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Mashup Score: 130Collections are truly priceless - 2 month(s) ago
Last month, Duke University in North Carolina announced that it was shuttering its herbarium. The collection consists of nearly 1 million specimens representing the most comprehensive and historic set of plants from the southeastern United States. It …
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Mashup Score: 124Collections are truly priceless - 2 month(s) ago
Last month, Duke University in North Carolina announced that it was shuttering its herbarium. The collection consists of nearly 1 million specimens representing the most comprehensive and historic set of plants from the southeastern United States. It …
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Mashup Score: 99Passion is not misconduct - 3 month(s) ago
University of Pennsylvania climate scientist Michael Mann was awarded more than $1 million in a lawsuit against bloggers who accused him of scientific misconduct in inflammatory terms, likening his treatment of data to what a noted child molester did to children. The verdict suggests that there are limits to which scientists working on politically sensitive topics can be falsely attacked. But the case also says something profound about the difference between matters of opinion and scientific interpretations that can be worked out through normal academic processes. Although Mann has expressed strong—and even intemperate—emotions and words in political discourse, the finding of the District of Columbia Superior Court boiled down to the fact that it is not an opinion that determines when scientific misconduct occurs but rather, misconduct can be established using known processes.
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Climate scientist @MichaelEMann was awarded more than $1 million in a lawsuit against bloggers who accused him of scientific misconduct in inflammatory terms. In a #ScienceEditorial, Editor-in-Chief H. Holden Thorp reflects on the lessons of the verdict. https://t.co/NLKf4i2ooa https://t.co/IhaZPn8KDN
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Mashup Score: 30Protein design meets biosecurity - 3 month(s) ago
The power and accuracy of computational protein design have been increasing rapidly with the incorporation of artificial intelligence (AI) approaches. This promises to transform biotechnology, enabling advances across sustainability and medicine. DNA …
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Mashup Score: 51Genuine images in 2024 - 4 month(s) ago
In recent years, the research community has become increasingly concerned with issues involving the manipulation of images in scientific papers. Some of these alterations—involving images from experimental techniques such as microscopy, flow cytometry, …
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Mashup Score: 932024 looms - 4 month(s) ago
Last week, Science reflected on major achievements in science in 2023, from weight loss drugs and a malaria vaccine to exascale computing and advances in artificial intelligence. These are all impressive developments and provide yet more testimony to the …
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Mashup Score: 872024 looms - 5 month(s) ago
Last week, Science reflected on major achievements in science in 2023, from weight loss drugs and a malaria vaccine to exascale computing and advances in artificial intelligence. These are all impressive developments and provide yet more testimony to the …
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Mashup Score: 27Global fight against HIV is at risk - 5 month(s) ago
Will the United States remain committed to a landmark health program it started 20 years ago that saved more than 25 million lives around the world? For a younger generation of physicians, nurses, and researchers today, the depth of despair wrought by the HIV/AIDS epidemic at that time is almost unimaginable. Even more profoundly, for countries in Africa, the epidemic presented an existential threat. Without access to antiretroviral therapy or efficacious prevention tools, new infections continued unfettered, and people with HIV/AIDS faced near-certain death. Yet, somehow out of this anguish, came a ray of hope. In 2003, President George W. Bush announced the launch of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), committing billions of dollars to fight the epidemic in the poorest countries around the world. The initiative has been a shining example of global collaboration in the face of adversity. Yet, as of this September, the US Congress has yet to reauthorize PEPFAR. The
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Mashup Score: 24Extremely large telescopes at risk - 5 month(s) ago
Images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope and the James Webb Space Telescope have awed the public and astronomers alike. Until the Hubble, breakthroughs in astronomy came from big telescopes on mountain-top observatories—discoveries that …
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Mashup Score: 27Global fight against HIV is at risk - 5 month(s) ago
Will the United States remain committed to a landmark health program it started 20 years ago that saved more than 25 million lives around the world? For a younger generation of physicians, nurses, and researchers today, the depth of despair wrought by the HIV/AIDS epidemic at that time is almost unimaginable. Even more profoundly, for countries in Africa, the epidemic presented an existential threat. Without access to antiretroviral therapy or efficacious prevention tools, new infections continued unfettered, and people with HIV/AIDS faced near-certain death. Yet, somehow out of this anguish, came a ray of hope. In 2003, President George W. Bush announced the launch of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), committing billions of dollars to fight the epidemic in the poorest countries around the world. The initiative has been a shining example of global collaboration in the face of adversity. Yet, as of this September, the US Congress has yet to reauthorize PEPFAR. The
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“Universities should support the priceless resources and heritage represented in natural history collections,” argues a new #ScienceEditorial reflecting on the closure of the Duke Herbarium. https://t.co/gjooJXfpCj https://t.co/bmYPjHJOUh