 Kansas City Star In the KU case, the US Office of Research Integrity, a watchdog agency overseeing a large share of federally financed life-sciences research, announced this month that it had reached a settlement with the twoscientists. Both admitted culpability ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Kerala Science Congress gets underway The Hindu The 24th Kerala Science Congress got underway in Kottayam on Sunday with the Chief Minister Oommen Chandy calling upon the scientificcommunity and research laboratories to focus on the specific needs of the State and asking them to emphasise on ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Oxford, Harvard scientists lead data-sharing effort EurekAlert (press release) Led by researchers at University of Oxford (UK) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) at Harvard University, (USA), more than 50 collaborators at over 30 scientific organizations around the globe have agreed on a common standard that will make ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The Missing Bird Flu Report New York Times In November, a federal advisory board recommended that two scientificpapers describing research that created strains of bird flu potentially transmissible in humans should be published only if key details are omitted. The fear is that terrorists or ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Carbon tax 'alarmism' doesn't fit facts, scientists warn The Australian Writing in The Wall Street Journal, the 16 scientists say a "large and growing number" of scientists and engineers do not agree that drastic action on global warming is needed. "The number of scientific 'heretics' is growing with each passing year. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Could scientists discover life in SC primary? Covington News By Ric Latarski In case you missed this, a scientist, Leonid Ksanfomaliti, at the Space Research Institute of Russia's Academy of Science, announced he analyzed photographs from a 1982 probe of Venus and thinks they may reveal life on the planet. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scientists urged to find solutionsto problems faced by State The Hindu Chief Minister DV Sadananda Gowda and top space scientist and Chairman of the Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad UR Rao on Saturday urged the scientific community to find solutions to the “burning” problems of the State and the country. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Family psychiatric history may shape your interests: Study Times of India The research, which is based on a survey of over 1000 freshers of Princeton University, posits a genetic influence on personal interests, the researchers said. For example, they said, students who planned to major in the humanities or social sciences ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Wake Forest BioTech Place to open in Feb. Winston-Salem Journal Wake Forest University Health Sciences has said it plans to move 320 positions from its Hawthorne campus and other offices into BioTech Place. The health-sciences division has longed for years for expansion space for its research departments. See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Scientists say they know why the caged bird sings Vancouver Sun Since then, there have been no end of surprises coming from his laboratory, which is funded by the National Science and Engineering ResearchCouncil. In comparing the ability of humans, mammals and birds to be trained to discriminate between subtly ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Scientists told to tap traditional knowledge base IBNLive.com PTI | 08:01 PM,Jan 29,2012 Kottayam, Jan 29 (PTI)Stating that government was committed to invest more in science education, Kerala Chief Minister Ooommen Chandy today asked scientific community to tap the traditional knowledge base to develop ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| UCLA astronomers solve mystery of vanishing electrons EurekAlert (press release) "This is an important milestone in understanding Earth's space environment," said lead study author Drew Turner, an assistant researcher in the UCLA Department of Earth and Space Sciences and a member of UCLA's Institute for Geophysics and Planetary ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Study of freakish mystery illness finds no cause; infection exists only in ... LubbockOnline.com Many of these people were in California and one of that state's US senators, Dianne Feinstein, asked for a scientific study. In 2008, federal health officials began to study people saying they were affected by this freakish condition called Morgellons. See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| The best young scientists and engineers announced in Dagestan Republican Information Agency This time there participated 22 young scientists from the leading universities of the republic and Dagestan Scientific Center, RAS. The participants presented their research works and the lists of major scientific publications and conferences they took ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Book Review: Fringe Science: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad ... Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) After finishing Welcome to Wisteria Lane: On America's Favorite Desperate Housewives (you can find the review here), I immediately picked up FringeScience: Parallel Universes, White Tulips, and Mad Scientists. I only had one review of Fringe left ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Extreme heat hurts wheat yields as world warms-study Reuters Scientists and farmers have long known that high heat can hurt some crops and the Stanford University-led study, released on Monday, revealed how the damage is done by tracking rates of wheat ageing, or senescence. Depending on the sowing date, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Distant Noise Pollution Can Have Local Consequences Science 2.0 I am a research scientist who dabbles in freelance writing and editing, birding, cooking, indoor gardening, needleworking, various athletics, music... Underwater noise pollution does not usually receive as much attention as its terrestrial counterpart, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| BioResource International, Inc. Presents Latest Research at the International ... PR.com (press release) Research Triangle Park, NC, January 29, 2012 --(PR.com)-- Scientistsfrom the Agricultural biotechnology company BioResource International, Inc. (www.briworldwide.com) presented their latest research at the International Poultry Science Forum held in ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| New British Study Confirms Climate Change Consensus, Daily Mail ... Nature Blog Network · Climate Defense Fund. The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden. The Skeptical Search Engine. This search engine will only give you results from carefully selected skeptical andscientific sites. Greg Laden's Blog |
