Organizations Urge Next President to Move Swiftly on Science Adviser and Science-Related Issues

Nearly 180 organizations representing the business, education and scientific communities have urged the next president to appoint a White House science adviser by January 20—Inauguration Day—and give the adviser cabinet rank.

By AAAS, USA.

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Researchers Identify Fungus Implicated in Bat White-Nose Syndrome

It's Halloween season, and we'll see plenty of bat decorations and bat-inspired costumes. In some regions in the northeastern United States, however, bats themselves will be in short supply.

By AAAS, USA.

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Obama and McCain Campaigns Detail Energy Polices at Debate Co-sponsored by AAAS

With the days ticking down to the 4 November presidential election, surrogates for John McCain and Barack Obama offered sharply different visions for increasing U.S. energy independence during a debate organized by Scientists and Engineers for America.

By AAAS, USA.

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AAAS Meeting Explores Ways to Improve Ethics Panels that Oversee Social Science Research

The ethics boards that oversee federally funded studies involving human subjects have become part of the research landscape since the 1970s. But some researchers in the social and behavioral sciences complain that the boards—established in response to abuses in biomedical research—too often take a heavy-handed approach toward survey research and other social science projects that pose minimal risk, if any, to those who participate.

By AAAS, USA.

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