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The publication last month in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) of a paper over the objections of the Department of Health and Human Services illustrated both [...]

* Getting academics to volunteer their time to peer review scientific papers is becoming a lot more difficult, as more and more demands are placed upon the time of researchers, [...]

The National Institutes of Health (NIH)'s new 'public access' policy, which asks authors to provide any of their scientific papers reporting results of NIH-funded work to the agency for free [...]

While the scientific world waits for the impending publication of the results by rival human genome sequencing projects, they might have overlooked the contest that preceded last week's publication by [...]

Design Elements of a Mandatory Market-Based Greenhouse Gas Regulatory System (16 pp., no charge) evidence that some in the Senate, at least, are serious about moving toward restrictions on carbon [...]

National Defense Education and Innovation Initiative: Meeting America's Economic and Security Challenges in the 21st Century (30 pp., no charge), presents research universities' contribution to the drumbeat for actions to [...]

After a day of hand-wringing over fears of government restrictions on unclassified but sensitive information, a group of editors from prominent journals convened in private to discuss a possible common [...]

James Rogan, the Commerce Department official in charge of the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), has been in the news recently for some impolitic remarks he made as he [...]

The sudden capture by Japan of the world record for high-performance computing has stunned US climate modelers and fueled fears that the nation is losing its lead in the hotly [...]

From the Biotechnology Industry Association(BIO): Biotechnology's Impact on Diseases of the Elderly: A White Paper (103 pp., no charge), no surprise that the biotechnology industry touts its products as the [...]

* Former NIH Director Harold Varmus has had his collection of correspondence, lecture notes, photographs, laboratory notebooks, and published articles added to the NLM's Profiles in Science archives. Varmus is [...]

From the Department of Energy (DOE): Scenarios of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Atmospheric Concentrations and Review of Integrated Scenario Development and Application (no charge), the second in a series of [...]

There were no smoking guns and precious little new insights revealed during Rep. Henry Waxman's long-awaited airing of allegations of Bush administration political interference in global warming science. All sides [...]

The US Organ Procurement System: A Prescription for Reform (192 pp., $40 cloth, $20 paper), free enterprise is the solution for everything, in AEI's view, and the chronic shortages of [...]

From the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2006 (250 pp., $108 paperback or $75 for pdf). Predicts that China will surpass Japan as [...]

From the Task Force on the Future of American Innovation: The Knowledge Economy: Is the United States Losing Its Competitive Edge? (17 pp., no charge), a coalition of high-tech companies, [...]

From the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Science, Technology and Industry Outlook 2004 ($73 for paper copy plus pdf, $51 for pdf only), shows China doubled the percentage [...]

There's not a lot of encouragement for the small but determined band of cold fusion believers in the DOE's review of the last 15 years of research in the field. [...]

Shaking up the comfortable and highly profitable business of publishing scientific journals, National Institutes of Health (NIH) Director Elias Zerhouni has issued an edict for the results of all NIH-funded [...]

From the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC): Revolutionizing Health Care Through Information Technology (60 pp., no charge), despite the advances that have been made in healthcare technology, the medical [...]

Michael Leavitt, President Bush's nominee to replace Tommy Thompson as Health and Human Services Secretary, sailed smoothly through confirmation hearings held by two Senate committees, and full chamber approval, while [...]

Prodded by Congress, the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) has been lurching erratically over the past nine months toward a major overhaul of the more than century-and-a-half old system [...]

Anyone inclined to look just beneath the surface of the Bush Administration's recent agreement with Russia to cut its nuclear arsenals will quickly realize that it does not require the [...]

The scientific community may accept on faith that a public that's better educated in scientific matters is a public more supportive of shoveling more taxpayer dollars into research, and that [...]

The reversal of the changes that were made at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) by suspended Director David Schwartz continued with the selection of Hugh A. Tilson [...]

Pressed at a meeting of PCAST, Michael Idelchik, vice president for advanced technology at GE Global Research, General Electric Co.'s central R&D unit, admitted that his company maintains sole authority [...]

Looking to score some easy points in the days leading up to the mid-term elections, House Democrats have called on the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to investigate moves by the [...]

While everyone knew it was coming, the obligatory expressions of dismay issued forth from the science establishment following President Bush's first ever veto to kill a bill, loosening restrictions on [...]

This year's edition of Science and Engineering Indicators, the National Science Board (NSB)'s biennial status report on the country's science, technology, and engineering enterprise, adds to the body of evidence [...]

The House Science Committee rejected last month an unusual procedural attempt to force the Republican-controlled chamber into subpoenaing what could have amounted to federal agencies' entire trove of research and [...]

In a rare display of bipartisanship, House Science Committee members on both sides of the aisle signed onto a single critique slamming the Bush administration's fiscal 2006 budget request for [...]

President Bush has tapped Arden Bement to become director of the NSF, a position he has held on an acting basis since Rita Colwell's resignation this past spring. Bement moved [...]

* The Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) has blasted the effort by a growing group of life scientists to force scientific journals to make theft content freely [...]

Those who scoff at complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) agree on one major point with most CAM disciples: A lot more research is needed to prove or disprove the effectiveness [...]

* The staged announcement on the 'completion' of two human genome sequencing efforts got off to a rocky start when the London Observer broke the news embargo one day before [...]

From the US Commission on National Security/21st Century: Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change (148 pp., no charge), billed as the most comprehensive redefinition of national security since [...]

From the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), no charge: Implementing the NSTC Presidential Review Directive-4: Renewing the Federal Government-University Research Partnership for the 21st Century, (23 [...]

To date, there have been just a relative handful of US cases of the mysterious disease called SARS, and not a single case reported in the nation's capital. Moreover, who [...]

A self-anointed group of journal editors, government officials, and authors of scientific articles announced its tepid response to the government's call to sanitize or reject articles that could possibly aid [...]

Despite a paper loss of nearly $23 million on its investment portfolio, the National Academy of Sciences isn't in danger of folding up shop, thanks to a steady diet of [...]

Could it be that the cold fusion community, long ridiculed by mainstream physicists, is finally gaining a bit of the respect it craves within government and scientific circles? A tiny [...]

* Is President Clinton a cold fusion believer? Infinite Energy Editor-Publisher Eugene F Mallove, who's done more than his share to keep the cold fusion fire alive for the past [...]

OSTP/OMB Budget Guidance Memorandum (14 pp., no charge), provides no numbers, but gives a general sense of which broad science and technology areas will be favored in the preparation of [...]

The Advanced Technology Program: Reform with a Purpose (33 pp., no charge), what can the Bush Administration do when Congress thwarts its attempt to kill a program that has been [...]

* The embarrassing glitches in the Association of American Medical Colleges' (AAMC) new online-only medical school admission process are beginning to ease, but admissions offices remain behind in processing applications [...]

The late Office of Technology Assessment (OTA), oft-mourned by the science cognoscenti, appears to be in store for resurrection. OTA, an advisory arm of Congress formed in 1972, provided lawmakers [...]

From the Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) and battelle Growing the Nation's Bioscience Sector: A Regional Perspective (48 pp., no charge), the second annual survey of the size and economic impact [...]

From the Tyndall Center for Climate Research: The Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change (no charge) just when it appeared that the predictions for global warming couldn't get [...]

With a few fresh, if questionable examples, and the renewed vigor that comes with an election year, Democrats are breathing new life into what were becoming stale charges that the [...]

Bowing to budget realities, the largest professional society for biomedical researchers has sharply reduced its recommendation for funding of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), calling for a 5% increase [...]