Consortium to host gulf restoration roundtable next week

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Huntsman responds to Perry: I believe in evolution, call me crazy

Former Ambassador to China and Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman appeared to be the only benefactor to a New Hampshire exchange between Texas Gov. Rick Perry and a small boy, which was prompted by the boy’s mother.

Despite Perry claim, Texas schools don’t teach creationism alongside evolution

A New Hampshire campaign trail claim by Gov. Rick Perry during an exchange with a local boy and his mother that Texas schools teach both evolution and creationism, and then allow students to decide which is correct, is a false statement.

With Friends Like These, Mother Earth Needs No Enemies

Can’t figure out why an increasing number of Americans doubt the threat of climate change? Well, check out where they’re getting their information.

From John Horgan in Scientific American:

Two sources at the Science Times section of the New York Times have told me that a majority of

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Maybe Steven Chu Was Stumped After All

I was more than a little incredulous when I read that Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) claimed via Twitter to have stumped Energy Secretary Steven Chu with a simple science question. After all, Chu is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, while Barton doesn’t exactly have the firmest grasp More…

Report: Obama to Expand Federal Stem Cell Research

President Obama is expected to sign an executive order Monday ending the controversial ban on increased federal funding for embryonic stem cell research, The Washington Post reported this afternoon.

The move, long sought by scientists and patient advocates and opposed by religious groups, would enable the National Institutes of

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Study: Virginity Pledges Don’t Work

Confirming what many have been saying for years, a new survey finds that teenagers who pledge to forgo sexual activity until marriage were just as likely to engage in premarital sex as those who do not. Adolescents who take the pledge are also less likely than their More…

Scientists Heartened by Potential Appointees

After President-elect Barack Obama fills out his cabinet appointments, he will turn to appointing new leadership for the government agencies with the power to regulate industry—a process that will likely bring an end to what has become known as the Bush administration’s “war on science.”

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More States Receive Suspicious Letters With White Powder

Add Iowa’s Democratic Gov. Chet Culver to the growing (and bipartisan) list of governors who have received letters containing a mysterious powder this week, according to our sister site, The Iowa Independent.

On Monday, the governors of Alabama, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana and Rhode Island received these letters. More…

Physicist Tops Obama’s List for Energy Secretary

CNN and The Huffington Post are reporting that President-elect Barack Obama is close to settling on Nobel Prize-winning physicist Steven Chu as his pick for energy secretary.