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The San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment

Vicki Chandler | Posted 05.17.2013 | Science
Vicki Chandler

How could we truly distinguish great science from good science? Often, we can't. Nor should we, in many cases -- although journal "impact factors" are being used to try to do just that.

WHOOPS: 5 Biggest Science Blunders

Posted 05.16.2013 | Science

By: Clara Moskowitz, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 05/16/2013 09:58 AM EDT on LiveScience Even geniuses make mistakes, and sometimes those ...

In Defense of Research

Nathaniel P. Morris | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics
Nathaniel P. Morris

The sequester will not end scientific research in our country. However, I am afraid that it is symptomatic of a broader decline in our commitment to science as a nation. As a student of science and a potential member of the generation to come, I feel that we need to be heard.

Service-Learning Helps Students Tackle World's Tough Issues

The University of Central Florida Forum | Posted 04.17.2013 | College
The University of Central Florida Forum

Service-learning is successful if civic engagement becomes a way of life for our college students, both before and after graduation.

W. D. (Bill) Hamilton -- A Case of Life-long Creativity

Ullica Segerstrale | Posted 04.09.2013 | College
Ullica Segerstrale

Identifying and nurturing unusual scientific talent is an important challenge for educators. What is being done today to ensure that great creative potential is given a chance? Are there enough avenues available for self-directed creative individuals, much needed in science?

Scientists Fight Back and Protest Research Cuts

Don C. Reed | Posted 04.09.2013 | Politics
Don C. Reed

In a few hours my paralyzed son Roman Reed and I will be driving to Sacramento, to fight for funding for spinal cord injury research (AB 714, Wieckows...

Where Are the Scientist-Advocates and Civic-Scientists?

Peter Hotez, M.D, Ph.D. | Posted 04.03.2013 | Science
Peter Hotez, M.D, Ph.D.

The flattening in support for biomedical research as well as other research fields in the United States over the last decade is having serious consequences for American science and scientists.

Five Reasons Women Trail Men In Science

Posted 03.07.2013 | Science

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 03/06/2013 01:05 PM EST on LiveScience Though women now receive half the doctorates in ...

Scientific Fraud Study Reveals Huge Gender Gap

Posted 01.22.2013 | Science

By: Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senior Writer Published: 01/22/2013 07:01 AM EST on LiveScience Men are more likely than women to commit scient...

The Tick Tock of the Doomsday Clock

Joe Cirincione | Posted 03.20.2013 | Politics
Joe Cirincione

The minute hand of the Doomsday Clock will stay at five minutes to midnight for the year 2013, say the scientists and experts at The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists who maintain one of the world's most famous time pieces.

TWEETS: #OverlyHonestMethods Captures Hilarious Science Goofs

The Huffington Post | Ryan Grenoble | Posted 01.10.2013 | Home

"Honesty is the best policy," goes the old truism. But as the latest trending hashtag on Twitter illustrates oh-so-well, it may not be the best policy...

Scientists Find Mega-0il Field... 1,300 Light Years Away

James Burgess | Posted 02.18.2013 | Green
James Burgess

Have our wishes been answered? Scientists have found an oil field which contains 200 times more hydrocarbons than there is water on the whole of the Earth. Time to wave peak oil goodbye forever... but before you do I should probably inform you of the tiny hiccup in any plan to develop this oil field.

No Planet, No Jobs: The Suicide Bombing of Science

Bernard Starr | Posted 01.12.2013 | Green
Bernard Starr

Yes climate change is a jobs issue and moreover, it's the foremost personal and national security issue. The misery delivered by hurricane Sandy has unveiled the hazard of a wait-and-see policy. What are we waiting for now?

What Acupuncture Can Teach Us About Science

Mark Schulman | Posted 12.22.2012 | College
Mark Schulman

The basic hostility to techniques that don't fit the old conceptual model is still very active and entrenched. I believe it begins all too often in our graduate curricula, where scientific imagination is frequently seen as an attack on received wisdom.

Climate Science and Science Literacy: The Strange Divergence

Bill Chameides | Posted 12.10.2012 | Green
Bill Chameides

Further "education" on climate science alone is unlikely to make inroads with people who have already decided that climate change is not real or not human-induced.

William Harvey and the Myth of Objective, Empirical Science

Thomas Wright | Posted 12.03.2012 | Science
Thomas Wright

The traditional portrait of William Harvey is, I argue, an icon of an objective, quasi-mystical form of empirical science that Harvey himself never practiced or believed in, but which continues to find adherents today.

What Will I Be When I Grow Up?

William T. Talman, MD | Posted 11.14.2012 | Science
William T. Talman, MD

Absent a commitment by our government to the direct support of basic biomedical research, our country will be unable to inspire young people to choose science as a career and will lose the ideas those young people could bring to future discovery.

Creationism Runs into Inconvenient Truth of Science

Nathan Greenberg | Posted 11.07.2012 | Science
Nathan Greenberg

Science may very well be a means of explaining the workings of God. We may have been given the necessary tools to explore and explain our existence.

Dog Owners, Pick Up Your Pooper-Scoopers In The Name of University Research

The Huffington Post | Alyssa Creamer | Posted 07.09.2012 | College

Bagging man's best friend's smelly situation can be considered a contribution to science, according to the University of Calgary in Canada. Scienti...

Is Efficiency Fatal?

Martin Brasier | Posted 08.29.2012 | Science
Martin Brasier

My hunch is that fossils are now speaking out to us loud and clear. And that microscopic fossils have the very darkest stories to tell. The ways of the world can be read within a grain of sand.

Scientist Accused Of Stealing Research For China Makes Plea In Court

AP | Posted 08.06.2012 | Science

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A former scientist at Sandia National Labs in New Mexico has pleaded not guilty to charges of stealing research to share wit...

When Scientists Speak, Who Listens?

Robert Walker | Posted 07.02.2012 | Green
Robert Walker

If scientists get any media attention it's only because the science-deniers are ridiculing them. We live in the Era of Willful Ignorance. It is not only acceptable; it is fashionable to throw scientific caution to the wind.

The 7 Cleverest Science Experiments In History

Michael Brooks | Posted 07.01.2012 | Books
Michael Brooks

Sometimes doing something stupid or undignified is the only way to make the discovery or breakthrough you have been reaching towards. Sure, you might break a taboo or two, and you'll almost certainly break the rules, but since when did playing safe win anyone a Nobel Prize?

Computers Powered By Crabs Fearing For Their Lives

The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 04.15.2012 | Technology

Have you ever thought, "wow, crabs are really the laziest of crustaceans, someone should really find them something to do"? No? Well fear not, because...

I'm Biased and So Are You

Eric Korpela | Posted 06.06.2012 | Science
Eric Korpela

Biases are very important to the sciences. That's primarily that you have to understand them in order to avoid or correct for them. The most famous bias is probably the "selection bias."