News tagged with scientific process

Superconducting submillimeter-wave limb-emission sounder (SMILES)

The Superconducting Submillimeter-Wave Limb-Emission Sounder (SMILES) is the first onboard mechanically cooled superconducting mixer and high-resolution system for measuring atmospheric minor constituents ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Apr 09, 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

Ethics experts call for refocus of scientific review to ensure integrity of research process

In a paper published this week in the journal Science, experts caution that important ethical issues in the testing of new therapies like stem cells may not be receiving the attention they deserve. Carnegie Mellon Univer ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 13, 2010 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 14 | with audio podcast

New computer cluster gets its grunt from games

Technology designed to blast aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units) computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times faster and more efficiently ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge

Scientists have created a Robot Scientist which the researchers believe is the first machine to have independently discovered new scientific knowledge. The robot, called Adam, is a computer system that fully automates the ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Apr 02, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (34) | comments 18