In a pleasant surprise, Trump has nominated Ned Sharpless, a physician in charge of the cancer center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, to lead the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The nomination received praise from the cancer research community.[...]
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June 13th, 2017 - 9:04 am § in Donald Trump, Science
Trump Picks Scientist as National Cancer Institute Director
NSF Ends Support For Environmental Biology Training Grants
WHILE FRANCE OFFERS US SCIENTISTS FUNDING IF THEY EMIGRATE, NSF CUTS PhD TRAINING PROGRAM Letter from the NSF: Dear Colleague: With this Dear Colleague Letter, the Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) is notifying members of the research communities served by the Division of Integrative Organis[...]
NASA to visit asteroid worth $10,000 quadrillion!
NASA scientists is directing a robotic mission to the Psyche planetoid. Measuring 240km (149 miles) in diameter, the ore in Psyche is estimated to be worth $10,000 quadrillion, Psyche is located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and is made almost entirely of iron and nickel[...]
May 23rd, 2017 - 7:23 am § in Science
TRUMP TARGETS NATIONAL HEALTH INSTITUTES AND CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL
Washington Post reports the Trump’s 2018 budget would decimate health research The National Cancer Institute: a $1 billion cut The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: a $575 million cut National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases : a $838 million cut. The administration wou[...]
May 4th, 2017 - 12:34 am § in Science, The Ave Scene
IS REDMOND THE HOME OF HANS ZARKOV?
Cape Canaveral, FL – SpaceX launched a top-secret spy satellite for the U.S. government Monday morning and then successfully landed the booster for recycling. The unmanned Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from its NASA-leased pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The company, owned by Elon Musk, s[...]
May 2nd, 2017 - 12:25 am § in Science
CHINA: Born in Orbit?
China Exclusive: Are human space babies conceivable? Tianzhou-1 experiment may give clue As astronauts continue to break records for time spent in space and manned Mars exploration is under discussion, scientists in China have begun a groundbreaking study to determine if humans can reproduce in spac[...]
April 23rd, 2017 - 8:28 am § in Donald Trump, Environment, Hypocrisy, Politics, Science, The Ave Scene, UW
Was The March for Science a Bad Idea? I
On Saturday, UW faculty took very different paths in the March for Science. Some of us stood aside, concerned that the March might politicize science, others celebrated science by joining with the the crowd marching in the Seattle rain. Cliff Mass was among those who stayed away. Cliff is [...]
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JOIN US …. March For Science …. APRIL 22 …. Cal Anderson Park
Do you know that there are about 20,000 people in Seattle’s scientific community? Do you know that science fellows often make less than school teachers even after earning a PhD? Do you know that it takes as much as ten years after college, at low wages, to train to become a junior faculty memb[...]