| BishopBlog: 2011 Orwellian Prize for Journalistic Misrepresentation By deevybee Only articles that describe a piece of published scientific research are eligible. Points are given for every statement in the article that does not match the original source, as follows: Factual error in the headline: 3 points; Factual error in a ... BishopBlog |
| The Legal Implications of What Science Says About Recall « e ... By Ralph Losey The scientific research proves, once again, that it is unreasonable to ask for any better recall than 70%, in fact, it should be substantially less. Law demand reasonable efforts, not perfection. The best recall results attainable in scientific ... e-Discovery Team ® |
| Sub-Surface Life? | I, Science By Antonio Torrisi However, remote areas spark scientific and public curiosity, and in 1957 a group of scientists established a research facility, Vostok, in the coldest place on Earth: the East Antarctic Ice Sheet. Forty years on, scientistsconfirmed the presence of ... I, Science |
| Presidential Commission: Directed Energy Weapons Used On ... By Shepard The Commission works with the goal of identifying and promoting policies and practices that ensure scientific research, health care delivery, and technological innovation are conducted in an ethically responsible manner.” The documentation ... |
| Antarctic Microbes - Young scientists and crew at Palmer By Mrina He is a graduate student at Rutgers University in New Jersey who uses underwater gliders called “Remotely Operated Vehicles” (ROVs) to study the ocean. These ROVs can measure the ... They are very useful scientifictools. In these pictures ... Antarctic Microbes |
| My first “turno” at ALMA | astrobites By Adele Plunkett Note: This is the first astrobite in what I hope will be a periodic series about my adventures doing astronomy research in a foreign country. I'll be living and doing ... ... the Fulbright Commission for Educational Exchange Between the USA and Chile. Taking advantage of this opportunity to be in Chile during commissioning and Early Science of the ALMA Observatory, I'm spending three months as a visiting scientist in the “Commissioning andScience Verification” (CSV) group of ALMA. astrobites |
| ISA Commons To Set New Standards For Large Scale Genetic Studies By Asian Scientist Newsroom A group of more than 30 scientific organizations hopes to integrate large genetic databases from disparate fields by establishing a community data standard. ... “We are now working together to provide the means to manage enormous quantities of otherwise incompatible data, ranging from the biomedical to the environmental,” said Susanna-Assunta Sansone, Team Leader of the project at the Oxford e-Research Center. Akin to a jigsaw puzzle, scientists can now fit the many pieces together ... Asian Scientist Magazine | Asian... |
| Eye contact can predict autism earlier (Science Alert) Measuring how a baby reacts to eye contact could help predict autism as young as six months, leading to better treatment, research has found. ...They also open up new avenues for scientists to carry out further research, to help us better understand the condition.' While behaviours characteristic of autism emerge over the first few years of life, a firm ... Face it, mostscience news websites focus on research from the United States and Europe. At ScienceAlert we keep you posted about ... ScienceAlert - Latest Stories |
| Bird Flu Scientists Agree to Pause H5N1 Research - NYTimes.com A national biosecurity panel in the United States had asked researchers who produced a more contagious form of the bird flu virus to keep some data secret. www.nytimes.com/.../scientists-to-pause-research-on-deadly-st... |
| Real benefits of scientific research measured Scientists have developed a new way to measure the benefits of scientificresearch, by looking at the difference it has made to real-life issues. www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-real-benefits-scientific.html |
| Study Fails to Confirm Existence of Arsenic-Based Life: Scientific ... A new analysis by open-science advocates present a. www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=study-fails-to... |
| Figshare: a new way to publish scientific research data « Wellcome ... The Wellcome Trust has a strong view on open access and scientific data, expecting authors of research to “maximise the opportunities to make their results ... wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/figshare/ |
| UK needs scientific research into agroecology not GM - comment ... The greatest challenge facing agricultural scientists is how to work with farmers producing more ecological and healthier food - not GM, argues Patrick Mulvany, ... www.theecologist.org/.../uk_needs_scientific_research_into_a... |
| Durham scientists study plants for biofuel production - Science ... Research at GrassRoots Biotechnology could, scientists say, bolster the biofuel industry while creating stronger crops. www.newsobserver.com/.../making-biofuels-grow-glow.html |
| UK Chancellor announces joint UK-China scientific research ... On Tuesday 17, during a visit to Beijing, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne announced two joint scientific research investments between the ... ukinchina.fco.gov.uk/en/news/?view=PressR&id... |
| Questions on research integrity and scientific responsibility: Part II ... Here is the content of my presentation to the UN InterAcademy Council Project on Research Integrity and Scientific Responsibility. The InterAcademy Council ... judithcurry.com/.../questions-on-research-integrity-and-scienti... |
| New Scientist Jobs | jobs | Choose from 2693 live vacancies 2693 Science & Technology Jobs on New Scientist Jobs. Keyword: in. Any location ... Featured jobs. Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (US) ·Scientists ... jobs.newscientist.com/ |
| Scientific Misconduct Muddies Waters of Red Wine Research ... An investigation performed by the University of Connecticut has concluded that reseacher Dr. Dipak Das falsified data in 26 scientific publications, some of which ... palatepress.com/.../scientific-misconduct-muddies-waters-of-re... |
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