Nature 1992 Jeffrey Mervis - Abstracts

Nature 1992 Jeffrey Mervis
TitleSubjectAuthors
Alberts emphasizes education as nominee to head NAS. (Bruce Alberts, National Academy of Sciences)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Bush spins tall tale of technology transfer. (Bush erroneously uses physicist Finley Markley's research on kidney dialyzers to defend the Superconducting Super Collider)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
CERN officials visit Tokyo, hat in hand, in search of funds for their next big collider. (European Laboratory for Particle Physics and the Large Hadron Collider) (includes information on the Superconducting Super Collider)Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid Swinbanks, Jeffrey Mervis
Clinton's science policies and personnel have yet to emerge as he prepares for presidency.Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Conflict over scope of research splits Human Frontier programme. (Human Frontier Science Program)Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid Swinbanks, Alison Abbott, Jeffrey Mervis
Debate over animals is given a personal touch. (letters from parents whose children were saved due to medical research using animals)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
First meeting of commission gives Massey a boost in plotting viable future for NSF. (Commission on the Future of the National Science Foundation, NSF director Walter Massey)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Foreign contributors hold fate of two SSC detectors. (Superconducting Super Collider)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Gemini telescope project shifts into high gear. (Gemini Project to build observatories in Hawaii and Chili)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Healy attacks NASA's claims; bad news for research budgets. (National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy denies that the Space Station Freedom will help biomedical research)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Healy attacks US budgeting system. (National Institutes of Health director Bernadine Healy and research priorities)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
House vote to kill SSC reflects squeeze that budget deficit puts on all research. (House of Representatives and the Superconducting Super Collider) (includes information on the Japanese government's funding of science)Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid Swinbanks, Christopher Anderson, Jeffrey Mervis
Japan wants global guidelines for joint research projects.Zoology and wildlife conservationDavid Swinbanks, Alison Abbott, Jeffrey Mervis
Livermore laboratory buys Russian papers on laser technology.Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
New foundation to fund Russian biologists. (American-Russian Biomedical Research Foundation)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis, Vladimir Pokrowsky
New rules loom for US science funding as Congress passes a lean 1993 budget.Zoology and wildlife conservationTraci Watson, Christopher Anderson, Jeffrey Mervis
NIH forms policy centre to study research ethics: unit will respond to issues; outside scholars complement staff. (National Institutes of Health)(includes information on Sandy Chamblee, named to head the new centre)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
NIH looks inward and outside for ways to help minorities. (National Institutes of Health) (NIH Today)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
NIH makes room for the unconventional after Congress mandates new programme. (National Institutes of Health must spend $2 million a year investigating unconventional medical practices)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
NSF falls short on shortage. (flaws in the National Science Foundation's forecast of a shortage of scientists)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
NSF gets a pat on the back in report suggesting stronger industrial ties. (report by Commission on the Future of the National Science Foundation)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
NSF will experiment with fixed budgets in an effort to simplify grants process. (National Science Foundation)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Problems delay emergence of Moscow research centre. (includes related article on U.S. assistance for Russian research centers)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis, Vladimir Pokrovsky
Supercollider creates a field of dreams for luring high-energy physicists to Texas. (Superconducting Super Collider) (includes profiles of four physicists participating in the Supercollider project) (Science in Texas) (Cover Story)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
The West gropes for ways to help. (scientific assistance for the former Soviet Union) (includes information on foreign funding for Russia's Institute for Space Research)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
Yeltsin's ecology adviser chips away at a sorry past. (Boris Yeltsin, Alexei Yablokov)Zoology and wildlife conservationJeffrey Mervis
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