February 10, 2012 12:55 PM
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Lawmakers yesterday introduced a proposal to make scientific papers funded with taxpayer money available for free on the Internet. The bill adds to a recent flurry of debate about...
February 9, 2012 3:17 PM
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A federal judge in San Diego yesterday dismissed a case in which the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) sought to free five orcas...
February 1, 2012 12:11 PM
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Jop de Vrieze
A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the high price of its journals is rapidly gathering steam. Nine days after it started, more than 2600 scientists—including...
January 30, 2012 4:45 PM
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It's safe to say that only one leading presidential contender has ever boasted of debating Tyrannosaurus Rex's eating habits with a leading paleontologist, of reading Science and Nature while...
January 26, 2012 12:09 PM
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Jon Cohen
Bill Gates announced yesterday that between now and 2016, his foundation will pump $750 million into the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Gates, who made the...
January 25, 2012 12:42 PM
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The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has claimed another casualty. The White House yesterday formally withdrew its nomination of geochemist Scott Doney to be chief scientist of the National Oceanic...
January 25, 2012 10:58 AM
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Dennis Normile
An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images by a prominent Japanese scientist. Alleged image fraud by Kato lab at the University of...
January 25, 2012 10:21 AM
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Dennis Normile
TOKYO—A trio of American researchers will share one of this year's Japan Prizes for bringing their work on a leukemia drug from a basic discovery to a clinical success,...
January 24, 2012 5:15 PM
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Jon Cohen
Michel Kazatchkine announced today that he has decided to step down as the executive director of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. Kazatchkine, a French clinical...
January 24, 2012 6:00 AM
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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) today announced the 28 winners of a new $20 million program to jump-start the labs of young biomedical scientists in countries outside of...
January 23, 2012 5:23 PM
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Cristián Samper, director of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, is shifting gears in August to become the president and CEO of the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). The...
January 23, 2012 12:28 PM
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Jop de Vrieze
Three Finnish researchers have created an online service that could eventually replace or supplement the current way journals get scientists to peer review submitted manuscripts. Already partnered with the...
January 20, 2012 11:44 AM
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A group of prominent researchers is asking a U.S. government biosecurity advisory board to reconsider its controversial recommendation that two research teams omit key details from papers in press...
January 19, 2012 4:43 PM
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Dana Mackenzie
Today the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced the four winners of the 2012 Crafoord Prize, an annual award that rotates between the disciplines of astronomy, mathematics, geosciences, biosciences,...
January 19, 2012 3:52 PM
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Andrew Downie
SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL—Brazil has announced that Marco Antônio Raupp, currently president of the Brazilian Space Agency, will become the new minister of science, technology and innovation on 24 January....
January 19, 2012 12:31 PM
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Gretchen Vogel
The Natural History Museum in London is under fire for its scientific cooperation with an Israeli cosmetics company located in the occupied West Bank. On Tuesday, The Independent newspaper...
January 17, 2012 4:33 PM
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U.S. companies are adding research jobs overseas at a record pace while their domestic research workforce is growing very slowly. The new data come from the 2012 edition of...
January 13, 2012 5:42 PM
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The Obama Administration's proposal to move the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) from the Commerce Department to the Interior Department is drawing mixed reactions from former senior staff,...
January 13, 2012 5:06 PM
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President Barack Obama's proposal to eliminate the Commerce Department promises to reignite sharp debates about the best home for its sizable but patchwork research and technology portfolio. The Commerce...
January 11, 2012 5:35 PM
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A little-noticed proposal in Congress to block a federal policy requiring free access to biomedical research papers went big time today, adding fuel to a long-running debate in the blogosphere....
January 10, 2012 5:24 PM
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Jane J. Lee
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...
January 9, 2012 12:34 PM
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The National Science Board has made two subtle but potentially important changes in how grant applications are reviewed at the National Science Foundation (NSF). And while those procedural changes...
January 6, 2012 2:13 PM
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Michael Balter
When it comes to human evolution, Europe and the Near East are crucial places: Europe has the first cave art, and the Near East has the first sightings of...
January 5, 2012 4:37 PM
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Science News Staff
What does the future hold for science funding in the United States? And can politicians get along when it comes to research spending? Today on ScienceLive, we chatted with...
December 19, 2011 2:03 PM
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Andrew Lawler
Egypt's oldest research institute caught fire during demonstrations in central Cairo on 18 December, destroying an unknown number of precious books and manuscripts. Shocked Egyptologists call the destruction a...
December 16, 2011 5:28 PM
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Heather Pringle
Smithsonian Institution officials have taken a remarkable 180-degree turn and decided to cancel a controversial exhibit of shipwreck artifacts due to ethical concerns about how the artifacts were salvaged....
December 9, 2011 3:56 PM
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A law suit threatening to block government-funded research on human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) is moving forward in a federal appeals court. And the makeup of the three-judge panel assigned...
December 9, 2011 3:42 PM
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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 7, 2011 5:23 PM
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Brazilian senators yesterday approved major changes to a law governing forest conservation. The version is less drastic than one passed by the other chamber of Congress in May, but...
December 7, 2011 5:13 PM
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The federal office that guards against scientific misdeeds in biomedical research has a new director. David E. Wright, a historian of science at Michigan State University in East Lansing,...
December 2, 2011 1:18 PM
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Today's issue of Science contains the first official retraction of a paper by Diedrik Stapel, the Dutch social psychologist who allegedly made up or manipulated data in dozens of studies....
December 2, 2011 12:01 PM
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Of the many jobs bills competing for support this month on Capitol Hill, one would have a direct impact on the U.S. research community. But its progress this week has...
December 1, 2011 7:07 PM
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Jon Cohen
Today, two lunchtime diners in downtown Washington, D.C., looked up from their burgers at the television in the corner, saw rock stars Bono and Alicia Keys live on CNN...
November 29, 2011 7:05 PM
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Jon Cohen
Judy Mikovits, an embattled researcher well known for her studies of chronic fatigue syndrome, turned herself in to police yesterday at the University of Nevada, Reno, reports a local...
November 25, 2011 9:52 AM
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PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON—In the shadow of St. Paul's Cathedral, across from a Starbucks papered in protest signs, London's newest "university" is gaining popularity. At Tent City University, members of Occupy...
November 22, 2011 10:49 PM
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Jon Cohen
VENTURA, CALIFORNIA—Judy Mikovits has been on trial of sorts ever since she led a team that published a heavily criticized report in Science 2 years ago that linked a mouse...
November 19, 2011 6:46 PM
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Jon Cohen
Judy Mikovits, who has been in the spotlight for the past 2 years after Science published a controversial report by her group that tied a novel mouse retrovirus to...
November 2, 2011 2:41 PM
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Feeling negative about your PubMed searches? You're not alone. Because of the way search engines are set up, searching for correlations between, say, "gene X" and "cancer," will return...
October 27, 2011 5:10 PM
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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 25, 2011 8:00 PM
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Working on a garage project that could make the world a better place but don't have the cash for that DNA sequencer you spotted on eBay? A new program launched...