Obama Could Have Major S&T Impact, Despite Financial Crisis, Experts Say at AAAS Leadership Seminar

President-elect Barack Obama will be focused on the economy and national security and federal spending will be constrained by the financial crisis, but the new administration still could have a dramatic impact on science-related issues, experts said at AAAS.

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Study Co-Authored by AAAS Urges Renewed U.S. Leadership in Nuclear Arms Control

The United States must re-establish its global leadership in nuclear arms control while continuing to update its nuclear arsenal as necessary, but it should not add any new nuclear capabilities in the process, a joint working group of scientists and policy experts says in a study meant to inform decision making by the incoming Obama administration.

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Zoos Mean Shorter Lives for Elephants

Female elephants living in protected populations in Africa and Asia live longer than those in captivity in European zoos, according to new research published in Science.This finding could mark the end of a long-standing debate about the physical and mental well-being of zoo elephants, and may also bring about improvements in how these animals are kept.

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Research on Understanding DNA Transfer Earns Top Award for Young Life Scientists

For his research of DNA segregation, assembly and regulation of bacterial actin-like proteins, and cytoskeleton, Ethan Clark Garner, a regional winner from North America, has been named the Grand Prize winner for the GE & Science Prize for Young Life Scientists.The competition, which includes a grand-prize award of $25,000, is supported by GE Healthcare and the journal Science.

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