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27 May 2008: President Bush Signs Landmark Genetic Nondiscrimination Information Act Into Law. Read more

21 May 2008: New pyramid puts oil, exercise, poultry in their place. Read more

9 May 2008: 80-mph electric car to go on sale this summer in the US. Read more

18 April 2008: Lakes on the surface of Greenland's ice sheet are draining through the kilometre-thick ice and roaring to the bedrock with a flow rate exceeding that of Niagara Falls. Read more

18 April 2008: Inherited cancer mutation is widespread in America. Read more

9 April 2008: Low-carbon living takes off in the US. Read more

8 April 2008: 'Revolutionary' CO2 maps zoom in on greenhouse gas sources. Read more

31 March 2008: Two Pittsburgh-area companies received $508,238 in funding Tuesday through the Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, a Pittsburgh-based organization founded to promote research into super-small materials, called nanomaterials. Read more

31 March 2008: Jacques Tits of the Collège de France and the American John Griggs Thompson have been jointly awarded the 2008 Abel Prize, one of the most prestigious prizes in mathematics, 'for their profound achievements in algebra and in particular for shaping modern group theory'. Read more

26 March 2008: Facts On Fats Could Prompt Healthier Eating. Read more

25 March 2008: Chemists Find New Important Contributor To Urban Smog. Read more

20 March 2008: A national policy to cut carbon emissions by as much as 40 percent over the next 20 years could still result in increased economic growth, according to an interactive website that reviews 25 of the leading economic models used to predict the economic impacts of reducing emissions. Read more

13 March 2008: Industry lobbyists say any restriction on carbon emissions will boost demand for natural gas. Read more

12 March 2008: Five consecutive years of flat funding the budget of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is deterring promising young researchers and threatening the future of Americans’ health, a group of seven preeminent academic research institutions warned today. Read more

11 March 2008: Eco-minded drivers in drought-prone states take note: A new study concludes that producing electricity for hybrid and fully electric vehicles could sharply increase water consumption in the United States. Read more

7 March 2008: Dialysis patients in Germany have gotten sick using a different brand of the blood thinner heparin than was linked to 19 American deaths, sparking U.S. concern that the problem could run deeper than originally believed. Read more

7 March 2008: Grand Canyon flushing experiment criticised. Read more

6 March 2008: Two U.S. departments said they plan to invest $18.4 million for biomass research, development and demonstration projects over three years. Read more

5 March 2008: Pentagon worried by China in space and cyberspace. Read more

4 March 2008: Trauma patients treated in U.S. emergency rooms on average are exposed to radiation equivalent to 1,005 chest X-rays each, enough to raise their risk of cancer, researchers report. Read more

3 March 2008: The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have made arrangements to dispose of the last of its 12 million doses of Dryvax, one of the world's greatest lifesavers & the oldest smallpox vaccine. Read more

29 February 2008: Wind farms may threaten whooping cranes. Read more

29 February 2008: A coalition of environmental and animal rights groups plan to sue to stop the removal of gray wolves in the northern Rockies from the endangered species list. Read more

29 February 2008: The Aspen Institute Non-profit Sector Research Fund seeks to introduce a diverse group of students to issues relating to philanthropy, volunteerism, and non-profit organizations. Read more

29 February 2008: The Institute of International Education (IIE) is now accepting applications for the Dissertation Fellowship in population, reproductive health, and economic development. Read more

29 February 2008: U.S. border "virtual fence" to be delayed: report. Read more

28 February 2008: Great Lakes bird die-offs signal ecological changes. Read more

28 February 2008: A senior European official has described America's latest offer on climate change as far too little, far too late. Read more

27 February 2008: Federal toxics disclosure law could help inform public of nanotechnology risks. Read more

27 February 2008: Tender: analysing perspectives for EU-US cooperation on space-related applications and services. Read more

27 February 2008: Giant meteor fireball explodes over northwest USA. Read more

27 February 2008: For the third time since 1996, officials plan to unleash an artificial flood in the Grand Canyon next month in an effort to restore an ecosystem that was altered by a dam constructed on the Colorado River decades ago. Read more

26 February 2008: The US is ready to accept "binding international obligations" on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, officials say, if other nations do the same. Read more

26 February 2008: Dust in West up 500 percent in past 2 centuries. Read more

25 February 2008: A high-tech "virtual fence" on part of the U.S. border with Mexico is finally ready for service and the technology can fight illegal crossings all along the frontier. Read more

22 February 2008: The US is confident that its shooting down of a disabled spy satellite with a missile managed to destroy its potentially toxic fuel tank. Read more

22 February 2008: Giant meteor fireball explodes over northwest U.S. Read more

20 February 2008: Federal nanotech risk research plan still comes up short. Read more

20 February 2008: A non-profit nutrition education organization has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to drop heart disease health claims for soy protein. Read more

