NASA scientists brace for new cuts

Calling on scientists to fight budget cuts.

THE FUNDING LEVELS REQUESTED BY THE Bush Administration for 2006 (“Caught in the squeeze,” J. Mervis, News Focus, 11 Feb., p. 832) represent a decrease in science and technology funding across the board. This budget and its priorities do not bode well for American science and technology or for America’s scientists and science students. Underfunding science and technology research and education ...

Space exploration. Scientists add up gains, losses in Bush's new vision for NASA.

U.S. astronomy. You make the call, NASA chief tells scientists.

www.sciencemag.org SCIENCE VOL 310 21 OCTOBER 2005 425 Faced with problems fixing the space shuttle, finishing the international space station, and winning support for an ambitious exploration effort, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told researchers last week that he was “fed up” with conflicting advice from the science community. Instead of expecting more funds, Griffin explained to the fed...

A New Brace for Maintaining the Neck in a Suitable Position Following Tracheal Reconstruction

Segmental resection and end-to-end anastomosis is the treatment of choice for patients suffering from tracheal stenosis for whom conservative management is not planned. A complication of this procedure is tension-induced anastomotic failure. To prevent this complication, maintaining the neck in full flexion by means of a suture between the chin and upper chest is a traditional approach. We have...

PubChem3D: a new resource for scientists

BACKGROUND PubChem is an open repository for small molecules and their experimental biological activity. PubChem integrates and provides search, retrieval, visualization, analysis, and programmatic access tools in an effort to maximize the utility of contributed information. There are many diverse chemical structures with similar biological efficacies against targets available in PubChem that a...