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Hour One: President's Science Advisor / Microbe News

How will the terrorist attacks affect science policy in the US? Should the US keep supporting the international space station? What about stem cells, cloning, and bio-engineered foods? Join Ira Flatow on the next Science Friday for a talk with the President's science advisor, John Marburger III..

Plus, we'll hear about what a unique community of microbes, found 600 feet below Earth's surface, could tell us about life on Mars -- and how to make a battery out of mud.

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Guests:
John Marburger III
Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy
Executive Office of the President
Washington, DC

Derek Lovley
Professor, Microbiology
University of Massachusetts Amherst
Amherst, Massachusetts

Books/Articles Discussed:

Chapelle, F. H. A hydrogen-based subsurface microbial community dominated by methanogens. Nature, 415, 312 - 315, (2002). (find more SciFri books here)

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Related Links:

Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Main Page
Spaceflight Now | Bush science advisor says station needs major reforms
White House: President to Nominate Director of Office of Science and Technology House Committee on Science Press Release
AAAS: Science and Technology in Congress
APS News Online
Statement of Dr. John H. Marburger III before the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation

Nature Science Update: Life, as it was in the beginning?
New York Times: Found: Life on Earth That Could Exist on Mars
DLC-ME | The Microbe Zoo
Stalking the Mysterious Microbe 

This segment produced by: Annette Heist