The reason for the mysterious Dugway Proving Ground lockdown last night was a missing vial of VX nerve agent, says the army base’s public affairs spokesman Al Vogel. The vial was found at about 3am last night and the lockdown was lifted a couple of hours later. Read more
Cholera outbreaks can be mitigated by the use of vaccination after they have begun, according to two new studies. This issue is currently at the top of the research agenda for many scientists, as controversy over plans to roll out a vaccination campaign in Haiti continues.
This arresting image of scientific collaboration displays connections between cities 2005-09, based on shared authorship of research papers in Elsevier’s Scopus database.
Cross posted from Nature Medicine’s Spoonful of Medicine blog. It’s official. Before the end of the year, the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) plans to dissolve its National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) and open a new center devoted to translational research. Speaking at a NCRR advisory council meeting on 25 January, Lawrence Tabak, deputy director of the NIH and co-director of the NCCR task force, presented a tentative framework for breaking up of the center, redistributing its programs and budgets, and reassigning all NCRR employees to comparable positions within the agency. NIH officials first disclosed the plan to … Read more
A major claim of anti-abortion campaigners appears to have been undermined by a new study showing termination of pregnancy does not lead to mental health problems. Although women who had abortions were found to have a higher incidence of pre-existing mental health problems in a major new study relative to women who gave birth. Read more
Can searching out corruption ever be a mistake for an aid agency to make? Perhaps, if it loses some control over the way the story is portrayed in the media. Read more
On the same day that President Obama delivered his annual State of the Union Address stressing science and education investments, Democrats announced their picks for ranking members on the subcommittees of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. The selections will be finalized during the committee’s organizational meeting, slated for early February. Read more
Britain should return to its mining past in order to secure its future supply of strategically important metals, researchers told a Parliamentary hearing today.
US President Barack Obama delivered his State of the Union address last night, invoking innovation and education in science and technology as central to his nation’s prosperity and well being. In contrast to previous years, Obama did not face any outbusts or breaches of decorum from a Congress still shaken by the recent shooting in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people and left Representative Gabrielle Giffords fighting for her life, After first paying tribute to Giffords – who was reported to have watched the address from her hospital bed, alongside her husband, NASA astronaut Mark Kelly – Obama turned to … Read more
US President Barack Obama’s climate agenda hit a wall on Capitol Hill, and now his administration’s Plan B – going it alone with existing regulatory authority – is under fire from a newly emboldened Republican majority in the House of Representatives. So perhaps it’s not surprising that the president’s top adviser on energy and climate issues, Carol Browner, is stepping down (New York Times, Washington Post). Read more
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