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Friday, 08 April 2011
- U.N. Goal of Limiting Global Warming Is Nearly Impossible, Researchers Say
Computer modeling bolsters idea that "immediate" emissions cuts are necessary to make 2°C target
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/un-goal-of-limiting-global-warmi.html?etoc
- Indian Scientists Call for Moratorium on New Nuclear Plants
NEW DELHI—A group of scientists has stirred a controversy within India's research community last week by calling for a moratorium on new nuclear plants. P. Balaram, a molecular biophysicist...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/indian-scientists-call-for-morat.html?etoc
- ScienceShot: Newfound Asteroid on Earth's Tail
Superdome-sized object moves in roughly the same orbit as our planet
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/scienceshot-newfound-asteroid-on.html?etoc
- Podcast: A Sexy Mystery, Dinosaur Lice, and Mummies With Heart Disease
Listen to a roundup of some of our favorite stories from this week
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/podcast-a-sexy-mystery-dinosaur.html?etoc
Thursday, 07 April 2011
- Bill Allowing Teachers to Challenge Evolution Passes Tennessee House
In a 70-28 vote today, the Tennessee House of Representatives passed HB 368, a bill that encourages science teachers to explore controversial topics without fear of reprisal. Critics say...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/bill-allowing-teachers-to-challenge.html?etoc
- Virtual Whiskers Probe Sense of Touch
Computer simulation of rat whiskers could help scientists explain how our fingers feel
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/virtual-whiskers-probe-sense-of-.html?etoc
- In Memoriam: Baruch Blumberg, Scientist on the Move
Baruch Blumberg, who went by the nickname Barry, is best known for winning the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine 1976 for discovering the hepatitis B virus and developing...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/in-memoriam-baruch-blumberg-scientist.html?etoc
- Fish Stymie Scientists, Facebook to the Rescue
If you're stuck in the jungle and you need research help fast, learned Oregon State University researchers, social networking may help, says the university: A team of scientists in...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/fish-stymie-scientists-facebook-.html?etoc
- Star-Eating Black Hole May Be Producing Universe's Biggest Blast
Unprecedented series of bursts suggests black hole is ripping a star to shreds
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/star-eating-black-hole-may-be-pr.html?etoc
- Live Chat: Bill Burnett Talks About Radiation in Japan's Seas (Transcript)
At 3 p.m. on Thursday, join Florida State University geochemist William Burnett to chat about how radiation can affect ocean chemistry and its possible effects on marine ecology.
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/live-chat---bill-burnett-talks-a.html?etoc
- Holograms in True Color
New technique creates holograms that can be viewed from any angle using white light, not lasers
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/holograms-in-true-color.html?etoc
- ScienceShot: Kepler Watches Stellar Throbbing
Observatory has detected pulsations in 500 stars and discovered a triple star system
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/scienceshot-kepler-watches-stellar.html?etoc
- Does Your Brain Bleed Red, White, and Blue?
Scientists report differences in brain anatomy between liberals and conservatives
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/does-your-brain-bleed-red-white-.html?etoc
- NIH Data Show Fat Cats Alive and Well
The notion that some biomedical researchers are piling up research grants simply isn't true, says the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) extramural chief. But a relative handful of so-called...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/nih-data-show-fat-cats-alive-and-well.html?etoc
- Can the U.S. Afford the Next Census?
What if the next U.S. census was canceled because it was too expensive? As farfetched as that may sound to demographers and social scientists, a congressional panel heard yesterday...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/can-the-us-afford-the-next-census.html?etoc
- Japan's Tsunami Topped 37 Meters
TOKYO—The 11 March tsunami that inundated coastal regions of northeast Japan was 37.9 meters high in at least one location. That's tall enough to engulf a 10-story building. But...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/japans-tsunami-topped-37-meters.html?etoc
Wednesday, 06 April 2011
- Senate Rejects Bid to Stymie EPA Climate Regs
A measure that would bar the Environmental Protection Agency from implementing its rules on greenhouse gas emissions failed today in the U.S. Senate. The proposal, sponsored by Senate Minority...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/senate-rejects-bid-to-stymie-epa.html?etoc
- Primer: Will Radiation Lay Waste to Japan's Fish?
Although radioactive leaks in the Fukushima plant are now plugged, Japan's coastal waters have taken a beating. Authorities dumped some of the waste seawater used to cool the reactors...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/primer-will-radiation-lay-waste.html?etoc
- Stardust Reveals Comets Were Once Wet
Having at least partially melted at one time, comet Wild 2 challenges the primordial nature of "dirty snowballs"
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/stardust-reveals-comets-were-onc.html?etoc
- Fermilab Physicists See Something Weird ...
