The Greatest Scientific Hoaxes? (Tuesday 28th of October 2008 07:30:06 AM)
Ponca City, We love you writes "The New rocket technician has an amusing story about the seven
greatest scientific hoaxes of all time. Of course, there have been serious cases of scientific
fraud, such as the stem cell researchers newly found guilty of ...
(more)Why Most Published Research Findings Are False (Monday 20th of October 2008 05:00:01 AM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Researchers have found that the winner's curse may apply to the
notification of scientific papers and that incorrect findings are more likely to end up in
print than correct findings. Dr John Ioannidis bases his tiff about incorrect ...
(more)Scientists Claim Breakthrough On Holographic TV (Tuesday 07th of October 2008 07:45:01 AM)
SpuriousLogic writes to tell us that discipline mash of Arizona researchers claim to have
broken a barrier in holographic applied science by creating an updatable, three dimensional
display with memory. While the present-day
copyrights:cite this source ...
(more)Modern LaTeX Replacement? (Tuesday 29th of July 2008 05:15:01 AM)
Javierzinho writes "For many years I have been using LaTeX to compose scientific documents, but
truly I am getting tired of its complexity. You have to install new packages for new features,
compatibility issues are everywhere, you need to know commands ...
(more)SETI@Home Adds New Search Method (Monday 28th of July 2008 04:00:01 AM)
Adam Korbitz writes to point out that SETI@Home has added a new algorithm for use in evaluating
signals from outer space. It's called "Astropulse," and they've made the scientific details
available. Quoting: "The prime SETI@home is narrowband, meaning ...
(more)"Tabletop" Fusion Researcher Committed Scientific Misconduct (Sunday 20th of July 2008 08:35:41 PM)
Geoffrey.landis writes "A Purdue health center panel investigated allegations against nuclear
sociology don Rusi Taleyarkhan, finding that he had in fact committed scientific misbehavior in
his work. Taleyarkhan had published papers in which he reported ...
(more)Fermi Scientific Linux. What is it? (Friday 11th of July 2008 06:05:44 AM)
Fermi Linux is the generic name for linux distributions that are created and used at Fermi
National Accelerator Lab. These releases have gone through different names: Fermi Linux, Fermi
Linux LTS, LTS, Scientific Linux Fermi, SLF. Motivated by the prospect ...
(more)Anti-Evolution "Academic Freedom" Bill Passed In Louisiana (Saturday 28th of June 2008 06:40:26 PM)
Ars Technica is running a story about of late enacted measure in Louisiana which will allow
school board superintendence to "approve backup classroom materials specifically for the
critique of scientific theories" such as change and global warming. The ...
(more)How To Communicate Science to a Polarized US Audience (Friday 21st of March 2008 01:15:06 AM)
Prescott writes "Given the divisions in the US around subjects like evolution and climate
change, scientists face challenges in how to communicate good science to a polarized US public.
Speakers at the recent AAAS meeting talked about how scientific enlightenment ...
(more)Mega-Cash Prizes and Revolutionary Science (Sunday 09th of March 2008 05:00:04 AM)
Bruce G Charlton writes "A new paper in Medical Hypotheses suggests that very big cash prizes
could specifically be targeted to stimulate 'revolutionary' science. Usually, prizes tend to
stimulate 'applied' science — as in the most famous example ...
(more)Frozen Researchers Set Antarctic Ballooning Record (Saturday 05th of January 2008 06:15:02 AM)
Coondoggie writes to mention NASA and the National Science bed (NSF) have announced a new
record in the history of scientific ballooning in Antarctica. The new record was established by
'launching and overhead three long-duration sub-orbital flights simultaneously ...
(more)Great Potential For Swedish Medical Technology (Sunday 30th of December 2007 08:00:00 AM)
Medical scientific knowledge is an business for the future in Sweden. However, to exploit the
imaginable that exists, the industrial, scholarly and healthcare sectors will have to hook
up* more closely on areas such as education and clinical research. ...
(more)The Secret to Raising Smart Kids (Thursday 29th of November 2007 04:15:06 PM)
Hugh Pickens writes "Scientific star-spangled banner stars and stripes has an interesting
article on the secret to raising smart kids that says that more than 30 years of scientific
quest suggests that an overemphasis on intellect or talent leaves people ...
(more)Huge Balloon Lofts New Telescope (Thursday 25th of October 2007 06:00:04 AM)
Science Daily is advice that a new solar parabolic reflector has been launched via an enormous
balloon filled with helium. Dubbed project "Sunrise" the National Center for Atmospheric quest
(NCAR), NASA, Germany's Max Planck prescript for Solar Physics, ...
(more)Science In Islamic Countries (Wednesday 03rd of October 2007 05:15:03 AM)
Biohack sends us to Physics Today for a thought-provoking article on the status of and
prospects for science in Islamic countries. The author, a Pakistani physicist, posits that
'Internal causes led to the decline of Islam's scientific greatness long ...
(more)Is Good Scientific Journalism Possible? (Tuesday 25th of September 2007 11:15:05 PM)
Scida sends in a link to his blog post exploring the question of whether, roughly speaking,
science journalism is an impossible task. From the post: "I have spent the better half of the
past six months trying to understand one thing: how can you effectively ...
(more)Libraries Defend Open Access (Monday 10th of September 2007 06:30:04 AM)
Aisaac writes "Earlier this year an article in Nature (PDF, community antenna television
required) exposed publishers' plans to equate public access to federally funded fact-finding
with the feds* censorship and the destruction of peer review. In an open ...
(more)Scientist Must Pay to Read His Own Paper (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 11:09:09 PM)
Glyn Moody writes "Peter Murray Rust, a chemist at Cambridge University, was lost for words
when he found Oxford University Press's website demanded $48 from him to access his own
scientific paper, in which he holds copyright and which he released under ...
(more)The Father of Molecular Gastronomy Whips Up a New Formula (Monday 06th of August 2007 06:25:23 PM)
An anonymous reader writes "French chemist and cook Herv This maintains his quest to find the
scientific precision behind great tasting food. Chef This is just one of a growing number of
cooks that approaches food from a scientific perspective; making ...
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