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News & AnalysisGun Violence Research
A National Academies report has recommended more than a dozen topics for analysis in gun violence research, but U.S. funding remains in doubt
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News & AnalysisProposed STEM Reorganization
President Barack Obama's plan to reorganize U.S. STEM education is drawing congressional opposition
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News & AnalysisNew Life for Muon Experiment
To move an experiment from Brookhaven National Laboratory to Fermilab, particle physicists are sending a storage ring on a 6-week barge trip
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News FocusOn the Trail of Ancient Killers
Armed with new methods, researchers are interrogating the DNA of centuries-old pathogens extracted from the bones and teeth of victims
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News FocusGeophysical Exploration
Big Science came to solid-Earth studies when the $400 million EarthScope program offered a sharper view of the interior that could help geologists; it's working, mostly
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ScienceInsiderU.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Human Gene Patents
But companies can patent complementary DNAs constructed in the laboratory
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China's Supercomputer Regains No. 1 Ranking
NIH Announces Nine Projects to Repurpose Old Drugs
Extra Sleep May Help Combat Diabetes
Transportation Studies and Climate Change Modeling Net 2013 Blue Planet Prizes
Video: Cat Robot Stands and Runs, On Its Own Four Legs
Trying to Learn a Foreign Language? Avoid Reminders of Home
How to Turn Your Cell Phone Into a Dolphin
Chinese Academy in Climate Change Uproar
Magnet's Mississippi Journey Delayed by 1 Week
Turkish Protests Roil Academia
Top Stories: Big Dogs, Big Cats, and the Future of Gene Patenting
Protesters to Government: 'Save Spanish Science'
ScienceShot: Sunflowers Do the Math
Unmasking 'Invisible' Drug Trials
Finding Less Risky Ways to Make Medical Isotopes
Dogs Provide Insight Into Rare Genetic Disease
Global Life Sciences Program Secures Financing Until 2016
U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Human Gene Patents
ScienceShot: Andromeda Chock Full of Black Holes
Podcast: The Cheetah's Secrets, Monks and Volcanoes, and Why Some People Turn to Science When They Confront Death
Network Science at Center of Surveillance Dispute
Last week's disclosures that the U.S. National Security Agency (NSA) is collecting cell phone records and Internet data came as no surprise to experts in network analysis, who say that the type of data crunching NSA is engaged in "identifying social groups from connections among people" is business as usual at several private companies.
- Bold Plan, Uncertain Future for Gun Violence Research
- Educators, Lawmakers Question Proposed Reorganization
- NSF Cedes Little Ground on Political Science Reviews
- Magnet on the Mighty Mississippi: A New Life for Muon Experiment
- Focus: On the Trail of Ancient Killers
- Focus: Geophysical Exploration Linking Deep Earth and Backyard Geology
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