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Science Politics Source: TheGuardian
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Thursday, Feb 19, 2015, 8:16am Rating: | Views: 1263 | Comments: 0
Marriage and the making of scientific careers Is there room for personal relationships in science? As Valentine’s Day approaches, Ruth Wainman considers an often neglected aspect of the historical study of scientific careers
Science Politics Source: TheGuardian
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Friday, Feb 13, 2015, 7:25am Rating: | Views: 1209 | Comments: 0
Science Politics Source: TIME Magazine
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Friday, Jan 23, 2015, 10:36am Rating: | Views: 1210 | Comments: 0
In U.S. academia, fields that cherish sheer genius shun women WASHINGTON (Reuters) - For academic fields whose members revere a "spark of genius" above all other qualities, there is a disquieting message at U.S. colleges and universities: Women need not apply.
Science Politics Source: Reuters
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Friday, Jan 16, 2015, 10:10am Rating: | Views: 1192 | Comments: 0
U.S. Funding of Health Research Stalls As Other Nations Rev Up It's not just government-sponsored medical research that's dwindled in the last few years in the U.S. Drug firms have curbed their investment, too, especially in early-stage hunts for new drugs.
Demoralisation in the ranks of researchers As the trend of declining scientific funding and opportunities continues, the lack of a tangible way to measure the long-term impact on science leaves politicians insensitive to the problem
Science Politics Source: TheGuardian
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Friday, Jan 09, 2015, 8:08am Rating: | Views: 1190 | Comments: 0
Science Politics Source: Science
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Wednesday, Dec 10, 2014, 7:38am Rating: | Views: 1565 | Comments: 0
The Fascinating Treasures Locked Away at California’s Best Science Museum Ace WIRED photographer Josh Valcarcel and I spent some 15 hours touring the stacks with the California Academy of Sciences' many curators, and over the next three weeks we’ll be bringing you the most amazing critters we found in the collections. First up are the remarkable mammals and birds you see above, many of which are extinct or extremely threatened, specially chosen for us to see by collections manager Moe Flannery.
Science Politics Source: Science
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Monday, Oct 13, 2014, 7:51pm Rating: | Views: 1225 | Comments: 0
Britain leads Europe in biotech fundraising Britain is the top European nation for biotechnology capital raised in the first half of 2014, a vindication of the government's strategy to encourage the life sciences through incentives including tax breaks.
Science Politics Source: Reuters
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Tuesday, Oct 07, 2014, 8:15am Rating: | Views: 1232 | Comments: 0
After The NIH Funding 'Euphoria' Comes The 'Hangover' The way the National Institutes of Health doles out research grants accentuates booms and busts in the financing of scientific research. More variety in the length of grants could help.
Nobel Prize science predictions see honors for pain, LEDs and more Scientists who discovered phenomena as different as the molecular mechanisms of pain, organic light-emitting diodes that illuminate mobile phones and a new quantum state of matter are top contenders for Nobel prizes next month, according to an annual analysis by Thomson Reuters.
Who are the martyrs of science? History suggests that scientists opposition to ideological manipulation has often been feeble. Philip Ball argues that the failings are not individual but institutional
Feedback: Ig Nobel prize for watching dogs urinate The prizewinning science of banana-skin slips, seeing Jesus in toast and dogs aligning themselves with magnetic fields lines when relieving themselves
Science Politics Source: New Scientist
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Friday, Sep 19, 2014, 8:10am Rating: | Views: 1285 | Comments: 0
Science Politics Source: TIME Magazine
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Thursday, Sep 18, 2014, 7:48am Rating: | Views: 1398 | Comments: 0
Meet The 2014 Winners Of The MacArthur 'Genius Grants' This year's winners include a cartoonist, a documentarian, a leader in the legal fight for gay marriage, a saxophonist, mathematicians and scientists, poets, lawyers and advocates.