CLIMATE SCIENCE

In Fear Of Firebugs

Amidst one of the most destructive wildfire seasons in the western U.S., climate change is making tree-killing pine beetles more vigorous, leading to drier forests and the potential for worse fires.

SCIENCE POLICY NEWS

Science Progressing: International IP Theft, Oil Spills and Birds, A New View on Gender and Science

This week’s science policy news brief covers a bipartisan letter urging government action to fight international IP theft, Deepwater Horizon’s lasting legacy for migratory birds, and a transgendered point of view on gender in science.

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Science Progressing: 3D Printing, Waning Investments in Biomedical Innovation, and Obama on Cybersecurity

This week’s science policy news brief covers developments in 3d printing, budgeting for the National Institutes of Health, and the president’s op-ed on cyber security.

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Science Progressing: Algae Carbon Sinks, Google Fights Mexican Crime, Nanoparticles Kill Viruses

This week’s science policy news brief covers Google’s efforts to help the Mexican government track and fight crime, a new study on using algae to absorb excess carbon from the atmosphere, and nanoparticles that can destroy viruses.

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Science Progressing: The Meaning of NIH Cuts, Elderly and the Internet, Australian Wave Energy

This week’s science and technology policy news brief covers debate in Congress over what planned “sequestration” budget cuts will do to our medical research infrastructure, Australia’s play to develop the largest wave energy turbine, and more.

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Science Progressing: Drone Hacking, Chinese Solar Boom Continues, and Denmark Doubles Down on Biofuels

This week’s science and technology news brief introduces a new feature and covers international renewable energy policies, new cancer fighting techniques, and emerging cybersecurity threats.

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Science Progressing: Stem Cell Organs, Environmental Regulations, and China’s First Female Astronaut

This week’s science policy news brief covers new applications for stem cell research in organ transplants, EPA soot regulations, and the departure of China’s first female astronaut.

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Science Progressing: June 15

This week’s science policy news brief covers advances in green technology, innovation in stem cells, genetic medicine, and microbiology, and uncertainty over patentability of ‘biomarkers’ used to track disease.

BIOTECHNOLOGY

Timeline: A Brief History of Stem Cell Research

Here’s a reboot of our popular timeline of stem cell research and policy over the past 40 years. From early fetal tissue research to the first successful human treatments, this timeline documents the progress in stem cell science, and the policies that have impeded or promoted it.

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Science Progressing: May 4

In this week’s science policy news: climate science and allergies, DOI releases new natural gas fracking rules, new data on polar ice melt, a new approach to cyber security, and thoughts about moving clean energy forward.

Science Progressing: April 27

In this week’s science and technology policy news: a cyber security bill passes the house while receiving a presidential veto threat, new polling indicates a big majority of Americans support clean energy, and another big oil spill gushed in the arctic.

BIOTECHNOLOGY

White House Releases National Bioeconomy Blueprint

The White House today released the long-awaited National Bioeconomy Blueprint, which summarizes emergent trends in biotechnology, and contains five strategic imperatives for government policy moving forward.

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Science Progressing: April 20

This week’s science policy news brief covers the continuing damage from the 2010 BP oil catastrophe, funding levels for federal science functions, and innovations on the horizon in pharmacology and biosensing.

ENERGY INNOVATION

An American Kodak Moment

A new report from Third Way compares the technological myopia that bankrupted Kodak for failing to anticipate the shift to digital photography and imaging, to the shortsightedness of U.S. clean energy innovation policy.

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Science Progressing: April 6

This week’s science policy news brief covers new scientific integrity policies in the agencies, a bi-partisan letter to protect intellectual property, and a new bill to streamline small business access to federal services.

Science Progressing: March 23

This week’s science and technology news brief covers the jobs created by NIH research, the recent movement toward “hacktivism,” and blood test patents, and the potential for scopes monkey all over again in Tennessee.

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Science Progressing: March 16

This week’s science and technology news brief covers Americans waning optimism about American science, NIH funding levels, a global cyber security conference, and a new study on the likely impacts of the keystone XL pipeline.

Science Progressing: March 9

In this week’s science and technology policy news brief, federal agencies plan a simulated cyber attack on NYC, noted astrophysicist and innovation advocate Neil DeGrasse Tyson inspires senators during a Senate committee hearing, and the NIH debuts an online guide to genetic testing.

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Science Progressing: March 2

In this week’s science policy news brief: the ARPA-E energy innovation summit, a global manhunt for simulated jewel thieves on twitter, NASA network hacking confirmed, and the 9th circuit court of appeals upholds constitutionality of California’s criminal genetic database law.

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Science Progressing: February 24

This week’s science policy news brief looks at the new White House online privacy “Bill of Rights,” pocket-sized genomic testing, the latest in 3-D printing, a new Energy Department clean tech research initiative, and more.