tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2008-12-02:/scienceinsider//9 2009-11-06T22:53:49Z News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy Movable Type Open Source 4.1 tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4138 2009-11-06T22:55:43Z 2009-11-06T22:53:49Z

Tara O'Toole has been confirmed by the Senate to be undersecretary of the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology directorate. Patrick Gallagher has been confirmed as the director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. A cheerful welcome...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4137 2009-11-06T22:20:13Z 2009-11-06T21:18:38Z

by Richard Kerr and Jeff Mervis It was certainly striking in the telling. But the truth is another story. Speaking to business leaders at a White House event last week on clean energy and the economy, Secretary of Energy Steven...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4134 2009-11-06T20:26:59Z 2009-11-06T20:23:44Z

by Greg Miller In the new movie The Men Who Stare at Goats, which opens today in the United States, George Clooney plays a former member of a secret sect of soldiers trained by the U.S. military to deploy a...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4132 2009-11-06T18:08:41Z 2009-11-06T18:33:38Z

by Eli Kintisch 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, ScienceInsider has learned. Styled after the landmark 1975...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4133 2009-11-06T17:08:12Z 2009-11-06T17:32:13Z

by Jeffrey Mervis 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 his amendment was soundly defeated, 36 to 62,...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4127 2009-11-06T01:20:56Z 2009-11-06T19:34:32Z

As much as a quarter of U.S. farmers growing genetically modified corn are not following rules meant to ensure that insects do not develop resistance to an organic pesticide called Bt. The company Complete Genomics reports online in Science today...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4122 2009-11-06T00:07:37Z 2009-11-05T23:54:12Z

by John Travis The outrage among scientists over the firing of U.K. drug policy adviser David Nutt continues to bubble. Thursday, Martin Rees, the president of the Royal Society, offered his first thoughts on the matter, saying: Scientific advisers are...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4129 2009-11-05T22:24:06Z 2009-11-05T22:21:49Z

by Eli Kintisch At an otherwise fairly pedestrian House of Representatives hearing on geoengineering today—the first of its kind in the United States—science committee chair Representative Bart Gordon (D–TN) announced a new partnership with the U.K. House of Commons to...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4130 2009-11-05T20:47:32Z 2009-11-06T01:10:55Z

by Eli Kintisch One wonders if it's unlikely that a comprehensive climate deal will happen in Copenhagen—as U.N. Secretary-General Ban-Ki Moon said yesterday—how much china the Democrats are willing to break as they push the Senate to act on climate...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4125 2009-11-05T20:46:09Z 2009-11-05T20:43:57Z

by Jon Cohen Concern appears to be rising at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention about people in lower risk groups cutting in line to receive the limited supplies of H1N1 vaccine. A letter sent today from CDC...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4124 2009-11-05T20:37:14Z 2009-11-06T17:34:26Z

by Jon Cohen 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 up in many East Asian countries—and some variants...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4120 2009-11-05T00:20:27Z 2009-11-05T03:03:50Z

A new center has opened at Purdue University to create software to help manage complex crises such as disease outbreaks and financial calamities. (Nonironic photo credit, Purdue) A 43-page book by Columbia University explores the psychological aspects of climate change....

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4097 2009-11-04T23:57:23Z 2009-11-05T03:37:06Z

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 lead to deforestation abroad. He estimated in some cases that...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4119 2009-11-04T18:46:30Z 2009-11-04T22:33:52Z

by Jocelyn Kaiser Fewer academic biomedical scientists are relying on industry support for their research than in the mid-'90s, according to a study highlighted today in The Boston Globe. That's the most surprising result of the latest survey of industry...

Science Magazine tag:blogs.sciencemag.org,2009:/scienceinsider//9.4118 2009-11-04T16:40:50Z 2009-11-04T20:40:18Z

by Eli Kintisch From Secretary of State Hillary Clinton yesterday in Morocco: The State Department has established a science envoys program, and I’m pleased to announce today that the first envoys will be three of America’s leading scientists: Dr. Bruce...

Science Magazine