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News Home | ScienceNOW | ScienceInsider | Weekly Analysis & Features | About ScienceNews All these news stories, and more, are available at: news.sciencemag.org This week's news from ScienceNOW: Friday, 25 March 2011 Japan Soil Measurements Surprisingly High Concerns about radiation in Japan have now spread to the soil surrounding the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor. One level that was reported this week was high enough to... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/japan-soil-measurements-surprisingly.html?etoc Johannesburg University Ends Research With Israeli School A South African university is ending a research collaboration with an Israeli university, a step hailed as a "boycott" by proponents of an international academic campaign to shun Israeli... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/johannesburg-university-ends.html?etoc Podcast: Dino Vacuum Cleaners, Prehistoric Garbage Mounds, and Fast-Charging Batteries Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/podcast-dino-vacuum-cleaners.html?etoc Whistle-Blowing Cardiologist Sued Again Under U.K. Libel Law In the latest so-called libel tourism case under the United Kingdom's controversial laws, cardiologist Peter Wilmshurst has been hit with another defamation suit. The same U.S. company that had... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/whistle-blowing-cardiologist-sue.html?etoc ScienceShot: Black Holes Are Messy Eaters Strong magnetic fields likely source of black hole jets http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/scienceshot-black-holes-are-messy.html?etoc Europe Nudges Top Scientists to Market Some of Europe's top scientists will get financial help to see whether the results of their research could succeed in the marketplace. The European Research Council (ERC), the European... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/europe-nudges-top-scientists-to.html?etoc China to Tune in to the Music of Dark Energy BEIJING—China is about to join the hunt for dark energy. At a cosmology workshop held here on 20 March, scientists unveiled Tianlai, or "Sound of Heaven," a project to... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/china-to-tune-in-to-the-music-of.html?etoc Flipping the World's Smallest Light Switch Physicists change the electrical conductivity of silicon atoms by moving a single chemical bond http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/flipping-the-worlds-smallest-lig.html?etoc Japan Radiation Map Roundup If you want to know what's going on, ask the nerds. As fears swelled over radiation from Japan's battered Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in the days after the 11... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/japan-radiation-map-resource.html?etoc Thursday, 24 March 2011 Good News About a Very Bad Cancer Immune cell-activating molecule boosts survival for pancreatic cancer patients http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/good-news-about-a-very-bad-cance.html?etoc ScienceShot: Ancient Creature Was a Saber-Toothed Vegan Tiarajudens ate leaves and stems, despite its ferocious fangs http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/scienceshot-ancient-creature-was.html?etoc Radioecologists Developing Japan-Response Recommendations Two months ago, to little fanfare, the U.S. Department of Energy launched a new research center at its Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) in Georgia. Now, thanks to the... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/radioecologists-developing-japan.html?etoc Wednesday, 23 March 2011 Pioneer of High-Dimensional Spaces Wins Abel Prize John Milnor honored with "Nobel of mathematics" http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/pioneer-of-high-dimensional-spac.html?etoc What's the Current Radiation Threat to Japan's Food and Water? Health concerns have been rising in Japan after the government found unacceptable radiation levels in milk and vegetables from several regions and in drinking water in Tokyo. The radiation... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/whats-the-current-radiation-threat.html?etoc Wanted: Out-of-the-Box Ideas on Clean Energy From Postdocs The U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is soliciting applications for a new postdoctoral fellowship program that comes with a novel twist:... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/wanted-out-of-the-box-ideas.html?etoc A Battery That Charges in Seconds More powerful battery could be a boon for electric vehicles and solar energy http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/a-battery-that-charges-in-second.html?etoc U.K. Unearths £100 Million More for Research Infrastructure, Launches Agency to Eliminate Clinical Trial Red Tape The United Kingdom's budget for 2011-12, announced today by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has some good news for scientists with a £100 million boost in spending on... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/uk-unearths-100-million-more-for.html?etoc Making Sperm in a Petri Dish Mouse testes grown in the lab can produce functional sperm http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/sperm-from-a-test-tube.html?etoc Conflicting U.S. and Japan Evacuation Policies Sow Confusion TOKYO—There is no shortage of contradictory information concerning the danger of the radiation emanating from the devastated Fukushima nuclear power plant. But critics here and in the United States... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/conflicting-us-and-japan-evacuat.html?etoc Researchers Challenge E. O. Wilson Over Evolutionary Theory Online today in Nature, nearly 150 evolutionary biologists challenge Harvard University's Edward O. Wilson, one of the world's most preeminent scientists, and two colleagues. At issue is the usefulness... