Study: Fill Gov't Science Posts Faster
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Presidential appointments to senior science and technology posts should be filled more quickly and without regard to political affiliation, a new report from the nonpartisan National Academies urged Wednesday.
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A Department for Science should be created in Whitehall to boost the subject's profile, a Tory task force says.
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Scientists in the US say they have developed a faster, cheaper and more reliable test to detect bladder cancer.
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Scientists move swiftly to quash reports that a possible contact has been received from  extraterrestrial life.
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Science, government policy, and politics come together in official reports and at international conferences.
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WASHINGTON _ Slowly but surely, the government is getting Googled.  Two years ago, the Google staff in Washington was one person _ Alan Davidson, an expert in technology law.
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Â· UN report bemoans states' lack of urgencyÂ·  Five-year study involved 1,400 scientists
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Imagine being able to check instantly   whether or not statements made by politicians were correct.   That is the sort of service Google Inc. GOOG.O boss Eric   Schmidt believes the Internet will offer within five years.
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Using the Freedom of Information Act to get information from the government is like waiting for ketchup to flow from a new bottle. Both often take longer than they are supposed to.
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It's a question that often prompts a boastful answer or a bashful one: How many sex partners have you had? Now the federal government says it has authoritative statistics, documenting that men are far more likely to play the field than women.
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A nonpartisan national group is trying to get a record number of voters to the polls this year. By MARK ZALOUDEK. Scientists are unlocking some of the mysteries of the universe as planetary exploration forges ahead on several fronts.
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BBC Click reporter Chris Long takes a swipe at some of the technologies that are floated as good ideas by government.
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A panel of leading computer scientists warned in a report issued on Monday that unless the federal government significantly increased support for advanced research on
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Just came across Citizendium today which is taking advantage of the problems of spam and altered reality at Wikipedia by positioning itself as being more accurate &#038; accountable. The project, started by [Larry Sanger] a founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding &#8220;gentle expert oversight&#8221; and requiring contributors to use their real [...]
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Opt-in email lists not only allows you to instantly test an idea and get immediate results, but it also gives you the ability to maintain traffic and hits during slow periods. By Terry Detty. 0710
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Last December, medical school researchers came to a professional meeting in Puerto Rico with a sense of urgency. Federal drug regulators were reviewing unpublished data from their studies on
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More people are signing up to leave their bodies to medical science, say government regulators.