 Huffington Post (blog) These questions can roughly be grouped into six categories: scientificmethods, evidence, alternative explanations, other studies showing null results, theology and presuppositions. My book, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, is the outcome of my ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Thomson Reuters Names Hottest Scientific Researchers and Papers of the Year Reuters Following were among some of the key findings in the annual HottestResearch report: Genetics is Hottest Field of Study: Genetics was the primary field of study among seven of the 15 Hottest Researchers of 2011, including a landmark paper, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Open access to science research debated Space Daily by Staff Writers One of the world's largest research charities, Britain's Wellcome Trust, says it will support efforts by scientists to make their work freely available for all. Officials at the trust said it would establish a free, onlineresearch ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Autism research may be about to bear fruit LubbockOnline.com Some in the field say they are seeing the beginning of a wave of scientificreports that should strengthen some theories, jettison others and perhaps even herald new drugs. "I do think over the next three to five years we'll be able to paint a much ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Fusion energy progress by Livermore scientists San Francisco Chronicle Last month a committee of experts preparing a report on the future of fusionresearch for the National Academy of Sciences expressed continued doubts. "The scientific and technological progress in inertial confinement fusion has been substantial during ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Robot Study of 'Cocktail Party Problem' Hints at Human Hearing Glitch Wired News A group of hearing scientists at NTT Communication Science Laboratories in Kanagawa, Japan, conducted the study. The researchers didn't head out to their local bar to investigate the cocktail party problem. Instead, they opted for a far more antisocial ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Bird Flu Studies Mired In Export Control Law Limbo KPLU News for Seattle and the Northwest By NPR People: Nell Greenfieldboyce Scientists who created mutant forms of bird flu want to see their research published, and an influential advisory committee recently gave them the green light after a debate that lasted for months. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Sun's 'Birthday Candle'-Like Gas Plumes Surprise Scientists Space.com Scientists at the US Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) in Washington, DC, discovered the odd, newly identified features — which they call coronal cells — by studying the sun's ultraviolet emissions at temperatures around 1.8 million degrees Fahrenheit ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scientists Worldwide Step up to Define Skolkovo Tech Research Centers EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) MOSCOW--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--In its first of three rounds of requests for Research Center proposals, which ended March 13, 2012, the Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skolkovo Tech) in Skolkovo, Russia tallied 129 submissions from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Mating Has Long-Term Benefits: Courtship Can Take Effort, but Now Scientists ... Science Daily (press release) The study, published in Genome Biology and Evolution, was supported by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council and the Natural Environment Research Council. "Throughout the animal kingdom, individuals have to go to a lot of effort ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Mars, Incorporated Answers Question: 'How Does Feeding People and Pets Nurture ... MarketWatch (press release) Scientific research shows that interacting with pets helps people enjoy happier and healthier lives, and strengthens the communities in which we live. Interactions between people and animals can have positive effects on the physical and psychological ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Changes in Monkeys' Social Status Affect Their Genes Science Daily (press release) ... how her genes turn on and off, and those who rank higher tend to be healthier -- so long as their social status doesn't decline, according to a studyof rhesus macaques published in the April 9 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Ezose Sciences and SIGMA-TAU Advance Projects in Glycomics EON: Enhanced Online News (press release) PINE BROOK, NJ--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Ezose Sciences Inc. announced today a further agreement whereby Ezose's glycomics capabilities will be applied to biologics research and development projects at SIGMA-TAU Industrie Farmaceutiche Riunite SpA ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Kaushik Basu to head Infosys' science prize jury TwoCircles.net Cornell University economics and international studies professor C. Marks will also be on the jury for the Social Sciences Prize in place of Harvard University philosophy professor Thomas W. Lamont, the foundation said in a statement Tuesday. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Researchers find identical DNA codes in different plant species R & D Magazine Previous studies found long strings of identical code in different species of animals' DNA. But before this new MU research, which was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, computer programs had never been powerful enough to ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Titanic tragedy led to scientific understanding of deep ocean mysteries Winnipeg Free Press But as his submersible settled on the fore deck, he viewed the ship as ascientific treasure trove that could help explain mysteries of a part of the ocean so far down it had rarely been studied. "Titanic is a perfect time marker. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A New Journal (With Bonus Elsevier-Bashing) Corante Take this news from the Wellcome Trust, one of the largest funding agencies in the world for medical research: Sir Mark Walport, the director of Wellcome Trust, said that his organisation is in the final stages of launching a high calibrescientific ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Bioniche Life Sciences Inc. Closes US$20M Financing from Capital Royalty L.P. MarketWatch (press release) BELLEVILLE, ON, April 10, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Bioniche LifeSciences Inc. (TOR:CA:BNC) (asx:BNC), a research-based, technology-driven Canadian biopharmaceutical company, today announced that it has closed a US$20 million financing from ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| A Wellcome move Financial Times Campaigners have long been agitating for more academic research to be made freely available. It is an idea supported both by those who fund scientific research and those who conduct it. This self-styled “academic spring” has now received a powerful ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Oyster Creek to be Included in Pilot Cancer Study Patch.com If the NRC chooses to move forward, the research council would conduct a pilot study with six nuclear power plants, including Oyster Creek, and one fuel cycle facility. “One of the recommendations from the National Academy ofSciences (NAS) in the ... See all stories on this topic » |
| War Crimes: Suppressing Scientific Study of Cannabis is a Shocking ... By admin There has been a virtual ban on scientific research on marijuana since the La Guardia Committee report came out in 1944. In this scientific study, commissioned by New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia in 1939 to study the effects of marijuana, ... The Beckley Foundation |
| What Counts as Legitimate Scientific Research ... - The Huffington Post By Candy Gunther Brown, Ph.D. These questions can roughly be grouped into six categories: scientificmethods, evidence, alternative explanations, other studies showing null results, theology and presuppositions. My book, Testing Prayer: Science and Healing, is the ... The Huffington Post Full Blog Feed |
| Study Questions Natural Gas's Environmental Benefits - Junk Science By Editor The study, co-written by scientists at several universities and the environmental group Environmental Defense Fund, wades into an increasingly murky area of energy research. In it, scientists said the production of natural gas results in ... JunkScience.com |
| Guest Blog: I am STEM – the festival edition « UW SACNAS Student ... By Amanda Bruner Youth at the festival matching chapter member pictures to a description of theirresearch. “Hello. We are students who study science at the University of Washington and we're all part of a society called SACNAS. These are pictures of scientists ... UW SACNAS Student Chapter Blog |
| Five "Science Reports" We're Tired Of Seeing | Gamma Squad By Dan Seitz Here's the problem with major news outlets covering science: they have to pick the stories that grab the attention of people essentially disinterested in science, and they often have non-scientists trying to explain to other non-scientists what that science actually means and its practical application. And to be fair, ... The entire problem, of course, is that these are rarely “studies” in any accepted sense, and when the studies are real, the research is often sensationalized or overgeneralized. Gamma Squad |
| Kaushik Basu to head Infosys' science prize jury | TwoCircles.net By admin4 Cornell University economics and international studies professor C. Marks will also be on the jury for the Social Sciences Prize in place of Harvard University philosophy professor Thomas W. Lamont, the foundation said in a statement Tuesday. " A Prize, once it ... Noting that the Infosys Prize had been able to drive attention to scientific research in the country, Basu said the role would give him an opportunity to assist the foundation and nurture new ideas and insights in social sciences. TwoCircles.net |
