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Students Conduct Fieldwork for Scientists' Research
Education Week News
Citizen-science projects are by no means new. While it would be tough to pinpoint the start of efforts in which amateurs help scientists perform research, many credit the Audubon Society's well-known Christmas Bird Count, which began on Christmas Day...
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Students dive into scientific research
UConn Daily Campus
From biology to engineering to environmental studies, UConn seniors are expanding their educations through scientific research conducted not just at home in Storrs, but around the globe. From the moment he set foot on the UConn campus, Osborn knew he ...
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On Gardening: Citizen scientists key to gathering important data
Yakima Herald-Republic
If you are a gardener you don't need to have a Ph.D. in botany, zoology or other related sciences to help make important contributions to scientific research. There are hundreds of ongoing scientific studies concerned with how climate change is ...
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Research on Alzheimer is major challenge for Europe
Xinhua
MILAN, Italy, May 10 (Xinhua) -- Researchers attending an Alzheimer Disease (AD) conference in Italy's Milan on Friday said this devastating illness is a major challenge for scientific research in Europe. AD is the most common of the brain-related ...
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Popular diabetes drug does not improve survival rates after cancer: Study
Science Codex
"Metformin is a drug commonly used by diabetic patients to control the amount of glucose in their blood," said the study's lead author Dr. Iliana Lega, a research fellow at Women's College ResearchInstitute. "Although existing scientific literature ...
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Borderline Views: Investing in the humanities
Jerusalem Post
The 12 research fields include such diverse topics as: Study of Modern Jewish Culture; Education and the New Information Society; Empirical Legal Studies; Mass Trauma Research; Abrahamic Religions; The Quantum Universe: Particles and Astroparticle ...
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Billionaire gives $50M to NC life sciences center
San Francisco Chronicle
"I am committed to doing all I can to advance scientific research that will vastly improve the quality of life for mankind," Murdock said. ... One initiative being done by the institute is a study that organizers hope will get 50,000 participants in ...
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The Scientific Star Chamber?
Huffington Post
Failure to champion or implement any constructive ideas often leads politicians to distract the public by misdirecting their frustrations, and sometimes politicians do this by holding up some piece ofscientific research for ridicule. ... understand ...
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Ireland Punches above Its Weight in Scientific Research Impact
Sacramento Bee
Built on content from Thomson Reuters Web of KnowledgeSM, the industry's premier researchplatform for information in the sciences, social sciences arts and humanities, the customized data sets in InCites will provide analytics on authors, journals and ...
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A time to direct research
Toronto Star
Normally I am not an advocate for directing scientific research but our situation today is different. Our planet is heating up ... Scientific studies on this question are thin on the ground as it is; it doesn't help when we misstate their findings ...
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Scientists Drill Back 3.6 Million Years in Siberian Lake
RIA Novosti
She worked on what she called a “fabulous international collaboration” with Pavel Minyuk of Russia's Northeast Interdisciplinary Scientific Research Institute in Magadan and Martin Melles of the University of Cologne in Germany, as chief scientists ...
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Basic Research and Its Contributions to Science and Society
Huffington Post (blog)
First, it short-circuits the process of peer review, taking the judgment of scientific importance out of the hands of scientists, placing politicians in the role of judging gaps in knowledge that need to be filled. Second, it assumes that to be ...
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Gray hair cure? New research may yield cure for gray hair
Examiner.com
Scientific research out of Europe has revealed why hair turns gray, which have many believing a gray hair cure could be on its way, according to a report from Cosmetics Design.com, Monday, May 6. According to the study in the journal for Federation of ...
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Examiner.com
This scientist needs your help to study air pollution from coal trains
Grist
In the absence of dollars from the usual government or corporate channels, he has turned to the internet to crowd-fund this vital research. Jaffe started a page on Microryza, a sort of Kickstarter forscientific research (a great idea with a name that ...
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GSK Announces Plans to Share Clinical Trial Data
Pharmaceutical Technology Magazine
Access to the data from GSK's studies will be granted on a password protected website to protectresearch participants' privacy and to ensure that the data are used for the approved scientificpurpose. "When people volunteer for clinical trials, they ...
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Congress and Peer Review of Science
Huffington Post
It is estimated that, globally, over a million scientific research ideas are reviewed annually asscientists seek resources to initiate and/or continue work on ideas leading to new discoveries, and publish the outcomes of their research. The peer ...
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UMass research team chosen to conduct $3.64 million research project on ...
MassLive.com
... Health Sciences research team has been chosen by the Massachusetts Gaming Commission to conduct a multi-year $3.64 million research project - believed to be the first of its kind - to study the economic and social impacts of introducing casino ...
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Billionaire Murdock gives $50M to support scientific research
WRAL Tech Wire
Durham, N.C. — Saying he wanted to do “all I can to advance scientific research that will vastly improve the quality of life for mankind,” billionaire David H. Murdock, founder of the the North CarolinaResearch Campus, announced a $50 million gift to ...
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Amalgamation still cause of council divide, study shows - Hamilton Spectator
Hamilton Spectator
But a soon-to-be-published academic study — which links those divisions back to amalgamation — has used scientific research methods to show that within Hamilton's municipal politics, there's still a deep divide between the old city and the new one ...
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NUS Faculty of Science receives S$1m to boost life sciences research, education
Channel News Asia
SINGAPORE: The Faculty of Science at the National University of Singapore (NUS) has received a financial gift to boost life sciences research and education. The SingHaiyi Group Limited and its parent company Haiyi Holdings Pte Ltd has presented S$1 ...
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Channel News Asia
The Science Laureate of the United States
Wired
Promotion of the scientific enterprise – basic education and cutting edge research alike – is a noble cause, and the Science Laureate would no doubt increase its profile in ways the government has not pursued before. The White House Office of Science ...
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Scripps Research Institute scientists find key to gene-silencing activity
Eureka! Science News
A team led by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) has found how to boost or inhibit a gene-silencing mechanism that normally serves as a major controller of cells' activities. The discovery could lead to a powerful new class of drugs ...
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We almost always buy in the same shops, research says - PhysOrg.com
Phys.Org
This is the main discovery of an international scientific study, in which the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid has participated, which reveals how to predict people's shopping patterns. This research study attempts to identify just how predictable we ...
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Rafidah wants research that has value
New Straits Times
The academy also regularly undertakes studies on how science can mitigate global threats to the nation. To maintain ... But she warned that science cannot make an impact if scientists continue to do research without thinking of the practicality of the ...
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The New York Academy of Sciences Partners to Host International Malaria ...
The New York Academy of Sciences
Part of the reason P. vivax is so difficult to control is "its ability to relapse from long-lasting, domant liver-stages, months or even years after the first infection," says scientific conference organizer Ivo Mueller, PhD, Research Professor, CRESIB ...
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