20 February 2008: National biomass & carbon dataset now available for USA. Read more

19 February 2008: More advanced cancer seen in uninsured Americans. Read more

19 February 2008: Researchers challenge analyses on sustainability of Gulf of Mexico fisheries. Read more

19 February 2008: Where will we find the next generation of engineers? Read more

18 February 2008: Greening US likely to create huge carbon market. Read more

18 February 2008: Study: Religion colors Americans' views of nanotechnology. Read more 

18 February 2008: A leading U.S. doctors group has endorsed using marijuana for medical purposes. Read more

15 February 2008: Pentagon plans to shoot down disabled satellite. Read more

15 February 2008: Earth scientists have found that carbon dioxide has been naturally stored for more than a million years in several gas fields in the Colorado Plateau and Rocky Mountains of the United States. Read more

15 February 2008: Hareless: Yellowstone's rabbits have vanished. Read more

14 February 2008: Water shortages in the western U.S. are not likely to wane any time soon, according to new research that finds human activities are responsible for recent droughts. Read more

14 February 2008: EPA has awarded $10,000 each to 58 student teams to develop sustainable designs that have the potential for commercialization. Read more

14 February 2008: Investors see profits in solar power, renewable fuels, and energy storage. Read more

14 February 2008: Push to boost natural gas production gives rise to environmental concerns. Read more  

14 February 2008: The annual conference of the American Association for the Advancement of Science opens on Thursday in Boston and will gather participants from 56 countries to discuss the latest scientific breakthroughs and challenges. Read more

13 February 2008: Autopsies of adults who died young of unnatural causes show many already had clogged arteries, U.S. and Canadian researchers said on Monday in a study that suggests heart disease may be on the upswing. Read more

13 February 2008: There is a 50 percent chance Lake Mead, a key source of water for millions of people in the southwestern United States, will be dry by 2021 if climate changes as expected and future water usage is not curtailed. Read more

12 February 2008: A team of researchers recently sought to uncover the genetic diversity of Europeans who immigrated to the United States. Their work, which provides the first genetic dissection of the population structure, was published in the Open Access journal PLoS Genetics in January. Read more

12 February 2008: Autopsies forecast surge in U.S. heart disease. Read more

12 February 2008: Baxter International Inc on Monday said it has temporarily stopped making the blood-thinner heparin in multi-dose vials after four patients who took the drug died and hundreds of others became ill. Read more

11 February 2008: It's the French paradox redux: Why don't the French get as fat as Americans, considering all the baguettes, wine, cheese, pate and pastries they eat? Read more

7 February 2008: Voluntary EPA program criticized for not giving agency the data it needs to regulate nanoscale materials. Read more

7 February 2008: The Bush administration on Monday proposed boosting funding to better protect the food supply, including opening an office in China. Read more

7 February 2008: Federal Trade Commission scrutinizes environmental marketing, carbon-offset claims to weed out deception. Read more

5 February 2008: Neurological surgeons at Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience are among the first surgeons in the United States using an FDA-approved liquid system for treating wide-necked brain aneurysms, which could eventually replace current treatments. Read more

4 February 2007: Scientists are chafing at the U.S. government's unfulfilled pledge to boost funding for basic scientific research, the source of innovations ranging from the World Wide Web to high-tech cancer treatments. Read more

4 February 2007: The line of towering wind turbines stand motionless on the ridgeline above Interstate 70 in central Kansas, Y-shaped silhouettes amid the swirling snow. Despite the weather, dozens of technicians are working to get the 10-mile-long Smoky Hills Wind Farm ready to begin producing electricity. Read more

31 January 2008: Death Valley may be known by its three superlatives: hottest, driest, and lowest – as in temperature, rainfall, and elevation in the United States. But it was the flow of water through the National Park that attracted Boston College Geologist Noah P. Snyder to the desert of eastern California. Read more

30 January 2008: The Department of Defense has commissioned a nine-month study from Rice University chemists and scientists in the Texas Medical Center to determine whether a new drug based on carbon nanotubes can help prevent people from dying of acute radiation injury following radiation exposure. Read more

29 January 2008: By the end of 2008, the United States will have the capacity to produce 13 billion gallons of ethanol, but a Purdue University expert said the maximum ethanol the market can handle is 12 billion gallons, and perhaps considerably less. Read more

28 January 2008: EU-US ATLANTIS Programme Call for proposals 2008. Read more

24 January 2008: Over the past 85 years, humans have helped shape California climate during certain seasons. But that’s not necessarily good. Read more

24 January 2008: The world's largest energy consumer the United States on Monday called for a global push for increased energy efficiency to help meet rising demand and alleviate the impact of high prices on economic growth. Read more

23 January 2008: Researchers on three continents will join together to catalog the genomes of 1,000 people in an ambitious project that they hope will help determine genetic roots and factors for human disease, the group announced Tuesday. Read more

16 January 2008: Today, the Food and Drug Administration posted a summary of a final report that supports the use of cloned animals for food. According to the report, cloned animals and their offspring are safe to enter the U.S. food supply. Read more

16 January 2008: The Italian luxury sports car maker unveiled a concept car on Monday that can run on ethanol which it said reflected its engineering expertise from Formula One racing and growing demand for alternative fuel vehicles in the United States. Read more

16 January 2008: Scientists in the United States and India are reporting development of a high-protein variety of rice, dietary staple for half the world's population. Read more

