News tagged with scientific journal

New research reveals food ingredients most prone to fraudulent economically motivated adulteration

In new research published in the April Journal of Food Science, analyses of the first known public database compiling reports on food fraud and economically motivated adulteration in food highlight the most fraud-prone ingred ...

Chemistry / Other

created Apr 05, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Spain faces brain drain as cuts force scientists to leave

With his contract about to run out and no opportunities on the horizon in Spain, paleontologist Diego Garcia-Bellido Capdevila has started looking for work abroad.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Has modern science become dysfunctional?

The recent explosion in the number of retractions in scientific journals is just the tip of the iceberg and a symptom of a greater dysfunction that has been evolving the world of biomedical research say the editors-in-chief ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 27, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 33

Self-reflective mind: Psychologists report on continuing advances in animals

(PhysOrg.com) -- According to one of the leading scholars in the field, there is an emerging consensus among scientists that animals share functional parallels with humans' conscious metacognition -- that ...

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Mar 22, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (20) | comments 36 | with audio podcast

Opinion: H5N1 flu is just as dangerous as feared, now requires action

The debate about the potential severity of an outbreak of airborne H5N1 influenza in humans needs to move on from speculation and focus instead on how we can safely continue H5N1 research and share the results among researchers, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Feb 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Go-ahead for bird flu study publication after security check (Update)

Bird flu experts meeting in Geneva on Friday ruled that controversial research on a mutant form of the virus potentially capable of being spread among humans should be made public.

Other Sciences / Other

created Feb 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientific plagiarism: A growing problem in an era of shrinking research funding

As scientific researchers become evermore competitive for scarce funding, scientific journals are increasing efforts to identify submissions that plagiarize the work of others. Still, it may take years to identify and retract ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 18 | with audio podcast

Balancing scientific freedom and national security

The U.S. government's request that the journals Science and Nature withhold scientific information related to the genetically modified H5N1 virus because of biosecurity concerns does not violate the First Amendment, say two Georg ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

US official says bird flu limits not 'censorship'

Leading US health official Anthony Fauci on Wednesday rejected claims that the United States is censoring science by seeking to limit potentially dangerous bird flu information in major journals.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Killer flu virus threat over-hyped: Dutch scientist

A top Dutch scientist heading a team which created a mutant killer flu virus Wednesday said the threat to global biosecurity is being overplayed, even if full research results are published.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Scientists fight back in 'mutant flu' research row

Leading virologists on Wednesday warned of censorship after a US bioterror watchdog asked scientific journals to withhold details of lab work that created a mutant strain of killer flu.

Biology / Biotechnology

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 7

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, ...

Other Sciences / Other

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (8) | comments 13 | with audio podcast report

Pressure for positive results puts science under threat, study shows

Scientific research may be in decline across the globe because of growing pressures to report only positive results, new analysis suggests.

Other Sciences / Other

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Study on how bacteria move could help researchers develop anti-bacterial surfaces

Jacinta Conrad, an assistant professor of chemical and biomolecular engineering at the University of Houston, likens her research into how bacteria move to "tracking bright spots on a dark background."

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jul 25, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Online tools are increasing the speed at which scientists make discoveries

Not all research papers receive their own hashtag on Twitter. But #arseniclife (as it was dubbed in tweets) was no ordinary paper.

Other Sciences / Other

created Jun 15, 2011 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast