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UK science enrolment up
Initiative to boost student interest in science may explain increase.
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News & Views |
50 & 100 years ago
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Careers and Recruitment |
Golden opportunity
According to some metrics, Indiana's life-sciences sector is among the nation's top performers. But there are financial and other challenges. Karen Kaplan maps out the possibilities.
- Karen Kaplan
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Opinion |
How do morals change?
Emotions such as empathy and disgust might be at the root of morality, but psychologists should also study the roles of deliberation and debate in how our opinions shift over time, argues Paul Bloom.
- Paul Bloom
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Fixing a grant system in crisis
Facing a flood of applications from researchers, a UK funding agency is taking drastic steps — and partners around the world are watching how it plays out. Richard Van Noorden and Geoff Brumfiel report.
- Richard Van Noorden
- & Geoff Brumfiel
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Elite English universities gain in 2010 funding round
But other institutions left with a smaller slice of the pie.
- Natasha Gilbert
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Correspondence |
Researchers' petition aims to simplify European funding
- Olivier Küttel
- & Sabine Herlitschka
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Editorial |
Setting the bar
Europe's chief science adviser must be given authority and support to deliver across the board.
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Editorial |
Handle with care
Britain's Department of Health must respond to concerns about electronic medical records.
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Correspondence |
Tsunami: time for models to be tested in warning centres
- Delilah H. A. Al Khudhairy
- & Alessandro Annunziato
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Correspondence |
Tsunami: unexpected blow foils flawless warning system
- Dale Dominey-Howes
- & James Goff
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Career Brief |
EU students stay static
Universities and governments need better policies to help European students work and study abroad.
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Career Brief |
Academics take salary hit
Recession has meant significant pay cuts for US faculty members and researchers.
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Opinion |
Making forensic science more scientific
The US Congress should create an office to study, standardize and certify those who apply science to crime as well as the techniques they use, urge Peter Neufeld and Barry Scheck.
- Peter Neufeld
- & Barry Scheck
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Science in court: DNA's identity crisis
It may be the gold standard of forensic science, but questions are now being raised about DNA identification from ever-smaller human traces. Natasha Gilbert asks how low can you go?
- Natasha Gilbert
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News Feature |
Science in court: The fine print
A single incriminating fingerprint can land someone in jail. But, Laura Spinney finds, there is little empirical basis for such decisions.
- Laura Spinney
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News Feature |
Science in court: Head case
Last year, functional magnetic resonance imaging made its debut in court. Virginia Hughes asks whether the technique is ready to weigh in on the fate of murderers.
- Virginia Hughes
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News |
Italian molecular cookery 'ban' condemned
Decree to rein in additives could put more processed foods on restaurant tables.
- Emiliano Feresin
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Saving forests, cultures and carbon dioxide
'Win-win' conservation should start with indigenous lands and other protected areas.
- Anjali Nayar
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Should we be trying to save the dodo?
A quantitative way to decide whether to keep on conserving a species.
- Daniel Cressey
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News |
Scientists against proposed ivory auction
Researchers want science to take precedence over politics in decisions on elephants.
- Anjali Nayar
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Editorial |
Europe's research future
The region's member states must follow through on their political and scientific commitments.
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News |
A rescue plan for UK physics funding
Research council faces restructuring to resolve financial woes.
- Geoff Brumfiel
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Correspondence |
Science and Mexico are the losers in institute politics
- Harold W. Kroto
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- & Ljubisa R. Radovic
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Career Brief |
Wellcome translation
The UK Wellcome Trust launches new PhD studentships in several fields.
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News & Views |
50 & 100 years ago
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News |
Biology thinks big to stay cuts
Intercontinental programme sets vision for frontier projects.
- Alison Abbott
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Editorial |
Climate of fear
The integrity of climate research has taken a very public battering in recent months. Scientists must now emphasize the science, while acknowledging that they are in a street fight.
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Prospects |
Speak up
Peter Fiske argues that too many young scientists adopt a passive voice, to the detriment of their careers.
- Peter Fiske
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Books & Arts |
Q&A: Peter Hessler on urbanization in China
In Country Driving, the final book in his China trilogy, Peter Hessler recounts his 11,000-kilometre drive across China to see at first hand the effects of rapid industrialization. The New Yorker journalist explains how mass migration to cities brings out people's resourcefulness, but also how the speed of social and environmental change leads them to seek meaning in their lives.
- Jane Qiu
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News in Brief |
Securing UK science
Royal Society sets out case for investment in research.
- Richard Van Noorden
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News |
Science survives Canadian budget
Spending plans aim to battle national deficit yet still invest in research.
- Nicola Jones
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Opinion |
Stop laser uranium enrichment
The US Congress should discourage efforts to advance the technology to make fuel for nuclear reactors, say Francis Slakey and Linda R. Cohen — the risks outweigh the benefits.
- Francis Slakey
- & Linda R. Cohen
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Non-proliferation: Borderline detection
Georgia's borders are guarded by some of the best radiation detectors available — so why are nuclear smugglers still slipping through? Sharon Weinberger reports.
- Sharon Weinberger
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Column |
World view: Curing climate backlash
Effective action on climate requires better politics, not better science, explains Daniel Sarewitz.
- Daniel Sarewitz