But they make no claim of new particle
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/fermilab-physicists-see-somethin.html?etoc
- Q&A With Richard Muller: A Physicist and His Surprising Climate Data
Richard Muller of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California has gained a solid scientific reputation for his work in astrophysics and particle physics. He's waded into policy debates over...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/qa-with-richard-muller-a-physicist.html?etoc
- Budget Freeze Forces NIH to Slash Electronic Grants Staff
In a sign of grim budget times, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is cutting 20% of the contractors who help run its electronic grants system. In a message...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/budget-freeze-forces-nih-to-slash.html?etoc
- Caffeine Fiend? Could Be a Gene Thing (or Two)
Genetic variations may explain why some people can't live without a cup of joe
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/caffeine-fiend-could-be-a-gene-t.html?etoc
- ScienceShot: Now That's a Big Number
Researchers calculate how much information the world's business computer servers process each year
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/scienceshot-now-thats-a-big-number.html?etoc
- Researchers Grow Protoeye in Dish
Finding could lead to growing entire organs in the lab
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/researchers-grow-protoeye-in-dis.html?etoc
- Prize for Astrophysicist Reopens the Oldest Debate in the Cosmos
In an appreciation of work bridging science and philosophy—or a canny attempt to buy credibility, depending on whom you ask—the controversial Templeton Foundation has awarded its $1.6 million annual...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/prize-for-astrophysicist-reopens.html?etoc
- Did Feathered Dinos Spread Lice?
Parasitic insects may provide clues to bird and mammal evolution
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/did-feathered-dinos-spread-lice.html?etoc
- Sex After a Field Trip Yields Scientific First
Medical entomologist inadvertently provides evidence of sexual transmission of a mosquito-borne virus
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/sex-after-a-field-trip-yields-sc.html?etoc
Tuesday, 05 April 2011
- ScienceShot: Martian Mud Volcanoes
Hundreds of moundlike features linked to underlying sediment layers
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/scienceshot-martian-mud-volcanoes.html?etoc
- NIH's 'Secret Plans' for a Government Shutdown
With a possible government shutdown only a few days away, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) appears to be ready to send in a skeleton staff to care for...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/nihs-secret-plans-for-a-government.html?etoc
Monday, 04 April 2011
- U.S. Court Puts Gene Patents Under a 'Magic Microscope'
The Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Washington, D.C., heard oral arguments today in a case that could rewrite or invalidate much of biotechnology patent law in...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/us-court-puts-gene-patents-under.html?etoc
- Will EPA Lose Control of Greenhouse Gas Rules?
There's two ways that an ongoing program to regulate greenhouse gases by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could get shut down this week by Congress or the White...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/will-epa-lose-control-of-greenhouse.html?etoc
- Fukushima Radiation: Modeling Shows Limited Spread in Ocean
Daily computer simulations are suggesting that, so far, the hazardous radioactive materials being released into the sea by the Fukushima nuclear plants are still largely restricted to areas near...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/fukushima-radiation-modeling-shows.html?etoc
- International Mega-Telescope Project Gears Up at U.K. Observatory
The nine-nation, $1.5 billion Square Kilometre Array (SKA) project to build the world's biggest and most sensitive radio telescope has established a governing board and will set up its...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/international-mega-telescope.html?etoc
- Tuberculosis Followed the Fur Trade
Genetic fingerprints reveal movement of deadly bacterium from Europeans to native Canadians
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/tuberculosis-followed-the-fur-tr.html?etoc
- ScienceShot: Green Eggs and Salamanders
Algae invade developing amphibian embryos, turning them green
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/scienceshot-green-eggs-and-salamanders.html?etoc
- ScienceShot: The Earliest Touchdown
An ancient insect's messy landing has been preserved for the ages
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/scienceshot-the-earliest-touchdown.html?etoc
- Slideshow: Killer Whales Devise Lethal Splash to Catch Seals
A highly coordinated hunting tactic almost always works
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/slideshow-killer-whales-devise-l.html?etoc
Sunday, 03 April 2011
- The Curse of the Mummies' Arteries
A new study traces the origins of heart disease in ancient Egypt
- http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/the-curse-of-the-mummies-arteries.html?etoc
Friday, 01 April 2011
- European Researchers Want Granting Agency to Stay a Granting Agency
A group of prominent European researchers today sent an open letter to the heads of all of Europe's research councils protesting against the winding up of the grant-giving activities...
- http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/04/scientists-dont-make-european.html?etoc
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