News tagged with scientific community
Data mining deep space
Bahram Mobasher, a professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, has received a two-year $200,000 grant from NASA to compile into a data bank all the imaging observations of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 29, 2012 |
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Study provides new details of fundamental cellular process
A recent Van Andel Research Institute (VARI) study published in the journal Science investigating the molecular structure and function of an essential plant hormone could profoundly change our understanding of a key cell p ...
Jan 23, 2012 |
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Iconic telescope renamed to honor founder of radio astronomy
(PhysOrg.com) -- The world's most famous radio telescope will become the "Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array" to honor the founder of radio astronomy, the study of the Universe via radio waves naturally emitted ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 11, 2012 |
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How research goes viral
Scores of interesting new findings from the biosciences may speed around the globe at the click of a mouse, but one thing particularly encourages other researchers to follow up on them: The chance to use the ...
Other Sciences / Economics & Business
Jan 10, 2012 |
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Libel case against the scientific journal Nature begins
(PhysOrg.com) -- The British science journal Nature, which publishes both purely academic papers and editorial pieces, is being sued in a British court by a former editor of the theoretical physics journal Chaos, ...
Nov 14, 2011 |
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Responsibilities of scientists underlined by scientific community
The General Assembly of the International Council for Science (ICSU) today reaffirmed the universal values that should guide the conduct of science. It explicitly recognized the key social responsibilities of the scientific ...
Sep 30, 2011 |
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How to advance scientific literacy
Society needs science, and scientists need an informed, thoughtful, and open-minded citizenry. Thus, the obvious dependence of American society on science is strikingly inconsistent with the low level of scientific literacy ...
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Astronomers from Princeton and Japan unite to explore the universe, near and far
Scientists from Princeton University and the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) have agreed to collaborate over the next 10 years, using new instrumentation on the Hawaii-based Subaru Telescope ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009 |
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