Science News / Nonstick Chemicals Linked To Infertility
A provocative new study finds that women who have trouble getting pregnant are more likely to have high concentrations of certain nonstick-chemical pollutants circulating in their blood than are those who become pregnant within the first month of ... [... more]
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Environmental Science & Technology
Lead concentrations spiked in many children living in the nation's capital after the local water authority altered the treatment used to disinfect drinking water. About seven-and-a-half years ago, the District of Columbia's water authority ... [... more]
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Science News / Stimulus Bill Doesn't Ignore R & D;
Rumors have circulated for weeks about how robustly the economic-stimulus package would invest in research and development. The first solid clues emerged yesterday when the House Appropriations Committee released draft legislation to finance a ... [... more]
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Science News / Obama Selects Steven Chu As Energy Secretary
Since 2004, physicist Steven Chu has been on indefinite leave from Stanford University so that he might head Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Looks like Stanford will have to hold his slot a bit longer. This afternoon the Associated Press ... [... more]
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Blood
For more than a decade, study after study has extolled the cancer-fighting virtues of green tea, or at least extracts of its polyphenol antioxidants. But preliminary data now suggest that for some people this herbal remedy may not prove ... [... more]
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Science News / Federal R & D; Downturn Preceded '08 ...
Federal scientists and those whose work is funded out of the federal coffers have been lamenting that their budgets are inadequate. In fact, new data show, the buying power of what they get has been falling - as have federal outlays. The National ... [... more]
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New England Journal of Medicine
Last September, Chinese officials acknowledged that months-long illegal use of a fraudulent protein substitute - melamine - had poisoned powdered infant formula that was sold throughout the country. Some 300,000 children are believed to have ... [... more]
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Science News / Let's Get Vertical
City buildings offer opportunities for farms to grow up instead of out Locally grown food is often touted as a perk of rural living. But if Dickson Despommier has anything to say about it, city dwellers will soon have the same environmental ... [... more]
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Science News / On Science & The Fearsome OMB
Federal agencies are always contemplating new rules (i.e. laws) - or amendments to rules, or waivers of rules, or programs to sidestep rules. To make sure that what one agency (or its subordinate department) does is consistent not only with all ... [... more]
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Science News / Forest Invades Tundra
People frequently say "green" to mean "environmentally friendly." But encroaching conifer forests - really big greens - threaten to further spike the far North's already low-grade fever. Temperatures in the high Arctic already are [... more]
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Science News / New Money For Undergraduate Research
Profs who want to push science beyond the classroom have a strong ally: the Tucson, Ariz.-based Research Corporation for Science Advancement. In about a month, it will begin issuing requests for proposals to launch a new type of grants for ... [... more]
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Science News / Science & Society: News Of The Year, 2008
Home / January 3rd, 2009; Vol.175 #1 / Feature Science & Society: News of the year, 2008 Science News writers and editors looked back at the past year's stories and selected a handful as the year's most interesting and important in the interface ... [... more]
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