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Chimp research to get strict new limits
NOLA.com
By AP Associated Press archiveA prestigious scientific group told the US government that chimpanzees should hardly ever be used for medical research. The Institute of Medicine stopped short of recommending an outright ban, but urged strict limits that ...
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NOLA.com
Scientist wants to make snowflake formation crystal-clear
USA Today
Libbrecht is one of a small number of researchers who studysnowflakes. As with much science, there is no consensus. Knight says he finds some of Libbrecht's theories "unconvincing" but says "an adequate understanding has not yet been found. ...
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USA Today
Lack Of Funding Roils Scientific Research In Arab States – OpEd
Eurasia Review
The quality and the quantity of biomedical publications are used to evaluate thescientific activities of universities and research centers. Published studiesassessing biomedical research output of Arab countries have been mainly quantitative. ...
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UW scientists under scrutiny over bird flu research
Today's TMJ4
A government committee is now deciding on how much detail scientific journals should reveal when they publish the studies, and the controversial decision is due soon. But some top scientists think the entire project is wrong. ...
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FIT professor's snake research could rattle scientific world
Florida Today
Michael Grace is an associate dean of the College of Science at Florida Tech and a professor of biological sciences. He is holding a Dumeril's ground boa from Madagascar. / Florida Tech A research project going on at Florida Tech involves teaching ...
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Scientists discover source of rock used in Stonehenge's first circle
The Independent
Indeed the rock type from Craig Rhos-y-Felin (just pinpointed by the new scientific research) was probably used for just one of the Stonehenge monoliths (a now buried stone, last seen in the 1950s). This suggests that there may have been other stone ...
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Petaluma center explores bounds of consciousness
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
But unlike the mysterious societies that populate Brown's books, there's little hidden about the not-for-profit institute, which conducts regular tours, opens itself up to the media and presents its scientific research for scrutiny, knowing skeptics ...
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Study to clear the air on smoke-affected wine
The Canberra Times
While the science of smoke taint is far from fully understood, the industry has long known that wine grapes do not need to be exposed to smoke for long to be damaged. Senior research scientist Davinder Singh said the problem of smoke taint emerged ...
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Illinois And Energy Dept. Invest $33M In Fermilab Research Center
RedOrbit
Scientists consider it crucial for building next-generation particle accelerators. The technology also holds significant promise for applications in medicine, energy, material science and national security. Image 2: When completed, the Illinois ...
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Students' brain power will light up MRIs in cognitive training study
Shreveport Times
Henrietta Wildsmith/The Times Brain images of students from Waskom, Texas, will help researchers study whether brain training can improve a person's thinking and learning skills. The project tests a scientific principle, neuroplasticity, that created a ...
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Choking research
Down To Earth
He mentions that such methods of assessing performance are not used in otherscientific institutions. not even the Indian Scientific Research Organisation, an institution renowned for its achievements. To make things worse is icfre 's standing order ...
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Science matters for future generations
The National
There are plenty of jobs in the S&T and engineering fields, but there are too many graduates from the humanities and social sciences. The situation is worse among female Arabs, most of whom prefer tostudy non-technical subjects with the hope of ...
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The National
Blue moons? Kepler-22b offers NASA habitable world hopes
USA Today
"We have many candidates in that region," said Kepler principalscientist William Borucki of NASA's Ames Research Center in Moffett Field, Calif., at a briefing unveiling Kepler-22b to his colleagues earlier this month. At his briefing, Borucki showed ...
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USA Today
Uterine transplants: a new frontier in science
Indianapolis Star
In the early days of infertility research, scientists -- flush with the promise of transplant medicine -- wondered whether replacing the uterus would help women who were unable to conceive. But less invasive treatments proved feasible, ...
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Restricting Post-Surgery Blood Transfusion is Safe for Some Hip Patients ...
MedIndia
"Our top tier scientists strive to bring better care to patients and to help doctors make good decisions based on good science," says Dean Reece. "This research is an outstanding example of how our groundbreaking research is affecting medicine in the ...
