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| The latest news from the Academies
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Jul. 29 -- Nuclear Forensics: A Capability at Risk, a new report from the National Research Council, examines how the U.S. can sustain and improve its ability to test intercepted nuclear material and devices, or in a worst-case situation, evaluate the aftermath of a nuclear detonation or radiological dispersal, to determine the origin of nuclear material or devices.
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Jul. 28 -- An Institute of Medicine committee that is assessing the FDA process for clearing and approving certain kinds of medical devices and its ability to protect and promote public health held an information-gathering workshop.
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Jul. 22 -- A comprehensive national response to climate change should be informed by reliable data coordinated through climate services and a greenhouse gas monitoring and management system to provide timely information tailored to decision makers at all levels, says a new report from the National Research Council.
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Jul. 16 -- Choices made now about carbon dioxide emissions reductions will affect climate change impacts experienced not just over the next few decades but also in coming centuries and millennia, says a new report from the National Research Council. Because CO2 in the atmosphere is long lived, it can effectively lock the Earth and future generations into a range of impacts, some of which could become very severe.
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| Breaking stories in science
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Jul. 14 -- A new rule announced by the government this week makes it easier for veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder to receive disability benefits. This change could affect hundreds of thousands of veterans who served in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam.
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Jun. 3 -- Five members of the National Academy of Sciences, two of whom are also members of the Institute of Medicine, were among eight scientists awarded the prestigious Kavli Prize today. NAS members Jerry Nelson, University of California, Santa Cruz, and Roger Angel, University of Arizona, Tucson, were among the winners of the astrophysics prize. NAS member Richard Scheller, Genentech, shared the neuroscience prize with Thomas Südhof, Stanford University School of Medicine, and James Rothman, Yale University, both NAS and IOM members.
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May. 14 -- The U.S. Senate this week confirmed Lt. Gen. Keith B. Alexander to lead the new U.S. Cyber Command, which the Defense Department created in response to increasing threats to its computer networks. The command is charged with giving early warning about cyber threats to the U.S. military and responding to them.
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May. 6 -- Nearly two weeks after an oil rig explosion off the coast of Louisiana, efforts are still under way to stop massive amounts of oil spilling out from an undersea well. Moreover, the vast oil slick produced from the leak continues to creep slowly toward towns and habitats on shore.
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