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Australian science research facilities prepare for shutdown as government refuses to secure funding
Up to 1,700 jobs at 27 facilities at risk from 30 June, with $150m in vital funding tied to the Coalition’s higher-education changes
Science Politics
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Wednesday, Mar 04, 2015, 7:37am
Rating: | Views: 1200 | Comments: 0
Just Another #ManicureMonday for Women Scientists and Their Dirty Nails
For a Smithsonian researcher, Monday is a day to honor the women in science and other uses for nail polish
Science Politics
Source: Smithsonian
Posted on: Tuesday, Mar 03, 2015, 7:22am
Rating: | Views: 1167 | Comments: 0
Facebook Must Shut Down the Anti-Vaxxers
Mark Zuckerberg should unfriend the crazies before more people get hurt
Science Politics
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: Friday, Feb 20, 2015, 7:51am
Rating: | Views: 1211 | Comments: 0
Don't be fooled by the closing gender gap in science PhDs
What’s really happened is that fewer men – not more women– are studying for PhDs, new US research reveals
Science Politics
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: 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
Posted on: Friday, Feb 13, 2015, 7:25am
Rating: | Views: 1209 | Comments: 0
NSF's new budget reflects White House priorities on climate and environment
France Córdova emerges as a team player as 2016 budget sets up battle with Congress
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Thursday, Feb 05, 2015, 1:02pm
Rating: | Views: 1209 | Comments: 0
Who will fund tomorrow’s big scientific breakthroughs?
Funding for long-term research has slowed to critical levels. For a sustainable future, corporations need to build a pipeline of real solutions
Science Politics
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Thursday, Feb 05, 2015, 1:02pm
Rating: | Views: 1203 | Comments: 0
What the Gates Foundation Has Achieved, 15 Years On
Much has been done over the foundation's first decade and a half — with more still to do
Science Politics
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: 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
Posted on: 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.
Science Politics
Source: NPR
Posted on: Wednesday, Jan 14, 2015, 7:49am
Rating: | Views: 1182 | Comments: 0
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
Posted on: Friday, Jan 09, 2015, 8:08am
Rating: | Views: 1190 | Comments: 0
The top 10 science news stories of 2014
A list of our favorite and most popular articles
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Friday, Dec 19, 2014, 8:07am
Rating: | Views: 1764 | Comments: 0
Breaking: NIH to end controversial children's study
Massive $1.5 billion study would have followed 100,000 children
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Friday, Dec 12, 2014, 11:28am
Rating: | Views: 1536 | Comments: 0
Study of massive preprint archive hints at the geography of plagiarism
Researchers examine “text reuse” in arXiv
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Thursday, Dec 11, 2014, 7:59am
Rating: | Views: 1842 | Comments: 0
First look: New U.S. spending deal a mixed bag for science
NASA, NSF gain; NIH and DOE flat
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: 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: Wired
Posted on: Tuesday, Dec 09, 2014, 6:49am
Rating: | Views: 1616 | Comments: 0
Scientific Altmetrics Schadenfreude
Advice to scientists on how to game the Altmetrics score system.
Science Politics
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Wednesday, Nov 12, 2014, 8:51am
Rating: | Views: 1224 | Comments: 0
In some states, science on the Election Day ballot
Referenda, initiatives touch on an array of research-related topics
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Monday, Nov 03, 2014, 8:29pm
Rating: | Views: 1148 | Comments: 0
Controversy over Truthy illustrates the power of social media to inform—and mislead
Indiana researchers studying Twitter become the object of a social media attack by conservatives
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Monday, Nov 03, 2014, 8:29pm
Rating: | Views: 1284 | Comments: 0
The seven creepiest science experiments
Some of our favorite scary and disturbing studies
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: Friday, Oct 31, 2014, 8:41am
Rating: | Views: 1236 | Comments: 0
Ebola Researchers Banned From Medical Meeting In New Orleans
One of the top scientific conferences on tropical diseases will take place without the people who have the most recent and direct experience with Ebola in West Africa.
Science Politics
Source: NPR
Posted on: Friday, Oct 31, 2014, 8:41am
Rating: | Views: 1196 | Comments: 0
Is 'Leaning In' The Only Formula For Women's Success In Science?
A science superstar at Caltech advises young women to not wait for encouragement to succeed. Just go do it, she says. But her admiring students say that approach doesn't work for everybody.
Science Politics
Source: NPR
Posted on: Tuesday, Oct 28, 2014, 8:15am
Rating: | Views: 1145 | Comments: 0
Big business regulation theory yields economics Nobel Prize
French economist Jean Tirole wins 2014 award for “for his analysis of market power and regulation”
Science Politics
Source: Science
Posted on: 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
Posted on: 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.
Science Politics
Source: NPR
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 25, 2014, 8:26am
Rating: | Views: 1217 | Comments: 0
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.
Science Politics
Source: Reuters
Posted on: Thursday, Sep 25, 2014, 8:26am
Rating: | Views: 1253 | Comments: 0
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
Science Politics
Source: TheGuardian
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 24, 2014, 10:20am
Rating: | Views: 1217 | Comments: 0
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
Posted on: Friday, Sep 19, 2014, 8:10am
Rating: | Views: 1285 | Comments: 0
Quiz: Can You Answer 5th Grade Science Questions?
Most Americans lack a basic understanding of science
Science Politics
Source: TIME Magazine
Posted on: 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.
Science Politics
Source: NPR
Posted on: Wednesday, Sep 17, 2014, 7:20am
Rating: | Views: 1137 | Comments: 0
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