Iran Winning Praise for Effective—and Increasingly Open—Response to HIV/AIDS, Experts Say

Despite a continuing stigma about AIDS in Iran, the nation’s health authorities are winning praise globally for their response to the disease and have been more open about the number of cases and the routes of transmission, an Iranian-born American scientist said at AAAS recently .

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Science: GRAIL Mission Reveals Moon’s Crust in Detail

The GRAIL mission’s principal investigator Maria Zuber of MIT and her colleagues have produced a map of the moon’s gravity field, which reveals areas of different density in the lunar crust and should help researchers understand the history of the moon. .

By AAAS, USA.

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AAAS Rallies Members and Others to Publicly Oppose Sequestration Through Video, Writing

AAAS, the world’s largest scientific society, is urging members and others who are concerned about American innovation to quickly share video and text messages detailing how automatic budget cuts could harm their research beginning 2 January unless U.S. lawmakers find a compromise. .

By AAAS, USA.

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Fukushima Investigator Kiyoshi Kurokawa Wins AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award

Dr. Kiyoshi Kurokawa, M.D., chairman of the Health and Global Policy Institute, academic fellow of Graduate Research Institute of Policy Studies, professor emeritus of the University of Tokyo, and former president of the Science Council of Japan, has been named to receive the 2012 AAAS Scientific Freedom and Responsibility Award. .

By AAAS, USA.

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