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It's just not scientific enough says journal
NEWS.com.au
But some academics are angry about what they see as a dumbing down of universities by offering courses that lackscientific credibility. "Pseudoscientific courses sully the genuinely scientific courses and research conducted at the same institution," ...
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NEWS.com.au
Is chimpanzee research necessary? No, say many scientists
Daily Camera
In his book Knight draws on more than a decade of research and over 500scientific publications to rigorously test common assumptions about animal experimentation. He shows that the majority of such studies actually are never cited by subsequent ...
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Scientists find key to immortality - for asexual worms
Victoria Times Colonist
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciencesjournal this week, the researchers found that the flatworms, known as planarian worms, can continuously maintain the length of a crucial part of their DNA, known as telomeres, ...
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India to expand science, tech cooperation with Africa
Zee News
... cooperation in frontier areas of research, capacity building and knowledge industries. Empowerment through knowledge and technology was the buzzword at a two-day science and technology conclave here that brought together more than 100scientists, ...
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Zee News
Asian Scientist Chats With Prof. Warwick Anderson, CEO Of Australia's NHMRC
Asian Scientist Magazine
Anderson, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 for his contributions to medical research, was prior to his NHMRC appointment the Head of School of Biomedical Sciencesat Monash University and Deputy Director of the Baker Medical ...
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Asian Scientist Magazine
Demands Canada stops censoring science
The Australian
The science journal Nature called on the Canadian government in an online editorial Friday to "set its scientists free" and allow them to speak about theirresearch. "It is time for the Canadian government to set its scientists free," Nature said in a ...
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EU, SEA bare 80-billion-euro science program
Philippine Star
By Helen Flores (The Philippine Star) Updated March 05, 2012 12:00 AM 0 SINGAPORE – The European Union (EU) is set to spend €80 billion (over P4.5 trillion) for research and innovation from 2014 to 2020 to expand scientificcollaboration between Europe ...
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Scientists shed light on how liver repairs itself
PhysOrg.com
Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Edinburgh have discovered how to enhance the production of key cells needed to repair damaged liver tissue. The study, published in the journal ...
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Credit where credit is due
Indian Express
A celebrity Indian scientist's reputation has been felled by a clumsy cut-and-paste job in a research paper published in an international journal. Thescientist, none other than Prof. CNR Rao who heads the Scientific Advisory Council to the Prime ...
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Council of Scientific and Industrial Research Receives Patent for a Process ...
Power Engineering Magazine
New Delhi, March 4 -- Council of Scientific and Industrial Research received patent for a process for the production clean coals from inferior grade lower seam coals on Jan. 23, 2009. The patent number issued by the Indian Patent Office is 227104.
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Scientists seeking public help to hunt aliens
Daily News & Analysis
... director of the SETI Institute's Center for SETI Research. “I'm hoping to put together this army of citizen scientists to help figure out which signals to follow up on,” he stated. In contrast to some other crowd-sourced science projects,...
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Georgia Health Sciences University President Ricardo Azziz talks merger with ...
The Augusta Chronicle
Today, Georgia Health Sciences University President Ricardo Azziz talks about the strategic plan for growth and expansion, the consolidation with Augusta State University, and the relationship with the community and community leaders.
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National Science Day 2012
E-Pao.net
The event is now celebrated all over the country in schools, colleges, universities and other academic, scientific, technical, medical and researchinstitutions. Prof. CV Raman was not only the first Asian but also the first non-White to get the Nobel ...
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Two UCSC scientists awarded Pew Fellowships for Marine Conservation to study ...
Santa Cruz Sentinel
Beck is lead scientist of the global marine team at the Nature Conservancy. Each will receive $150000 for a three-year scientific research or conservation project designed to address critical challenges facing the oceans. Munch's project will create ...
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Former Vatican astronomer brings outspoken views on creation/evolution to ...
Syracuse.com (blog)
Research interest: Polarimetric studies of interstellar medium, stars with extended atmospheres and small spiral galaxies. Here's how the Rev. George V. Coyne got his start in astronomy: As a 20-year-old Jesuit novitiate, Coyne studied Latin, ...
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Syracuse.com (blog)
Royal Scientific Society (RSS) takes over Clean Technology cluster
AME Info
HRH Princess Sumaya in her welcoming speech presented by Dr. Odeh Al Jayousi, Vice President for Science and Research at the RSS, said that the Cluster had been designed to respond to the vision of His Majesty King Abdullah II for a future driven by ...
