Category: Science Policy
2 September 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Japan Reins in Science Budget Growth
The recent rapid growth in Japan's public spending on research will apparently slow to a crawl in the next fiscal year, thanks to efforts to cut a ballooning national budget...
2 September 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Another Blow for Troubled Reactor
In an unexpected setback for U.S. neutron scientists, two New York legislators said today that they will introduce a bill ordering the Department of Energy (DOE) not to restart the...
29 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Physics Journals Cost Study Ruled Fair
Two U.S. physics societies are celebrating victory in a long-running court battle over whether their journals are a better bargain than a competitor's. A federal judge ruled this week that...
28 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
California Law Curbs Science Outreach Programs
Proposition 209, California's new anti-affirmative action law, appears to mean bad news for efforts to recruit minority students into science. At least one state-sponsored outreach program is scrapping criteria based...
26 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Japanese Science Bureaucracy Tries to Slim Down
TOKYO--Two fierce rivals in the world of Japanese science funding, the Science and Technology Agency (STA) and the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture (Monbusho), may have to learn...
22 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Chile Ponies up for Telescope Project
Chile is on the brink of reclaiming its status as a full partner in a United States–led consortium to build twin, 8-meter telescopes in Hawaii and Chile. A holdup in...
19 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Japan May Triple Genetics Research
Japan's genetics-related research budgets could triple to $130 million next year if the government approves proposals set to be unveiled this week. Big increases are being considered at several ministries,...
19 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
A World War on Malaria
HYDERABAD, INDIA--A plan to launch an international attack on malaria is beginning to pick up steam. The Multilateral Initiative on Malaria (MIM) can bank on $2 million this year from...
18 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Biotech Firm Wades into Yellowstone's Hot Springs
Prospectors are lining up to exploit the famous hot springs of Yellowstone National Park--not for minerals, but for the rugged microbes they contain, called thermophiles. Yesterday, while Vice President Al...
12 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
DOE Plans Nuclear Physics Lab
The Department of Energy (DOE) has taken the first steps toward winning support for building a laboratory to study exotic atomic nuclei--those with an unstable ratio of neutrons to protons--that...
12 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Japan Cuts Back on Space Program
Japan's ambitious plans for space exploration are being squeezed by efforts to shrink the country's ballooning budget deficit. Last week, an advisory committee to the Science and Technology Agency (STA)...
11 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
An All-You-Can-Eat Genome Project
Swept up by the genetic research boom, a Senate panel has endorsed an ambitious program put forward by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to sequence the genes of important...
1 August 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
DOE Opens Up Weapons Labs' Supercomputers
Supercomputers at the Department of Energy's (DOE's) nuclear weapons labs--including the world's fastest--will soon become available to scientists at five U.S. universities, Secretary of Energy Federico Peña announced yesterday. Each...
24 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
British University Reform Would Buff Up Research Labs
The British government must spend more on scientific infrastructure to begin reversing a decade of chronic underfunding, says a major new report. The report, published yesterday, also recommends sweeping changes...
23 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Stronger Bulwarks in the War on Cancer
Pledging to beef up two areas of cancer research--prevention and behavioral studies--the nation's general in the war on cancer, Richard Klausner, today announced a new plan that raises the stature...
22 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Congress Gives Science Funding a Boost
Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), chair of a spending panel that oversees the National Institutes of Health (NIH), kept to his word today, delivering a 7.5% increase for the agency's 1998...
22 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Stamping Out Breast Cancer?
Advocates of breast cancer research, known as trailblazers for their hugely successful fund-raising efforts, are again going where no disease lobby has gone before: They're hoping Congress will authorize sale...
21 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Most Domestic Research Ignores India's Health
NEW DELHI--Industrialized nations tend to focus their medical research on diseases generally associated with a high standard of living, such as heart disease. But a study in the latest issue...
16 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
NIH Budget Easily Clears the First Hurdle
Biomedical researchers got some good news late yesterday: A key House appropriations subcommittee voted unanimously to give the National Institutes of Health (NIH) a raise of 6% in 1998. If...
16 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Woman Physicist Named to Top French Science Post
PARIS—France's new Socialist government made history today by naming physicist Catherine Bréchignac as the first woman director-general of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). The CNRS is France's...
