In Brazil, ‘useful idiots’ protest cuts to research and education
Insults from Brazil’s president help fuel massive demonstrations
Science and Policy
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Senate panel delays good-government bill, scolds HHS for ‘moving the goal posts’
National Institutes of Health complains that peer review would suffer, sends lawmakers looking for a compromise -
The world needs to get serious about managing sand, U.N. report says
With sand demand rising, extraction posing growing environmental threats -
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As gene testing surges, lawsuits aren’t far behind
Experts want clearer laws, regulations as medical standards evolve -
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Analysis: U.S. science adviser has a vision for cutting research red tape, but details are scarce
Kelvin Droegemeier faces long odds in tackling perennial complaint -
House Democrats move to resurrect Congress’s science advisory office
Spending bill includes $6 million to restore Office of Technology Assessment -
Medical DNA sequencing leads to lawsuits and legal questions
Effort to reconcile law and genomics moves forward as multiyear project LawSeq nears finish line -
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White House eyes nuclear weapons expert to lead challenge to climate science
Physicist Paul Robinson once led Sandia National Laboratory
