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April 25, 2013

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2:41 PM | Purloined dissertation on stroke ends in retraction for Iranian group

The International Journal of Neuroscience, an Informa Healthcare journal, has retracted a paper it published earlier this year after learning that the article was the doctoral work of another scientist — not listed among the authors — that had appeared previously in a Persian-language journal. The retraction notice, admirably thorough, explains what happened with the [...]

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6:23 AM | Fat to the rescue, is our fat the answer?

Fat is rarely anyone’s favourite word to hear. Often associated with being unhealthy, many of us look for ways to reduce, remove and destroy our unwanted areas of fat. But before we all step away from the buffet and onto the treadmill [...]testThe post Fat to the rescue, is our fat the answer? appeared first on Australian Science.

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3:34 AM | #SciAmBlogs Wednesday – infrared cameras, intelligent infrastructure, gumball science, toilet tech, 1903 British lynx, and more.

Check out the newest Video of the Week! - Kyle Hill – Could the Boston Bomber Have Fled From Infrared? - Alan Woodward – Unexpected Risks Of Intelligent Infrastructure - Jenna Finwall Ryan – Gumball Science - Joanne Manaster – India is Drowning in its Own Excreta-Can Science and Engineering Come to [...]

April 24, 2013

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11:59 PM | 50 things you might not know about Nature Chemistry

Originally posted on The Sceptical Chymist - a blog from Nature ChemistryOn Monday I realized that our May 2013 issue is our 50th issue. To celebrate, we have compiled 50 (hopefully) interesting tidbits of information about the journal that you might not have been aware of. Apologies for the length of this post, but it seemed like cheating to do fewer than 50… … Read more

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7:50 PM | Authors retract already-corrected Nature malaria paper

Nature is retracting a 2010 paper by a team from Princeton and Drexel on the workings of Plasmodium falciparum, which causes malaria in people. How that came about seems to have been a winding road. The article — a research letter — titled “Branched tricarboxylic acid metabolism in Plasmodium falciparum,” came from the Princeton lab [...]

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7:36 PM | Glimmer of hope for freshwater research site

Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceThe Ontario provincial government has stepped in to keep open the Experimental Lakes Area. The freshwater research facility located in northern Ontario was closed in March by the government of Canada, despite protests from scientists. Read more

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7:00 PM | Melanoma drug joins ‘breakthrough’ club

Originally posted on Spoonful of Medicine - a blog from Nature MedicineEarlier this year, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted its first ‘breakthrough therapy designations’ to a pair of cystic fibrosis drugs (see Nat. Med. 19, 116–117, 2013). But since then, it’s been all about the cancer agents. Read more

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4:24 PM | Nile University wins case against Zewail City

Originally posted on House of Wisdom - a blog from Nature Middle EastThe long legal dispute between Nile University and Zewail City of Science and Technology over a campus on the outskirts of Cairo is coming to an end, after the Supreme Administrative Court in Egypt ruled in favour of giving the campus back to Nile University. Read more

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2:45 PM | Hurricanes, Earthquakes and the Rheology of Water

Almost imperceptibly weak, the hydrogen bonds in water make their presence known by occurring in numbers so vast that their presence cannot be ignored. As chemists, we all know that they are responsible for the relatively high boiling point of water, for holding trees up and countless other examples. But here is a new one: they allow hurricanes occurring on one end of the continent to be detected on the other end through seismological measurements.Skeptical? I was too at first when I read this […]

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1:54 PM | Harvard to close troubled primate research centre

Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceCiting cash concerns, Harvard Medical School announced on Tuesday that it will close the New England Primate Research Center (NEPRC), which houses around 2,000 monkeys in Southborough, Massachusetts. Read more

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1:30 PM | Saudi engineer loses second fresh water paper for plagiarism

Last month, we covered the retraction of a paper by A.M.K. El-Ghonemy, of Al-Jouf University in Saudi Arabia. The engineer now has a second retraction in the same journal, Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. Here’s the notice for “Waste energy recovery in sea water reverse osmosis desalination plants, Part-1: Review”: The article duplicates significant paragraphs of [...]

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10:24 AM | Wellcome Trust taps infectious disease researcher as new director

Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceJeremy Farrar, a clinical infectious disease researcher, has been appointed to lead the Wellcome Trust, one of the world’s largest biomedical research charities. Read more

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10:15 AM | Blogroll: Chemistry in crowds

Originally posted on The Sceptical Chymist - a blog from Nature ChemistryEditor’s note: As we continue to invite bloggers out there in the wild to compose our monthly Blogroll column, Mark Lorch penned the May 2013 column. Read more

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6:52 AM | Away from home: April round-up

Originally posted on Indigenus - a blog from Nature IndiaOur ‘Away from home’ blogging series features one Indian postdoc working in a foreign lab every Wednesday. The posts recount the experience of these postdocs — the triumphs and challenges of lab life, the cultural differences, what they miss about India — and, most importantly, offer some useful tips for postdocs headed abroad. Read more

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3:33 AM | #SciAmBlogs Tuesday – clinical trials, plant evaporation, Keystone XL, HAPIfork, and more.

