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[PHOTOGRAPH] DNA (ribbon model for backbone with ball-and-stick model for base pairs) [Public domain image courtesy of Jerome Walker,Dennis Myts] Synthetic DNA: Balancing Reward and Risk
[5 February 2010]
Draft U.S. guidelines that create a voluntary screening process to support safe trade in manufactured DNA would enhance security without hurting research experts said at AAAS.

[PHOTOGRAPH] A sprinter kneeling with his feet in the blocks, ready to run [Photo © & licensed by Getty Images, #AA033222] A New Way to Cheat: Genetic Modification
[4 February 2010]
Top researchers in the field of human enhancement, writing in Science, urge scientists to take the lead in warning that “gene doping” poses profound risks to athletes seeking an edge.

[PHOTOGRAPH] Cracked mud. [Photo © and licensed by Getty Images, # NPA_068] Adaptation Vital for Climate Portfolio
[3 February 2010]
Climate change inevitably will cause significant human and economic impacts and the U.S. must make plans to adapt, a panel of experts urged at a briefing co-organized by AAAS.

[PHOTOGRAPH] The White House [Image © and licensed by Getty Images] Obama’s 2011 Budget Offers Some Key R&D Increases
[2 February 2010]
The overall R&D budget proposed Monday by President Barack Obama is flat, but includes significant increases for key programs, science adviser John Holdren said at AAAS.

[PHOTOGRAPH] San Diego shoreline San Diego Hosts “Olympics of Science Conferences”
[1 February 2010]
The 2010 AAAS Annual Meeting is coming to San Diego for the first time, featuring cutting-edge international research and sharing the excitement of science at many free public events.

[ILLUSTRATION] Water vapor distribution and radiative and transport processes that influence the abundance of water vapor and the temperature of the earth/atmosphere system. [Image courtesy of K. Rosenlof] Science: A Wild Card in Global Warming
[29 January 2010]
Water vapor is an important greenhouse gas, but new research in Science suggests declining stratospheric vapor has helped slow the rise in global temperatures over the past decade.

[PHOTOGRAPH] A student doing a class activity in front of a laptop. The "Let’s Clone a Mouse, Mouse, Mouse" activity from Teach.Genetics allows students to demonstrate what they learned in the Click and Clone virtual lab on Learn.Genetics.  [Photo © Science/AAAS; courtesy of Genetic Science Learning Center, University of Utah] Genetics Sites Win Science Prize for Online Education
[28 January 2010]
Two Web sites at the University of Utah’s Genetic Science Learning Center have been selected winners of the first the Science Prize for Online Resources in Education.

[PHOTOGRAPH] A microchip standing and reflecting on a table [Photo © and licensed by John Foxx, Getty Images] Problem Solvers: Innovate to Beat Challenges
[27 January 2010]
At a AAAS/NSF meeting, engineers with disabilities shared advice—also suitable to non-disabled workers—on strategies and technologies they used to succeed in their jobs.

[PHOTOGRAPH] Healthy coral reef on the north coast of East Timor [Photo © Nick Hobgood, licensed Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0] Adapting to Changes in Marine Ecosystems
[26 January 2010]
Two marine scientists speaking at AAAS warned that humans and marine life will be forced to adapt to climate change on oceans already vulnerable due to over-fishing and pollution.

[PHOTOGRAPH] An energy-efficient compact fluorescent light bulb [Photo © Shane "Mugofevil" http://www.flickr.com/people/mugofevil/, licensed Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial 2.0] Correction from halogen→compact fluorescent courtesy of reader “Sweetie G” Glass of Water=Light Bulb?
[25 January 2010]
How much water does it take to light a house? Two energy experts speaking at AAAS said U.S. water and energy resources are intertwined and urged new conservation efforts.

[PHOTOGRAPH] Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a grouping of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) bacteria [Public Domain image courtesy of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Photo by Janice Carr, Public Health Image Library (PHIL)] Science: Tracking MRSA Around the World’s Hospitals
[21 January 2010]
Using new genome-sequencing techniques, researchers have tracked the drug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterium known as MRSA as it has spread around the world.

[PHOTOGRAPH] A young victim of the powerful earthquake that shook Port-au-Prince receives medical treatment at an ad-hoc clinic installed at the United Nations Stabilization Mission (MINUSTAH)'s logistics base in the Haitian capital. [Photograph & caption © United Nations; UN Photo by Logan Abassi] Using Satellite Images to Assess Haitian Disaster
[15 January 2010]
Lars Bromley, who leads AAAS projects on geospatial technologies, is involved with other geographers studying the images for clues about earthquake damage and relief needs.

[An African-American doctor reviewing an X-ray [image © and licensed by Getty Images, image #56402015] More Paths for Minority Researchers
[15 January 2010]
Participants at a AAAS-NSF brainstormed ways to increase minority faculty members and said that minorities should also be encouraged to pursue jobs in industry and at national labs.

[ILLUSTRATION] A ribbon-style molecuar model of HIV protease with bound ritonavir-1 [Public domain image created by Tim Vickers] Science: Progress, and Concerns, on HIV Drugs
[14 January 2010]
Science and Science Translational Medicine highlight recent HIV research concerning the upside of antiretroviral treatments—and concerns for rising resistance to the drugs.

[Portion of the flag of the East African Community, showing the EAC seal [Public domain image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_of_EAC.svg] East Africa: Science for Development and Health
[12 January 2010]
Top officials from Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, and Rwanda told a AAAS audience that they’re using science—and science diplomacy—to promote regional stability and prosperity.

 
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