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November 24, 2009 3:46 PM
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Some HIV Prevention Efforts Working, Major Challenges Remain
In one of the first signs that HIV prevention efforts have begun to make a dent on a global scale, new infections appears to have dropped by 17% over...
November 24, 2009 11:33 AM
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Obama's Dating Service for Scientists and Teachers
The concept of matching scientists and classroom teachers isn't new. But a neuroscientist turned Internet entrepreneur hopes to go national with the idea as part of a new effort by...
November 23, 2009 5:45 PM
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fMRI Evidence Used in Murder Sentencing
For what may be the first time, fMRI scans of brain activity have been used as evidence in the sentencing phase of a murder trial. Defense lawyers for an...
November 23, 2009 5:20 PM
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In Climate Hack Story, Could Talk of Cover-Up Be as Serious as Crime?
The University of East Anglia, whose stolen documents caused a furor of excitement among climate skeptics over the weekend, said today that it had called in police to investigate...
November 23, 2009 11:34 AM
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Elephants 1, Astrophysicists 0 in Scuffle over Indian Observatory
NEW DELHI—In a setback for astrophysicists, the Indian government, citing environmental concerns, has ruled out construction of the proposed Indian Neutrino Observatory (INO) at its preferred location near the Mudumalai...
November 20, 2009 11:17 AM
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Physicists Back Where They Started As Supercollider About to Circulate Beams
For the first time in more than a year, protons should soon be whizzing around the world’s biggest atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), officials at the European...
Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts
TOKYO—Nothing rouses a research community like a threat to its funding, as could be seen this week here in Japan after a task force recommended deep cuts in the...
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 2:55 PM
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Should NIH Study Conflicts of Interest More?
A new group is adding its voice to the furor over the influence of drug money on medical research and practice, saying there should be more money to study...
November 13, 2009 3:37 PM
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Brazil Announces Ambitious Plan to Slow Down Greenhouse Emissions
In a potential boost to climate negotiators meeting next month in Copenhagen, Brazil’s government today said it would aggressively cut the pace of growth of its greenhouse-gas emissions. Brazil’s...
November 6, 2009 1:08 PM
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March Geoengineering Confab Draws Praise, Criticism
Scientists and policy experts will meet in March next year for a 5 day meeting to hash out rules for conducting field experiments on the controversial topic of geoengineering,...
Political Science at NSF Weathers Senate Attack
Senator Tom Coburn (R–OK) finally got his long-awaited roll-call vote last night to strip out political science research from the 2010 budget of the National Science Foundation. And while...
November 5, 2009 3:37 PM
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Sick of Swine Flu? Here Comes H3N2
With reporting by Martin Enserink. Although the world’s attention is focused on the novel H1N1 virus causing the swine flu pandemic, H3N2, a seasonal strain of influenza, has popped...
November 4, 2009 6:57 PM
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Insider Conversation: Can Biofuels Be Carbon Friendly?
Less than 2 years ago, Princeton agriculture expert Tim Searchinger published a paper in Science that sought to quantify how growing biofuels on cropland in the United States could...
November 2, 2009 4:21 PM
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Could a Drug Reverse Mental Retardation?
Can a genetic disorder that derails brain development be cured with a drug? A clinical trial announced today represents the first step towards testing a drug therapy for Fragile...
Study Suggests U.S. Could Use Fewer, Not More Science Students*
*The headline of this story has been changed, see note at end.It's an article of faith: the United States needs more native-born students in science and other technical fields. The...
October 27, 2009 4:55 PM
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Why Isn't Science at Homeland Security Peer Reviewed?
Since being established 6 years ago, the Science and Technology Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security has been the black sheep (subs. required) of the federal scientific community,...
October 26, 2009 1:48 PM
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No Jail Time for Hwang in Stem Cell Fabrication Case
Reuters on the conclusion of a 3-year case on the disgraced researcher in Korea: "He was guilty of fabrication," the Seoul court said in a verdict in the trial that...
No to NASA: Augustine Commission Wants to More Boldly Go
NASA should consider extending space shuttle launches into 2011 rather than ending the program next fall, flying the international space station at least until 2020, and boosting spending on...
It's On! "God Particle" Race Intensifies as Obama Tries to Keep Particle Smasher in Hunt
Watch out, Large Hadron Collider (LHC)—the U.S. is not quitting the race to find the famed Higgs boson just yet. If all goes as planned, physicists at the last dedicated...
Texas = Energy Efficient?
Results are out today from the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy's yearly report card of states' energy-efficiency policies. No surprise: California leads the way, same as last year....