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MedIndia
N.M. ghost town would serve as test site for research
Tbo.com
By AP ALBUQUERQUE, NM The research firm behind plans to build a ghost town for scientific testing in New Mexico has created a local subsidiary and hired a leading technology and defense contractor to begin developing its one-of-a-kindresearch center. ...
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Monsanto Funds Fellowships for Graduate Students
GardenNews.biz (press release)
As part of the fellowship, Teisher and King will also interact with Monsantoscientists to gain experience in a corporate research environment. “Investment and improvement in the plant sciences is and will continue to be an integral part of making ...
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Agency stakes Shs33b for agriculture research
Daily Monitor
... has made available a Shs33.4 billion facilitation to supportscientist among such countries to realise their research ambitions. The money will also assist in the actualisation of set recommendations-among them; promoting science and technology in ...
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Daily Monitor
Discovering Autism: An industry built on hope
Sacramento Bee
But multiple reviews of the scientific literature have raised questions about the quality of ABA research. Most studies have relied on small numbers of children, have not tracked subjects over the long term and - like Lovaas' original study - have...
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LIBRARY OF SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE IN CAIRO SET ABLAZE
Agenzia Giornalistica Italia
... including the "Description de l'Egypte" drawn up by the team of scientists who accompanied Napoleon on his invasion of the African country, were destroyed as a result of the fire. The Cairo Institute for Scientific Research was founded by Napoleon ...
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Maltese girls outstrip boys in reading, sciences and maths – ACER report
Malta Independent Online
PISA is an international comparative survey of 15-year-olds' knowledge and skills in reading, mathematical and scientific literacy, conducted by ACER. It measures how well young adults have acquired the knowledge and skills that are required to...
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Whittemore Peterson Institute vows to get past setbacks
Reno Gazette Journal
For 17-year-old Rebecca Ghusn of Reno, who suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, the failure to link XMRV to her illness is just another false lead in thescientific hunt to find a cause and a cure. "You always hope something will happen when they ...
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Wolf-to-dog transition had little to do with humans, ancient skull suggests
National Post (blog)
Where, when and how wolves became domesticated dogs is the subject of lively debate among scientists. By Randy Boswell A Canadian researcher who specializes in the biology of ancient dogs co-authored one of the most significant studies of the year in ...
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National Post (blog)
Herpetology curator: behind-the-scenes of 'new species' discoveries
Mongabay.com
He also held a postdoctoral appointment at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley, before returning to Raleigh to join the North Carolina Museum of NaturalSciences in September 2008. Much of his research has focused ...
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Mongabay.com
ARS-Mandan to measure greenhouse gases with help of NASA instrument
Farm and Ranch Guide
Phillips said the scientific community has not studied the other trace gases in real time as well as they have carbon dioxide, but these other gases are better at trapping heat in the atmosphere. In the alfalfa field, they are demonstrating carbon...
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Earth 'being showered with mercury'
The Press Association
US scientist Dr Seth Lyman, who led the research while at the University of Washington Bothell, said: "Much of the emitted mercury is deposited far from its original sources. Mercury emitted on the other side of the globe could be deposited right at ...
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Scientists attempt to help tigers have cubs
Green Bay Press Gazette
If successful, it would mark the first time this particular insemination method — advanced by scientists from the Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens — has helped Siberian tigers in ...
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Lemon does new research at Harvard
Opelousas Daily World
The purpose of the HHMI grant, which this year funded such internships at 50 universities ranging from Harvard and Yale to Cornell, is to help develop the nation's next generation of scientific leaders. Working with faculty and graduate student mentors ...
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Postdoctoral Fellowship CUNY Graduate Center | Master LoPhiSC
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institution of CUNY, announces a postdoctoral fellowship for the academic. year 2012-2013 in the field of Interdisciplinary Science Studies. This. field includes anyresearch intended to foster dialog between humanists and. scientists, such as ...
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Research Network 24 - Sociology of Science and Technology Network (SSTNET) of the European Sociological Association (ESA) and the Centre for Sociology ofScience and Science Studies (IHST) of the Russian Academy of Sciences, ...
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Study on the Agricultural Industrialization with Agricultural Science ...
