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November 8, 2011 2:23 PM
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One-Third of Turkish Academy Resigns in Protest of Government Takeover
Members of the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) are making good on their threat to resign in protest of what they see as government intrusion on the autonomy of...
November 7, 2011 1:41 PM
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'Elixir of Youth' Sparks Clash of Croatian Scientists
A Slovenian company that makes an antioxidant pill some media have dubbed an "elixir of youth" is threatening to file lawsuits against scientists who have publicly spoken out against...
Report: Dutch 'Lord of the Data' Forged Dozens of Studies (UPDATE)
One of the Netherlands' leading social psychologists made up or manipulated data in dozens of papers over nearly a decade, an investigating committee has concluded. Diederik Stapel was suspended...
October 31, 2011 2:40 PM
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Court Endorses Vatican Bank's Rescue of Italian Research Center
One of Italy's most prestigious private biomedical research centers may have gained a new lease on life. On Friday, 28 October, an Italian bankruptcy court gave the green light...
Faster-Than-Light Result to Be Scrutinized
The OPERA collaboration, which made headlines around the world last month when it announced that it had apparently observed neutrinos traveling faster than the speed of light, has decided...
October 21, 2011 1:39 PM
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European Research Heads Get a New Body
BERLIN—While European heads of state argue about how to address their financial mess and whether to maintain their common currency, the continent's science leaders enjoyed a more harmonious gathering...
October 20, 2011 12:03 PM
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French Scientists Protest Allègre's Role in New Ecology Foundation
PARIS—Former French Science Minister Claude Allègre is at the center of a new controversy stemming from his role as a prominent climate change skeptic. Sixty members of the French...
October 20, 2011 11:13 AM
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Three Glasses of Milk a Day? Maybe Not
Does drinking lots of milk keep you healthy? Yes, according to a 2010 press release by Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR) in the Netherlands about a study of...
October 18, 2011 1:44 PM
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European Court Disallows Patents Involving Human Embryonic Stem Cells
The environmental group Greenpeace has won its battle in Europe to prevent the patenting of human embryonic stem (hES) cells. Processes and products that involve such cells are not...
Italy's Nuclear Physics Chief: We Can Afford SuperB
Particle physicist Fernando Ferroni takes the reins as president of Italy's National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN) at the end of the month. Ferroni, 59, is a professor at...
New Swedish Fellowship Program Aims to Give Young Researchers a Leg Up
A new funding program in Sweden aims to help young scientists from around the world bridge the gap between their postdoctoral years and their first academic position. The Wallenberg...
Russian Scientists Rally to Protest Funding Freeze
MOSCOW—Several hundred researchers, many wearing lab coats, rallied here today to protest a funding freeze at Russia's two grant organizations and on procurement regulations that they say are major...
Nuclear Power Likely to Grow, Royal Society Says, So Nations Should Plan Ahead
Despite the ongoing events at the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, Britain's Royal Society, for one, believes that a renaissance of nuclear power construction is likely. If so, it...
October 11, 2011 11:37 AM
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U.K. Panel Says Women Egg Donors Should Be Paid
Women who donate their eggs to research in the United Kingdom should be compensated for the discomfort, risk, and inconvenience they undergo according to a report published yesterday by...
Danish Archipelago Launches Mass Sequencing Plan
The inhabitants of the Faroe Islands could become the world's first population to be offered full genome sequencing for free, researchers announced at a meeting on personal genomes at...
France Hangs On To Generous Research Tax Credit
PARIS—Despite its increasingly dire financial situation, the French government has decided to keep its controversial Research Tax Credit (CIR), which is among the most generous in the world. The...
Survey: European Ph.D. Students Underfunded, Unaware of Rights
Money is the most pressing concern for European doctoral students, according to the first Europewide survey of working conditions for young researchers, which is set to be released today. The...
September 22, 2011 11:25 AM
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U.K. Approves Europe's First Embryonic Stem Cell Clinical Trial
A U.S.-based company has received permission to start Europe's first clinical trial involving human embryonic stem (hES) cells. Advanced Cell Technology (ACT), based in Marlborough, Massachusetts, received approval today...
Jan Hendrik Schön Loses His Ph.D.
BERLIN—A German court has ruled that it is legal to revoke the Ph.D. of disgraced physicist Jan Hendrik Schön. Schön was the center of a spectacular scandal in 2002,...
U.K. Scientists Challenge Creationism in Schools
Thirty prominent U.K. scientists today released a statement raising concern about the teaching of creationism in British publicly-funded schools. They highlight organizations that are visiting schools and sending them...
U.K. Masks Cuts to Science By Redefining 'Science Budget'
Despite promises by the U.K. government last year that its science budget would stay level between 2010 and 2015, a new analysis concludes that the government has masked cuts...