14 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinton Backs Broad Genetic Safeguards
President Clinton today urged Congress to pass a new federal law forbidding discrimination based on a person's genes. Speaking at a press briefing at the White House, Clinton said he...
11 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Scientists to Get Another Shot at Kennewick Man?
American anthropologists who have sued for the right to study an ancient human skeleton have won a round in an important legal fight. A U.S. District Court judge has ordered...
11 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Clinical Research Trials and Tribulations
WASHINGTON, D.C.--New therapies and cures for diseases are jeopardized by a decline in money, time, and training for clinical research, scientists said here today at a town meeting organized by...
10 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Rabbits Spared From Deadly Virus
New Zealand's Ministry of Agriculture has nixed a plan to let loose a deadly virus to attack the country's exploding populations of rabbits. Last week the government issued a statement...
8 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Germany to Disband Space Agency
BERLIN--Germany is combining its two space programs into a single institution in an effort to save overhead costs and cope with a shrinking space budget. The merger, approved last week...
8 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
The Hazards of Male Menopause
Women can suffer severe problems, such as osteoporosis, after their reproductive hormones dry up. Now comes new evidence that men, too, tend to fall apart as their blood levels of...
8 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Dengue Fever Resurges in Cuba
An epidemic of dengue fever, a viral disease spread by mosquitoes, is now plaguing Cuba, according to local reports. Estimates of the number of cases range from 838, the last...
7 July 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Britain to Shut Down Venerable Observatory
Britain's oldest scientific institution has finally received its feared death sentence. Following weeks of speculation, on 4 July the new Labour government announced plans to close the Royal Greenwich Observatory...
30 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Russia to Get New TB Center
After taking a several-month hiatus from the Russian science scene, philanthropist George Soros is at it again: The billionaire financier has ponied up $3 million to create two new labs...
25 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Europeans Sour on Biotechnology
LONDON--The more Europeans know about biotechnology, the less they like it, according to a new multinational survey. And when they ponder potential applications, they worry more about moral issues than...
20 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Radiation Leak at Russian Reactor
A burst of radiation has seriously injured a physicist in one of Russia's restricted research cities, some 350 kilometers east of Moscow. The accident took place Tuesday in an underground...
19 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Varmus Reprimanded Over 'Renegade Researcher'
WASHINGTON, D.C.--As the sole witness for 3 hours of questioning on embryo research, Harold Varmus, director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), endured a grilling on Capitol Hill today...
17 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Space Science Hits the Jackpot
Profits from the British lottery are going to help pay for construction of a National Space Science Center (NSSC) in Leicester, United Kingdom. The lottery-funded Millennium Commission announced today that...
17 June 1997
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Alzheimer's Researcher to Head Drug Company Program
Alzheimer's Researcher to Head Drug Company Program For several years, the British drug company Glaxo Wellcome has been buying into U.S. biotech firms as part of a push into genetics,...
13 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Arecibo Reprise
After sleeping for 5 years in a mountaintop sinkhole, the world's most powerful radar and radio telescope--spiffed up after a $27 million upgrade--is about to spring back to life. In...
10 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
Deficit Plan Squeezes Japan's Big Science
TOKYO--A pledge to reduce Japan's serious budget deficit could put the hurt on several big-science projects, including the $10 billion International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), as well as delay an...
9 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
President Proposes Human Cloning Ban
President Clinton announced today that he will send Congress a bill that would outlaw the cloning of humans. Clinton made the announcement immediately after he received a report from his...
9 June 1997
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Debate Over Blood Supply Safety
A retrovirus that causes leukemia in humans may be slipping into blood supplies undetected, claim researchers in tomorrow's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. But other...
5 June 1997
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Healthy Exposure to Malaria?
In some regions of Africa where the incidence of malaria is relatively low, children tend to get much sicker from the disease. The finding, reported in the 7 June issue...
4 June 1997
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ScienceNOW(Science - AAAS)
New French Science Minister Appointed
France's new prime minister, Lionel Jospin, announced today that his longtime science and education adviser, geochemist Claude Allegre, will become minister of science and education. French scientists hope that the...
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