- Hilda Bastian – Catch-22, Clinical Trial Edition: The Double Bind for Women and Children - Rose Eveleth – TED Education Wants Your Help Bringing Cool Science to the Classroom - Caleb A. Scharf – Plant Life Floods Earth’s Atmosphere - Ashutosh Jogalekar – Stephen Hawking’s advice for twenty-first century grads: Embrace [...]

April 23, 2013

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7:16 PM | Don’t Forget our new eBook Remember When? The Science of Memory

Why can you vividly recall the day your father took you to your first baseball game many years ago, but you can’t remember where you just put the car keys? We tend not to think about it much, but memory is the seat of consciousness. The process of how we remember, how we forget, and [...]

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5:30 PM | Mitochondrial fission paper falls for fusing data from earlier work

A team of neuroscientists in Japan has lost their 2012 article in Brain Research for duplicating elements of a figure from a paper they’d published earlier that year in another journal. The article, “Dynamic changes of mitochondrial fission proteins after transient cerebral ischemia in mice,” came from a lab at Okayama University. The last author [...]

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5:28 PM | Database creators take note: have URLs that work

I am tired of explaining to students that the URL for a database entry they copied and pasted from their browser won’t work. Here is the problem: A student searches for high quality content in a database that the library pays a lot of money for. Finding a great article, they copy and paste the [...]

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5:12 PM | Morning at Triton

War was brewing in Yugoslavia back in early 1991. I hopped on one of the last trains from Belgrade to London, then a plane to JFK in New York City, then next day down to Asheville, NC. A week later, … Continue reading →

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3:55 PM | Communities Happenings – a weekly round-up of NPG online news 22/4/13

Originally posted on Of Schemes and Memes Blog - a community blog from nature.comFor the next week, content on the SpotOn website will be focused on a series of case studies about using social media for science outreach. For details of what to expect from the series, check out our overview. The full list of these #reachingoutsci posts, as they’re published, can be found here. Read more

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1:30 PM | “Conflicts among the authors” force retraction of Talanta paper

Talanta, a journal serving the analytical chemistry community — we’d love to know how the name came to be — has retracted a 2013 article by a group of Indian researchers over an authorship dispute. The paper, “Non-enzymatic electrochemical glucose sensor based on silver/silver oxide nano-rods reinforced with multiwall carbon nanotubes,” appeared in January, with [...]

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12:57 PM | Social media for science outreach – reviving the #reachingoutsci discussions

Originally posted on Of Schemes and Memes Blog - a community blog from nature.comA few weeks ago, we announced our intention to celebrate SpotOn NYC’s 2nd birthday with our biggest event-related series of blog posts yet: curating a collection of case studies of how scientists and science communicators have been using social media for science outreach. Read more

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10:01 AM | Hepatitis C drug nears approval

Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceA highly anticipated new drug for treating hepatitis C has sailed through its first phase III clinical trials, according to two papers published today in the New England Journal of Medicine. Read more

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8:49 AM | Cerium under the lens

Originally posted on The Sceptical Chymist - a blog from Nature ChemistryIn this month’s ‘in your element’ article (subscription required), Eric Schelter from the University of Pennsylvania draws our attention to cerium, an element that serves a variety of commercial and industrial applications, yet presents chemists with some rather peculiar challenges. Read more

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7:19 AM | Australia from orbit

From December 19th last year, Chris Hadfield has been living aboard the International Space Station (ISS) in orbit roughly 400 km above planet Earth. Seeing 15 sunrises every day as the station tracks its way above our planet, the ISS, [...]testThe post Australia from orbit appeared first on Australian Science.

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3:41 AM | #SciAmBlogs Monday – Earth Day, Fred Flintstone, Dinosaurs’ exaggerated structures, Serial Creators, Car Ownership, and more.

As usual on Mondays, we have a brand new Image of the Week – check it out! - Kyle Hill – The Physics of Fred Flintstone’s Flaming Feet - Larry Brilliant and William Foege – Lessons from Smallpox Guide Polio Endgame - Ben Thomas – Oliver Sacks Shares Tales of Musical Hallucinations [...]

April 22, 2013

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10:28 PM | IceCube neutrinos came from outer space

Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceTwo ultra-high energy neutrinos captured by the IceCube experiment probably came from outside the Galaxy, according to an analysis posted by the collaboration today. Read more

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9:41 PM | Retraction Watch threatened with legal action…again

For the second time this month, Retraction Watch has been slapped with the threat of a lawsuit, this time Ariel Fernandez, whose work in BMC Genomics became the subject of a recent expression of concern. Today, Fernandez emailed one of us (Adam) the following message: Maria Kowalczuk Editor, BMG Genomics Adam Marcus, It was brought [...]

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8:56 PM | Irony? Guardian piece promising “there can be no turning back now” removed “because it was launched too early”

Three or four times per year, a Google Alert lands in my inbox revealing a story in The Guardian that has been removed because it broke an embargo. One of those arrived today, so I tweeted a link to the story. While looking at that page, Emily Lakdawalla noticed that a number of the related [...]

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8:13 PM | Come see Retraction Watch in Calgary, Fort Collins, Montreal, New York, and Seattle

The next several weeks are shaping up as busy ones for Retraction Watch, as we make appearances in three cities: First up, on April 27, Adam is giving a keynote at the annual meeting of the Canadian Association of Research Ethics Boards (CAREB) in Calgary. Then, on April 30, “Envy: Does Scientific Competition Corrupt Science?” [...]

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