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The treatment of postdoctoral fellows at universities in the United States is unacceptable, according to a report drawn up by the research universities themselves.

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The US Department of State is to employ a former Presidential science advisor to help it consider a critical report on the department's understanding and use of science.

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The target chamber from the Nova laser experiment at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California was last week shipped to France, where it will be use as part of a huge new laser facility to be built near Bordeaux.

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The presidents of America’s major research universities have come up with a plan for policing research on human subjects to address mounting public concern about the safety of individuals used in such research.

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The governing council of the American Physical Society (APS) has rejected the first draft of a statement defining science for the public.

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Harold Varmus, the director of the US National Institutes of Health, announced last week that he is to resign at the end of the year.

Washington. The NSF has handed out $52.5 million of grants for multidisciplinary ecological studies.

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Frustrated advocates of action to alleviate global warming won a valuable new ally last week when US Senator John McCain held a hearing highlighting warnings that human activities play a significant role in global warming.

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The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences will appear on PubMed Central, the US National Institutes of Health's new research archive, one month after the publication of the journal.

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A US Senate subcommittee has expressed strong reservations about a plan to double civilian research and development spending over the next ten years.

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A new, integrated strategy for high performance computing and simulation for the national laboratories funded by the Department of Energy is being proposed by the department's top scientific administrator.

Former director made enemies but put SLAC on the road to success.

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Bell Laboratories has won patent rights to one of the most important high-temperature superconductor materials, yttrium barium copper oxide, which was identified as a superconductor by several rival groups of in 1987.

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A ban on on the participation of foreigners in a joint programme between US universities and the nuclear weapons laboratories indicates the practical challenges which the government faces in operating the programme.

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Members of the US Department's of Energy's Basic Energy Sciences AdvisoryCommittee, over half of whom are female, found themselves on a collision course with theall-male witnesses who presented evidence to it last week.

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The British government to revive its senior advisory panel on research policy promising a broader membership and greater transparency than in the past.

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Opinion among scientists and lawyers remains divided over the definition and merits of the 'precautionary principle', a meeting at Harvard University last week showed.

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The US government $320 million budget for nuclear physics was thrown into turmoil last week, just as it was being presented to Congress.

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The US Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology (FASEB) is being pressed to do more to represent the views of the individual investigators on professional issues.

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A project involving Mexico and Norway has shown that reductions in greenhouse gas emissions in a developing countries can be satisfactorily measured and certified for ‘trading’ purposes.

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Scientists are being asked by the National Cancer Institute to come up with innovative new technologies that will support cancer research and treatment.

Pressure groups opposed to agricultural biotechnology are working to undermine the impact of the academy's report on genetically-modified crops.

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A powerful conservative member of the US Senate has testified in favour of allowing stem cell research at the National Institutes of Health, increasing the chances that the Congress will allow public funding of such research.

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The US Congress is expected to restrict visits to nuclear weapons laboratories from foreign scientists.

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Christmas has come late for the National Science Foundation (NSF), with the Clinton administration proposing a budget increase of ten per cent, to $3.8 billion - more than any other government science agency.

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Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have expressed concern about the nature of its involvement in a programme on science and religion.

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A prominent US economist has criticized Western governments and the World Bank for failing to acknowledge the full potential of science and technology in alleviating global poverty.

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Carbon emissions in the United States will soar to more than one-third higher than their 1990 levels by 2010 if current trends continue.

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The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has appointed Thomas Cech, a Nobel prize-winning biochemist at the University of Colorado at Boulder, as its next president.

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A US plan to privatize a vast reserve of helium may be impossible to implement, according to the chair of a National Research Council (NRC) panel.

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US science lobbyists face a tough battle to restore research funding at the space agency NASA and the National Science Foundation in the face of Congressional efforts to impose cuts.

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President Bill Clinton this week promised record increases in funding for the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation in a budget that delighted science advocates.

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A popular news summary received every Friday by at least 10,000 physicists and science policy followers could cease publication after the American Physical Society threatened to cut its support for its author.

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Scientific research at the Environmental Protection Agency has been criticised in an assessment commissioned by the EPA's research office.

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Conflict between Europe and the United States is set to overshadow the opening of the fourth Conference of the UN climate convention in Buenos Aires.

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Developing countries are being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic more rapidly than ever, according to the United Nations AIDS programme.

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Classified computer operations at the US nuclear weapons laboratories are expected to return to normal this week after a week-long 'stand-down' intended to focus attention on security issues.