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/researchers-challenge-eo-wilson.html?etoc Nosing Out a Smell Gene Scientists find the first mutations responsible for a lack of smell http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/nosing-out-a-smell-gene.html?etoc Congress and Science Education: Wolf Berates NSF on Overdue Report A long-overdue report on U.S. science education has put the National Science Foundation (NSF) in hot water with an influential legislator. The issue boiled over earlier this month at a... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/congress-and-science-education.html?etoc Canadian Budget Targets Brain Research, But Critics See Political Motives A private foundation's brain research initiative would receive significant government support in a new budget unveiled yesterday by Canada's minority Conservative Party. But that approach to research is exactly... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/canadian-budget-targets-brain.html?etoc Tuesday, 22 March 2011 How a Dinosaur Is Like a Vacuum Cleaner Sauropods used their long necks to suck up food http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/how-a-dinosaur-is-like-a-vacuum-.html?etoc Quake Question #14: Will Radiation Reach Hawaii? Readers ask: Will radiation from the Japan quake and tsunami affect the Hawaiian Islands by May 2011? Should we cancel trips to Hawaii for our families? Science answers: You... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/quake-question-14-will-radiation.html?etoc Bug Expert Snags Enviro Prize For more than 35 years, May Berenbaum has been a champion of insects, studying how they interact with plants and humans and conveying her fascination with bugs to the... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/bug-expert-snags-enviro-prize.html?etoc Prehistoric Garbage Piles May Have Created 'Tree Islands' Trash left by ancient humans could have given biodiversity a foothold in the Florida Everglades http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/prehistoric-garbage-piles-may-ha.html?etoc Quake Question #13: Are There Any Radiation Drugs Available Beyond Potassium Iodide? Readers ask: Is the military's drug Rad-X being made available to the people of Japan? Science answers: Government health clinics in Japan are distributing potassium iodide pills which can... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/quake-question-13-are-there-any.html?etoc Quake Question #12: Can Nuclear Reactors Survive Blackouts? Readers ask: Are there any commercial nuclear plants that, when deprived of all electric power for a day, don't self-destruct and blow radiation? Science answers: All of the most... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/quake-question-12-can-nuclear-re.html?etoc Cold 'Star' No Hotter Than a Summer's Day Discovery of two frigid brown dwarfs challenge divide between stars and planets http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/cold-star-no-hotter-than-a-summer's.html?etoc Quake Question #11: How Is Japan's Energy System Affected? Readers ask: I see reference to natural gas explosions, a refinery fire (now out), a hydroelectric break washing away hundreds of homes, etc. What other energy problems, besides the... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/quake-question-11-what-is-the.html?etoc Monday, 21 March 2011 Quake Scuttles Mission to Study Deep-Sea Carbon Japan's half-billion-dollar deep-sea drilling vessel was also a casualty of the tsunami following the massive 11 March earthquake. The Chikyu was docked at Hachinohe, 250 kilometers north of Sendai,... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/quake-scuttles-mission-to-study.html?etoc New Study of Fukushima Crisis Under Way at U.S. Nuclear Agency Commissioners of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission announced two studies into the Japan nuclear crisis at a meeting today. The first is a 90-day task force looking to obtain a... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/new-study-of-fukushima-crisis.html?etoc Mine Fire That Threatened Physics Lab Doused Firefighters have almost completely snuffed out a fire that was threatening an underground physics lab. The fire broke out Thursday in the shaft to the Soudan Underground Mine State... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/mine-fire-that-threatened-physics.html?etoc Long-Neglected Experiment Gives New Clues to Origin of Life 53-year-old flask containing brown sludge may reveal how the first amino acids were created http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/long-neglected-experiment-gives-.html?etoc MIT Report Cites Progress for Women Faculty Men still far outnumber women on the science and engineering faculties at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. But a new MIT report says women have made so much progress... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/mit-report-cites-progress-for-women.html?etoc The Aftermath in Japan: Send Us Your Questions Last week, we asked you to send us your most pressing questions on the crisis in Japan. You responded in droves, and we answered a number of them on... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/the-aftermath-in-japan-send-us.html?etoc The Aftermath in Japan: Send Us Your Questions Science reporters will respond to your queries about the continuing crisis http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/03/the-aftermath-in-japan-send-us-y.html?etoc Q&A With Australia-Bound Stem Cell Ace Martin Pera of the University of Southern California (USC) announced on 7 March that he will return to Australia in June to lead Stem Cells Australia (SCA), a new... http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/03/qa-with-australia-bound-stem.html?etoc Selected science policy headlines, from this week's ScienceInsider: Unsubscribe or edit your subscriptions for this service at: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/alerts/main Written requests to unsubscribe may be sent to: AAAS / Science, 1200 New York Avenue NW, Washington DC 20005, U.S.A.     News | Journals | Careers | Blogs | Multimedia | Collections | Help | Site Map | RSS Subscribe | Feedback | Privacy / Legal | About Us | Advertise With Us | Contact Us © 2010 American Association for the Advancement of Science. All Rights Reserved. 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