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How Powerful Was a T. rex Bite?
Popular Mechanics
Scientists at Liverpool University in the UK released a study this week in Biology Letters that estimated the biting force of T. rex may have been able to deliver 12,8000 pounds of force—almost 20 times more powerful than previously thought.
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Popular Mechanics
Arctic sea ice decline triggers a toxic chain reaction, NASA study finds
Click Green
This study was funded by NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the National Science Foundation, the Office of NavalResearch, the International Polar Year Program, Environment Canada, the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of ...
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Scientists Say Oceans Acidifying Faster Today Than In Past 300 million Years
Newsroom America
The research included participation of the Institute of Environmental Scienceand Technology (ICTA) of Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC), and the Catalan Institute forResearch and Advanced Studies ...
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Science policy needs to be researched for poverty alleviation
DAWN.com
German Scientists stressed upon the need to devise SciencePolicy for poverty alleviation in Pakistan. – Reuters Photo FAISALABAD: Science policy itself needs to be researched for its enhanced impact with a special focus on unprivileged class keeping ...
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DAWN.com
Beholding beauty: How it's been studied
CNN
Faces that are more symmetrical and average-looking tend to be rated as more attractive in scientific studies. Symmetry in particular has been studiedextensively, not only in the Western World but also in hunter-gatherer cultures removed from ...
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Goat milk vaccine could save lives
San Antonio Express
When the black, brown and white nanny gives birth — maybe to twins — this month, staffers at A&M's Reproductive Sciences Laboratory will celebrate, then push ahead with their research. “Our ultimate, ultimate idea is to continue the research to the ...
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Gasoline Worse Than Diesel When It Comes To Some Types Of Air Pollution
Eurasia Review
... organic aerosols (SOA)-than those from diesel vehicles, according to a newstudy by scientists from the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), NOAA's Earth System ResearchLaboratory (ESRL) and other colleagues.
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Unexpected Crustacean Diversity In Northern Freshwater Ecosystems
RedOrbit
The new information on water fleas — which are actually tiny crustaceans — comes from a multi-year, international study that was published Feb. 24 in the journal Zootaxa. The researchers scoured the globe seeking the creatures and found them ...
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RedOrbit
India-born scientists caught faking data
Hindustan Times
But he did confirm to Retraction Watch, an online watchdog of scientific studies, that his lab was indeed under investigation. "I think that somebody out there is putting this whole thing together and their mind is made up," he had said.
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Research shows brain more flexible, trainable than previously thought
PhysOrg.com
"Most brain-machine interface studies have been done in healthy, able-bodied animals. What our study shows is that neuroprosthetic control is possible, even if physical movement is not involved." To clarify these issues, thescientists set up a clever ...
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Chance discovery shocks scientists
Fraser Coast Chronicle
A CHEAP antibiotic normally prescribed to teenagers for acne is to be tested as a treatment to alleviate the symptoms of psychosis in patients with schizophrenia, in a trial that could advance scientific understanding of the causes of mental illness.
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Students help get world on renewable path
Illawarra Mercury
"This type of engineering and science, especially renewable energy, is the future and we need scientists working in this field and a lot more researchbeing conducted." The importance of encouraging more students to study science subjects was ...
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Asian Scientist Chats With Prof. Warwick Anderson, CEO Of ...
By Juliana Chan
Anderson, who was made a Member of the Order of Australia in 2005 for his contributions to medical research, was prior to his NHMRC appointment the Head of School of Biomedical Sciences at Monash University and Deputy Director of the ...
Asian Scientist Magazine | Science,...
Former Vatican astronomer brings outspoken views on creation ...
By Dave Tobin / The Post-Standard
... Observatory, 1978 to 2006. Taught astronomy at the University of Arizona for 45 years. Research interest: Polarimetric studies of interstellar medium, stars with extended atmospheres and small spiral galaxies. .... If the Vatican were to launch a scientific research arm, Coyne said he would steer it toward genetics, something with more importance to the ethical decisions the church has to make. As director of the Vatican Observatory, Coyne sat on the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, ...
