Dark mood at Vienna AIDS meeting A pall of desperation hovered over the 18th International AIDS conference in Vienna, Austria, last week, with several participants worrying about drooping funding levels, and protestors questioning the US’s commitment to combating the deadly illness. The global recession has reduced donations to the fight against HIV/AIDS — though AIDS…
Stanford Prof Stephen Schneider, one of the world’s top climate scientists, died of a heart attack on a flight from a science meeting in Sweden at the age of 65. Schneider often took the time to speak with our reporters about his passion, so he was no stranger to our pages — we wrote about…
You’d think that one might have the right not to know the result of a genetic test for a disease, right? But suppose one wanted to know the risk of one’s children developing, say, Huntington’s Disease? And would one retain that right if it meant that, instead, a potentially harmful test would instead have to…
CDC paper downplays XMRV, chronic fatigue link
An explosion rocked a biochemistry laboratory at the University of Missouri at Columbia yesterday afternoon, injuring four people working in the lab. The blast was triggered when hydrogen gas, being used for an experiment, reached dangerous levels, reported The Columbia Daily Tribune. “Lab personnel turned on the hydrogen tank supply to an anaerobic hood, and…
Meet citizen science’s answer to match.com – https://scienceforcitizens.net/. The new website, brainchild of Darlene Cavalier (AKA – The Science Cheerleader) and colleagues, seeks to hook researchers up with members of the general public who want to volunteer for duty in the scientific process. “We hope to enable regular people to do real science by connecting…
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.
Ever want to be the proud owner of petrified wood slab, a mummified Eqyptian cat, or a genuine replica Tyrannosaurus rex foot? Well, now’s your chance!
While trolling through the new, shiny beta F1000 site (shh! I’m not supposed to tell you about that yet) I noticed that a paper from way back in September last year is still up there on our top ten lists. This was a commentary in J Neurosci saying, among other things, that the time has…
One of my laments concerning the internet age is that not enough publishers use high quality metadata to identify their content. By metadata, I mean hidden parts of content which seek to describe that content. So metadata can be loosely defined as data which is explicitly concerned with data. In essence it tells us what…
