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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Nov 27, 2011


Climategate 2.0: Do new emails undermine global warming science?
Washington Post (blog)
And new scientific assessments and studies have re-affirmed the Earth is warming and human activities play a key role. In a seeming effort to take another swing at the integrity of climate science, a second crop of emails was anonymously released ...
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Jamia: A hub of pioneering scientific research
India Today
He is not alone in his quest to study natural and life sciences at one of India's oldest universities . Many youngsters like him are coming from all parts of the country to chase their dreams at the 90-year-old university which is fast acquiring a ...
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India Today
Scientific Research Speaks through Art
Harvard Crimson
“Artistic Visions and Scientific Truths”—a collaboration between the Harvard Art Museums and the Boston Museum of Science—stemmed from the ongoing exhibition “Prints and Pursuits of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe” at the Sackler Museum. ...
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Sustainability gains ground as field of scientific research
Reporter-Times
Kaur and Bettencourt considered other academic areas that contribute to sustainabilityscience and found that social sciences accounted for 34 percent of the publishedresearch, followed by biology with 23. 3 percent and engineering at 21.6 percent. ...
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Reporter-Times
Arctic sea ice in longest decline seen over past 1450 years: study
Globe and Mail
Research published in a top scientific journal says Arctic sea ice has declined more in the last half-century than it has any time over the last 1450 years. The study, which gives the most detailed picture ever of the northern oceans over the previous ...
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Globe and Mail
Study Finds Limited Sensitivity of Climate to CO2
New York Times (blog)
Eric Berger of the Houston Chronicle describes the research, published today in Science. The work, led by researchers at Oregon State University, had surfaced earlier but has now survived peer review. My sense is that most scientists consider the very ...
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Scientists say fish hooks go back 42000 years
msnbc.com
Early anglers probably fashioned boats by tying logs together and used nets and sharpened pieces of wood or shells as hooks, said Kathlyn Stewart, a research scientist at the Canadian Museum of Nature, who was not part of the study. ...
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msnbc.com
Shockingly Simple: Government funding for scientific research should not be cut
LSU The Reveille
Republican presidential candidate and Congressman Ron Paul believes the government should get out of funding scientific research altogether. To be fair, Paul believes the federal government should stop funding almost everything outside the military, ...
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On writing a scientific paper
Philippine Star
She can be reached at gpconcepcion@gmail.com. Eduardo A. Padlan is a retired research scientist, formerly with the US National Institutes of Health. He is currently serving as an adjunct professor at the Marine Science Institute. ...
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Scientific community calls for universal code of conduct
SciDev.Net
[BUDAPEST] Representatives of many of the world's top science research organisations have endorsed a call for a universal code of conduct on the rights, freedom and responsibilities ofscientific workers, demanding that such a code be recognised by, ...
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Economics, not science, thwarts embryonic stem cell therapy
Los Angeles Times
s stem cell research was the shining hope. The biotech firm showered scientists with millions of dollars to develop a treatment to reverse spinal damage. The therapy was the first treatment derived from embryonic stem cells to be cleared by the Food ...
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Los Angeles Times
Jordan- Lack of proposals, not funds, holding back scientific research'
Middle East North Africa Financial Network
(MENAFN - Jordan Times) A lack of proposals is a greater impediment to scientific research in Jordan than a lack of funds, an official from the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research said on Monday. Nasri Rabadi, head of the ministry's ...
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Indo-Swiss Science workshop inaugurated at Wetland Research & Training Center ...
Orissadiary.com
The Swiss Embassy supported the visit of the overseas scientists. 19 overseas scientists and more than 30 Indian scientists & experts have participated in the workshop and deliberations on the variousscientific research issues on Chilika.
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Southampton scientists announce research partnership with NestlĂ© Research Center
Science Business
The EpiGen Consortium also includes researchers from AgResearch Limited; Auckland UniServices Limited; Singapore Institute for Clinical Sciences of the Agency forScience, Technology and Research (A*STAR); and National University of Singapore....
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Science Business
Scripps Research Scientists Identify New Class Of Antimalarial
BioResearch Online (press release)
In a study published November 17, 2011, in Science Express, the advance online publication of the journal Science, Elizabeth Winzeler, PhD, a Scripps Research associate professor and member of the GNF, and colleagues demonstrated that the class of ...
