Is Science Broken?
Slate Magazine–Aug 21, 2017
The journal Science had just published a landmark effort to reproduce …. in great detail in a wonderful article and interactive for FiveThirtyEight.
In a ‘forgotten experiment,’ biologists almost launched the preprint …
Science Magazine–14 hours ago
Matthew Cobb, a biologist and science historian at the University of … to Cobb’s own draft article, posted on 22 August in PeerJ Preprints.
Stop Equating “Science” With Truth
Slate Magazine–Aug 9, 2017
At least science is helping us make progress, right? … because it cited peer-reviewed articles that suggest women have different brains.
The Scientist
State Department Science Envoy Resigns Over Trump’s …
U.S. News & World Report–15 hours ago
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – One of the U.S. State Department’s three science envoys publicly resigned on Wednesday, the latest in a wave of …
Exxon Misled the Public on Climate Change, Study Says
New York Times–17 hours ago
“Exxon Mobil contributed quietly to the science and loudly to raising … with articlespublished by InsideClimate News and The Los Angeles …
Scicasts
The Science of Fluoride Flipping
Newswise (press release)–15 hours ago
A new imaging technique helps UNC researchers study tiny, time-sensitive biological processes – the crucial underpinnings of human health …
The Solar Eclipse: Highlights From Its Path Across the United States
New York Times–Aug 21, 2017
Squeeze in among the crowds and witness the first total solar eclipse to cross the entire continental United States since 1918. An exclusive …
Opinion: Science, Meet Politics
The Scientist–15 hours ago
From left to right: Robert Rainer (operations coordinator at Brookhaven National Laboratory), Rep. Lee Zeldin, Howard Sirotkin (a …
Zebrafish implanted with a cancer patient’s tumor could guide …
Science Magazine–Aug 21, 2017
When the scientists inserted human colorectal cancer cells into zebrafish embryos and allowed them to grow for 4 days, the resulting tumors …
Mars has nighttime snow storms
Science News Magazine–Aug 21, 2017
At the time, scientists thought that snow on the Red Planet formed similarly to the main way it forms on Earth — ice particles in clouds collide, …
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