Center for Science in the Public Interest
Tue Feb 7 17:44:49 2012 GMT
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Administration Misses Major Deadlines for Food Safety Reform

Juice Gone Wild!

FDA Urged to Require Sodium Reduction in Food Supply

New USDA School Meal Nutrition Standards Praised

USDA's Poultry Proposal: Proceed, but Cautiously

Artificial Trans Fat Still in Supermarkets Despite Heart Risks

FDA Prohibition on Cephalosporin Small Step Forward

Food Safety Working Group's Report Praised

Newest ABR Salmonella Outbreak Highlights Public Health Urgency

Congress Again Puts Food Industry Ahead of Children

Victims of Quorn Poisoning Appeal to FDA Commissioner

Foods with Color Additives Deceive Consumers, Says CSPI

Quorn's "Mycoprotein" Not Safe, CSPI Tells FDA, Again

McDonald's Seeks to Circumvent San Francisco Law on Fast-Food Toys

NAS Recognition of the Consumer "Right to Know" is a Victory for Food Safety

Congress Protects Pizza as a Vegetable in School Lunches

Warning Label Urged for St. John's Wort

FDA Turns Down Petitions to Withdraw Medically Important Antibiotics from Animal Agriculture

Concerned Scientists: Scientific Integrity
Thu Feb 2 20:51:49 2012 GMT
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FDA Medical Device Approval based on Politics, not Science

Timeline: Legal Harassment of Climate Scientist Michael Mann

Federal Agency Scientific Integrity Policies

FDA at a Crossroads

FDA at a Crossroads: Ask a Question

FDA at a Crossroads

Surveys of Scientists at Federal Agencies

Registration Confirmation: FDA at a Crossroads Webcast Forum

FDA at a Crossroads

Registration Confirmation: FDA at a Crossroads

2011 Scientific Integrity Editorial Cartoon Contest Results

2011 Scientific Integrity Cartoon Contest Winner

Resources for Public Comments on Federal Scientific Integrity Policies

Agency-specific Solutions

Abuses of Science

Big Picture Solutions

2011 Cartoon Contest Contestants

UCS Scientific Integrity Resources for Federal Agencies

Evolution News
Tue Feb 7 14:45:02 2012 GMT
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When did the feather take flight?

Behavior of parent organisms may influence genes passed on to next generation

Dry conditions spurred advanced photosynthesis

UCI biologists turn up the heat on bacteria, discover mutation pattern

Mouse to elephant? Just wait 24 million generations

Examining evolution from a cellular perspective

Lessons in coral reef survival from deep time

Advantages of living in the dark: The multiple evolution events of 'blind' cavefish

Planet of the Apes: Survival of the self-promoters

Breakthrough model reveals evolution of ancient nervous systems through seashell colors

Evolution is written all over your face

Over 65 million years North American mammal evolution has tracked with climate change

Study of fish fossil shows that 'head-first' diversity drives vertebrate evolution

Evolution at warp speed: Hatcheries change salmon genetics after a single generation

High-energy lifestyles led to evolution of the sexes

Researchers closer to understanding the evolution of sound production in fish

U.K. duo suggest early humans retained fine hair to ward off parasites

Endangered orangutans offer a new evolutionary model for early humans

Federation of American Scientists
Tue Jul 26 19:45:48 2011 GMT
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FAS in the News

DOE Plan Would Reduce Nuclear Arsenal By Up To 40 Percent But Would Result in Few Cost Savings or Re...

New Study Examines Global Trade of Ammunition

Harold Palmer Smith Jr. Elected New Chairman of the FAS Board

FAS in the News

Genetics news
Mon Jan 30 17:45:26 2012 GMT
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StemCells, Inc. Announces Publication of Preclinical Data Demonstrating Its Human Neural Stem Cells ...

ImmunoCellular Therapeutics To Deliver Presentation on Cancer Stem Cells at Prestigious Immunotherap...

DuPont and OligoCo to Collaborate on Development of DNA Synthesis Technology

StemCells, Inc. Announces Publication of Preclinical Data Demonstrating Its Human Neural Stem Cells ...

`Next Generation' herd plans take another turn - 'Next Generation' herd plans take anoth...

StemCells, Inc. Announces Publication of Preclinical Data Demonstrating Its Human Neural Stem Cells ...

DuPont and OligoCo to Collaborate on Development of DNA Synthesis Technology

Genetic mutations that boost individual's adaptability have greater chances of getting through t...

DuPont and OligoCo to Collaborate on Development of DNA Synthesis Technology

DuPont, OligoCo join on development of DNA synthesis technology

Cardium Presents New Generx Findings at 2012 Annual Gene and Cell Therapy Forum

DuPont and OligoCo to Collaborate on Development of DNA Synthesis Technology

Gene mutations linked to lethal childhood brain tumors

For a woman, it's all in the genes!

