A federal agency's justifications for killing coyotes and mountain lions and other predators in Idaho to protect livestock and other wildlife such as elk violate environmental laws because they lack a scientific review, a ...
Ecology
Jun 26, 2018
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Researchers at Missouri S&T have discovered a new way to harness the potential of a type of spontaneously oxidized MXene thin films, to create nanocomposites that could sense both light and the environment. Previously, such ...
Nanomaterials
Jun 20, 2018
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Preprints—scientific manuscripts that are posted at a recognized online repository before peer review—have the potential to speed up the reporting of scientific research in infectious disease outbreaks, argue Michael ...
Social Sciences
Apr 3, 2018
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For years, scientists have complained that it can take months or even years for a scientific discovery to be published, because of the slowness of peer review. To cut through this problem, researchers in physics and mathematics ...
Other
Nov 16, 2017
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Fracking will be banned in Scotland following a widespread public backlash against onshore drilling, the government said on Tuesday.
Environment
Oct 3, 2017
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More than a quarter of biomedical scientific papers may utilise practices that distort the interpretation of results or mislead readers so that results are viewed more favourably, a new study, publishing on September 11 in ...
Social Sciences
Sep 11, 2017
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(Phys.org)—Online chemistry journal Synlett, which is published by Thieme, has tested the idea of intelligent crowd reviewing of scientific papers. The project was the brainchild of Benjamin List, a journal editor (and ...
Gender discrimination can be found in the most unexpected fields. An international team, involving Demian Battaglia, a CNRS researcher at the Institut de neurosciences des systèmes, as well as researchers from Yale and the ...
Social Sciences
Mar 24, 2017
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An old tradition and a new technology have converged to make possible an unprecedented public good. The old tradition is the willingness of scientists and scholars to publish the fruits of their research in scholarly journals ...
Other
Oct 26, 2016
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The history of science is also a history of people resisting new discoveries that conflict with conventional wisdom.
Social Sciences
Jun 13, 2016
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