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When Patients Set Science's Research Agenda, Who Loses? Tired of waiting for a cure for breast cancer, a coalition of activists now leans hard on Congress to steer money to particular research projects. Critics say that approach may miss promising leads.
Too Few University Jobs For America's Young Scientists So, you want to be a science professor? Good luck. Highly educated, relatively low-paid postdoctoral fellows may drive U.S. biomedical research, but they're training for jobs that don't exist.
A plea for Mr Obama and other world leaders: its time to support science As the Ebola epidemic demonstrates, the world is an ever more dangerous place, and wealthy democracies have a moral obligation to invest in less fortunate countries and to support a more stable and secure world. But neglecting science will be devastating in the long run
Built In Better Times, University Labs Now Lack Research Funding When the National Institutes of Health budget doubled, some schools scrambled to build new laboratory buildings. But the funding has declined, leaving institutions struggling to pay for the buildings.
WARNING: wild extrapolation (a classification system for science news) Science news and articles are becoming increasingly popular, but with so much being written about so many things, it can be confusing for the beginner science enthusiast to grasp what they're reading and how to interpret it. A simple classification system could help remedy this
U.S. Science Suffering From Booms And Busts In Funding The federal budget for bioscience has undergone big swings since 2000. Some scientists are now out of work and others are abandoning the ambitious, creative ideas that fuel discovery.
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Who governs science? Traditionally, science holds itself to account, primarily through internal systems of peer review. But the recent retraction of two papers on stem-cell research by the journal Nature highlights weaknesses in this self-regulatory framework that scientists need to address
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Many Women Leave Engineering, Blame The Work Culture From the aerospace sector to Silicon Valley, engineering has a retention problem: Close to 40 percent of women with engineering degrees either leave the profession or never enter the field.
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Making science cool won't win over the denialists US pop culture now celebrates science – but that doesn't stop science deniers dismissing inconvenient truths. Showbiz can help, says journalist Chris Mooney
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Animal research can be justified but 'cuteness' is irrelevant Pictures of kittens with plates in their heads are shocking, but we need to approach decisions about animal research with as much objectivity as we can muster, writes Dr Obaro Evuarherhe
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