CNY Life
Einsteins of connectivity « C.DLT
By christopher de la Torre
Their work is an example of the experiments in networked science that are now being done to study everything from galaxies to dinosaurs. These projects use online tools as cognitive tools to amplify our collective intelligence. The tools ...We may well see the day-to-day process of scientific research change more fundamentally over the next few decades than over the past three centuries. But there are major obstacles to realizing this goal. Though you might think thatscientists would ...
C.DLT
AGU: Gasoline worse than diesel when it comes to ... - Junk Science
By Editor
... diesel engines that were contributing the most to the organic aerosols in LA,” said CIRES research scientist Roya Bahreini, who led the study and also works at NOAA's ESRL. “This was contrary to what the scientific community expected.” ...
JunkScience.com
SemiotiX | Halliday and Multimodal Semiotics
By Zbigniew
Indeed Halliday's view of culture as 'a set of [inter-related] semiotic systems' (Halliday & Hasan, 1985: 4) is the major platform for research in multimodalstudies today, as evidenced by foundational works in the field (Kress & van Leeuwen, 2006 [ 1996]; O'Toole, 2011 [1994]). Halliday's social ... We can also track semiotic change across individuals and cultures (e.g. Halliday's (2006) account of the semantic shift arising from the scientific view of the world). Significantly, Halliday's theory ...
SemiotiX
Scripps research scientists identify protein that ... - e! Science News
Scripps research scientists identify protein that sends 'painful touch' signals... The experiments in the new study were conducted in fruit flies, a model system for ...
esciencenews.com/.../scripps.research.scientists.identify.protein...
Social Scientist / Deputy head of Social Science Programme jobs ...
Apply for Social Scientist / Deputy head of Social Science Programme in Entebbe ... The Social Science Programme conducts social and behaviouralresearch.
jobs.guardian.co.uk/.../social-scientist-deputy-head-of-social-s...
MDDX Launches New Software To Empower Biomedical Scientists ...
New “MulticenterTM Platform” Democratizes Scientific Research Tools. ...New Software To Empower Biomedical Scientists To Scale Their StudiesGlobally ...
www.prweb.com/releases/2012/2/prweb9237970.htm
Research Space Scientist Assistant Planetary Studies Job in ...
Jobtile: Research Space Scientist Assistant Planetary Studies Location: Worldwide Deadline: 3/7/2012 12:00:00 AM.
federalgovernmentjobs.us/.../Research-Space-Scientist-Assistan...
Scientists to survey scientists about science
Scientists have recently turned our focus on to ourselves, asking how do we make decisions in our research? To study ourselves, we need you – the faculty and ...
www.sciscoop.com/scientists-to-survey-scientists-about-science...
Research Scientist - Animal Science with SRG | 1401338379
Research Scientist - Animal Science. Employer. SRG. Posted. Wednesday, February 22, 2012. Ref. 25420. Contact. James Windridge. Location. East Midlands ...
jobs.newscientist.com/job/.../research-scientist-animal-science/
Scientific study confirms that near death experiences (NDEs) are ...
Scientific study confirms that near death experiences (NDEs) are caused by REM sleep. Posted by Kristian. on February 21, 2012. 18 OOBE ResearchCenter ...
theparanormalnetwork.wordpress.com/.../scientific-study-confi...
Being Happy - Scientific American Blog Network
Opinion, arguments & analyses from the editors of Scientific American ... But new research indicates that two other factors are even better predictors of a nation's ... Russell studied numerous studies about happiness in many nations, assessing ...
blogs.scientificamerican.com/.../being-happy-social-and-natur...
Scientific Freedom and Responsibility | Speaking of Research
The AAAS is the world's largest general scientific society, with over 125000 ...such as prior drug use and other experiences that complicate human studies.
speakingofresearch.com/.../scientific-freedom-and-responsibili...
Sensenbrenner Investigates Impact of Scientific Research on ...
Sensenbrenner Investigates Impact of Scientific Research on National Security ... will ask the NSABB to reconvene to reexamine new versions of the two studies.
sensenbrenner.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?...
biology research scientists | Science Market Update
Posts with biology research scientists on Science Market Update blog ...Safran and Johnson's research involve genetics, stable-isotope analysis, and the study ...
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Indianapolis Biologist - Biotechnology Regulatory Sciences-R&D ...
Indianapolis Biologist - Biotechnology Regulatory Sciences-R&D Job - IN, 46201. ... and monitoring of GLP-regulated agronomy and compositionresearch trials ...
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