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Chemistry World October 9, 2007 Victoria Gill |
MRI Scanners Get Five-Year Reprieve in Legal U-Turn The European Commission will delay the implementation of the EU Physical Agents Directive. The decision follows pressure from scientists who have been lobbying to avert what they called a 'serious threat' to magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) posed by the directive. |
Reason October 2007 Katherine Mangu-Ward |
From Sky Flivver to Hydropolis What happened to the science-fiction future? Popular Mechanics columnist Daniel Wilson, the author of How to Survive a Robot Uprising, begs "all the scientists, inventors, and tinkerers out there" to "please hurry up." |
Chemistry World October 2007 Jeff Hardy |
Mind the Gap The technology to plug the UK's energy gap is already here. But where is the political will? |
Chemistry World October 2007 Fiona Case |
Staying Curious BP's chief scientist Steve Koonin's curiosity and drive to 'make a difference' led him from academia to one of the world's largest energy companies. |
IEEE Spectrum October 2007 Kenneth R. Foster |
Blast From the Past Hewlett-Packard is offering a calculator that looks like the first one it ever sold. The HP 35s is a highly competent scientific product with capabilities that would have been unimaginable 35 years ago, and the price is right. |
Wired September 25, 2007 Thomas Goetz |
It's Time to Free the Dark Data of Failed Scientific Experiments What do scientists do when their experiments don't yield positive results? They usually tuck it away in a drawer. However, new efforts are being made to make the data public so others can learn from the negative. |
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 1: A Cyberinfrastructure Primer for Librarians Librarians interested in what their roles will be in the future cyberinfrastructures of science may find their skills and capabilities give them a natural and even crucial role in building and supporting the information infrastructures of local data centers. |
D-Lib October 2007 Anna Gold |
Cyberinfrastructure, Data, and Libraries, Part 2: Libraries and the Data Challenge: Roles and Actions for Libraries Once libraries and librarians have forged new partnerships with scientists and data managers, then they will be truly integral to the stewardship of data as a vital part of the scholarly record. |
Scientific American October 2007 Michael Shermer |
The Really Hard Science To be of true service to humanity, science must be an exquisite blend of data, theory and narrative. |
Geotimes September 2007 Erin Wayman |
Taking Science for a Ride Instead of carting kids off to school, the Rutgers Science Explorer brings school to the kids, making science more fun and less intimidating. |
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