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Science News
March 28, 2009 |
Everyday Practice Of Science: Where Intuition And Passion Meet Objectivity And Logic A scientist attempts to demystify the scientific method in this book by Frederick Grinnell.   |
Popular Mechanics
March 13, 2009
Erica Westly |
Citizen Science: How Smartphones Can Aid Scientific Research When combined with a GPS signal and a Wi-Fi or 3G connection, mobile phones can gather data, organize it and send it to a server to be analyzed. |
Chemistry World
March 12, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Funding Shift Worries Researchers Government and research funding bodies are shifting funding towards projects with measurable societal and economic impact -- triggering protests from many academics, who see the strategy as dangerously short sighted. |
Chemistry World
March 5, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Hefce announces how RAE money will be distributed This includes 1.6 billion for research, based on the outcome of the revamped Research Assessment Exercise (RAE). |
Chemistry World
March 2009
James Mitchell Crow |
Editorial: Great debate Are university-based researchers about to receive a huge windfall? Or could blue-skies research - which by its very nature needs a free reign from government funders - become the next victim? |
Chemistry World
March 2009 |
Column: Undercover academic With new restrictions on Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) first grant schemes, funding may become even more elusive |
Science News
March 14, 2009
Laura Sanders |
U.S. Science Remains Far From 'its Rightful Place' Rush Holt, a plasma physicist by training, represents New Jersey's 12th Congressional District in the U.S. Congress and discusses the state of science and science funding in the United States. |
Popular Mechanics
February 24, 2009
Karen Rowan |
Top 10 Ig Nobels: The Best of Science's Strangest Prize From the world-record time for barbecue ignition to the mathematics behind the rate of beer froth dissipation -- outstanding examples of scientific research |
Chemistry World
February 18, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Obama Signs Off on Billions of Dollars for Research US president Barack Obama has signed into law a massive economic stimulus bill that contains an extra $21.5 billion ( 15 billion) in federal research and development support, impressing the scientific community. |
Science News
February 28, 2009
David Spergel |
Nation Needs Recovery Plan For Science Faculty Jobs Even if the economy were to recover over the next one to two years, the academic job market for the next few years is likely to be bleak. |
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