ScienceInsidertag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2008-12-02:/scienceinsider//92010-02-09T17:45:15ZNews and Analysis from the World of Science PolicyMovable Type Open Source 4.1Michelle Obama's War on Childhood Obesity Starts Nowtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45572010-02-09T17:45:21Z2010-02-09T17:45:15Zby Jennifer Couzin-Frankel 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 month now, speaking at a mayors' conference, a...Science MagazineMedvedev Talks Science in Moscowtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45562010-02-09T16:47:27Z2010-02-09T16:46:47Zby Dan CleryRussian science has been getting some bad press recently, what with a recent report on its declining productivity in scientific papers and a letter from expatriate scientists to the Russian president and prime minister warning of the parlous...Science MagazineFeds Announce New Actions to Battle Asian Carptag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45542010-02-08T23:46:06Z2010-02-09T00:44:37Z by Erik Stokstad For years, Asian carp have been slowly moving up the Mississippi River. In addition to competing with native fish, they jump out of the water when startled—sometimes even posing a hazard to boaters. Now, with the...Science MagazineNOAA Launches "Climate Services" With Websitetag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45532010-02-08T21:53:56Z2010-02-08T23:18:40Z by Eli Kintisch Officials at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, as long as 4 years ago, hoped that NOAA would be the home of what they were calling Climate Services. Today, with the launch of a new Web...Science MagazineGive Peas a Chance: Germans Bring GM Plants to North Dakotatag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45512010-02-08T18:58:42Z2010-02-08T18:57:47ZScience Magazine Landmark Pluripotent Patent Has Stem Cell Researchers Nervoustag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45452010-02-08T12:08:37Z2010-02-08T14:22:16Zby Dennis Normile In what may presage an intellectual property battle, Rudolf Jaenisch of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge and Konrad Hochedlinger of Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston will be awarded a patent on a technique for turning...Science MagazineParsing NIH's 2011 Budget: Is Big Science Up, Small Science Down?tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45422010-02-05T19:35:00Z2010-02-06T12:18:40Zby Jocelyn Kaiser 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 fear of some in the biomedical science community...Science MagazineIndian Prime Minister Lends Support To IPCC, Pachauritag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45432010-02-05T17:05:32Z2010-02-05T19:16:14Zby Pallava Bagla Speaking at a development summit, India Prime Minister Manmohan Singh came out in full support of the beleaguered IPCC head Rajendra Pachauri, the first time Singh had addressed the issue after IPCC offered its "regret" on the...Science MagazineChu Places His Energy Bet on ARPA-Etag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45402010-02-04T23:58:45Z2010-02-05T00:12:29Zby Jeffrey Mervis Although his request for the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) represents only $300 million in a departmental budget of $28.4 billion, Energy Secretary Steven Chu clearly believes that the fledgling agency is his scientific ace in the...Science MagazineRoundup 2/4: Four Degrees of Separation Editiontag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45382010-02-04T22:50:30Z2010-02-04T23:15:21Z Hit by the poor economy and lower funding from the government, King’s College London is considering “draconian” cuts of more than 200 jobs and may abandon teaching engineering, even though in 1838 it was the first in the world...Science MagazineBement's Departure Gives Obama First Appointment at NSFtag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45362010-02-04T22:26:17Z2010-02-04T22:26:10Zby Jeffrey MervisThe last major science holdover in the Obama Administration is stepping down this spring, leaving the president free to appoint a new director for the $7-billion National Science Foundation.Arden Bement announced today that he will be leaving NSF...Science MagazineYale Shrinks Graduate Programs to Save Moneytag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45372010-02-04T22:10:43Z2010-02-04T22:09:42Zby Lauren SchenkmanYale University plans to shrink its incoming class of graduate students by up to 15% as part of an effort to save $50 million in the upcoming academic year. The cost-cutting is a response to a $150-million deficit...Science MagazineBiotech Chiefs Slam U.S. Report on Gene Patentstag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45352010-02-04T21:59:01Z2010-02-04T21:59:26Zby Sam KeanAnticipating a series of federal recommendations on gene patents coming out tomorrow, a former Senator and four executives at biotech companies and biotech trade groups criticized the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for taking, they said,...Science MagazineNSF Director Arden Bement Leaving to Join Purdue ...tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45322010-02-04T17:31:40Z2010-02-04T21:42:22Z... University as head of a new institute related to science and policy. The NSF release is here. More to come. ......Science MagazineRoundup 2/3: Burn Notice Editiontag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2010:/scienceinsider//9.45312010-02-03T23:59:08Z2010-02-04T00:29:38ZPhil Charles, South Africa's chief astronomer and the director of the South African Astronomical Observatory, has been suspended by the country's National Research Foundation for alleged actions that led to the leaking of confidential information about the foundation. A date...Science Magazine