A three-year investigation into a University of Connecticut biology laboratory has found its chief guilty of falsifying and fabricating data on more than two dozen papers and grant applications. [More]
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Feed SubscriptionLufthansa and Air France-KLM Embrace CO2 Trade, Buy Permits
By Jeff Coelho LONDON (Reuters) - Several big airlines are taking advantage of European carbon law by snapping up emission allowances at bargain prices, tuning out an outcry against the scheme by many non-EU airlines and shoring up demand in a market that saw prices cut in half last year. [More]
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Read More »Anatomy of a Science Fair Project
This might sound like a flawed project, but the student defined smarter as higher scores on math and memory tests and demonstrated that tactile learners scored better while chewing gum. See first: [More]
Read More »Future Studies Will Extend Census of Middleweight Black Holes
Editor's note: In her article, " Goldilocks Black Holes ," Jenny E. Greene discusses the search for black holes with masses ranging from roughly 1,000 suns to a million suns--middleweights on the cosmic scale.
Read More »Middleweight Black Holes: Clues to the Universe’s Evolution (preview)
Astronomers have known for some 10 years that nearly every large galaxy contains at its core an immense black hole--an object having such intense gravity that even light cannot escape.
Read More »Emotion Selectively Distorts Our Recollections (preview)
On September 11, 2001, Elizabeth A. Phelps stepped outside her apartment in lower Manhattan and noticed a man staring toward the World Trade Center, about two miles away.
Read More »Can a Vaccine Cure Haiti’s Cholera?
The cholera epidemic in Haiti has cast a stark light on deep development holes and disagreements about whether a short-term patch--in the form of a cholera vaccine--can help in the long-term fight for better health. [More]
Read More »Haiti to Mark 2 Years After Catastrophic Quake
By Kevin Gray and Joseph Guyler Delva PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) - Haiti will commemorate the two-year anniversary on Thursday of a devastating earthquake that ravaged the Western Hemisphere's poorest country as it struggles to rebuild and hundreds of thousands of quake victims remain homeless. [More]
Read More »Salt Boosts Blood Pressure, but via Adrenalin
People with high blood pressure are often told to watch the salt. And it’s long been thought that hypertension related to excess salt is caused by the salt increasing the volume of the blood. Which in turn puts added pressure on the blood vessel walls
Read More »Three Tiny Exoplanets Suggest Solar System Not So Special
Adding to its already long roster of firsts , NASA's Kepler spacecraft has found the three smallest extrasolar planets ever detected -- all of them smaller than Earth, and the most diminutive no larger than Mars. The newly discovered trio forms a miniature planetary system orbiting a cool, dim red dwarf star called KOI-961. [More]
Read More »2012 Google Science Fair Begins: What’s Your Question?
“As any adult knows, there’s one thing that any kid can do better than any grown up: ask questions. In fact, many studies have actually shown how kids are born scientists. If you don’t believe me, watch a baby first accidentally knock something off her high chair and onto the floor.
Read More »Disease-Carrying Virile American Crayfish Invade U.K. Rivers
U.S. crayfish and their British cousins do not get along. First the U.K
Read More »Fracking’s Future in the U.S. Comes Down to Upcoming New York State Decisions
New York State is the key battleground that will determine the future of fracking in the U.S., and January 11, 2012, is a turning point.
Read More »Female Trailblazer Inspires New Species Name
Jeanne Baret was passionate about science. So passionate that, in the 1760s, the Frenchwoman disguised herself as a man
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