9 January 2008: Will Intensive Forest Practices Impact Water Quality? Read more

9 January 2008: Multiple skin cancer risk behaviors are common among US adults. Read more

8 January 2008: Benzene concentrations in beverages. Read more

18 December 2007: A collaboration of over 50 astronomers, The IPHAS consortium, led from the UK, with partners in Europe, USA, Australia, has released today (10th December 2007) the first comprehensive optical digital survey of our own Milky Way. Read more

17 December 2007: Despite agreeing on the outline for a new global warming deal, the White House quibbled with it Saturday and said it does not sufficiently address the role of developing nations. Read more

14 December 2007: The U.S. space agency has selected The Boeing Co. as the prime contractor to produce, deliver and install avionics systems for the Ares I rocket. Read more

14 December 2007: NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) has arrived at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington for its final round of testing. Read more

14 December 2007: While most Americans are aware that they increase carbon dioxide in the atmosphere by burning fossil fuel to drive their cars and heat their homes, they tend to think less about the greenhouse impacts of other daily activities. Read more

11 December 2007: German-American collaboration in the field of radio astronomy is set to get a boost thanks to a new agreement between Germany's Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy (MPIfR) and the US' National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO). Read more

11 December 2007: In many ways, wind energy seems an ideal energy source. Fields of mighty turbines spinning in rhythm could harness carbonless power and shuttle it off to homes and industries. But questions remain about the feasibility of wind parks: How much will they cost? Can this unpredictable energy source be relied upon to contribute appreciably to the country's power needs? Read more

7 December 2007: The United Nations praised on Thursday a step by a U.S. Senate committee to cut greenhouse gas emissions in the world's top carbon emitter even as Washington reaffirmed opposition to mandatory caps. Read more  

6 December 2007: The combination of beer, wastewater, microbes, fuel cells, high school students and teachers sounds like a witches’ brew for an old –fashioned, illicit ‘60s beach party. Read more

6 December 2007: Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd urged the United States to follow his country's lead and ratify the Kyoto Protocol, while rich and poor nations appeared divided Wednesday over what a future climate change pact should look like. Read more

5 December 2007: Researchers who study severe weather and climate change joined forces to study the effects of global warming on the number of severe storms in the future and discovered a dramatic increase in potential storm conditions for some parts of the United States. Read more

3 December 2007: The head of the European satellite launch group Arianespace, Jean-Yves Le Gall, warned the United States Friday against Chinese "dumping" in the market and suggested Washington should improve its oversight. Read more

30 November 2007: Research Councils UK (RCUK) has expanded its international reach with the launch of a new office in Washington DC. Read more

30 November 2007: The United States has embarked on an ambitious program to develop technology and infrastructure to economically and sustainably produce ethanol from biomass. Read more

30 November 2007: Research institutions across Southern California have joined forces to advance stem cell research by establishing the Southern California Stem Cell Scientific Collaboration (SC3).Read more

29 November 2007: As much as $945 million. That's what agricultural economists at Kansas State University say could be the impact on Kansas' economy were there a large-scale foot-and-mouth outbreak in a region thick with livestock operations. Read more

28 November 2007: Meteorologists See Future of Increasingly Extreme Weather Events. Read more

28 November 2007: A team of researchers from NASA, the U.S. Geological Survey, the National Science Foundation and the British Antarctic Survey unveiled a newly completed map of Antarctica today that is expected to revolutionize research of the continent's frozen landscape. Read more

28 November 2007: The US military is working on super-powerful updates to its GPS satellite navigation technology to try to trump the rival European Galileo project which just received key funding, experts say. Read more

28 November 2007: Millions of gallons of hazardous waste resulting from the nation’s nuclear weapons program lie in a remote location in southeastern Washington state called Hanford. Read more

27 November 2007: A study by Indiana University researchers found the chlorinated flame retardant Dechlorane Plus in the bark of trees across the northeastern US, with by far the highest concentrations measured near the Niagara Falls, N.Y., factory where this chemical is produced. Read more

27 November 2007: Supporters of the Kyoto Protocol were gleeful on Saturday after Australian elections left the United States in the wilderness as the only major economy to boycott the UN's climate pact. Read more

27 November 2007: The 12th European Career Fair will be held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in Cambridge, US on 1 to 4 February. Read more

22 November 2007: Hydrogen energy research at Penn State expands with leadership of a newly established U.S. Department of Energy consortium funded for three years by the DOE’s Nuclear Energy Research Initiative. Read more

22 November 2007: Chemists from the University of Delaware, in collaboration with a colleague at the University of Wisconsin, have set a new world record for the shortest chemical bond ever recorded between two metals, in this case, two atoms of chromium. Read more

21 November 2007: Ten million people in the United States are estimated to already have bone diseases, and almost 34 million more are estimated to have low bone mass, putting them at increased risk for osteoporosis. Read more

20 November 2007: A conference on information and communication technologies (ICT) research collaboration will be held in Mexico City, Mexico, on 6 and 7 December. Read more

20 November 2007: The United States hopes to fill American roads with hydrogen-powered cars in two decades, but the clean fuel must be cheap and practical to make before it can replace oil, US experts say. Read more

20 November 2007: U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century, and technological change may cause increased emissions rather than control them. Read more

19 November 2007: Most Americans think they're helping the earth when they recycle their old computers, televisions and cell phones. But chances are they're contributing to a global trade in electronic trash that endangers workers and pollutes the environment overseas. Read more  

