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- [News of the Week] Embryonic Stem Cells: Controversial Ruling Throws U.S. Research Into a Tailspin
A U.S. judge's surprise decision last week to block government funding of human embryonic stem cell research has left scientists across the country confused, upset, and angry.
Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser, Gretchen Vogel
- [News of the Week] Climate Change: Panel Faults IPCC Leadership But Praises Its Conclusions
A new independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the increased public scrutiny IPCC is facing and the growing importance of its work mean that it must do better than it's been doing.
Author: Eli Kintisch
- [News of the Week] Antarctica: In Ground-Based Astronomy's Final Frontier, China Aims for New Heights
At a workshop last month, astronomers unveiled plans to build two major telescopes at Dome A on the East Antarctic icecap during the Chinese government's next 5-year plan, to start in 2011.
Author: Richard Stone
- [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site
ScienceNOW reported this week on the first feast, the world's smallest refrigerator, the backfiring of "hunting for conservation," and a pea-sized frog, among other stories.
- [News of the Week] Energy Innovation: Novel Grant Promises Greener Buildings, Regional Growth
Last week, a consortium led by Pennsylvania State University won a federal competition for $129 million over 5 years to spur efforts to develop technologies for making buildings more energy efficient.
Author: Jeffrey Mervis
- [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: Frank Gannon: Ireland's Departing Research Chief on Irish and European Science
Frank Gannon probably could have finished out his career comfortably as director of the national funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). But the biologist will resign his position at the end of the year and head off to Australia to become director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.
Author: John Travis
- [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog
ScienceInsider reported this week that the editor of the journal Cognition says he believes that fabrication is the most plausible explanation for data in a 2002 paper by Harvard University's Marc Hauser involving cotton-top tamarins, among other stories.
- [News Focus] Mammoth-Killer Impact Flunks Out
After a new study failed to find nanodiamonds, impact experts are flatly rejecting outsiders' claims that an impact 12,900 years ago devastated the megafauna.
Author: Richard A. Kerr
- [News Focus] Profile: François Nosten: The Dour Frenchman on Malaria's Frontier
When he arrived at the dangerous Thai-Burmese border in 1984, François Nosten barely knew what research was. Today, he's one of the world's top malaria scientists.
Author: Martin Enserink
- [News Focus] Astrophysics: An Unsettled Debate About the Chemistry of the Sun
Researchers thought they knew the sun very well. Now, they are squabbling over the abundance of different elements in it.
Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee
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