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Pure hype of pure research helps no one

Posted by Nature
/ May 22, 2013

What do you get when you cross science hype with conservative politics? The answer is the High Quality Research Act, a draft bill that would require the director of the US National Science Foundation (NSF) to certify the quality of...
People named Steve more likely to believe in evolution

Posted by Nature
/ May 16, 2013

Critics of mainstream science frequently dispute evolution or climate change. Whatever their target, a common tactic is to challenge how well mainstream scientists accept these ideas. When the anti-evolution Discovery Institute in Seattle, Washington, began a project in this vein,...
New Cloud for Accessing Cancer Data

Posted by National Science Foundation
/ May 16, 2013

The University of Chicago launched the first secure cloud-based computing system that enables researchers to access and analyze human genomic cancer information without the costly and cumbersome infrastructure normally needed to download and store massive amounts of data. The Bionimbus...
Building a $325,000 Burger

Posted by New York Times
/ May 14, 2013

MAASTRICHT, the Netherlands — As a gastronomic delicacy, the five-ounce hamburger that Mark Post has painstakingly created here surely will not turn any heads. But Dr. Post is hoping that it will change some minds. The hamburger, assembled from tiny...
Risk, Consent, and SUPPORT

Posted by New England Journal
/ May 13, 2013

Comparative effectiveness research has the potential to dramatically improve patient care while reducing costs. In the absence of good evidence about which treatment is best for particular patients, decision making too often hinges on exogenous factors such as advertising and...
Heat-Trapping Gas Passes Milestone, Raising Fears

Posted by New York Times
/ May 10, 2013

The level of the most important heat-trapping gas in the atmosphere, carbon dioxide, has passed a long-feared milestone, scientists reported Friday, reaching a concentration not seen on the earth for millions of years. Scientific instruments showed that the gas had...
The Journal of Monosyllabic Science

Posted by nSCI
/ May 10, 2013

Scientists should communicate more clearly. Right? Or is it really this simple? After all, complex writing isn’t just a problem in science. We live in a complex society. Our niche cultures all have languages of their own. Auto mechanics, running,...
Supersize science

Posted by Glenn Hampson
/ May 10, 2013

Science has a branding problem. What does this mean and why should we care? Let’s start with a definition. In corporate America, brands are the bedrock of business. McDonald’s might not make the best hamburgers in the universe (personally I...
To Fight Pandemics, Reward Research

Posted by New York Times
/ May 7, 2013

THAT frightening word “pandemic” is back in the news. A strain of avian influenza has infected people in China, with a death toll of more than 25 as of late last week. The outbreak raises renewed questions about how to...