Blast at French Nuclear Waste Facility Kills One
An explosion at a French plant that burns and melts nuclear waste has killed one person, injured four others, and ignited worries that low-level radioactivity might leak into the environment....
September 9, 2011 1:47 PM
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Roma Establish Academy of Arts and Sciences in Belgrade
Europe's largest ethnic minority, the Roma, has established its own academy of arts and sciences. The academy, founded on 1 September in Belgrade, plans to promote, organize, and disseminate...
September 9, 2011 11:10 AM
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More Allegations Against Company Embroiled in French Drug Scandal
PARIS—Servier, the pharmaceutical company at the heart of a massive medical scandal in France, suffered several fresh blows to its credibility this week. Yesterday, a newspaper revealed that the...
Dutch University Sacks Social Psychologist Over Faked Data
AMSTERDAM—A Dutch social psychologist whose eye-catching studies about human behavior were fodder for columnists and policy makers has lost his job after his university concluded that some of the...
September 6, 2011 4:20 PM
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Turkish Science Academy Fights Government Changes
The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) is battling what it sees as a power grab by the Turkish government. On 27 August, the government issued a decree that would...
September 1, 2011 3:38 PM
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Iceland Directs Avalanche Funds Into Volcano Risk Studies
Iceland's natural hazards experts can now use part of a special avalanche risk assessment fund to study the dangers posed by the country's many volcanoes, which seem to be...
August 29, 2011 3:33 PM
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New ERC Secretary General: 'It's About the Sausage'
On Thursday, experimental volcanologist Donald Dingwell of Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich will become the new secretary general of the European Research Council (ERC). Dingwell, 53, was born in...
August 19, 2011 2:21 PM
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Turin Reformer Promises Shake-Up of Italy's National Research Council
The Italian National Research Council (CNR)—a €1 billion basic research agency with 100 institutes around the country—may be headed for some major changes. On 13 August, Italy's Minister of...
U.K. Slashes Science and Engineering Ph.D.s
The United Kingdom's Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) has revealed that it may fund 1000 fewer new Ph.D.s in the upcoming academic year than in 2010-11. The research...
August 5, 2011 5:36 PM
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U.K. Needs to Stop 'Muddling' on Gene Patents, Says Report
LONDON—The Human Genetics Commission (HGC), an independent group that advises the U.K. government, issued a plea today to health and research institutions to develop a coherent policy on intellectual...
August 4, 2011 11:41 AM
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In Italy, Academe Is a Family Business
It's no secret that nepotism plays an important role in Italy's academic world. In a paper published yesterday in PLoS ONE, Stefano Allesina of the University of Chicago's Computation...
August 3, 2011 2:27 PM
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Researchers Welcome Promised U.K. Copyright Reform
Score one for the open-access movement: The U.K. government has decided to make the country's copyright laws more compatible with research practices in the internet age—bringing them "into line...
August 1, 2011 2:09 PM
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Anti-Fraud Agency Puts Spotlight on E.U.'s Drug Watchdog
PARIS—The scandal over the French diabetes drug Mediator appears to have taken on a European dimension with the launch of an investigation by the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) into...
July 27, 2011 7:01 PM
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U.K. Parliament Panel Reviews Peer Review
Following an enquiry into peer review in scientific research, U.K. parliamentarians have concluded that, despite many criticisms and little evidence of its effectiveness, the traditional practice of having research articles evaluated by anonymous colleagues before publication is valued by the community and shouldn't be completely abandoned.
July 22, 2011 3:21 PM
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Royal Society Grudgingly Accepts Role as U.K. Border Guard
As if Paul Nurse wasn't busy enough—he's just become president of the Royal Society and will head a new mammoth London biomedical research facility—the biologist has reluctantly agreed to involve...
July 21, 2011 7:01 PM
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Mice With Human Brain Cells? More Oversight, Please, Says U.K. Panel
Mice with human-derived livers, goats with human blood cells, and other animals that contain human genes or cells are arguably valuable tools for medical research, but they also can...
Decades Late, Russian Space Telescope Finally Launched
Russian space science got a long overdue shot in the arm this week with the launch of Spektr-R, a radioastronomy satellite that was originally designed in 1982 but whose...
July 20, 2011 5:46 PM
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Review of BBC Science Coverage Finds Room for Improvement
More than a year after the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Trust announced it would conduct a major evaluation of the BBC's science coverage, the resulting review has concluded that accuracy...
Lavish Makeover of French Campuses Is Under Way
PARIS—Concern over France's ballooning public deficits seemed momentarily forgotten at a meeting here yesterday where nine clusters of universities and schools presented a series of lavish projects, some already...
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