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April 8, 2010 4:16 PM
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Evolution, Big Bang Polls Omitted From NSF Report
In an unusual last-minute edit that has drawn flak from the White House and science educators, a federal advisory committee omitted data on Americans' knowledge of evolution and the...
March 12, 2010 1:36 PM
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MIT's Suresh Tapped to Be NSF Director
The dean of engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is in line to become the next director of the National Science Foundation (NSF). ScienceInsider has learned that Subra...
February 19, 2010 3:44 PM
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FBI Closes Anthrax Case, Says Bruce Ivins Was Sole Culprit Behind Letter Attacks
Nearly a year-and-a-half after implicating U.S. Army researcher Bruce Ivins in the anthrax letter attacks of 2001, the United States government has formally closed the case. In a press...
February 15, 2010 3:53 PM
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IPCC/Climategate Criticism Roundup
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has always had a highly polished reputation, but it’s facing an unprecedented amount of criticism now. Here’s a roundup of recent criticism...
February 12, 2010 5:40 AM
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Take a Deep Breath, Beijing! U.S. Embassy Deploys Ozone Monitor
BEIJING—For many of the expats here in one of the world’s most polluted cities, a morning ritual is checking the latest local air-quality readings. This week, a trusted source—the...
February 9, 2010 12:45 PM
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Michelle Obama's War on Childhood Obesity Starts Now
First Lady Michelle Obama has launched a major initiative on childhood obesity, one of her signature topics. The carefully orchestrated rollout—Obama has been foreshadowing her plan for over a...
February 5, 2010 2:35 PM
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Parsing NIH's 2011 Budget: Is Big Science Up, Small Science Down?
Is National Institutes of Health Director Francis Collins planning to steer his ocean liner of an institute toward "big biology" at the expense of single-investigator grants? That was the...
February 3, 2010 6:36 PM
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Obama Rescues Al Gore's Earth Satellite for Sun Duty ... and Maybe More
The long and winding story of DSCOVR, the satellite proposed in 1998 by then-Vice President Al Gore and killed by the George W. Bush Administration, has taken a new...
Court Rebukes Dutch Policy on Iranian Scientists
AMSTERDAM—A court in The Hague has dealt a blow to the Dutch government's controversial attempts to keep sensitive nuclear technology out of the hands of Iran. Its policy to...
February 1, 2010 10:56 AM
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UPDATED AGAIN: Science Triumphs in Obama's 2011 Budget Request
Wow. A first, quick look at what President Barack Obama wants to spend next year on science shows across-the-board increases for research and training. Those gains come despite the...
Budget Day Surprise #1: $300 Million for ARPA-E
Federal budget day has dawned on Washington, D.C., and the numbers the Administration is proposing for 2011 are coming in fast and furious. Science's team of reporters will be...
Obama Proposes Ending NASA's Human Space-Flight Program
As many had expected, President Barack Obama has proposed terminating NASA's human space-flight program. Instead, the Administration's 2011 budget would provide money to the private sector for developing commercial...
January 26, 2010 2:10 PM
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Bill Gates Funding Geoengineering Research
Billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates has been supporting a wide array of research on geoengineering since 2007, ScienceInsider has learned. The world’s richest man has provided at least $4.5 million...
January 26, 2010 1:29 PM
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CDC Director Demotes Chief of Environmental Health
Howard Frumkin, the controversial director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's environmental health branch, has been reassigned by CDC Director Thomas Frieden. Frumkin directed the Agency for...
Experts: U.S. Asteroid Danger Plans Insufficient
A committee of the U.S. National Research Council released a sobering report today on the prospects for defending the home planet against near Earth objects (NEOs), the asteroids and...
January 21, 2010 11:13 AM
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How Many Have Died Due to Congo's Fighting? Scientists Battle Over How to Estimate War-Related Deaths
The battlefield for scientists fighting over how to best estimate war-related deaths has moved from Iraq to the Congo. Yesterday, a new report looking at the overall picture of wartime...
Slain Iranian Physicist's Campus Talk Suggests Strong Reformist Ties
Who killed Masoud Alimohammadi, the Iranian physicist who was blown up outside his apartment in Teheran on 12 January by a remote-controlled motorcycle bomb? Emerging details of the professor's...
January 15, 2010 12:55 PM
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IPCC Pondering New Steps in Wake of Hacked E-mails Episode
Scientists at the helm of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) have spent weeks on the defensive after e-mails uncovered by hackers revealed private messages in which they...
January 14, 2010 5:27 PM
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Facing Inquiry, WHO Strikes Back at "Fake Pandemic" Swine Flu Criticism
The chief flu scientist at the World Health Organization (WHO) today defended his agency against criticism that the H1N1 swine flu pandemic was "fake," that its threat to human...
Can Africa Topple Australia in the Contest To Build the World's Biggest Telescope?
