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SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Dec 25, 2011


Bird Flu Virus
US asks scientific journals to censor bird flu studies
The Guardian
He said scientists who study influenza have a need to know the details of theresearch to protect the public. He said Science was evaluating how best to proceed. "Our response will be heavily dependent upon the further steps taken by the US government ...
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HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year by Science
PhysOrg.com
The study was funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health. The complete list of top 10 scientific breakthroughs of the year was published online today. The editors at Science, ...
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Harsh Political Reality Slows Climate Studies Despite Extreme Year
New York Times
Lately, scientists have been discussing whether they can do a better job of analyzing events within days or weeks, not years. “It's clear we do have the scientific tools and the statistical wherewithal to begin answering these types of questions,” Dr. ...
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New York Times
Study linking virus and chronic fatigue retracted
Wall Street Journal
AP NEW YORK — A prestigious scientific journal is retracting a controversial 2009 report that linked chronic fatigue syndrome to a virus. In an unusual move, the journal Science is taking that step on its own. Normally, authors retract their own ...
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Russia's sputtering scientific push
Washington Post
A recent run of engineering failures in Russia's space program mirrors the country's scientificweaknesses. The manned program has avoided major problems, but the rest of the system has been falling apart. / AP A Soyuz TMA-03M rocket for an ...
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Italian study claims Turin Shroud is Christ's authentic burial robe
Telegraph.co.uk
The new study is the latest intriguing piece of a puzzle which has baffled scientists for centuries and spawned an entire industry of research, books and documentaries. "The double image (front and back) of a scourged and crucified man, barely visible ...
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Telegraph.co.uk
Strict diet could save brain from aging: study
AFP
The research, published in the US journal the Proceedings of the National Academy ofSciences, is based on a study of mice that were fed a diet of about 70 percent of the food they normally consumed. Scientists found the calorie-restricted diet ...
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AFP
Scientists to study psychological benefits of birdsong
The Guardian
However, currently there is a lack of scientific research on the psychological effects of listening to birds," said Ratcliffe. The research project is being funded by the Economic and Social Research Council with further assistance from the National ...
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The Guardian
Research calculates uranium mining hazards
Roanoke Times
"The report did not say you can mitigate all risks," said Paul Locke, chairman of the National Academy of Sciences study committee. "It said you can mitigate some risks." Pressed by reporters at a teleconference to say whether uranium can be mined ...
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Announces Top 10 Science Stories of 2011
MarketWatch (press release)
This year's stories include alternative energy research, world record magnetic fields, disease tracking, the study of Mars, climate change, fuel cells, solar wind, and magnetic reconnection. Los Alamos National Laboratory's unique scientific ...
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Scientists defend 'Armageddon virus' secrecy
Sydney Morning Herald
Meanwhile, scientists involved in the experiments said they were co-operating with government officials and the editors of the journals Science and Nature to pare down their research for publication in the coming weeks. The controversy arose when two ...
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Sugar Association Sends FDA Scientific Findings, Consumer Research
MarketWatch (press release)
They reference a groundbreaking study, jointly conducted by several scientific departments at both the University of Florida and the University of Colorado, Denver, and published on December 5, 2011 by the scientific journal Metabolism, ...
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Chimpanzee research in Texas could face changes
MSN Money
For that very reason, chimps have been prized by scientists for their usefulness in certain kinds ofscientific research in which similarity to people is critical. And for almost 50 years, chimpanzees have been studied at the San Antonio facility. ...
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Curbing chimpanzee research
Baltimore Sun
It asked the Institute of Medicine, a branch of the National Academy of Sciences, to study the ethical issues involved in using chimps as research subjects and to make recommendations about whether, and under what circumstances, the practice can be ...
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2012 Market Research Trends and Predictions Issued by Sentient Decision Science
MarketWatch (press release)
The best marketing research firms and corporate insights divisions will take the "list of effects" from behavioral sciences and turn them into a practical paradigm for approaching applied marketing problems. The whats, whens, whys and hows of ...
