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Friday, 11 February 2011

Feds Propose Flexible Plans for Resilient Forests
With climate change posing new threats—more frequent forest fires, for example, and plagues of tree-killing beetles—the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to change the way it makes its management plans...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/feds-propose-flexible-plans-for-.html?etoc

Cicerone Reelected NAS Head, Press to Lead AAAS
Ralph Cicerone has been elected to a second 6-year term as head of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. An atmospheric scientist and former chancellor of the University of California,...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/cicerone-reelected-nas-head-pres.html?etoc

Podcast: George Washington's Real Face, a Cool Physics Trick, and More
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/podcast-george-washingtons-real-.html?etoc

Indian Court Ignores Nobelists' Plea to Release Physician-Activist
An appeal by 45 of the world's top scientists to release an Indian doctor accused of helping Maoist insurgents has failed to sway a state supreme court. On Thursday, the...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/indian-court-ignores-nobelists-p.html?etoc

Senators Oppose Plan to Dismantle NIH Resources Center
Two senators, including the chair of a powerful spending panel, have added their voices to a flood of complaints from researchers about the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) plan to...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/senators-oppose-plan-to-dismantl.html?etoc

ScienceShot: Coral Time Sex to the Moon Change of hues causes mass release of eggs and sperm: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-coral-time-sex-to-th.html?etoc

Outcast Planets Could Support Life
Geothermal activity may sustain hidden oceans on worlds ejected from their planetary systems: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/outcast-planets-could-support-li.html?etoc

China Confronts Looming Water Shortages
BEIJING—The Chinese government plans to spend a whopping $600 billion (4 trillion renminbi) over the next 10 years on measures to ensure adequate water supplies for the country. But scientists...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/china-confronts-looming-water-sh.html?etoc

ScienceShot: Egg Protein Throws Squid Into a Rage First of its kind "aggression compound" makes males fight over females: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-egg-protein-throws-s.html?etoc

Thursday, 10 February 2011

The Staph Bug's Achilles' Heel
Blocking the bacterium's recycling ability may help stop a global killer: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/the-staff-bugs-achilles-heel.html?etoc

The Mystery of the Stone Scorpion
Chemical bonds hold clues to how flexible arthropod exoskeletons can turn into fossils: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/the-mystery-of-the-stone-scorpio.html?etoc

Second Chance for NIH Grant Applicants
Did you miss the funding cutoff despite a stellar score on your U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant? Don't give up hope. The National Health Council (NHC), a...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/second-chance-for-nih-grant.html?etoc

House Panel to Take Second Bite Out of Science Budgets
The National Science Foundation (NSF) was a major outlier in the list of proposed cuts for 2011 announced yesterday by the spending panel for the U.S. House of Representatives....: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/house-panel-to-take-second-bite.html?etoc

Climate Science, D.C. Style: 'Some Say Yes, and Some Say No'
In an item ScienceInsider ran yesterday, freshman Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL), the newly named chair of the House of Representatives science panel's basic research and education subcommittee, was asked...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/climate-science-dc-style-some.html?etoc

Dinos Gave Birds the Finger
Study of animal digits helps shore up evidence that birds evolved from dinosaurs: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/dinos-gave-birds-the-finger.html?etoc

Lucy Had a Spring in Her Step
New foot bone suggests human ancestor spent more time walking than in the trees: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/lucy-had-a-spring-in-her-step.html?etoc

U.K. Neuroscientists Complain Funding Cut Penalizes Them for Success
LONDON—At a briefing here today, the British Neuroscience Association (BNA) warned that a planned 20% cut in funding for neuroscience by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/uk-neuroscientists-complain-fund.html?etoc

With the Greens Gone, Ireland Backs E.U. Liberalization of GM Crops
With its former coalition partners in the Green Party out of the way—for the time being—Ireland's ruling Fianna FÃ¡il Party has announced that it is reversing the country's voting...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/with-the-greens-gone-ireland.html?etoc

Budget Impasse Delays Key Environment Satellite
As Congress dithered last year on the 2011 federal budget—agencies are still bound by last year's budgets under an agreement called a continuing resolution—earth science done via satellite took...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/budget-impasse-delays-key-enviro.html?etoc

Wednesday, 09 February 2011

Can the U.S. Farm Fish Offshore Safely?
Worried about the U.S. trade deficit? After crude oil and natural gas, the third largest contributor to the deficit is seafood—the U.S. imports some $9 billion worth each year....: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/can-the-us-farm-fish-offshore.html?etoc

NIH Budget: Post-Stimulus Cliff Still Looming, But Not Until Next Year
A U.S. biomedical research lobbying group today offered a sliver of solace to fears that Congress will slash science budgets this year. A budget analysis from the Federation of...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/nih-budget-post-stimulus-cliff.html?etoc

Surgery in Utero Helps Ease Effects of Spina Bifida
New study, years in the making, shows complicated risk-benefit balance: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/surgery-in-utero-helps-ease-effe.html?etoc