Cardium Presents New Generx Findings at 2012 Annual Gene and Cell Therapy Forum

That which does not kill yeast makes it stronger: Stress-induced genomic instability facilitates rap...

Gene mutations result in lethal childhood brain tumors

Body clock receptor linked to diabetes in new genetic study

LiveScience
Tue Feb 7 17:46:43 2012 GMT
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Long Commutes Burn Employees Out

Hidden Galaxies May Swarm Near Our Own Milky Way

Skydiver to Attempt Record-Breaking Supersonic Space Jump

Seal Mummies Reveal Surprising Rapid Antarctic Changes

Good Gossip: We May Spread Rumors to Protect Others

Urban Schools Offer Healthier Snacks than Suburban Schools

The Way to a Woman's Heart: Electronics

Lyme Disease High-Risk Areas Revealed in New Map

Down to $6 Per Hour, Gender Pay Gap Shrinks Faster Than Expected

Strange Life Found in Underwater Caves

Just Another Face: Brain Breakdown Hinders Recognition

New Alzheimer's Criteria Would Change Diagnosis for Millions

Sex Education Less Effective in Conservative States

New 'Doomsday Preppers' Show Highlights Extreme Survivalists

Mammogram Readers Could Take a Cue from Film-Making

Russian Team Has Reached Buried Antarctic Lake, Reports Say

Jurassic Bug Sounds

Chimps Can Get Inside Others' Heads Just Like Humans

New Scientist
Tue Feb 7 17:47:13 2012 GMT
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Mind control could be future of warfare

Space junk makes an impact at the IMAX

Ink injection reveals chick embryo's beating heart

Nine lost treasures – and why science wants them back

Entire genome of extinct human reconstructed

New cystic fibrosis drug highlights approval dilemma

Water contact may suggest Russians hit Antarctic lake

Wildlife corridors could be a waste of space

Lack of human cadavers? Turn to papier-mâché medicine

I want to take the first picture of a black hole

Private spacecraft move forward as Soyuz struggles

Jurassic katydid sings out after 165 million years

Today on New Scientist: 6 February 2012

3D printer provides woman with a brand new jaw

Patch of seagrass is world's oldest living organism

Robotic walking stick lends users some balance

Martian real estate, windy and cratered but isolated

Contador stripped of Tour de France title

NOVA scienceNOWcast
Fri Feb 3 17:48:49 2012 GMT
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(Repeat) NOVA Minute: Whiz Kid

Finding a Fake Van Gogh

Surprises in Your Genes

In Defense of Pluto

Sexual Cannibalism

Rebuilding on Ground Zero

Life on Ice

Shaping Skulls

Hiding in Plain Sight

Voice of the Space Shuttle

Cooperative Apes

A Bolt From the Blue

NOVA Minute: How to Speak Walrus

A Trip to the Parthenon

Finding the Lost City

Wireless Electricity

Life in the Blast Zone

A Clean Energy Future?

NPR Health and Science
Tue Feb 7 17:47:15 2012 GMT
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Robots Encountering Socks

Two Deaths: A Poet And A Beetle

20 Million Years Later, Russians Work To Drill Into Lake

New USDA Map May Mean Earlier Planting In North

'Arctic Oscilliation' Behind Season's Mixed Winter Weather

Drone Technology Reaches New Heights

Addicts' Brains May Be Wired At Birth For Less Self-Control

Could Cheap Gas Slow Growth Of Renewable Energy?

Clean-Tech Industry Facing Lean Times After Solyndra

Tick Tally Reveals Lyme Disease Risk

Is Today's Beef Better For The Environment?

Whose Fingers Are On The Victoria's Secret Model's Shoulder?

New Silica Rules Languish In Regulatory Black Hole

Pythons Blamed For Everglade's Disappearing Animals

'I Wanted To Live': New Depression Drugs Offer Hope For Toughest Cases

Quantum Physics News
Mon Feb 6 11:46:58 2012 GMT
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Quantum microphone captures extremely weak sound

A quantum connection between light and motion

Searching for a solid that flows like a liquid

Quantum physicists shed new light on relation between entanglement and nonlocality

Speed limit on the quantum highway

JQI cool nano loudspeakers could makes for better MRIs, quantum computers

Rice lab mimics Jupiter's Trojan asteroids inside a single atom

A new class of electron interactions in quantum systems

Physicists cool semiconductor by laser light

Quantum mechanics enables perfectly secure cloud computing

Are you certain, Mr. Heisenberg? New measurements deepen understanding of quantum uncertainty

Researchers conduct experimental implementation of quantum algorithm

Seeing quantum mechanics with the naked eye

Proposed experiment offers new way to generate macroscopic entanglement

Physicists propose test for loop quantum gravity

Researchers use webs of lasers to remove entropy from a system causing quantum gases to cool

