An NIH program pays school debt to keep scientists in academia. Many break the rules by also taking industry money. ILLUSTRATION: STEPHAN SCHMITZ/FOLIO ART Joshua Bauml, a University of Pennsylvania (UPenn) oncologist, received welcome news last year: He had won a coveted spot in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Loan Repayment Program (LRP). Since […]
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This Antarctic Research Takes The Cake — Or At Least The Shape Of One : The Salt – NPR
Rose McAdoo makes cakes based on research performed by her colleagues at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station research base. Courtesy of Rose McAdoo hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Rose McAdoo Rose McAdoo makes cakes based on research performed by her colleagues at Antarctica’s McMurdo Station research base. Courtesy of Rose McAdoo When Rose McAdoo got back […]
EU Court: Science must justify future hunting – Science Magazine
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The context of diversity – Science Magazine
PHOTO: UCONN PHOTOS The term “diversity,” which came about in connection with the passage of the U.S. Civil Rights Act of 1964, has been expanding to include an ever-growing list of identities—from race, gender, and sexual orientation to physical appearance, belief systems, thought styles, socioeconomic status, and rural/urban geographic location, among others. This is a […]
Exceptional continental record of biotic recovery after the Cretaceous–Paleogene mass extinction – Science Magazine
T. R. Lyson Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, USA. I. M. Miller Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, USA. A. D. Bercovici Denver Museum of Nature & Science, 2001 Colorado Boulevard, Denver, CO 80205, USA.National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 10th […]
Why I sidestep politics to teach climate science – Science Magazine
Robert Neubecker By Ragupathy KannanNov. 21, 2019 , 2:00 PM I sat down at my desk to read the student evaluations for my undergraduate biology courses. “Please leave politics out of it. Not all Republicans deny science,” one student wrote. “I didn’t pay to take this class to hear him bash Republicans,” wrote another. I […]
Universality and diversity in human song – Science Magazine
Cross-cultural analysis of song It is unclear whether there are universal patterns to music across cultures. Mehr et al. examined ethnographic data and observed music in every society sampled (see the Perspective by Fitch and Popescu). For songs specifically, three dimensions characterize more than 25% of the performances studied: formality of the performance, arousal level, […]