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ENVIRONMENTAL campaigners have revealed that the Scottish Parliament pension fund has almost £1 million invested in coal, oil and gas companies that are driving climate breakdown. Freedom of information requests analysed by Friends of the Earth Scotland (FoES) show the fund has an estimated fossil-fuel investment of £923,585, equivalent to more than £7,000 per MSP.  The fund was found to have an estimated £733,000 stake in BHP, a major coal, oil and gas producer and one of the 20 compan...

The Technology 202: Software company Basecamp restricts talk of politics and social issues at work Cat Zakrzewski with Aaron Schaffer Basecamp is telling employees to keep chatter about politics or social issues out of work, amid growing limits on employee speech across the tech industry.   Jason Fried, the CEO of the Chicago-based software company, wrote in a blog post that such conversations were a “major distraction” and “not healthy,” and he said the company w...

Using CRISPR as a research tool to develop cancer treatments April 26, 2021MIT CRISPR’s potential to prevent or treat disease is widely recognized. But the gene-editing technology can also be used as a research tool to probe and understand diseases. That’s the basic insight behind KSQ Therapeutics. The company uses CRISPR to alter genes across millions of cells. By observing the effect of turning on and off individual genes, KSQ can decipher their role in diseases like cancer. The company u...

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Dont show me this message again✕ Joe Biden’s Cabinet pick for science adviser has been delayed by Democrat concerns of connections to paedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to reports. The nomination of Eric Lander to director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy was reportedly paused due to questions around two meetings the geneticist had with Epstein in 2012, four years after the financier’s conviction on child prostitution. Quoting an anonymous official familiar with the situa...

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Jennifer Doudna, inventor of the revolutionary gene-editing tool CRISPR Nick Otto/Getty Images Walter Isaacsons latest book chronicles Jennifer Doudnas discovery of CRISPR, a gene-editing tool.  The 536-page book hits on themes including curiosity driving science and CRISPRs vast potential. Here are five key takeaways from Isaacons biography. The biographer Walter Isaacson has chronicled some of historys most iconic creative peo...

Washington Examiners request for comment, but the senator told Politico Landers hearing had been set for April 29, well after some other Biden Cabinet members. "Were having a hearing on him next week, and well see what happens with that," she said. Lander has spoken with Cantwell over the course of his nomination, the White House told the Washington Examiner. "Dr. Lander briefly met Epstein in Spring 2012, at two events with multiple Harvard donors, faculty and others, and he correctly decide...

Even though the city has prioritised economic development for decades, the changing needs as a result of the pandemic mean Hong Kong should strengthen its policy on science by establishing a high-level Science and Development Office The persistence of the Covid-19 global crisis has highlighted the importance of scientific research. Healthcare, vaccination, testing and protective equipment are all about science, while there is increasing reliance on communication technology as a result of social...

20 April 2021 by: Andrea Korte Jane Lubchenco and Alondra Nelson are former members of the AAAS Board of Directors. | Left: The Aspen Institute, right: Robb Cohen Photography & Video Jane Lubchenco and Alondra Nelson are former members of the AAAS Board of Directors. | Left: The Aspen Institute, right: Robb Cohen Photography & Video Two past members of the AAAS Board of Directors are bringing their science policy expertise to the federal government as leaders in the White House ...