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Secondly, elaborates detailed the present status of china agricultural industrialization and insufficiency, and elaborates carefully development process of agriculture scientific research policy, agriculture science and technology extension policy ...
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1 Boring Old Man » good riddance…
By Mickey
This is the traditional picture of treatment development: public sector support ofscientific discovery, and private sector investment in specific compounds and early phase clinical trials, followed mostly by private and some public funding of clinicaltrials. This traditional picture is about to change. ... It is never a positive sign for those with mental illness when thousands of scientists and millions of dollars are shifted away from research on these disorders. What can NIMH do about this? ...
1 Boring Old Man
Scientific Literature Review Finds Opportunities for More Research ...
More peer-reviewed scientific studies of the effects on wildlife of large-scale solar... Opportunities for hypothesis-driven research on solar energy facilities of this ...
www.usgs.gov/newsroom/article.asp?ID=3051
CAM: Taxpayer money spent on studies with questionable scientific ...
With $666000 in federal research money, scientists. ... medicine and that the center, under her leadership, is committed to rigorous scientific studies. The center's ...
articles.chicagotribune.com/.../ct-met-nccam-overview-20111...
Science Sunday: Online Citizen Science and Scientific Research ...
Science Sunday: Online Citizen Science and Scientific Research ... citizenscience and how these projects can help scientists study biological problems that are ...
thedragonflywoman.com/2011/12/18/social-science/
Childhood Obesity Best Battled in Schools ... - Scientific American
Bring Science Home; 1000 Scientists in 1000 Days; Search for Scientists/ Educators ... Australian researchers examined 55 interventions in previousstudies and ...
www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=childhood...best
Research scientist confesses to falsifying numerous studies ...
But a recent admission by psychologist and researcher Diederik Stapel, that he... A man admits to knowingly falsifying many scientific studies, and one of the ...
www.naturalnews.com/034348_medical_journals_falsified_ev...
Scripps research scientists elevate little-studied cellular mechanism ...
For years, science has generally considered the phosphorylation of proteins -- the... Scripps research scientists elevate little-studied cellular mechanism to ...
www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-12/sri-srs120811.php
Report: Scientific research on chimpanzees "unjustified," should be ...
Report: Scientific research on chimpanzees "unjustified," should be limited ...research on chimpanzees is "scientifically unjustified" and any future studiesusing ...
boingboing.net/2011/12/15/report-scientific-research-on.html
UCSB scientists make advances in neuroscience ... - e! Science News
Thanks to a new study of the retina, scientists at UC Santa Barbara have developed ... Research Institute and the Department of Psychological & BrainSciences. ...
esciencenews.com/.../ucsb.scientists.make.advances.neuroscien...
'Matrix'-style effortless learning? Vision scientists ... - Science Daily
Vision Scientists Demonstrate Innovative Learning Method. ScienceDaily (Dec. 12, 2011) — New research published December 8 in the journal Science ...
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/12/111212124603.htm
Scripps Research Scientists Elevate Little-studied Cellular ...
For years, science has generally considered the phosphorylation of proteins -- the insertion of a phosphorous group into a protein that turns it on or off -- as ...
www.sciencenewsline.com/biology/.../2011121212230007.ht...
PAR-12-051: NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career ...
The primary purpose of the NCI Mentored Clinical Scientist Research Career ...research experience that integrates didactic studies with basic biomedical, ...
grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/pa-files/PAR-12-051.html
Research Space Scientist Assistant Planetary Studies Job in SANTA ...
Jobtile: Research Space Scientist Assistant Planetary Studies Location: SANTA CLARA, CA Deadline: 12/21/2011 12:00:00 AM.
federalgovernmentjobs.us/.../Research-Space-Scientist-Assistan...
What's Behind A Temper Tantrum? Scientists Deconstruct The ...
Now research suggests that, beneath all the screams and kicking and shouting, lies a phenomenon that is entirely amenable to scientific dissection. ... history of humankind," said study co-author Michael Potegal of the University of Minnesota,...
www.npr.org/.../whats-behind-a-temper-tantrum-scientists-dec.
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