19 November 2007: The European Commission and the US Food and Drug Administration have agreed to intensify their collaboration in order to reduce animal testing at a meeting of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC).  Read more  

16 November 2007: Researchers led by biologist Jeffrey Chambers of Tulane University have determined that the losses inflicted by Hurricane Katrina on Gulf Coast forest trees are enough to cancel out a year’s worth of new tree biomass (trunks, branches and foliage) growth in other parts of the country. Read more

16 November 2007: A new and virulent strain of adenovirus, which frequently causes the common cold, killed 10 people in parts of the United States earlier this year and put dozens into hospitals, U.S. health officials said on Thursday. Read more

16 November 2007: The American Urological Association has prepared a new Guideline on the Management of Nonmuscle Invasive Bladder Cancer for professionals. Read more 

14 November 2007: Two of the biggest U.S. meat processors on Tuesday defended a packaging technique designed to keep meat looking fresh at grocery stores even as U.S. lawmakers criticized it as unsafe and misleading. Read more

14 November 2007: The last thing a seasoned gardener would expect from global warming is for leaves to appear later in spring, but exactly that is happening across the southern US. Read more

13 November 2007: A detector built by a Polish group of scientists from the University of Warsaw has led to new insights into how nuclei spontaneously eject various particles in radioactive decay. Read more

13 November 2007: A new pan-European supercomputing network will enter its preparatory phase on 12 November with a project presentation at the international supercomputing conference SC07 in Reno, USA. Read more

13 November 2007: UFOs may be fodder for comedians and science fiction but there was no joking Monday when a group of pilots and officials demanded the US government reopen an investigation into unidentified flying objects. Read more

12 November 2007: U.S. environmental groups and consumer electronics groups warn electronic waste is adding dangerous levels of lead to the environment. Read more

12 November 2007: America's obesity epidemic and global warming might not seem to have much in common. But public health experts suggest people can attack them both by cutting calories and carbon dioxide at the same time. Read more

9 November 2007: The e-safety deployment workshop and awards ceremony will be held in Brussels, Belgium, on 14 November 2007. Read more

9 November 2007: California on Thursday said it was suing the United States government to secure approval for the state's tough new proposals aimed at slashing vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. Read more

8 November 2007: America’s tweens more than doubled their use of type-2 diabetes medications between 2002 and 2005, with girls between 10 and 14 years of age showing a 166 percent increase. The likely cause: Obesity, which is closely associated with Type 2 diabetes. Read more

7 November 2007: Energy officials from China and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on increasing energy efficiency in China's industrial sector Read more

2 November 2007: Is the U.S. government doing enough to ensure the safety of these materials and the hundreds of other nanotechnology commercial and consumer products currently on the market? Read more

2 November 2007: NASA chief Michael Griffin has promised to make public the results of a survey on US airline safety that suggests that near-collisions, engine failures and other serious problems are much more common than previously thought. Read more

2 November 2007: Large-scale fires in a western or southeastern state can pump as much carbon dioxide into the atmosphere in a few weeks as the state's entire motor vehicle traffic does in a year, according to newly published research by scientists at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and the University of Colorado at Boulder. Read more

2 November 2007: What people eat and how fast they grow are both significant causes of cancer, but many Americans still incorrectly believe that factors such as pesticides on food are bigger causes. Read more

2 November 2007: Contrary to what many people believe, vitamin D may not be a strong anti-cancer agent. Read more

2 November 2007: People with higher vitamin D levels are less likely to die of colorectal cancer. Read more

1 November 2007: A political declaration from a coalition of European countries, US states, Canadian provinces, New Zealand and Norway launched the International Carbon Action Partnership (ICAP) on 29 October. Read more

31 October 2007: The daily commute may be taking more of a toll than people realize. A new study by researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) and the California Air Resources Board found that up to half of Los Angeles residents’ total exposure to harmful air pollutants occurs while people are traveling in their vehicles. Read more

31 October 2007: The University of Texas at San Antonio and The University of Texas at Austin are two of five research universities in a nationwide consortium awarded $1.4 million from the National Science Foundation. Read more

30 October 2007: All U.S. children should be formally screened for autism twice by the age of 2, the nation's top pediatrician group recommended on Monday. Read more

30 October 2007: African American women are diagnosed with breast cancer at a younger age and have larger tumors and more lymph node involvement than Caucasian women. Read more

30 October 2007: Radiation seed implants (brachytherapy) are just as effective at curing prostate cancer in younger men (aged 60 and younger) as they are in older men Read more

30 October 2007: In a nondescript office park tucked between a hospital and a strip mall thrive hundreds of thousands of the most infectious malaria-carrying mosquitoes ever born.They will be dissected for the motherlode that they carry -- baby malaria parasites, fodder for a new malaria vaccine. Read more

29 October 2007: Can scientific respectability be tarred by association? The US House Committee on Science and Technology seems to think so. It is scrutinising ExxonMobil's motives for funding research by an astrophysicist into the impact of climate change on the polar bear population of western Hudson Bay in Canada. Read more  

29 October 2007: A U.S. agency said it has found no environmental factors linking 38 cases of a rare blood cancer in northeastern Pennsylvania. Read more

