» Ghostbusters: Authors of a new study propose a strict ban on medical ghostwriting
04/02/10 14:45 from Scientific American
When students pawn someone else\'s work off as their own, they get expelled. But when some professors do the same thing, they get a \"pat on the back,\" and maybe even a few extra bucks. Scientists credited for research articles that were sec..
» Expanded view of universities would be more realistic
03/02/10 00:00 from Nature
Tertiary education is poised for greater changes during the next decade than John Hennessey\'s vision implies (Nature463, 26–32; 2010). The rising demand for university education in the developing world could affect universities in developed..
» Scientists baffled by Amazon mystery
08/02/10 22:31 from Scientific American
Aerial images show the remains of a mysterious ancient civilization in Brazil\'s Amazon forest.
» Life at the Bottom: The Prolific Afterlife of Whales (preview)
08/02/10 13:00 from Scientific American
On a routine expedition in 1987, oceanographers in the submersible Alvin were mapping the typically barren, nutrient-poor seafloor in the Santa Catalina Basin, off the shore of southern California. On the final dive of the trip, the scanni..
» U.S. Officials Plan $78.5 Million Effort to Keep Dangerous Carp Out of Great Lakes
09/02/10 06:45 from NYT > Science
Addressing a threat that has grown increasingly tense throughout the Midwest as genetic material from the fish was found in Lake Michigan.
» How Toads Conquered the World [Slide Show]
05/02/10 21:01 from Scientific American
Cane toads are seemingly innocuous enough. First imported to Australia to control a beetle pest of sugarcane fields, they are now frog-marching their way across the island continent , wreaking havoc on in situ flora and fauna. The key to t..
» Biochemistry: Chemical gene switch
03/02/10 00:00 from Nature
» Will U.S. Government Crackdown on \"Greenwashing\"?
04/02/10 15:20 from Scientific American
The Federal Trade Commission is expected to crack down on \" greenwashing \" when it updates its environmental marketing guidelines for the first time since 1998. The agency\'s Guides for the Use of Environmental Marketing Claims , or Green G..
» Biomaterials: Dew catchers
03/02/10 00:00 from Nature
Why did Incy Wincy Spider climb up the water spout? If he was after a drink, a report by Yongmei Zheng et al. in this issue suggests that he might have missed a trick — spiders don\'t need to look for water because the
» Fixing the Broken Government Policy Process
04/02/10 13:00 from Scientific American
The breakdown of the Washington policy process has four manifestations. First is a chronic inability to focus beyond the next election. “Shovel-ready” projects squeeze out attention to vital longer-term strategies that may requ..
» An aspartyl protease directs malaria effector proteins to the host cell
09/02/10 14:44 from Nature
» Open-source science takes on neglected disease
04/02/10 22:52 from Scientific American
By Declan Butler A chemist--and social entrepreneur--in Australia is launching an open-source research project to develop a more potent form of a front-line drug against the debilitating neglected tropical disease schistosomiasis. Matthew ..
» A Conversation With Samuel Wang: A Neuroscientist Studying the Structure of Dog Brains
09/02/10 06:22 from NYT > Science
In his Princeton laboratory, Samuel Wang uses dog M.R.I.’s to research the relationship between brain structure and behavior.
» The woman behind HeLa
03/02/10 00:00 from Nature
Steve Silberman enjoys a moving account that probes racial and ethical issues in medicine through the story of the young mother whose death from cancer led to the first immortal cell line.
» Distracted Customers\' Wait Times Fly
09/02/10 05:05 from Scientific American
You know what it’s like. Sit chatting with a friend, and the hours can zip by. But once someone puts you on hold [audio: bad on-hold music] or makes you wait in line, each second feels interminable. But Dan Zakay of Tel Aviv Universi..
» Welcome to Atlantis and the quest for nitrogen
08/02/10 21:01 from Scientific American
Editor\'s Note: Journalist and crew member Kathryn Eident and scientist Jeremy Jacquot are traveling on board the RV Atlantis on a month-long voyage to sample and study nitrogen fixation in the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean, among other re..
» Structure of the amantadine binding site of influenza M2 proton channels in lipid bilayers
09/02/10 14:44 from Nature
» With a little help, water can freeze as it heats up
04/02/10 19:01 from Scientific American
The Celsius scale is an elegant, simple system of measurement: water freezes at 0 degrees Celsius and boils at 100 degrees C. (The actual definition of the scale is a bit more complex, involving the so-called triple point of water, but tha..
» Abstractions
03/02/10 00:00 from Nature
Last authorRats have innate mapping ablities — scientists discovered in 2005 that the rodents maintain a grid-like map of their location by means of a network of brain neurons dubbed \'grid cells\'. These cells have also been found in mice, b..
» Observatory: A Complicated History for the Humble Turkey
09/02/10 03:40 from NYT > Science
Did the turkey stocks in the American Southwest come from Mexico, or were they domesticated on their own?