| Faith-science tie called most neglected aspect of education | St ... By josephkenny Their stated aim is to explore "the possibility of being believers at the dawn of the Third Millennium without renouncing scientific progress." Together they have initiated study programs and research projects as well as highlighting their work ... Saint Louis Review - All Articles |
| * The Trouble with Psychology It can never be more than a scientific study of an unscientific field. Therefore Requirement 2, "Research in the field must address the field's theories," must be part of the definition of a scientific field. Requirement 3: "If the field has practical ... arachnoid.com |
| Interview with Paula Stephan — Economics, Science, and Doing ... By Kent Anderson This interview with economist Paula Stephan of Georgia State University and the National Bureau of Economic Research accompanies my review of her new book entitled, “How Economics Shapes Science. ... There are other positives — one relates to the fact that it is virtually impossible to reward people in science for effort since it's virtually impossible to monitor scientists. ... Q: Journals are sometimes criticized because there's a propensity to publish so-called “positive” studies. The Scholarly Kitchen |
| Long-term research reveals causes, consequences of ... By SU News Services As global temperatures rise, the most threatened ecosystems are those that depend on a season of snow and ice, scientists from the nation's Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) Network say.“The vulnerability of cool, wet areas to climate change is striking,” says Julia Jones, a lead author in a special issue of the journal BioScience released April 9 featuring results from more than 30 years of LTER, a program of the National Science Foundation (NSF). BioScience's retrospective ... Inside SU |
| Chemists and Materials Scientists : Occupational Outlook Handbook ... Chemists and materials scientists study the structures, compositions, reactions, and other ... An increasing number of scientific research projects involve multiple ... www.bls.gov/ooh/Life.../Chemists-and-materials-scientists.htm |
| Scientific Journals Plan To Publish Contentious Bird Flu Research ... Revised versions of manuscripts that describe two recent studies can be openly ... The decision could help end a debate that has raged within thescientific ... www.npr.org/.../scientific-journals-plan-to-publish-contentious... |
| Scientists predict payoff from $1 billion worth of autism research; new drugs seen as possible ... of a wave of scientific reports that should strengthen some theories, ... who is leading a closely watched study into what sparks autism disorders. www.washingtonpost.com/.../gIQASht95S_story.html |
| Bees' Decline Linked to Pesticides, Studies Find - NYTimes.com Get Science News From The New York Times » ... The other study, byscientists in Britain, suggests that they keep bumblebees from supplying ... “I personally would like to see them not being used until more research has been done,” said ... www.nytimes.com/.../neocotinoid-pesticides-play-a-role-in-be... |
| Proteome Sciences Completes 1000-Patient Validation Study of ... Researchers from Proteome Sciences, the UK's National Institute for HealthResearch, and Millipore have completed a 1000-sample validation study of ... www.genomeweb.com/.../proteome-sciences-completes-1000-... |
| Cognitive Scientists Scramble To Study StarCraft - Tested Why does it have to be the next bastion for scientific study? ... StarCraft doesn't mean the game automatically has profound implications on cognitiveresearch. www.tested.com/.../43826-cognitive-scientists-scramble-to-stu... |
| Biosecurity Board Recommends Publication of ... - Scientific American Scientific American Premium Cover ... Scientific American Magazine ...Decision comes one day after release of new guidelines for dual-useresearch. ... the board said that experimental details of the two studies should be redacted from any ... www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=us-biosecurity... |
| Sloppy Science. In the Pipeline: Across the life sciences, handling corrections that have arisen from avoidable... before pursuing a particular line of research, scientists. . .in the haematology and ... In studies for which findings could be reproduced, authors had paid close ... pipeline.corante.com/archives/2012/03/.../sloppy_science.php |
| Research efficiency: Turn the scientific method on ourselves : Nature ... By relentlessly testing them using randomized controlled trials, says Pierre Azoulay. ... Research efficiency: Turn the scientific method on ourselves ... www.nature.com/nature/journal/v484/n7392/.../484031a.html |
| Vacancy No. 2012/035 - Research Scientist (P-3) Promote, coordinate and evaluate coordinated research projects (CRPs) and conduct related complex studies. Provide scientific and technical support to... https://recruitment.iaea.org/vacancies/p/2012/2012_035.html |
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