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Scientists Pioneer New Methods In Climate Studies
RedOrbit
Using sophisticated new methods of statistical analysis to study patterns of extreme rainfall in India, a handful of members of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Expeditions in Computing Program have created a research tool that has already ...
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New Stage of Scientific Development for St.Petersburg State University Marked ...
MarketWatch (press release)
SciVerse Applications and Developer Network allow the scientific community to build, find and use applications that enhance the SciVerse research experience. Elsevier's SciVal suite of services supports academic and government leadership in evaluating, ...
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No proof is still no proof (3)
Record-Searchlight (blog)
Keye "proves" his contention, not with science or reference to studies published in peer-reviewedscience journals, but by citing three men who are not scientists and have never conducted anyscientific studies of our changing climate. ...
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COLUMN-Science, economics should be separate from policy: Kemp
Reuters
As far as possible, scientific research, economic research and technical advice should take place behind a "veil of ignorance" like that described by philosopher John Rawls. BETTER DECISION-MAKING In the case of fracking, it is important to separate ...
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Fearing Bioterrorism, Government Panel Asks: What Research Should Be Secret?
PBS NewsHour
The question of publishing all the details of the studies has stoked a debate over balancing the need for open scientific dialogue and concerns about national security. We look at those questions now with two principal players in this story. ...
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Scientist Sues Roswell Park Cancer Center in Buffalo
Times of India
Matta also sued Photolitec, a Roswell Park spin-off research company that Pandey heads. Photolitec, which is backed by a Chinese pharmaceutical firm, is commercializing the scientific research that Matta helped develop, he alleges. ...
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Chinese scientist gets 7 years for stealing US secrets
AFP
The 863 Program is a Chinese government initiative to develop and acquire high-level technologies to build the country's global position in scientific research and in technology-intensive industries. The plea agreement said Huang had used the Dow ...
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AFP
Poked And Prodded For 65 Years, In The Name Of Science
NPR (blog)
Diana Kuh, a scientist at the Medical Research Council and the third person to head the decades-long study, says that there's no obvious one reason for some of these correlations. She suspects that it is a cumulative effect of a lot of little things ...
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Happiness Declining Among Twitter Users
WebMD
He is an associate professor at the college of engineering and mathematical sciences at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Volunteers read the tweets and then rated the "happiness" quality of the words in those tweets, using a scale from one ...
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Santa Cruz women surf over gender barriers on waves and in the lab
San Jose Mercury News
And, she added, scientists think the same way. "One thing I love is being part of the scientificcommunity -- a bunch of people creatively trying to think of ways the world is working around them," she said. "They're looking at things you can't ...
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Science Sunday: Online Citizen Science and Scientific Research
Here are some scenarios where citizen-scientist can help a lot: 1)You wish to study a plant or animal that is rare or you suspect is extinct. 2)You wish to ... Science Sunday: Online Citizen Science andScientific Research. document Crowd ...
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UNC HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the ...
By News
UNC HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year. CHAPEL HILL, N.C. – The HIV Prevention Trials Network 052 study, led by Myron S. Cohen, MD of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been named the ...
Science Codex - Science news,...
U.S. asks journals to censor bird flu studies - Stabroek News - Guyana
By Stabroek staff
CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. scientific advisory board yesterday asked two scientific journals to leave out data from research studies on a lab-made version.
Stabroek News
RP Feynman on social sciences | Infoglobus
By admin
As a social scientist myself, I have to take the stance of sociologist Weber when understanding thestudy of society as a science. We should TRY to be objective in our research with the ultimate realisation that factual objectivity in social ...
Infoglobus
Shady Scientific Research is Rampant [Infographic] | Geekosystem
By James Plafke
Unfortunately, within the scientific community, scientists may be manipulating their facts and numbers in such a way that molds their findings to whatever they're trying to prove. This, of course, isn't science, it's just misrepresentation. It may be ...
Geekosystem
Scientific Study: Occupy Protesters Driven by Self-Interest, Lack of ...
By Rebel Pundit
Scientific Study: Occupy Protesters Driven by Self-Interest, Lack of Meaning, Fear and Control. by Rebel ... However, The Frontier Lab, a marketing research nonprofit in Chicago, has just completed astudy that applies science to that question. ...