Researchers devise a way to make a simple quantum computer using holograms

Quantum cats are hard to see

ResearchBuzz
Tue Dec 20 17:46:32 2011 GMT
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Wyoming Newspaper Project, Complete! (Sorta)

Online Hopi Petroglyph Archive Launched

Morning Buzz, December 20, 2011

MIT Announces MITx Online Learning Initiative

Morning Buzz, August 17, 2011

Afternoon Buzz, July 31, 2011

Evening Buzz, July 14, 2011

Morning Buzz, June 24, 2011

Morning Buzz, June 15, 2011

Evening Buzz, June 13, 2011

Science Daily
Tue Feb 7 17:48:17 2012 GMT
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An electronic green thumb

The dark path to antisocial personality disorder

Why the middle finger has such a slow connection

Gene mutation discovery sparks hope for effective endometriosis screening

Researchers uncover a mechanism to explain dune field patterns

Why common tree is toxic to snowshoe hares

Metabolic 'breathalyzer' reveals early signs of disease

Big jolt to California economy with new tax on cigarettes

Three 'targeted' cancer drugs raise risk of fatal side effects

School closures slowed spread of 2009 H1N1 flu pandemic

Domestic cats, and wild bobcats and pumas, living in same area have same diseases

Smoking associated with more rapid cognitive decline in men

A bug's (sex) life: Diving beetles offer unexpected clues about sexual selection

Clues to common birth defect found in gene expression data

Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink

Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song

NASA's Juno spacecraft refines its path to Jupiter

Medical debt keeps rising, new report shows

Science Fiction in the News
Tue Feb 7 11:47:56 2012 GMT
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Google Glasses With Heads Up Display Coming Soon?

3D Printer Used To Make Transplant Jawbone

We Live In A Space Cloud

Nano Quadrotors Form Stephenson's Dog Pod Grid

Amazonian Fungus Eats Polyurethane

Kissenger The Kiss Messenger Robot Spreads Your Love

Self-Guided Bullet Accurate Over One Mile

Sensorbot Robotic Bubble Swarm For Ocean Exploration

Jumping Spiders And Machine Vision

Free Swimming Endoscope Capsule On 'Fantastic Voyage'

FBI To Monitor Social Media

Self-Healing Batteries

Shrewbot Uses Whiskers As Sensors

Cyborg Rats Have Digital Brain Parts

T-Rays And Tricorders

Raincatch Raincoat Has Dune-Style Watertube And Catchpocket

IBM Now Stores 1 Bit On 12 Atoms

RISUG Male Birth Control Almost Ready

Scientific American
Tue Feb 7 17:48:17 2012 GMT
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Can a "Hub" Boost Building Energy Efficiency Efforts?

How Emotions Jump from Face to Face

Plantings of Biotech Crops Grew Globally in 2011

Snow Cuts Off Hundreds of Villages in Eastern Europe

Nepal Residents Feed Endangered Birds at Vulture 'Restaurants'

Russian Team Has Reached Buried Antarctic Lake, Reports Say

Japan Aims to Restart Nuclear Reactors in April

Baby-Led Weaning Leads to Leaner Kids

The Quantum Physics of Free Will

Anthrax Toxicity Depends on Human Genetics

Coelacanths are not living fossils. Like the rest of us, they evolve

Bright-Sized: Skull Study Shows Eye-Sockets Have Grown Larger at Higher Latitudes

How to Overhaul the Way Buildings Use Energy

Lake Vostok is (Almost) Breached After 20 Million Years

Thinking About Mortality Changes How We Act

Eyeing Greener Acres, New Farmers Reap Growing U.S. Aid

Spectacular Plumes of Dust Reach across the World [Slide Show]

Swept from Africa to the Amazon (preview)

SciScoop
Sat Jan 28 14:47:29 2012 GMT
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Atheism 2.0: Don’t get god, get good

Star Wars Uncut

Does doing detox make you dirty?

Happy Chinese New Year 新年快乐

An open letter to Stephen Fry

You don’t have to get God to get good

Cold fusion breaks the laws of physics…

Adultery questionnaire

10 Evergreen science posts from Sciencebase

An animal rights argument for biomedical research

Seed Magazine
Tue Jan 24 16:10:03 2012 GMT
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Vocabulary + War

Full Steam Ahead on CS-STEM

Rethinking Growth

Starting Over

The Art of Science Learning

World Wide Mind

On Discovering Life

Buddhism and the Brain

On the Freedom of Knowledge

On Biotechnology Without Borders

On Curing Everything

Humans, Version 3.0

On Adapting to Sandpiles

On Governing by Design

On Rethinking IP

On Science Publishing

On Science Transfer

Wild Animal Sex

Mapping Science