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Team to study tremors in Idukki district
The Hindu
The team of scientists who will visit Idukki on Sunday includes Kesava Mohan, director, Institute of Land and Disaster Management (ILDM); John Mathai, senior scientist, Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS); and Sekhar L .Kuriakose, scientist, ...
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Gilead could have had Pharmasset cheap: founder
Reuters
By Bill Berkrot (Reuters) - Investors in Gilead Sciences Inc (GILD.O) may believe the company is paying too much to buy Pharmasset Inc (VRUS.O) at $11 billion. Emory University researcher Raymond Schinazi, who founded Pharmasset, knows by just how much ...
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Climatologists Trade Tips on Destroying Evidence, Evangelizing Warming
DailyTech
Forget Science: You're Either For the Cause, Or You're Against It In a later email, Professor Mann implies AGW advocacy is a political/pseudo-religious "cause" and that those who question it onscientific merits are enemies of the "cause". ...
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Research micro-funding site SciFlies.org launches anew
EurekAlert (press release)
Proposed research projects are now vetted through a panel of scientists through the participation of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world's largest and most prestigious scientific groups and publisher of the journal ...
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What's Next for Mars Exploration?
Space.com
Earlier this year, the National Research Council released its Planetary Science Decadal Survey, which represents a consensus of the scientific community's goals for planetary science over the next 10 years. A sample return mission was deemed the ...
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Scripps research scientists develop brand new class of small molecules through ...
EurekAlert (press release)
Headquartered in La Jolla, California, the institute also includes a campus in Jupiter, Florida, wherescientists focus on drug discovery and technology development in addition to basic biomedicalscience. Scripps Research currently employs about 3000 ...
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University of Massachusetts community reacts to death of renowned scientist ...
MassLive.com
It's not humanly possible to be a good wife, a good mother, and a first-class scientist," wrote Margulis, who was once married to astronomer Carl Sagan. Margulis was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 1983 and received the National Medal of ...
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MassLive.com
Separating You and Me? 4.74 Degrees
New York Times
The research underscores the growing power of the emerging science of social networks, in whichscientists study the ways people interact by crunching gigantic sets of Internet data. “These social network tools provide individuals with tremendous reach ...
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Hertz Fellows Receive U.S. Government's Highest Award for Young Research ...
PR Newswire (press release)
This is the highest honor bestowed by our government to science and engineering professionals in the early stages of their independent research careers. The White House announcement states that these outstanding scientists and engineers advance the ...
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GenturaDx Announces Formation of Scientific Advisory Board
Sacramento Bee
The IDbox system is set to begin clinical trials in 2012. "We are honored to have attracted these renowned scientists and industry leaders who bring a broad perspective to our work and will lend their expertise enabling GenturaDx to bring its fully ...
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Middle school student works with university research team
KPLC-TV
(Source: WVIT/NBC) AVON, CT (WVIT/NBC) - A gifted eighth grader with a keen interest in thescience of bats, an interesting theory and the inability to back down is already doing research at a university. Every six weeks or so Gwynne Domashinski's ...
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Canned-Soup Eaters Get Mouthful of Controversial Chemical: Report
International Business Times
Justin Teeguarden, a federal scientist, led the study published in the journal Toxicological Sciencesin September. A month later, Frederick S. vom Saal, a biologist at the University of Missouri in Columbia, Mo. and colleagues called the research not ...
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Chelsea Students Change Their Scientific Perceptions
NY1
That was my image of a scientist and very strict, I mean business," said student Jade Rigos. TenOever's visit was part of Scientific American Magazine's "1000 Scientists in a 1000 Days" initiative. It was launched, in part, to erase stereotypes of the ...
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NY1
Scientific Achievements of Iranians in Iran | Iranian.com
By Mohammad Ala
Iranian professors and scientists are free to attend (and do in fact attend) scientific seminars and have access to research studies, etc. We have doctors in our family in Iran who attend seminars and conferences outside of the country on regular ...
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The Latest on the Climate Change Hoax
By Warren Beatty (not the liberal actor)
Yet another study shows this to be rubbish. A study in the journal ... Climate research scientistsadmit to each other that much of the climate change “science” is weak and dependent on manipulation of facts and data. “Any work we have done ...
Conservative Daily News
Dr Roy Spencer: Climategate 2.0: Bias in Scientific Research ...
