I’m writing this during England and the USA’s last chance to make it out of the group round of the World Cup. Those matches will soon be forgotten, but here’s some papers that (hopefully) will linger longer in the memory.
It’s been a while, I realize, since I last gave you a chance to win anything. So, here we go. For a chance of a Naturally Selected sweatshirt (here modelled by Neuroscience Section Head Andrew Lumsden),
Useless science denounced Five professors from Emory University, Virginia Commonwealth University, and the University of California at Los Angeles railed against low-quality research last week in The Chronicle of Higher Education, arguing that an astounding growth in journals and quantity of publications, especially the increase in low-cited papers, has a “profoundly damaging effect” on science…
OK. I understand that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is an environmental disaster of epic proportions. I get that whole ecosystems are being disrupted, that many organisms will perish, and that human livelihoods are being hit hard by the spill.
Are you a blue-footed booby? Perhaps you’re more of a wombat or gnu, or even a great bustard. More to the point, have you dressed up like one?
In just under a month, the World Cup tournament will reveal which country boasts the best soccer skills. But Lu
I am not thinking up a witty title, because I’m in a state of shock. I’ve just seen on Twitter that a paediatric urologist going by the name of Dix Poppas, at Weill Medical College of Cornell University, is systematically cutting the clitoris of prepubescent girls, allegedly to reduce them to a ‘normal’ size. He…
It’s another beautiful June day in London. The BT Tower is glinting against an unbroken cerulean sky, and the F1000 staff are busily publishing evaluation after evaluation (92,388 evaluations published at the time of writing). Here’s the latest batch that have caught my eye.
Looming budget cuts are set to wipe out whole research groups at the Natural History Museum, but a concerted effort from the community may yet save them. The ongoing financial crisis, and the determination of the new coalition Government to tackle it, undoubtedly signal hard times to come for science in Britain. Professor Brian Cox…
