Science & Society

  1. Science & Society

    Flu researchers plan to repeat controversial work

    The scientists who made the H5N1 strain transmissible between ferrets intend to do the same with H7N9.

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  2. Science & Society

    Brilliant Blunders

    From Darwin to Einstein - Colossal Mistakes by Great Scientists That Changed Our Understanding of Life and the Universe by Mario Livio.

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  3. Science & Society

    Math targets cities’ essence

    New formula relates city size to infrastructure, productivity.

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  4. Science & Society

    The gene patenting decision from a plaintiff’s point of view

    Plaintiffs in Myriad case win an overwhelming victory, but some details remain a bit fuzzy.

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  5. Science & Society

    Tim Samaras, 1957–2013

    Tim Samaras spent the past twenty years chasing tornados. He was killed in a storm in May.

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  6. Science & Society

    Chimps in captivity may soon join endangered species list

    Proposal would extend protections to both wild and captive primate populations.

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  7. Science & Society

    SN Online

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  8. Science & Society

    The Girls of Atomic City

    The Untold Story of the Women Who Helped Win World War II by Denise Kiernan.

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  9. Psychology

    Closed Thinking

    Without scientific competition and open debate, much psychology research goes nowhere.

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  10. Science & Society

    Between Man and Beast

    An Unlikely Explorer, the Evolution Debates, and the African Adventure that Took the Victorian World by Storm by Monte Reel.

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    A Renaissance Globemaker’s Toolbox

    Johannes Schöner and the Revolution of Modern Science 1474-1550 by John W. Hessler.

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  12. Tech

    Obama worried about research funding

    Barack Obama offered yet another argument about why the current federal-budget stalemate is so risky: “[T]he sequester, as it’s known in Washington-speak — it’s hitting our scientific research.” As things now stand, “we could lose a year, two years of scientific research as a practical matter, because of misguided priorities here in this town.”

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