Australia may scale back on marine protection
Australia’s new government has confirmed it will be winding back a huge network of marine reserves established last year by the previous administration. Read more
Australia’s new government has confirmed it will be winding back a huge network of marine reserves established last year by the previous administration. Read more
A traditional rite of autumn is playing out in Washington DC: the US Congress is fighting tooth and nail over government spending. Read more
An American scientist and noted blogger has posted copies of newly published papers about NASA’s Curiosity expedition on his personal website, potentially breaking copyright laws. Read more
The researcher who created mammalian-transmissible strains of the H5N1 avian flu virus, raising fears they could cause a pandemic, has failed in an attempt to overcome government restrictions on the publication of his papers. See Nature News Mutant Flu special … Read more
An $80 million effort to clamp down on Africa’s rampant elephant poaching was unveiled today in New York. Read more
Twelve US scientists number among the 24 MacArthur Fellows chosen this year by the philanthropic MacArthur Foundation, based in Chicago, Illinois. The designation honours creative and accomplished individuals in any field with strong potential for future achievements. Winners will receive ‘no-strings-attached’ awards—commonly called ‘genius grants’—worth US$625,000, paid over five years. Read more
‘Tis the season: With just about two weeks to go until the 2013 Nobel Prize winners are announced, speculation about who will win and who will get snubbed is once again brewing. Thomson Reuters — the firm that maintains the Journal Citation Index — released their predictions today based on, of course, citations. Read more
A magnitude 7.7 earthquake that struck Pakistan today has likely killed hundreds of people, and perhaps many more. It also may have triggered the eruption of a mud volcano hundreds of kilometres away off Pakistan’s coast, generating media reports of a new island that had not existed before. Read more
Omid Kokabee, a physics PhD student jailed in Iran since January 2011, was awarded yesterday the 2014 American Physical Society’s Andrei Sakharov Prize for “his courage in refusing to use his physics knowledge to work on projects that he deemed harmful to humanity, in the face of extreme physical and psychological pressure.” … Read more
The pressure is on for Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU). On 21 September, the Portland university received a surprise pledge of US$500 million for its cancer institute – potentially the biggest donation in OHSU history. But there is one condition: OHSU will only receive the cash if it raises another $500 million in two years. Read more
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