ScienceShot: Swordtail Pee Is the Aphrodisiac of the Sea Fish urine may attract females: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-swordtail-pee-is-the.html?etoc

Europe Asks Researchers for Funding Ideas
The European Commission is asking for help designing—and renaming—its next research and innovation funding program. The current program, Framework Programme 7, will spend â‚¬53.3 billion over 7 years before...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/europe-asks-researchers-for-fund.html?etoc

Prostate Cancer Genome Reveals Wandering Genes
First full genome sequences of prostate tumors provide insights for diagnosis, treatment: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/prostate-cancer-genome-reveals-w.html?etoc

House Spending Panel Would Cut Billions From Research Agency Requests
The spending panel in the House of Representatives has proposed billion-dollar cuts in the proposed budgets of the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Energy's Office of...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/house-spending-panel-would-cut.html?etoc

New Stem Cell Lab Designed to Inspire
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA—A stem cell research building opened today at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), is generating oohs and ahhs from scientists and architecture buffs alike. The...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/new-stem-cell-lab-designed-to-inspire.html?etoc

'Healthy Skeptic' on Climate Change Promises Hearings by Science Subcommittee
The House of Representatives science committee's panel on basic research and education plans to hold hearings on climate change to present more views on the topic, says its new...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/new-science-subcommittee-chair.html?etoc

Tuesday, 08 February 2011

ScienceShot: Bats Are Social Networking Rockstars Cliquey female bats stick together for years: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-bats-are-social.html?etoc

ScienceShot: Why Some Penguins Wear a Blue Tuxedo Feather nanofibers give the "Little Blue Penguin" its unique hue: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-why-some-penguins.html?etoc

When Wind Is Reliable: Turbines Help Texans Avoid the Dark
Last Wednesday morning, rolling blackouts left nearly a million Texans in the dark after abnormally cold temperatures crippled 50 coal and natural gas plants. But without wind power, it...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/when-wind-is-reliable-turbines.html?etoc

No Review Needed of 2004 Suicide, University of Minnesota Says
Despite calls from a group of faculty members for a full investigation, the University of Minnesota has declined to reexamine the death of a young man who committed suicide...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/no-review-needed-of-2004-suicide.html?etoc

Interactive Film on Misconduct Infiltrates 'The Lab'
"This is you." Successful physiologist and lab leader. Graduate student who stumbles upon data faked by a postdoc. Research integrity officer at a university. Are you hooked yet? It...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/interactive-film-on-misconduct.html?etoc

Panel to Examine Brain-Injury Rehab
Yesterday, the Institute of Medicine began a yearlong scientific review of the evidence that cognitive rehabilitation therapy could help soldiers with traumatic brain injuries. The therapy, which aims to help...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/panel-to-examine-brain-injury-re.html?etoc

E.U. Commissioner Seeks 'Clean Break' From Past Research Funding Strategy
LONDON—"Get focused and get united to get ahead." Pinching words from U.S. President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, MÃ¡ire Geoghegan-Quinn, the European research, innovation and science commissioner,...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/eu-commissioner-seeks-clean-bre.html?etoc

Monday, 07 February 2011

Was the Clean Air Act Intended to Cover CO₂?
Yes, said five justices on the U.S. Supreme Court in 2007, when they ruled that greenhouse gases qualified under the Clean Air Act’s definition of a “pollutant.” Under the...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/was-the-clean-air-act-intended.html?etoc

Sealed-Off Lake Still Tantalizingly Out of Reach
The Russian team that has been drilling for 24 hours a day to reach the sub-glacial Lake Vostok that lies at the bottom of a 3750-meter-thick ice sheet in...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/sealed-off-lake-still-tantalizin.html?etoc

ScienceShot: Snake Legs—Going, Going, Gone A new technique yields insights into how ancient reptiles lost their limbs: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-snake-legsgoing-going.html?etoc

Convince Your Friends You're a Genius With Two Cans and Some Sand
A simple physics experiment highlights the surprising nature of granular materials: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/convince-your-friends-youre-a-ge.html?etoc

ScienceShot: Japanese Volcano Filled to the Brim Researchers monitor bulging lava dome on Kyushu Island: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-japanese-volcano.html?etoc

Entering a Wild Frontier: Testing Vaccines in Apes for Apes
Tomorrow, chimpanzees will take part in a vaccine experiment that, for the first time, aims to help chimpanzees. Researchers at the New Iberia Research Center, a branch of the...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/entering-a-wild-frontier-testing.html?etoc

Animal Census Takers Kidnapped in India (Updated)
The BBC reports: Armed gunmen have kidnapped six officials of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) from Manas national park in north-eastern India, officials say. The abductions from...: http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/02/animal-census-takers-kidnapped.html?etoc

Sunday, 06 February 2011

ScienceShot: Fly Brains Now in Technicolor Genetically engineered flies have a red-green-blue color system in their neurons: http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/02/scienceshot-fly-brains-now-in.html?etoc

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