CSPO - Consortium For Science, Policy & Outcomes

Science & Policy News

May 2006

Live Science, May 31, 2006

Proposal to Implant Tracking Chips in Immigrants: Scott Silverman, Chairman of the Board of VeriChip Corporation, has proposed implanting the company's RFID tracking tags in immigrant and guest workers.

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Arizona Republic, May 29, 2006

ASU seeking fast way to make vaccine for avian-flu: If a flu pandemic hit tomorrow, months could pass before a targeted vaccine made its way to a panicked public.

New Scientist, May 26, 2006

Robot hand controlled by thought alone: The robotic hand mimics the movements of a person's real hand, based on real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) of their brain activity.

New Scientist, May 23, 2006

Synthetic biologists reject controversial guidelines: Researchers in the new field of synthetic biology have pledged to develop better tools to identify anyone trying to order the DNA needed to make deadly pathogens.

New York Times, May 15, 2006

States Struggle to Computerize School Records: Nearly all states are building high-tech student data systems to collect, categorize and crunch the endless gigabytes of attendance logs, test scores and other information collected in public schools - and the projects in some states seem to have gone haywire.

Wall Street Journal, May 11, 2006

Commentary: TB or Not to Be: Several months ago, I had an unusual encounter with an illegal immigrant...

CNN, May 10, 2006
House passes $10M hydrogen prize: Scientists, inventors and entrepreneurs will be able to vie for a grand prize of $10 million, and smaller prizes reaching millions of dollars, under House-passed legislation to encourage research into hydrogen as an alternative fuel.

The Christian Science Monitor, May 4, 2006

Professors want their classes 'unwired': A growing number of graduate schools - after investing a fortune in the technology - are blocking Web access to students in class because of complaints from professors.