26 October 2007: Duke Energy Indiana issued a request for proposals Wednesday, seeking bids for power generated from renewable energy sources. Read more

26 October 2007: The University of Texas has received a $38 million subcontract to conduct the first U.S. long-term study of underground carbon dioxide storage. Read more

25 October 2007: Scientists at UCL (University College London) have developed a more reliable test for detecting vision loss in people with age-related macular disease (AMD), the leading cause of blindness in the UK and US. Read more

24 October 2007: The state's attorney general said Monday that he would sue the Environmental Protection Agency in an attempt to force it to decide whether to let California and 11 other states impose stricter standards on certain vehicle emissions. Read more

24 October 2007: The 20-day U.S. Change a Light Bus Tour concluded Tuesday, with nearly 1 million citizens pledging to change light bulbs to help fight climate change. Read more

24 October 2007: Experts don’t dispute the important role that diet and activity play in maintaining a healthy weight. But can poor eating habits and a less active lifestyle fully explain the prevalence of obesity in the United States today? Read more

19 October 2007: The rusty crayfish has marched across the Mason-Dixon line into Maryland, alarming state officials who are concerned the fast-growing crustacean will displace its native cousins. Read more

19 October 2007: One of the touted benefits of the futuristic US hydrogen economy is that the hydrogen supply—in the form of water—is virtually limitless. This assumption is taken for granted so much that no major study has fully considered just how much water a sustainable hydrogen economy would need. Read more

17 October 2007: The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene is concerned about the U.S. blood supply due to underreporting of dengue fever. Read more

17 October 2007: Two drug-resistant "superbugs" are becoming more common across the United States including one that causes hard-to-treat ear infections in children. Read more

16 October 2007: Scientists led by the University of Washington's Sharon Doty, reporting in this week's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, say that genetically engineered poplar plants being grown in a laboratory were able to take as much as 91 percent of trichloroethylene, the most common groundwater contaminant at U.S. Superfund sites, out of a liquid solution. Read more

16 October 2007: Two case studies from Japan presented at the 72nd Annual Meeting of the American College of Gastroenterology point to a potential health problem in the United States, as more Americans consume raw fish in the form of sushi and sashimi. Anisakiasis (round worm) is a human parasitic infection caused by the consumption of raw or undercooked seafood containing Anisakis larvae. Read more

5 October 2007: A New York City College of Technology biologist released a report Thursday finding the Gowanus Canal in Brooklyn tested positive for gonorrhea contamination. Read more

4 October 2007: The U.S. Department of Energy launched its "Change a Light, Change the World" 2007 campaign Wednesday during a Salt Lake City ceremony. Read more

2 October 2007: A rare drug-resistant bacterium has spread throughout U.S. military hospitals around the world, killing at least 27 since the start of the Iraq war. Read more

2 October 2007: The Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce a new $2 million research program on the nature and benefits of Wisdom. In 2008, we will award up to twenty (20), two-year research grants to scholars from institutions around the world who have received their Ph.D. within the past ten years. Read more

1 October 2007: Drug companies will in future find it harder to bury the results of trials that show their products in a poor light. The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Amendments Act, passed by Congress last week, will require clinical trials to be registered and their results placed in a public database. Read more

28 September 2007: As China rapidly develops its economy, it is experiencing increased air pollution and more human-health effects. The problems are reminiscent of those faced by the U.S. during the past 30 years. Read more

28 September 2007: Seven cases of viral meningitis have been reported in Indiana's Boone County. Read more

28 September 2007: Giardia lamblia, one of the most common human parasites in the United States, causes more than 20,000 intestinal infections a year, often through contact with contaminated drinking or swimming water. Read more

26 September 2007: The US may violate its own standards on water quality by refusing to limit emissions of carbon dioxide, suggests a new study modelling ocean acidification. Read more

19 September 2007: Pioneering heart surgeons Alain Carpentier and Albert Starr and immunologist Ralph Steinman were named on Saturday as recipients of Albert Lasker Medical Research Awards, sometimes dubbed "America's Nobels." Read more

19 September 2007: The European Commission and US authorities are launching 14 new university cooperation projects intended to foster transatlantic academic cooperation and innovative transatlantic university degrees. Read more

18 September 2007: Researchers across the Georgia Institute of Technology campus are focusing their attention on biofuels. And while most experts agree that biofuels are not the silver bullet to solve the world’s long-term fuel needs, they see biofuels as a necessary complement to conventional oil and gas. Read more

18 September 2007: Climate change research directed by the federal government has made good progress in documenting and understanding temperature trends and related environmental changes on a global scale, says a new report from the National Research Council. Read more

18 September 2007: The Oregon National Primate Research Center and the Oregon Health & Science University School of Medicine have been named to a national team of institutions hoping to preserve or restore fertility in women battling cancer. Read more

17 September: U.S. astronauts on the next shuttle mission will test the ability of a silicon substance loaded into a high-tech caulk gun to patch tiles. Read more

17 September: Texas doctors have identified nine cases of the skin disease leishmaniasis in patients who have not traveled to endemic areas. Read more

14 September 2007: NASA has awarded five one-month extensions of its Johnson Space Center operations support contract to the Computer Sciences Corp. of Fort Worth, Texas. Read more

