials at the University of California, San Diego, have withdrawn a controversial request to repatriate a pair of 10,000-year-old skeletons to the Kumeyaay nation. Science’s Origins blog has the twists...
April 6, 2009 2:31 PM
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Tornado Hunters Loose Next Month
VORTEX2, a 1-month research project on how tornadoes work, begins in May and will cover 1450 kilometers of the central United States, from the Dakotas down to the Texas panhandle....
March 19, 2009 5:06 PM
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NIH to Improve Its Behavior(al Science)
Or so says the interim director, taking matters into his own hands while he still can. The U.S. National Institutes of Health may finally be heeding behavioral scientists' plea for...
March 9, 2009 5:14 PM
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Obama Directive Called "Sea Change" for Scientific Integrity
President Barack Obama's directive today to his science adviser to "restore scientific integrity to government decision-making" is a culmination of a long campaign by science advocacy groups against the policies...
March 4, 2009 2:54 PM
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How Much Would Nanotox Testing Cost?
Nanotech insiders continue to spar over whether there should be widespread toxicity testing of nanomaterials. Not surprisingly, companies churning out products with nanomaterials in them tend to argue that existing...
February 24, 2009 8:36 AM
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Good Day at the Office (of Science)
The Department of Energy’s Office of Science comes out a big winner in the draft budget for 2009 formulated by the U.S. Congress yesterday. But a closer look shows that...
February 19, 2009 3:10 PM
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Lawmakers to Get Cracking on Forensics Report
The New York Times reports today that members of the U.S. Congress have already committed to holding hearings on the recommendations of a long-awaited National Academy of Sciences report on...
February 13, 2009 1:27 PM
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Hollywood Pays a Visit to CERN
Last night I found myself attending an unusual press briefing at one of the largest physics research institutes in the world. Addressing the assembled media were a top antimatter specialist,...
February 11, 2009 12:35 PM
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Wanted: Evolutionary Biologists
When it comes to the biodiversity crisis, evolutionary biologists have been sitting too long on the sidelines. So says Yale University plant evolutionary biologist Michael Donoghue, who unveiled a...
February 9, 2009 5:13 PM
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Atom Smasher On the Mend
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will reopen for business in late September and will start conducting experiments a month later, the European particle-physics lab CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, announced...
January 29, 2009 1:46 PM
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Budget Squeeze Has Cali Ocean Mappers Feeling Lost
California marine scientists have encountered some rough seas lately, following the state finance department's decision last month to freeze all funding derived from the sale of bonds. That decision...
January 27, 2009 4:19 PM
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U.S. Ocean Drilling Ship Returns to the Sea
The deep-sea scientific drilling ship JOIDES Resolution, the JR for short, has finally left the shipyards. The newly renovated vessel departed Singapore on Sunday, marking the end of an unprecedented...
January 21, 2009 3:01 PM
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Nanotechnology Bill Would Have Obama Think Small
The U.S. House of Representatives Technology Committee has reintroduced legislation to reauthorize the National Nanotechnology Initiative and beef up environmental and health research related to nanotechnology. The bill is essentially...
December 22, 2008 1:27 PM
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Italian Particle Smasher a Step Closer to Reality
Italian physicists' hopes of getting their own particle smasher got a boost on Friday, when a national funding agency announced it would provide seed money to hammer out a detailed...
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