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February 10, 2012 12:55 PM |

Lawmakers Reintroduce Public Access Bill

by Jocelyn Kaiser

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 |

Judge Dismisses PETA's Constitutional Argument to Free SeaWorld Orcas

by Greg Miller

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 |

Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices

by 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 |

Newt and Scientists: A Long, Complicated Love Affair

by David Malakoff

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 |

Gates Foundation Boosts Coffers of Financially Strapped Global Fund

by 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 |

White House Gives Up on NOAA Science Chief Nomination

by David Malakoff

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 |

Whistleblower Uses YouTube to Assert Claims of Scientific Misconduct

by 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 |

Leukemia Drug and Magnet Material Net Japan Prizes

by 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 |

Global Fund Leader Quits After Board Appoints New General Manager

by 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 |

HHMI Funds 28 Young Scientific Stars Abroad

by Jocelyn Kaiser

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 |

Smithsonian Director to Take Over Wildlife Conservation Society

by Elizabeth Pennisi

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 |

Online Social Network Seeks to Overhaul Peer Review in Scientific Publishing

by 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 |

Prominent Virologists Want U.S. Advisory Board to Take a Second Look at Controversial Flu Papers

by David Malakoff

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 |

Crafoord Prizes Announced

by 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 |

For Its New Science Minister Brazil Picks ... A Scientist

by 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 |

Israeli Company's E.U. Funding Under Scrutiny

by 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 |

U.S. Companies Doing More of Their Research Hiring Overseas

by Jeffrey Mervis

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 |

Rough Sailing for Plan to Move NOAA?

by David Malakoff

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 |

What Would Wiping Out the Commerce Department Mean for Science?

by Jeffrey Mervis

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 |

Bill Blocking NIH Public Access Policy Draws Fire

by Jocelyn Kaiser

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 |

Doomsday Clock Ticks Closer to Midnight

by 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 |

NSF Tweaks Its Merit Review Rules

by Jeffrey Mervis

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 |

New German-Israeli Center Will Research Archaeology and Anthropology

by 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 |

Can Science Spending Survive Partisan Politics?

by 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 |

Updated: Egypt Institute Burns; Scholars Scramble to Rescue Manuscripts

by 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 |

Smithsonian Scuppers Shipwreck Exhibit, Plans to Re-Excavate

by 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 |

Dates, Judges Set in Appeal of Stem Cell Suit

by Jocelyn Kaiser

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 |

Europe's Extremely Large Telescope on Its Way

by Daniel Clery

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 |

Controversial Changes to Forest Law Pass Brazilian Senate

by Erik Stokstad

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 |

New Chief for HHS's Research Misconduct Office

by Jocelyn Kaiser

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 |

Dutch Researcher Retracts First Paper, Offers 'Apologies'

by John Travis

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 |

Senate Okays Changes to Program for High-Tech Start-Ups

by Jeffrey Mervis

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 |

Chorus of Presidents, Rock Stars, and Industry Titans Calls for End to AIDS

by 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 |

CFS Researcher Reportedly Surrenders to Nevada Police

by 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 |

Occupy London's School of Hard Knocks

by Sara Reardon

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 |

Inmate Mikovits Meets Judge

by 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 |

Controversial CFS Researcher Arrested and Jailed

by 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 |

Search Tool Accentuates the Negative, Eliminates the Positive

by Sara Reardon

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 |

U.S. Weapons Lab Gets a New Director

by Daniel Strain

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 |

Tech Entrepreneur Offers Grants for Indie Science

by Jocelyn Kaiser

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...

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