SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This weeks science policy news covers the FY 2013 science budget, progress on new federal scientific integrity guidelines, conflict over cyber security legislation, google’s alleged illegal tracking, and the unfolding of “denier-gate.”
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief covers the White House Science Fair, new Obama administration science education initiatives, the resilience of green jobs to recession, a new stem cell therapy for broken bones, and more.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This weeks science policy news: we have less natural gas than we thought; Google responds to personal information kerfuffle; what’s in store for stem cells in 2012; and more.
INNOVATION AND COMPETITIVENESS
A new series of policy reports from Science Progress and the Center for American Progress outline key steps the president and Congress can take to reinvest in the building blocks of American innovation and economic competitiveness.
INNOVATION
Measures to simplify and strengthen the corporate R&D tax credit can help make the most of the spillover benefits of innovation and enhance economic competitiveness.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This weeks science policy news: Congress reauthorizes key small business technology programs, NASA releases scientific integrity framework, and traces of the Higgs Boson tantalize researchers.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
A spate of new federal and legislative initiatives seek to kick-start entrepreneurship and innovation, a Mars rover discovers evidence of a watery past, and the morning after pill debate heats up.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
A new effort to map global life science innovation clusters, a piece of Obama’s jobs agenda makes progress, and delegates from nearly 200 countries meet in South Africa for global climate change talks.
BOOKS
Rooted deeply in historic fact, Dr. Jason Karlawish’s marvelous new book traces the peculiar career of 19th century clinician-turned-scientist Dr. William Beaumont, who became a scientific one-hit-wonder by exploiting the body of the man whose life he saved.
BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
Ever wonder how many mice have to die to produce one peer-reviewed medical journal article? Or one new drug? And how much can we really learn about human physiology from mice or other animal experiments anyway? Daniel Engber has authored an excellent, three-part expose at Slate that answers these and other questions about the animal research industry.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
A new HHS program will pump up to $1 billion into healthcare technology innovation, at the same time House Republicans threaten to cut by 1/3 the funding for the Office of Science and Technology Policy, a major coordinator of interdepartmental science policy.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science and technology policy news brief covers intellectual property legislation, a possible alternative to silicon, and a narrowly failed vote in the senate to end the FCC’s net neutrality rules.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science and technology policy news brief covers the changing models of early-stage startup finance, the battle over light bulbs on Capitol Hill, and crowd-funded zombie research.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief covers Microsoft’s vision of the future, the truth about natural gas fracking, the launch of NASA’s new climate satellite, and what happens when police departments demand Google take down videos of police brutality.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science policy news brief covers innovation news in clean tech, med tech, ed tech, space tech, and manufacturing innovation. Also, a new study shows that Americans value Hawaii’s coral reef ecosystems to the tune of $34 billion per year.
BOOK RELEASE
Science Progress Editor-In-Chief Jonathan Moreno talks to a packed audience at the Center for American Progress about his new book, The Body Politic: The Battle Over Science in America.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science and technology policy news review covers national lab technologies that create new markets and new jobs, stem cells that could one day regrow livers, a new study finding that humans absorb the RNA of foods they eat, and more.
BOOKS
We have entered what some call the “biological century” and a new biopolitics has emerged to address the implications for America’s collective value system, our well-being, and ultimately, our future. The Body Politic hits bookstores today.
SCIENCE POLICY NEWS
This week’s science and technology policy news brief covers the signing of major, bipartisan patent reform legislation, a gene sequencing budget pinch, science in the president’s Jobs Act, and developments in clean energy.
ANNOUNCEMENT
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Science Progress and American Progress's Doing What Works project teamed up to produce a set of policy proposals that the Obama administration and Congress can adopt to reinvest in the building blocks of American science, innovation, and economic competitiveness. Read the overview of the five reports.
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