Scientists forced to take out loan to pay for eagles’ foreign text messages

Updated October 26, 2019 16:07:29 Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles were forced to start a crowdfunding campaign after their birds wandered into Iran and foreign text messages from their tracking devices depleted the project’s budget. …

Russian eagles’ global roaming sends scientists broke as tracking devices rack up the bills

Posted October 26, 2019 14:31:09 Russian scientists tracking migrating eagles were forced to start a crowdfunding campaign after their birds wandered into Iran and foreign text messages from their tracking devices depleted the project’s budget. …

Why some scientists believe the world is a giant bubble-bath filled with infinite universes

From where we’re sitting, the universe is a big, smooth expanse full of giant stars and planets. When we use the most powerful measurement tools we have, to zoom in as close as we possibly can in hopes of seeing what’s holding it all together, it still …

Cold, hard data: ORNL data scientists support historic Arctic expedition

Credit: Misha Krassovski/Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S. Dept. of Energy Misha Krassovski, a computer scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, stands in front of the Polarstern, a 400-foot long German icebreaker. Krassovski lived aboard the …

Scientist with millions in government grants has 30 research papers retracted

Posted October 26, 2019 07:01:24 A Swinburne University scientist has lost his job after an internal investigation into alleged research misconduct. Key points: School of Engineering researcher Dr Ali Nazari has had 30 papers retracted by journals Dr …

After 30 of his papers were retracted, this Melbourne scientist finally lost his job

Updated October 26, 2019 08:43:36 A Swinburne University scientist has lost his job after an internal investigation into alleged research misconduct. Key points: School of Engineering researcher Dr Ali Nazari has had 30 papers retracted by journals Dr …

SHAREHOLDER ALERT: WeissLaw LLP Investigates Fibrocell Science, Inc.

NEW YORK, Oct. 25, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — WeissLaw LLP is investigating possible breaches of fiduciary duty and other violations of law by the Board of Fibrocell Science, Inc. (“FCSC” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: FCSC) in connection …

Scientists uncover the process behind protein mutations that impact gut health, Crohn’s Disease and inflammatory bowel …

By Ana Gajic A new study led by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Canada and Zhejiang University School of Medicine in China has uncovered why a protein mutation that causes inflammatory bowel diseases is …

‘You’re not listening to the science’: Pebble Mine fight aired at US House hearing

Alannah Hurley, center in red, asked Congress to intervene to block the Pebble Mine. Pebble CEO Tom Collier, left wearing glasses, was the only witness who supported the mine. (Photo by Liz Ruskin/Alaska Public Media) https://s3-us-west-2. …

Putting the ‘bang’ in the Big Bang: Physicists simulate critical ‘reheating’ period that kickstarted the Big Bang in the …

As the Big Bang theory goes, somewhere around 13.8 billion years ago the universe exploded into being, as an infinitely small, compact fireball of matter that cooled as it expanded, triggering reactions that cooked up the first stars and galaxies, and all …

UN Scientists Say There Is A Way To Delay Climate Change For 20 Years For Pocket Change

Agriculture Published on October 25th, 2019 | by Steve Hanley 0 October 25th, 2019 by Steve Hanley  $300 billion is pocket change? It is if you think on a global scale. It’s what the governments of the world spend on the military defense every 2 months. …

Race and the Science of Starvation

Editor’s note: This essay first appeared in the MIT Press Reader Prior to the identification of the micronutrients we call vitamins in the 1930s, nutrition science was mainly a science of animal energetics, or the study of how animals metabolize food …

Revisiting the “Dinosaur Wars,” and scientists behaving badly

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Too soon? Decorating for the holidays earlier makes you happier, science says

Katey Psencik, GateHouse Media Friday Oct 25, 2019 at 10:01 AM Oct 25, 2019 at 10:16 AM It’s never too early for Christmas, according to experts. People who put up their Christmas decorations early may be happier than the rest of us — it’s science. …

Glacial Rivers Absorb Carbon Faster Than Rainforests, Scientists Find

In the turbid, frigid waters roaring from the glaciers of Canada’s high Arctic, researchers have made a surprising discovery: for decades, the northern rivers secretly pulled carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at a rate faster than the Amazon …

Scientists name new beetle species after Greta Thunberg

The previously unnamed Nelloptodes gretae, which was discovered 50 years ago in Kenya, has no eyes, no wings, and is just 1mm long. Experts at the Natural History Museum in London chose to name the beetle after Greta in honour of her ‘immensely …

National Science Foundation awards $1M grant to UH

Science Wondering where the strontium in your old CRT monitor came from? Two colliding neutron stars show us First time …

For the first time astroboffins have discovered strontium, a heavy element nestled near the bottom left hand side of the periodic table, being manufactured in space by the collision of two neutron stars. The findings, reported in a paper in Nature on …

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #871 25 October 2019 (Space Life Science Research Results)

NASA Spaceline Current Awareness List #871 25 October 2019 (Space Life Science Research Results) Status Report From: Spaceline Posted: Friday, October 25, 2019 SPACELINE Current Awareness Lists are distributed via listserv and are available on the NASA …