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Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceShortly after Hurricane Sandy hammered the eastern seaboard last October, more than a dozen scientists on the New York City Panel on Climate Change reconvened to begin work on a new assessment. The results were released today by Mayor Michael Bloomberg, and they served as the basis for a $20-billion urban planning initiative that seeks to prepare the city for extreme weather and rising tides in the decades to […]
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Originally posted on Nature News Blog - Breaking news from the world of scienceThe US Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is planning to categorize all US chimpanzees as an endangered species, a change which, if enacted, may spell the end of invasive chimpanzee research. Read more
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Now in its second year, the $50,000 Science in Action award, sponsored by Scientific American as part of the Google Science Fair, an annual global competition for teens ages 13 to 18, honors a project that can make a practical difference by addressing an environmental, health or resources challenge. Submissions should be innovative, easy to [...]
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Do you have a spare $37 that’s just burning a hole in your pocket? If so, today is your lucky day. You can plunk down your hard-earned cash for a chance to read a retraction notice in Clinical Gerontologist that resulted from a goof by its publisher, Taylor & Francis. Here’s the notice for “Does […]
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Originally posted on House of Wisdom - a blog from Nature Middle EastA little over two years ago, and following the public uprising that ousted long-time president Hosni Mubarak in Egypt, academics in the most populous Arab state starting calling for change and upheaval in the country’s aching higher educational system. Various calls ranging from more transparency in choosing university leadership to more democracy for both faculty and students went out. Some where answered and others remain […]
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Originally posted on Scientific Data - Scientific Data updatesHere at Scientific Data, we are busy developing guidelines for our future peer reviewers. We believe strongly in the role that peer evaluation plays in the scientific process, and hope that Scientific Data will set a new standard for critical and constructive peer evaluation at a data-focused publication. Authors will be expected to convince referees that the data is worthy of wider use in the scientific community by supporting the […]
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This is a series of Q&As with new, young and up-and-coming science, health and environmental writers and reporters. They – at least some of them – have recently hatched in the Incubators (science writing programs at schools of journalism), have even more recently fledged (graduated), and are now making their mark as wonderful new voices [...]
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Identity, which bills itself as “An International Journal of Theory and Research,” has retracted a 2013 article by an Italian researcher who stole the work from another author, then published it twice. The paper, “Behind the mask: A typology of men cruising for same-sex act,” was ostensibly written by Stefano Ramello, an “independent researcher explores […]
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Check out the new Image of the Week! - Mark Hahnel – Research Management for Dummies - David Ropeik – Will “Pandora’s Promise” Start a New Environmental Movement for Nuclear Power? - Scott Barry Kaufman – After the Show: The Many Faces of the Creative Performer - Scicurious – Fighting stress with [...]
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If you’re expecting a punchline to that title, then guess again. It’s no joke. Surprisingly, Australia shares some remarkably similar geology to our neighbouring planet. Specifically the Red Centre, the arid heart of Australia, is the most Mars-like place on [...]testThe post What do Mars and Australia have in common? appeared first on Australian Science.
