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- Animals
Animals on the Move
Worldwide — on land, in the sea and in rivers, streams and lakes — wildlife is responding to rising temperatures.
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Cornell project brings peregrines back to the eastern United States
With a little help, peregrine falcons make a comeback from the devastating effects of DDT.
- Health & Medicine
Blacks far less likely than whites to land NIH grants
Among minority scientists applying for National Institutes of Health research grants, blacks alone face a substantially lower likelihood of being successful than whites, a new study finds. This investigation, which was prompted by the research agency itself, will catalyze further probes and a host of changes, promises NIH director Francis Collins.
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- Tech
Election projections for science investments
The November 2, mid-term election results are in (mostly) and pundits are billing it as a historic turnabout. With a divided Congress, passing legislation — never an easy task — risks becoming harder still. And with fiscal austerity having been a leading campaign issue for the newbies, R&D is unlikely to see a major boost in federal funding during the next two years.
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Rock, Rattle and Roll
Planetary scientists seek to fill in gaps in outer solar system’s formative years.
- Humans
Crime’s digital past
Computer science makes history, gleaning new findings from centuries' worth of transcripts from a Victorian-era courthouse.
- Humans
Swedish academy awards
As Nobel season opens, one researcher looks back on a century of steadily increasing U.S. dominance.
- Tech
The people’s pulsar
Thousands of volunteers help discover a neutron star by donating the processing power in their idle home computers.
- Science & Society
Science literacy: U.S. college courses really count
Over the past two decades, science literacy in the United States – an estimate of the share of adults who can follow complex science issues and maybe even render an informed opinion on them – has nearly tripled. But – and it’s a big but -- the proportion of people who fall into this category remains small. Just 28 percent.
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Book Review: Communicating Science: Professional, Popular, Literary by Nicholas Russell
Review by Rachel Zelkowitz.
- Science & Society
Intel Science Talent Search spotlights America’s whiz kids
Top winner of the enduring high school science competition takes 2010 prize for work on a space navigation system.
