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The Rise Of Superweeds—And What To Do About It
It sounds like a sci-fi movie: American farmers fighting desperately to hold back an onslaught of herbicide-defying "superweeds." But there's nothing imaginary—or entertaining—about this scenario. Superweeds are all too real, and they have now spread to over 60 million acres of our farmland, wreaking environmental and economic havoc wherever they go. Read More »
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The Threat From Antibiotic Use On The Farm
When I was commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), the agency’s national advisory committee recommended in 1977 that we eliminate an agricultural practice that threatened human health. Routinely feeding low doses of antibiotics to healthy livestock, our scientific advisory committee warned, was breeding drug-resistant bacteria that could infect people. Read More »
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These Faces From The Ice Age Give The Lie To Our Idea Of Civilisation
The British Museum's ice age exhibition proves beyond doubt that human beings are born to make art and cannot escape it... Read More »
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This Is Your Brain On Gluten
The idea that gluten and carbohydrates are at the root of Alzheimer's disease, anxiety, depression, and ADHD has now reached millions of people. It is the basis of a number-one bestseller written by a respected physician. What is it worth? Read More »
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Those Who Publish Research Behind Paywalls Are Victims Not Perpetrators
Labelling scientists who publish in traditional journals as 'immoral' only hinders the cause of open access publishing Read More »
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Top 10 Medical Research Trends To Watch In 2013
Congress has pushed the date of the "sequester" off another two months, delaying the prospect of automatic 8.2 percent cuts in the budgets of NIH, FDA, and other federal science programs. But a sequester (or other cuts) could still happen. [...] Read More »
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Transcribing Manuscripts With Crowdsourcing
Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in the power of crowdsourcing, or getting lots of people to each do a little bit of work. Scientists in particular have utilized this to get people to go through huge amounts of data. This approach has also been used in the humanities, in the collection of data for local histories, for example. Read More »
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Tutorial 19f: Open Access Definitions And Clarifications, Part 6: Open Access That Comes And Goes
The best open-access publishers make their articles open from the get-go, and leave them that way forever. (That’s part of what makes them best.) But it’s not unusual to find articles which either start out free to access, then go behind a paywall; or that start out paywalled but are later released; or that live behind a paywall but peek out for a limited period. Read More »
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U-M Collaborates On New Open Access Scientific Journal
A new online journal born of a multi-institutional effort, which includes U-M, is set to tackle issues of sustainability on two fronts. Read More »
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UK Research Funders Announce Liberated Open-access Policy
From April 2013, science papers must be made free to access within six months of publication if they come from work paid for by one of the United Kingdom’s seven government-funded grant agencies, the research councils, which together spend about £2.8 billion (US$4.4 billion) each year on research. Read More »
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Unique Organic Molecule Discovered In Deep Space
A new kind of organic molecule has been discovered in a giant gas cloud in interstellar space, indicating that more complex molecules – the very core building blocks of life – can potentially form outside of the Earth and even be widespread in space...
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US Scientists Are Leaving The Country And Taking The Innovation Economy With Them
Federal funding cuts, and the insidious damage caused just since March by federal budget sequestration, have forced nearly one in five U.S. scientists to consider moving overseas to continue their research. Read More »
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Want A DIY Spectrometor? Visit The Public Lab’s Open Source Scientists At NYC Maker Faire
Whether you are hacking medicine or building your own sensor, the do-it-yourself movement is alive and well in science and healthcare. If you are in the metro New York area, the World Maker Faire should be part of your weekend plans. Not only can you see a 3D printed humanoid, Robot Row and marshmallow shooters, but you can hear from the smart folks at Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science.
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WATCH: What Doctors Don't Know About The Drugs They Prescribe
TEDTalks can sometimes portray science in triumphalist tones, with fabulous innovations that are changing the world forever. But the real action in science is often around dirty, messy, angry problems, and my TEDTalk is about the dirtiest I've seen yet. Read More »
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We Can Work It Out: Collaboration Leads To Insights, New Targets In Epilepsy
A little scientific cooperation goes a long way. Epilepsy researchers, who more than a decade ago forged a national collaboration, have discovered 25 new mutations around the neurological disorder. What’s more, they also uncovered two genes behind rare childhood forms of the disease... Read More »
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