14 September 2007: In a blow to US automakers, a federal judge has ruled that the state of Vermont can set limits on car emissions believed to contribute to global warming, rejecting arguments that only the US government can regulate the industry. Read more

13 September 2007: A global meeting between higher education leaders has resulted in a Statement of Principles intended to promote and guide international collaboration, and to raise the quality of graduate education across countries and regions. Read more

13 September 2007: The governors of six western states and the leaders of two Canadian provinces announced in August that they will enforce a regional cap on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Read more

13 September 2007: NASA's Dawn spacecraft has been positioned at Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 17B atop a Delta II rocket for its launch from Florida later this month. Read more

12 September 2007: Soft drink consumption has increased in both the USA and the UK over the years and this has often been blamed for a rise in childhood body mass index (BMI). However, many of the review methodologies investigating the alleged links have been flawed. Read more

12 September 2007: The United States continues to spend the most on health care when compared to other Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries. Read more

12 September 2007: The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation has announced a $20 million gift to fund U.S. adult and embryonic stem cell research at UCLA. Read more

12 September 2007: An analysis of four studies involving more than 14,000 patients found that long-term use of the diabetes drug rosiglitazone (Avandia®) increased the risk of heart attack by 42 percent and doubled the risk of heart failure, according to a new report from researchers at Wake Forest University School of Medicine and colleagues. There was no effect on death from cardiovascular causes. Read more

12 September 2007: The highest-resolution images ever seen in (S)TEM electron microscopy have been recorded using a new instrument developed jointly by U.S. Department of Energy national laboratories, FEI Company (Nasdaq: FEIC) [profile] and CEOS GmbH, in Heidelberg, Germany. Read more

11 September 2007:If an increasingly overweight America's eyes are bigger than its stomach, then placing more nutritional information in plain sight could allow shoppers to see their way to more healthy choices while scanning food labels. Read more

11 September 2007:The U.S. Department of Energy has announced the start of construction of what will be among the world's cleanest, most efficient coal-fueled power plants. Read more

11 September 2007:The Makah Indian Tribe's whaling commission did not authorize the killing of a gray whale that died after being harpooned and shot several times in northwest Washington's Strait of Juan de Fuca, a member of the tribal panel said. Read more

11 September 2007:Regular screening for lung cancer has been ruled out by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) – a move which has sparked some debate. Read more

7 September 2007: California researchers lay out a method for judging the cumulative energy and emission impacts of different fuels from production to their use in vehicles. Read more

7 September 2007: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the country's largest energy user, pledged in August to cut its energy intensity by 30%. Read more

7 September 2007: Computing researchers at Houston's Rice University [profile] and electronics specialists at Singapore's Nanyang Technological University (NTU) [profile] announced the formation of a $2.6-million Institute for Sustainable Nanoelectronics (ISNE). Read more

6 September 2007 : Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infects up to 500,000 people in the UK alone, many of the infections going undiagnosed. It is the single biggest cause of people requiring a liver transplant in Britain. Read more

30 August 2007: The United States and Europe are working together to tackle global warming, the chief U.S. climate negotiator said Wednesday, deflecting growing criticism within the EU and the developing world over Washington's perceived go-it-alone stance. Read more

29 August 2007: Greenhouse gases likely accounted for over half of the widespread warmth across the continental United States in 2006, according to a new study that will be published 5 September in Geophysical Research Letters, a publication of the American Geophysical Union. Last year's average temperature was the second highest since recordkeeping began in 1895. The team found that it was very unlikely that the 2006 El Nino played any role, though other natural factors likely contributed to the near-record warmth. Read more

29 August 2007: An ambitious plan to blanket the city with wireless broadband Internet will be shelved because it is too costly and too few residents would use it, Chicago officials said Tuesday. Read more

29 August 2007: The U.S. Department of Energy says it will allocate up to $33.8 million to support commercial production of cellulosic biofuels. Read more

23 August 2007: US researchers have shown that increasing numbers of patents filed in the US are filed by foreign nationals. But the team is worried that tight visa restrictions is not allowing these inventors to stay in the US. Read more

17 August 2007: The burden of long-term economic security in the United States is moving away from employers and the government onto the shoulders of workers - a transformation that Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker calls … Read more

17 August 2007: The burden of long-term economic security in the United States is moving away from employers and the government onto the shoulders of workers - a transformation that Yale University political scientist Jacob Hacker calls ... Read more

10 August 2007: Three universities in the US, Italy and UK have recently commercialised their research into biological methods for cleaning up polluted soil and water. Read more

10 August 2007: Permafrost – the perpetually frozen foundation of the north – isn’t so permanent anymore, and scientists are scrambling to understand the pros and cons when terra firma goes soft. Read more

9 August 2007: While promoting mitigation techniques at a recent meeting, scientists crashed into market barriers. Read more

8 August 2007: University of California experts recently released their much-anticipated blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when transportation fuels are used in California. Read more

8 August 2007: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the antiretroviral drug maraviroc for use in adult human immunodeficiency virus patients. Read more

8 August 2007: The University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Science said Friday it has received a $20 million gift for a planned nanotechnology center. Read more

7 August 2007: NASA has selected four proposals focusing on astrophysics priorities in lunar science to facilitate the nation's exploration program. Read more