Big Government
School of Clinical Sciences - University of Bristol
The study by Professor Costanza Emanueli, British Heart Foundation Senior Research Fellow and colleagues of the Bristol Heart Institute in the Regenerative Medicine Section of the School of ClinicalSciences at the University of Bristol is ...
University of Bristol news
The US Is Trying To Censor Bird Flu Studies In Scientific Journals ...
By Jamie Condliffe
According to the Guardian, the US National Science Advisory Board for Biosecurity (NSABB) asked the journals to publish redacted versions of studies carried out by two research groups. Back in November, we reported that researchers had ...
Gizmodo Australia
Study of Countermeasures for Prevention and Administration to ...
By rain
With the socialization, professionalization and globalization of science and technology research, the relationship of scientific research and relevant interests has become much more tied and the competition over scientific resources became ...
Economics Papers,Economics Term...
H5N1: H5N1 controversy: An "Asilomar-style moratorium"?
By Crof
If influenza researchers accept the idea, they would agree not to publish studies about the transmissibility of the H5N1 avian influenza strain in mammals and not to present data on suchstudies at scientific meetings. NSABB chair Paul ... "This is an Asilomar moment," he says, referring to a 1975 meeting in Asilomar, California, where, after voluntarily halting researchscientistsdrew up safety guidelines for working with the then-nascent recombinant DNA technology. "We try to avoid ...
H5N1
UNC HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the ...
UNC HIV prevention research named scientific breakthrough of the year click to enlarge. Myron S. Cohen, MD, led the study named "Breakthrough of the Year" ...
news.unchealthcare.org/.../unc-hiv-prevention-research-named...
Science Sunday: Online Citizen Science and Scientific Research ...
Science Sunday: Online Citizen Science and Scientific Research ... citizen science and how these projects can help scientists study biological problems that are ...
thedragonflywoman.com/2011/12/18/social-science/
NASA GISS: Columbia University: Postdoctoral Research Scientist ...
Goddard Institute for Space Studies ... Sciences and Exploration Directorate ... Applied Sciencesinvites applications for a postdoctoral research scientist to study ...
www.giss.nasa.gov/about/jobs/columbia20111215.html
US Tells Scientists to Censor Flu Research
Bird flu virus: Scientific journals say censorship would restrict access to ... such research can be important, certain information obtained through such studies has ...
readersupportednews.org/.../9015-us-tells-scientists-to-censor-f...
Committee: Review of NASA Human Research Program's Scientific ...
Project Title: Review of NASA Human Research Program's Scientific Merit ... He is a current member of the Space Studies Board and the IOM Committee on ...
www8.nationalacademies.org/cp/committeeview.aspx?key...
Clinical Research Physician/Medical Director ... - New Scientist Jobs
Lead the design of Pain clinical research studies through application of ... Drive scientific and technical excellence ... Postgraduate scientific / medical training ...
www.newscientistjobs.com/.../clinical-research-physicianmedic...
Take Advantage of Your Seniority: Hamilton Health Sciences ranked ...
"The research studies and the outstanding researchers of Hamilton Health Sciences are increasingly acknowledged world-wide. Clinical research lies at the ...
gwsaguelph.blogspot.com/.../hamilton-health-sciences-ranked-...
UND atmospheric scientist sets up research experience for ...
Atmospheric Sciences is part of the UND John D. Odegard School of ... family health issues, aerospace studies, aviation, energy and environmental research, ...
und.edu/.../und-atmospheric-scientist-sets-up-research-experie...
Uranium Mining in Virginia - National-Academies.org | Newsroom
The nation turns to the National Academies -- National Academy of Sciences, National ... The studywas funded under a contract between the National Research ...
www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?...
Nanotechnology Scientific Educational Centre of Dagestan State ...
Nanotechnology Scientific Educational Centre (SEC) was established as a ... and carry out fundamental, applied, and scientific and research studies, as well as ...
www.nanopaprika.eu/.../nanotechnology-scientific-educational...
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