By tallbloke
Admittedly, the existence of bias in scientific research – which is always present — does not mean the research is necessarily wrong. But as I often remind people, it's much easier to be wrong than right in science. This is because, while the ...
tallbloke's talkshop
Big boost to plant research - The four largest nonprofit plant science ...
By David Tribe
Scientific leaders from the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research (Cornell University), The Carnegie Institution for Science, the Donald Danforth Plant Science Center (St. Louis, Mo.) and The Samuel Roberts ... To accomplish these objectives, AIPI scientists will coordinate projects that studyplant growth, development, and chemistry; plant interactions with insects, fungi and bacteria; and metabolic processes, such as oil production and photosynthesis. “Plants are some of the ...
GMO Pundit a.k.a. David Tribe
South African scientists win first Obasanjo science prize | AfricanBrains
By AfricanBrains
Berhanu Abegaz, executive director of the AAS, said that the prize will help motivate scientific research in Africa; encourage young scientists to prioritise high-quality, relevant science and technology; and maybe help keep young scientists on ...
AfricanBrains
New Grants Fund Political Science Faculty Research // News ...
Five scholars in Notre Dame's Department of Political Science were recently awarded researchgrants and fellowships to study a range of issues that include ...
politicalscience.nd.edu/.../27425-new-grants-fund-political-sci...
Mining the language of science - Research - University of Cambridge
Research at Cambridge; Schools, Faculties & Departments ... Scientists are developing a computer that can read vast amounts of scientific literature, make ... “In a recent experiment, we studied a group of chemicals with unknown mode of ...
www.cam.ac.uk/research/.../mining-the-language-of-science/
Canadian Light Source making positive economic, scientific impacts ...
... of an economic impact study conducted by Insightrix Research Inc. for the CLS. ... Canadian Light Source making positive economic, scientific impacts for ...
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011.../clsi-cls112211.php
Scientists Program Cells to Create New Life Forms | CROSCI ...
The research goes beyond the traditional scope of biological inquiry, ... The scientific team in Nottingham is being assisted by a number of colleges ... An accelerated schedule could lead to new areas of study as well as practical applications. ...
crosci.com/scientists-program-cells-to-create-new-life-forms.ht...
Quality of research benefits from more even male-female balance ...
The low number of female researchers compared to male counterparts is common across the whole breadth of the natural sciences research. Studies on the ...
www.news.leiden.edu/.../quality-of-research-benefits-from-gre...
Singapore Scientists Lead Genome-Wide Association Study that ...
Agency for Science Technology and Research (A*STAR) · A*STAR Anniversary ... From the study, the scientists noted very strong evidence of increased risk of ...
www.a-star.edu.sg/?TabId=828&articleType...articleId...
Study Support Manager with Kelly Scientific | 22608
Study Support Manager Clinical Research Every day, Kelly Scientific Resources ( KSR) connects clinical research professionals with opportunities to advance ...
www.labratjobs.com/job/22608/study-support-manager/
Become a Biomedical Scientist: Education and Career Roadmap
However, a medical degree is not necessary for biomedical scientists who prefer to work solely inresearch rather than clinical studies. Medical school typically ...
education-portal.com/.../Become_a_Biomedical_Scientist_Edu...
CLINICAL RESEARCH PHYSICIAN - ONCOLOGY - New Scientist ...
A Leading independent research-based biotechnology company specialised in the ... Dealing withscientific issues during the performance of clinical trials ...
www.newscientistjobs.com/.../clinical-research-physician-onco...
Summit Scientist II Job - NJ, 07901
Excellent communication skills to effectively convey scientific concepts and data at the ... In vivostudies will be coordinated through a separate research facility, ...
jobs.celgene.com/job/Summit-Scientist-II-Job-NJ.../1529826/
Institute Research Scientist, Tumor Microenvironment : Houston ...
Institute Research Scientist, Tumor Microenvironment, Houston, United States. View all sciencejobs and scientific careers from Nature Jobs, the premier online ...
www.nature.com/.../233256-Institute-Research-Scientist-Tumo...
Jamia: Little known hub of pioneering scientific research
He is not alone in his quest to study natural and life sciences at one of India's ... all subjects, we lay equal importance, if not more, on research in the sciences. ...
www.prokerala.com/news/articles/a262576.html
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