6 August 2007: US Rep. Mike Honda (D-San Jose) today introduced HR 3235, the Nanotechnology Advancement and New Opportunities (NANO) Act, Read more

6 August 2007: Programmes that exclusively encourage abstinence from sex do not seem to affect the risk of HIV infection in high income countries, finds a review of the evidence in this week’s BMJ. Read more

6 August 2007: Artificial muscles are being used to turn the ocean's waves into electrical power in a novel pilot project off the coast of Florida, US. Read more

6 August 2007: The U.S. Department of Energy is increasing the energy efficiency criteria required for refrigerators carrying the Energy Star label. Read more

6 August 2007: For the second time in eight months, a NASA space shuttle will carry a suite of University of Colorado at Boulder experiments to the International Space Station in an educational effort involving thousands of K-12 students around the world. Read more

3 August 2007: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued an analysis of potential benefits and costs of its proposed ground-level ozone standards revisions. Read more

3 August 2007: The U.S. Center for Science in the Public Interest says both Burger King and Wendy's New York City french fries contain unsafe levels of trans fats. Read more

3 August 2007: IEEE-USA President John Meredith urges the House and Senate to pass the conference report of the “America Competes Act” to help bolster our country’s global leadership in science and technology and promote U.S. competitiveness and innovation. Read more

3 August 2007: University of California experts today released their much-anticipated blueprint for fighting global warming by reducing the amount of carbon emitted when transportation fuels are used in California. Read more

2 August 2007: A proposed federal regulation would make nutrition labels mandatory on all beer, wine and other alcohol sold in the United States. Read more

31 July 2007: The European Union and the United States have decided to make their satellite navigation systems, Galileo and Global Positioning System (GPS), compatible and interoperable. Read more

31 July 2007: An independent report has urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to make key decisions concerning oversight of nanotechnologies. Read more

31 July 2007: As California begins mapping out its strategy to cut greenhouse gas emissions, how industries will be forced to comply is emerging as one of the most complex aspects of the debate. Read more

27 July 2007: The adoption of biofuels in Oregon could reduce the state's fossil fuel use by less than one percent, but at a much higher cost to society than more direct approaches such as a gasoline tax or raising fuel economy standards. Read more

27 July 2007: A new foam-like material that could be used to soak up heavy metals in run-off water from polluted industrial sites has been demonstrated by US scientists. Read more

27 July 2007: A new study from American Cancer Society researchers finds a surprising number of Americans believe scientifically unsubstantiated claims concerning cancer, and that population segments suffering the greatest burden of cancer are the most likely to be misinformed. Read more

26 July 2007: In the past decade, the U.S. has witnessed a steady increase in its imports relative to its exports. This growing trade deficit has alarmed many economists and lawmakers because of related domestic job losses and wage reductions in the U.S. Read more

26 July 2007: The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a $375 million grant program designed to jump-start a national cellulosic ethanol industry. Read more

25 July 2007: The diabetes epidemic is taking a large and growing toll on New York City, a new Health Department report shows, as death rates, debilitating complications, and hospitalization costs soar. Read more

25 July 2007: Three clinical trials in Africa found that adult male circumcision reduced the risk of men acquiring HIV infection from heterosexual sex by 51-60%. Read more

25 July 2007: New research  provides evidence for an association between low LDL levels and cancer risk. Read more

24 July 2007: Voters amended the state's constitution to protect stem cell research - even the controversial form using cells from human embryos. Read more

24 July 2007: A new report from the US National Science Foundation (NSF) has found that the number of US science and engineering (S&E) articles in major peer-reviewed journals flattened in the 1990s, after more than two decades of growth. Read more

23 July 2007: Over 1.5 billion cubic metres of natural gas were extracted in New York state last year, yet there remains a certain element of mystery about the stuff's origins. Read more

23 July 2007: The Justice Department said Friday that chemical firm E.I. Du Pont de Nemours Co. had agreed to spend at least 66 million dollars to cut air pollution at four US plants. Read more

20 July 2007: If motorists used rechargeable "plug-in" hybrid-electric vehicles in large numbers, the U.S. could see a significant drop in greenhouse gas emissions by the middle of the century, says a study released Thursday. Read more

20 July 2007: Botulism poisoning from commercially canned foods has been virtually eliminated in the United States, making the new cases linked to hot dog chili sauce all the more striking. Read more

20 July 2007: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced the recall of 10-ounce cans of possibly contaminated hot dog chili sauce sold under various brand names. Read more

19 July 2007: The corn ethanol refinery industry, the beneficiary of new renewable fuel targets in the proposed energy legislation as well as proposed loan guarantee subsidies in the 2007 Farm Bill, will not significantly offset U.S. fossil fuel consumption without unacceptable environmental and economic consequences. Read more

19 July 2007: Five people have been identified as winners of the 2006 U.S. National Medals of Technology, which are to be presented during a White House ceremony next week. Read more

19 July 2007: The government is offering $968 million in grants to help state and local public safety agencies buy sophisticated radios and technology for communications during disasters, the Commerce Department said on Wednesday. Read more

18 July 2007: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration Tuesday announced approval of the first device designed to treat cervical degenerative disc disease. Read more