Physicists from across Africa gathered this week in Dakar, Senegal, for a conference focused on lasers and optics. But radio astronomy dominated the chatter in the hallways. Africa has...
January 12, 2010 10:37 AM
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Was Iranian Physicist Killed for His Science or Politics?
The murky nexus between Iran's nuclear program and the political reformists battling the country's current regime became bloody this morning when a bomb killed Massoud Ali-Mohammadi, 50, a physicist...
Royal Institution Director Forced Out, May Sue for Sex Discrimination (Updated)
After running the Royal Institution (RI) of Great Britain for more than a decade, a period in which she spearheaded a controversial and costly physical renovation of the science...
U.K. Poll Warns Scientists Will Flee Country
Scientists in the United Kingdom continue to protest plans by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) to incorporate "economic impact" into decisions on what research to fund....
Physical Science's "Cardinal" Stepping Down
The decision by senior party figure Byron Dorgan (D-SD) not to run for reelection next year is being seen as a big blow for Democrats. But what will the...
Russia to Explore Mission to Asteroid Despite Low Collision Risk
Russian space chief Anatoly Perminov says that his agency will soon hold an international meeting to consider a mission to asteroid Apophis, which scientists have assigned real though low...
December 17, 2009 7:32 PM
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Exclusive: Obama Backs New Launcher and Bigger NASA Budget
President Barack Obama will ask Congress next year to fund a new heavy-lift launcher to take humans to the moon, asteroids, and the moons of Mars, ScienceInsider has learned....
December 17, 2009 3:32 PM
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As Forest Deal Nears, New Index Maps Profit Potential in Trees
One of the major developments likely to come out of the Copenhagen climate talks tomorrow is a global agreement to reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation of forests (REDD)....
December 16, 2009 1:31 PM
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Could the Senate Ever Ratify an International Climate Treaty? Sixty-Seven Votes, Not Sixty, Might Be the Real Challenge
The test of garnering a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority in the U.S. Senate for climate legislation has certainly led to plenty of teeth-gnashing. But despite all the coverage of the...
December 16, 2009 1:30 PM
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What He'll Bring in the Spring: The President's Climate Pledges and the U.S. Senate
Soon after Barack Obama was elected president, congressional climate change advocates set their sights on passing a cap-and-trade bill in time for him to bring a firm U.S.commitment on...
December 9, 2009 5:56 PM
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To Promote Scientific Creativity, Cut the Strings, Economists Say
Biomedical research leaders often complain that the U.S. system of funding research on specific projects stifles risk-taking and creativity. A better model, they say, would be to give researchers...
Italy Science Agency Helps Publish Creationism Book
It may not hold Italy’s interest like presidential sex scandals, but the country’s premier science funding agency, the National Research Council (CNR), is generating its own unwelcome headlines after...
Sarkozy to French Universities: "We're Going to Invest Massively"
PARIS—French universities and their scientists were holding their breath. Three weeks ago, a panel chaired by two former prime ministers recommended that research and higher education become the main...
Australian Synchrotron Update: Fired Director Speaks Out (Update added)
Either today or tomorrow, depending on your time-zone, there's a showdown at the Australian Synchrotron from which Director Robert Lamb was recently fired. On Friday 4 December, Lamb broke...
December 4, 2009 12:20 PM
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Researcher at Army Lab Infected With Rabbit Fever
A researcher at the United States Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases (USAMRIID) in Frederick, Maryland, has contracted rabbit fever—also known as tularemia, USAMRIID officials announced today. The...
December 3, 2009 11:57 AM
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Striking Synchrotron Scientists Still Unhappy Down Under
This week, at the Australian Synchrotron (AS) in Melbourne, long simmering tensions between staff researchers and the facility’s business-oriented governing board erupted into an open battle. On Monday, scientists...
December 2, 2009 5:05 PM
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Why Did Oklahoma State Cancel Anthrax Research Project?
Three years ago, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, cut the ribbon on a brand new biosafety level 3 laboratory, a move the university hoped would position it to bring in...
December 2, 2009 1:00 PM
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Holdren, Lubchenco On Defensive About ClimateGate at Hearing
Two key Obama Administration scientists were grilled this morning about Climategate at a hearing of the House of Representatives Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming this morning....
December 1, 2009 4:29 PM
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Climate Emailer Phil Jones Has Stepped Down
The embattled head of University of East Anglia's Climate Research Unit has resigned pending the ongoing investigation:Professor Jones said: "What is most important is that CRU continues its world leading...
Sparring Intensifies Over Japan's Science Budget
TOKYO—The struggle for public and political support between Japan's scientific community and a budget-cutting task force is escalating. Last week, the Government Revitalization Unit concluded its scheduled 9-day-long hearings,...
Women Bag Top E.U. Science and Climate Jobs
An Irish politician with no experience in science is slated to become Europe's new research policy chief. European Commission President José Manuel Barroso announced yesterday that he will nominate...
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