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They say that a poor workman blames his tools. If you’re a scientist and you discover your tools don’t do exactly what you thought they did, however, the right thing to do is let other scientists relying on your work know. That’s what the University of Auckland’s Nigel Birch and colleagues did recently, after a [...]
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Originally posted on Of Schemes and Memes Blog - a community blog from nature.comIt’s high time for another Friday quiz – and have your passports at the ready as we go globetrotting this week, with each round based on a different country’s science and scientists. We start off with a trip to France. Bon voyage, quizzers. Read more
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This week we have barcoded ants, 3D printing fetuses, seals’ teeth, pseudoscience in the filter bubble and more. Let’s do this! – We’ve done it, people. We have barcoded ants. For science! The research is fabulously cool. Recounted by Kate Prengaman for Ars Technica. Barcodes let scientists track every ant in a colony For creatures [...]
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A team of researchers in Ireland has retracted two papers from Cancer Letters after concerns were apparently raised about some of the studies’ figures. Denise Egan, of the Institute of Technology Tallaght in Dublin, and colleagues published “In vitro anti-tumour and cyto-selective effects of coumarin-3-carboxylic acid and three of its hydroxylated derivatives, along with their [...]
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Originally posted on Stepwise - a blog from Nature ProtocolsSo I’m back… Well, I have actually been back for a little while already, as this year’s Mathematical and Statistical Aspects in Molecular Biology (MASAMB) meeting was held last April 11th and 12th. Read more
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Originally posted on The Sceptical Chymist - a blog from Nature ChemistryFelice Grandinetti is in the Department for Innovation in Biological, Agro-food and Forest systems (DIBAF) of the Università della Tuscia, Italy, and works on the computational investigation of the structure, stability, and reactivity of simple inorganic species. The studied systems are in general of fundamental interest, and play also an active role, for example, in environmental and plasma chemistry. Read more
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Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceThis week China budged. Depending on one’s perspective, it wasn’t much of a concession. The country agreed, in essence, to do what it and everybody else had already agreed to do back in 2007: accelerate the phase out of a common class of ozone-eating refrigerants that double as powerful greenhouse gases. But rather than haggling over prices each step of the way, China made it simple and cut a single deal – […]
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Originally posted on Indigenus - a blog from Nature IndiaConfessions first. The inspiration for this quirky-titled blog comes from an equally unusual and brilliant blog by Nature Chemistry resident wordsmith and chief editor Stuart Cantrill. The journal is rolling out its 50th issue in May 2013 and Cantrill lists, in his trademark style, all the seriously funny things these guys do at Nature Chemistry. What all [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6] goes on at the Nature Publishing Group in the name of science, […]
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