18 July 2007: The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the first molecular-based laboratory test for detecting whether breast cancer has metastasized. Read more

18 July 2007: Kim Woodrow, a postdoctoral fellow in biomedical engineering at Yale, is one of the five American women recently honored by L'Oreal USA with their 2007 Fellowships for Women in Science. Woodrow is developing new drug delivery strategies and diagnostic tools for monitoring and treating infectious diseases and cancer. Read more

18 July 2007: A major U.S. industry body said on Tuesday that human activity is changing the Earth's climate and urged Washington to take action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions nationwide. Read more

18 July 2007: Rochester Institute of Technology and the County of Monroe, New York have created a research partnership to assess the performance of the County’s fleet of E85 flex-fuel vehicles. E85 is comprised of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline and is considered a major alternative energy option for American automobiles. Read more

18 July 2007: Researchers predict that the recurring oxygen-depleted "dead zone" off the Louisiana coast will grow this summer to 8,543 square miles - its largest in at least 22 years. Read more

18 July 2007: More than 14 million Americans under age 64 have a physical disability, according to the 2005 American Community Survey by the U.S. Census Bureau. A large percentage of these persons have little or no use of their hands to manipulate a computer or access the Internet. Read more

18 July 2007: A Bluetooth heart monitor could text your local hospital if you are about to have a heart attack, according to research published today in Inderscience's International Journal of Electronic Healthcare. Read more

18 July 2007: "NASA's new eco-friendly science building will provide state of the art laboratories and technology for our scientists, giving them access to modern tools and facilities for continued world class research in space and Earth science, and in support of NASA's mission," said Weiler. Read more

17 July 2007:  A type of skin cancer that was rare three decades ago has surged in the United States, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) found. Read more

17 July 2007:  The rate of cases of colitis (colon inflammation) caused by the bacteria Clostridium difficile more than doubled among patients hospitalized in the United States between 1993 and 2003, and the illness was more severe and associated with an increased mortality rate, according to a report in the July issue of Archives of Surgery, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Read more

17 July 2007:  Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, a rare and mysterious cancer, is on the rise, according to the first nationwide study of the disease in a decade. Read more

17 July 2007:  The United States and the European Union are close to signing an agreement that would allow their satellite navigation systems to work together to provide more accurate images and information. Read more

16 July 2007: A new worldwide scientific portal has gone online, offering researchers and interested members of the public free access to more than 200 million pages of international research information. Read more.

16 July 2007: One is at Baltimore's Sinai Hospital. Outfitted with cameras, a screen and microphone, the joystick-controlled robot is guided into the rooms of Dr. Alex Gandsas' patients where he speaks to them as if he were right there. Read more

16 July 2007: A huge new observatory, called the Great Canary Telescope, is set to open its eye to the sky on Friday. Read more

16 July 2007: As the summer swelters on, skyscrapers and apartments around the city will be cranking up the air conditioning and pushing the city's power grid to the limit. Read more

16 July 2007: Despite its nickname, the Sunshine State, Florida's heavy rains and pricey real estate mean it has never been considered a good place to set up big solar energy plants. Read more

16 July 2007: Federal regulators will ask outside medical experts next week whether implanting an artificial spinal disc made by Medtronic is more effective than surgery at treating certain neck injuries. Read more

16 July 2007: The world's two largest polluters will have their first and best chance to meet and discuss climate change at the APEC leaders' summit in Australia in September, Prime Minister John Howard says. Read more

16 July 2007: Sites in Kansas, Georgia, Mississippi, Texas and North Carolina are being considered as the possible site of a $500 million U.S. Homeland Security research lab. Read more

13 July 2007: The U.S. Food Safety and Inspection Service announced a permanent prohibition on the slaughter of cattle that are unable to stand or walk. Read more

13 July 2007: U.S. grocers and foodmakers would be required to put country-of-origin labels on cuts of red meat beginning September 30, 2008, under a bill approved by a House Appropriations subcommittee on Thursday. Read more

13 July 2007: U.S. oversight of genetically modified crops, which critics charge is insufficient, may be overhauled following a series of proposed changes released on Thursday by the Agriculture Department. Read more

13 July 2007: Scientists on the US Pacific coast are increasingly observing emaciated gray whales in what they fear is a sign that global warming is wreaking havoc in the whales' Bering Sea summer feeding grounds. Read more

13 July 2007: California and Florida already have similar climates and soon they will have similar policies on climate change. Read more

13 July 2007: Wilting heat, deadly storms, flash floods, coastal erosion, more days with unhealthy air - those are just some of the effects of rising temperatures on the Northeast, a group of scientists reported Wednesday. Read more

13 July 2007: Using plastics to harvest the energy of the sun just got a significant boost in efficiency thanks to a discovery made at the Center for Polymers and Organic Solids at the University of California, Santa Barbara.  Read more

12 July 2007: U.S. scientists are developing a technology that allows mobile electronic devices to communicate by sending vibrations through bones. Read more

12 July 2007: A fleet of experimental "plug-in hybrid" vehicles is to be developed under a partnership announced by US auto maker Ford and utility company Southern California Edison on Monday. Read more

12 July 2007: At the annual meeting of the American Society of Plant Biologists in Chicago