ScienceInsider http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:41 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification Roundup 11/20: Power Outage Edition The new idea of a scaled-back climate bill to focus just on the power sector is a bad idea, said White House climate czar Carol Browner. A historic two-story building at Los Alamos National Laboratory that was part of the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1120-wi.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1120-wi.html Science Magazine Environment/Climate Space Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:32:41 -0500 ScienceInsider Data Breach Embroils Climate Scientists by Eli Kintisch Hackers who breached East Anglia's Climate Research Unit servers have provided explosive new fuel in the climate data wars. The data exposed in hundreds of megabytes stolen from the research center include more than a thousand e-mails... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/data-breach-emb.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/data-breach-emb.html Science Magazine Environment/Climate Fri, 20 Nov 2009 17:14:14 -0500 ScienceInsider China-U.S. Science Agreement Signals Dawn of a New Era by Eli Kintisch The $150 million Clean Energy Research Center that the two superpowers agreed to fund this week represents no less than a revolution in the way the two countries think about joint research. There's plenty of warranted skepticism... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/how-the-chinaus.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/how-the-chinaus.html Science Magazine Asia Energy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:49 -0500 ScienceInsider Map of 7000 Holy Land Archaeological Sites Recognized http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/map-of-7000-hol.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/map-of-7000-hol.html Science Magazine Anthropology Middle East Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:11:47 -0500 ScienceInsider Research Set to Win Big in France's Stimulus Plan by Martin Enserink PARIS—France's collective brainpower may be headed for a massive boost in the government's long-awaited economic stimulus plan. A panel chaired by two former prime ministers recommends spending more than €20 billion on boosting research, higher education, innovation,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/research-set-to.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/research-set-to.html Science Magazine Budget Europe Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:08:18 -0500 ScienceInsider Physicists Back Where They Started As Supercollider About to Circulate Beams By Adrian Cho 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 particle physics laboratory, CERN, have announced. Within the... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/physicists-back.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/physicists-back.html Science Magazine Top Story Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:17:39 -0500 ScienceInsider Japan's Scientists Fight Proposed Budget Cuts by Dennis Normile 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 (subs req) in the Ministry of Education's budget for fiscal... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/japans-scientis-1.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/japans-scientis-1.html Science Magazine Asia Budget Top Story budget Japan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:53 -0500 ScienceInsider Roundup 11/19: Rising and Falling Tides Edition Paul Alivisatos has been named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California. Experts told a congressional panel today that the United States is losing its lead in spaceflight. The Senate Energy Committee will explore the economics of the climate... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1119-wo.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/roundup-1119-wo.html Science Magazine Energy Environment/Climate Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:10:51 -0500 ScienceInsider Gene Synthesis Companies Pledge to Foil Bioterrorists by Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Advances in synthetic biology have prompted fears that terrorists might develop biological weapons by purchasing made-to-order DNA sequences from gene synthesis companies and using them to engineer deadly pathogens. Five of the world's leading gene synthesis companies... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/gene-synthesis.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/gene-synthesis.html Science Magazine Defense Thu, 19 Nov 2009 18:06:32 -0500 ScienceInsider NIH Undergoes Behavior (Research) Modification by Constance Holden Social and behavioral research is finally getting some of the high-level attention it has sought for years at the National Institutes of Health. Yesterday NIH Director Francis Collins announced that $10 million in recovery money will go... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nih-undergoes-b.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nih-undergoes-b.html Science Magazine Biomedicine Physical Science Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:37:00 -0500 ScienceInsider Key Physicists Say No New Nukes Needed by Eli Kintisch The secretive JASON group of academic physicists have given a thumbs up to the current program of refurbishing nuclear warheads in the U.S. stockpile instead of building new, more reliable ones. The report should bolster efforts by... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/key-physicists.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/key-physicists.html Science Magazine Defense Physics Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:16:37 -0500 ScienceInsider University of Nebraska May Restrict Stem Cell Use by Constance Holden Nebraska citizens don't like the open-ended new Obama policy on research with human embryonic stem cells. So in response to public pressure, the University of Nebraska board of regents will vote tomorrow on whether to limit its... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/university-of-n.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/university-of-n.html Science Magazine Biomedicine Thu, 19 Nov 2009 14:33:19 -0500 ScienceInsider NIH Slammed Again for Lax Oversight of Conflicts of Interest by Jocelyn Kaiser The National Institutes of Health is again being taken to task for doing too little to manage researchers' potential conflicts of interest, such as consulting for drug companies. This time federal investigators say NIH should tighten up... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nih-slammed-aga.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nih-slammed-aga.html Science Magazine Biomedicine Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:31:10 -0500 ScienceInsider ITER Fusion Reactor Faces New Delay by Daniel Clery 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 has a pricetag in the billions of euros... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/iter-fusion-rea.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/iter-fusion-rea.html Science Magazine Budget Physical Science Top Story fusion ITER Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:27:44 -0500 ScienceInsider Eye Disease Trial Could Be First Embryonic Stem Cell Effort In U.S. by Constance Holden Advanced Cell Technology (ACT) announced today that it has applied to the Food and Drug Administration to conduct a trial using embryonic stem cell–derived retinal pigment epithelial cells to treat Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy, a congenital eye disease.... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/eye-disease-tri.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/eye-disease-tri.html Science Magazine Biomedicine Thu, 19 Nov 2009 12:17:13 -0500 ScienceInsider