http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/ News and Analysis from the World of Science Policy en Copyright 2009 Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:49 -0500 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 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 Asia Energy Fri, 20 Nov 2009 15:13:49 -0500 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 Asia Budget Top Story budget Japan Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:01:53 -0500 by Eli Kintisch On 18 December, the last day of the Copenhagen climate meeting, what will President Barack Obama tell the world that the United States is prepared to do? With a month to go, that's the challenge. We already... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/can-obama-bring.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/can-obama-bring.html Asia Environment/Climate Europe Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:47:02 -0500 by Dennis Normile TOKYO—Manned space exploration "is in our DNA," NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said during a town hall meeting here today at the University of Tokyo (Todai). The former astronaut said he hoped to convince his boss, U.S. President... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nasas-bolden-di-1.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/nasas-bolden-di-1.html Asia Space Tue, 17 Nov 2009 08:29:49 -0500 by Dennis Normile Not surprisingly, cancer researchers in Asia think their specialty deserves to be a higher global health priority. Today at an Asia Cancer Forum discussion in Tsukuba, Japan, one speaker after another pointed to statistics showing that cancer,... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/in-asia-a-debat.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/in-asia-a-debat.html Asia Biomedicine Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:20:43 -0500 by Michael Balter Last week, attorneys for biologist and author Jared Diamond and Advance Publication Inc., publisher of The New Yorker, filed papers in New York state court in response to a lawsuit filed against them last April by two... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/plaintiffs-in-j.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/plaintiffs-in-j.html Asia Mon, 19 Oct 2009 14:02:15 -0500 by Cheryl Jones CANBERRA—Just days after Elizabeth Blackburn of the University of California, San Francisco, became the first Australia-born woman to win a Nobel Prize, for work on telomeres, a report released here today has revealed that most of her... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/australian-wome.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/australian-wome.html Asia Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:06:03 -0500 Lighting up the Internet in India are bizarre allegations that a researcher at the country's premier defense lab was attacked with an ax in a bungled attempt at human sacrifice. But in a press release today, the Defence Research and... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/ultimate-sacrif.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/10/ultimate-sacrif.html Asia Defense Mon, 12 Oct 2009 04:40:23 -0500 by Dennis Normile As expected, Japan's new government announced yesterday it is ordering ministries to rethink the 2010 budget requests they submitted on 28 August—a process that could have an impact on science-related spending. New requests, due 15 October, are... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/japans-new-gove.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/japans-new-gove.html Asia Budget budget Hatoyama Japan Wed, 30 Sep 2009 07:54:35 -0500 By Jon Cohen 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 vaccine offered only modest protection against infection by... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/massive-aids-va.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/massive-aids-va.html Asia Biomedicine Top Story Thu, 24 Sep 2009 00:18:14 -0500 http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/korea-research.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/09/korea-research.html Asia Education Tue, 22 Sep 2009 03:03:13 -0500 NEW DELHI—India’s maiden moon mission, Chandrayaan-1, has come to a shuddering and unexpected halt. On 29 August, the Indian Space Research Organization lost all contact with the spacecraft after a catastrophic failure of its electronics, said ISRO Chair G. Madhavan... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/indian-moon-mis.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/indian-moon-mis.html Asia Space Mon, 31 Aug 2009 13:20:19 -0500 TOKYO—The Ministry of Education's budget request for the next fiscal year has some welcome news for research, including a new teaching assistant program to employ graduate students, dramatically expanded funding for the space program, and a big increase in support... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/japans-educatio.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/japans-educatio.html Asia Budget Education Fri, 28 Aug 2009 11:53:39 -0500 TOKYO—Research involving human embryonic stem (ES) cells will become easier in Japan as a result of new ethical review requirements that take effect today.... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/japan-streamlin.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/08/japan-streamlin.html Asia Biomedicine Fri, 21 Aug 2009 11:11:33 -0500 MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA—The Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) hopes that a new business plan will help it regain momentum in the last 2 years of its term. The plan, announced today, would shift ASCC’s emphasis from commercialization to research. “I’m extremely... http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/new-lease-on-li.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/07/new-lease-on-li.html Asia Biomedicine Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:25:20 -0500