Science in Charge: Scientist to Lead Europe's Research Flagship
A "distinguished scientist"—and for the first time not a civil servant—will become the next head of the European Research Council. ScienceInsider has learned that the European Commission will announce...
Royal Society Report Backs GM Crops, Other Measures to Boost Food Production
LONDON—A call for more money for agricultural science and greater attention to soil management and irrigation schemes? With recommendations such as those in a new report on how to...
October 19, 2009 3:37 PM
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Exclusive: Congress to Explore Geoengineering Next Month
The U.S. Congress will explore deliberate tinkering with the climate in its first ever hearing on geoengineering early next month, ScienceInsider has learned.Congressional committees have shied away from focusing...
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...
Just Chillin': Large Hadron Collider Cold and Ready to Start Up Again
After 13 months of repairs and modifications, the world’s largest particle smasher is once again ready to start circulating particles, officials at the European particle physics laboratory, CERN, near Geneva,...
October 15, 2009 3:16 PM
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Exclusive: Defendants in Jared Diamond Case Deny All Accusations
Last April, two tribesmen from Papua New Guinea sued Jared Diamond, the well-known biologist and author, for $10 million in damages, claiming that he had defamed them in an...
October 14, 2009 11:09 AM
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Iran: Verbatim Copying Not “Scientific Theft”
Iran has now taken a stand on the plagiarism scandal that has engulfed two government ministers after substantial portions of their research articles were discovered to be verbatim copies...
October 6, 2009 4:25 PM
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Slowly But Surely, U.S. Swine Flu Vaccination Begins
As predicted, the U.S. government has started to deliver a small amount of swine flu vaccines to states this week, and states are wrestling with how to decide who...
October 5, 2009 4:31 PM
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Unrevealed Analysis Weakens Claim of AIDS Vaccine "Success"
When the U.S. Army and its collaborators in Thailand announced at press conferences on 24 September that a large clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine had lowered the rate of...
October 5, 2009 1:57 PM
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U.K. Backing Away From DNA, Isotope Nationality Tests?
After ScienceInsider revealed last week that scientists were condemning its use of DNA testing and isotopic tissue analysis to decide the fate of asylum seekers, the U.K. Border Agency has...
Congress Dubs Energy Hubs Mostly Duds
The U.S. Congress is giving Energy Secretary Steven Chu enough money to launch three of his beloved Bell Labs—fewer than half of his request. In his proposed budget for...
Scientists Decry "Flawed" and "Horrifying" Nationality Tests
(This story is adapted from a version appearing in this week's Science) CAMBRIDGE, UNITED KINGDOM—Scientists are greeting with surprise and dismay a project to use DNA and isotope analysis of tissue...
September 25, 2009 1:50 PM
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An Insider Conversation: China, India, and the Illusion of Safety
This week, China made what appears to be its opening move in the negotiating run-up to the international climate change talks in November in Copenhagen. In an email conversation with...
September 24, 2009 12:18 AM
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Massive AIDS Vaccine Study a "Modest" Success
A large clinical trial of an AIDS vaccine has, for the first time, yielded positive results. But researchers immediately questioned the relevance of the data, which indicated that the...
Can Saudi Arabia Build an MIT? $10 Billion Says "Yes" as Desert School Opens
THUWAL, SAUDI ARABIA—King Abdullah opened the kingdom of Saudi Arabia today to a throng of foreign dignitaries, government officials, scientists, and guests to show off his new King Abdullah...
Allegations of Faked Data Spark Swiss Resignation and Lawsuit
A day after Switzerland’s tabloid press published headlines like, “Research Chief of ETH Resigns after Data Manipulation,” Switzerland’s top university, ETH Zürich (Swiss Federal Instititute of Technology), is struggling...
September 22, 2009 6:58 PM
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Three Answers and Three Questions on China and Climate
The biggest news coming out of the one-day U.N. General Assembly summit on climate change was President Hu Jintao's announcement that China will seek to cut its greenhouse gas emissions...
September 22, 2009 1:56 PM
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Giant Fishery in Danger?
Despite government assurances that Alaska's Bering Sea pollock fishery—the nation's largest commercial fishery—is managed sustainably, the fish's population continues to decline. On Friday in Seattle, Washington, the North Pacific...
September 22, 2009 9:52 AM
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To Help Young Scientists, NIH Bends Quality Rules
A new analysis of the grantsmaking process at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) lifts the veil on how many grant proposals are funded even though they fall below...
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