[News of the Week] Random Sample
A new exhibit on pterosaurs at New York City's American Museum of Natural History features life-size models of the largest and smallest known species of the flying reptiles, an interactive flying pterosaur exhibit, and even a trading card game. (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 11, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Stewart Wills (mailto:swills at aaas.org) Source Type: research
[News of the Week] Newsmakers
Science talks with Saudi prince and science enthusiast Sultan Bin Salman Bin Abdul-aziz Al-Saud about archaeology and Arabia's prehistoric past. And a bird flu scientist-turned-member of the Italian Parliament is allegedly under investigation for trafficking in flu viruses. (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 11, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Stewart Wills (mailto:swills at aaas.org) Source Type: research
[News of the Week] Around the World
In science news around the world, a new biomedical "golden triangle" dubbed MedCity launches in London, NASA suspends scientific collaborations with Russia, pro-life groups in Europe launch a new attack against E.U. funding for stem cell research, and more. (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 11, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Stewart Wills (mailto:swills at aaas.org) Source Type: research
[News of the Week] This Week's Section
Follow the links below for a roundup of the week's top stories in science, or download a PDF of the entire section.
Around the WorldFindingsNewsmakersRandom Samples (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 10, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Stewart Wills (mailto:swills at aaas.org) Source Type: research
[News Focus] Anatomy of a Grant: Michael Imperiale
A microbiologist opens his books to share his expenses and where his grant money goes.
Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee Source Type: research
[News Focus] The Crowd-Funder: Heidi Moretti
Looking for new dollars, a nutritionist turns to crowd funding, and hopes she can raise what she needs by the deadline.
Author: David Malakoff (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: David Malakoff Source Type: research
[News Focus] The Well-Heeled: Donald Bowden
A geneticist with nearly $3 million in grants considers what's behind his financial success.
Author: Kelly Servick (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Kelly Servick Source Type: research
[News Focus] The Administrator: Jay Walsh
A vice president for research enjoys a healthy budget and strategizes to pull more dollars in.
Author: Jocelyn Kaiser (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser Source Type: research
[News Focus] The Adapter: Rachel Brewster
Her funding tight, a biologist adapts her work on early brain development as she strives to keep training young scientists.
Author: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Source Type: research
[News Focus] The Veteran: Russ Hille
After a long and successful career, a biochemist is shocked when his grants aren't renewed—and he seeks alternatives to stay in the game.
Author: Eliot Marshall (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Eliot Marshall Source Type: research
[News Focus] The Vulnerable: Talene Yacoubian
A young Parkinson's researcher struggles to establish herself, a task made much harder by the challenge of landing her first big grant.
Author: Jocelyn Kaiser (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser Source Type: research
[News Focus] Chasing the Money
Biomedical researchers are beset by low morale and high uncertainty, along with funding swings that economists say make for an inefficient research enterprise. With a new landscape comes adaptation. As economists and others explore how biomedical research is shifting on a grand scale, Science set out to tell the stories of individuals. We examine how they are changing their science, their funding strategies, and their priorities—and why some are still enjoying success.
Author: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Jennifer Couzin-Frankel Source Type: research
[News & Analysis] Stem Cell Research: RIKEN Panel Finds Misconduct in Controversial Paper
A Japanese investigating committee concluded that image manipulation and the use of pictures from an old experiment constitute research misconduct in one of two papers reporting a new method of deriving stem cells. The head of RIKEN says he will call for the retraction of the paper if the committee's findings are confirmed on appeal. The lead author rejects the misconduct charges, maintains the problems resulted from simple mistakes, and contends the new cells really exist.
Author: Dennis Normile (Source: Science: This Week)
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Dennis Normile Tags: Stem Cell Research Source Type: research
[News & Analysis] Environmental Policy: Court Slams Japan's Scientific Whaling
A 31 March ruling from the International Court of Justice in The Hague, the Netherlands, found that Japan's justification for killing thousands of minke whales in the Southern Ocean since the mid-1990s didn't pass scientific muster. Japan, which signed a 1982 ban on commercial whaling, said it had a right to conduct the kills under the research provisions of a 1946 whaling agreement, and argued the lethal studies were needed to understand whale populations and marine ecosystems. But the government of Australia challenged that view in a 2010 lawsuit, arguing that the research was a cover for continued commercial whaling. By...
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Virginia Morell Tags: Environmental Policy Source Type: research
[News & Analysis] Climate Science: In New Report, IPCC Gets More Specific About Warming Risks
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC's) 31 March report on climate impacts and adaptation echoes many of the concerns raised by the last edition, issued in 2007. It says that climate change is already affecting human communities, agriculture, and natural ecosystems—and impacts are likely to grow in the future. But the report breaks with the past in drawing on an emerging body of social science to identify eight major risks posed by climate change, and to inform an extensive discussion of possible adaptation strategies. It also suggests that governments are, so far, spending too little to prepare. The rep...
Source: Science: This Week - April 3, 2014 Category: Science Authors: Eli Kintisch Tags: Climate Science Source Type: research
