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ARC Announces 17 Laureate Fellowship Awards. 31/07/12
The Group of Eight universities will accommodate 15 of the 17 fellows, the remaining two will work at James Cook University. [More]
Nominations Called for New South Wales Scientist of the Year as well as Eight Prizes for Specific Categories. 30/07/12 [More]
UK House of Lords Reports on Higher Education in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Subjects. 30/07/12
The report calls for "immediate action to ensure enough young people study Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) subjects..." [More]
Science's NextGen Voices. 29/07/12
This past April Science asked young scientists to describe specific experiences that changed their scienctific training, or career goals. [More]
The Royal Society's Video on the Wonders of Chemistry. 28/07/12
The 24 minute video is Dr Liddle's entertaining exploration of some of the wonders of the science. [More]
German Universities' Excellence Initiative Seven Years On. 27/07/12
The approach is to significantly raise the attractiveness of selected German institutions so as to attract top international research talent. [More]
Office of the Chief Scientist Outlines Some of the Maths That Keeps Your Money Safe. 27/07/12
Mathematics is expected to play an increasingly important role in protecting personal information and safeguarding e-commerce. [More]
Reduction of Red Tape in the Offing for European Researchers. 27/07/12
EU promises: "European taxpayers will be getting more output from their investments as scientists' time is freed up for the real work." [More]
PCAST Releases Report on Advanced Manufacturing. 26/07/12
US President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology makes recommendations aimed at maintaining the U.S.'s leading position in advanced manufacturing. [More]
Australian Research Council's New Chief Executive to Re-Examining Stance on Open-Access Publication. 25/07/12 [More]
ARC Allocates $151 million for 209 Future Fellowships Commencing in 2012. 25/07/12
12 are Australians returning from overseas, 23 are international researchers and 174 are current Australian residents. [More]
Sheep and the Centripetal Force of the Herd. 24/07/12
Attach GPS backpacks to 46 sheep and 1 trained Kelpie; record 47 positions at 1-second intervals -- then model. [More]
Is American Science in Decline? 24/07/12
Yu Xie and Alexandra Killewald -- Harvard University Press 240 pp -- ask the question rhetorically. [More]
Genomics X Prize Competition -- Sequence Genomes of 100 Centenarians Within 30 Days -- Collect $10M. 24/07/12
Craig Venter, co-chairman of the competition says: “The trivial part of the equation to solve is the sequencing technology. It’s necessary, but not sufficient.” [More]
European Commissioner for Research, Innovation and Science, Máire Geoghegan-Quinn, Talks Up European Basic Research. 21/07/12
There is a real risk that science might be seen as a luxury as governments look for budget cuts. [More]
Has the Australian Synchrotron Found a Protector from the Bureaucratic Tyrannosaurs? 21/07/12
Can ANSTO remove the real-world pressure [the Australian Synchrotron staff] have been enduring. [More]
Canada's Budget Cuts Damned as Anti Science. 21/07/12
Nature: "Critics say that the government is targeting research into the natural environment because it does not like the results being produced." [More]
Open Access, arXiv and the Higgs Particle. 20/07/12
Does progress by the theorists have next to no dependence on journal open access, gold or green, or even commercial paywalls? [More]
Archive of the PCAST July 19, 2012 Webcast. 20/07/12
This is the Webcast of the 18th public meeting of US President Obama's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). [More]
Top US University Presidents Plead for Bipartisan Long-Term Adequate Support. 20/07/12
153 leading US universities sent a letter urging President Obama and bipartisan congressional leaders to prevent deep across-the-board spending cuts... [More]
Obama Requests $20,000 Salary Increase for "Master" Science and Maths Teachers but will Congress Pay Ball? 19/07/12
"The STEM Master Teacher Corps will begin with 50 exceptional STEM teachers established in 50 sites and will be expanded over 4 years to reach 10,000 Master Teachers." [More]
24th Meeting of Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC) Issues 2nd Communiqué. 17/07/12
The mills of PMSEIC grind exceeding slow; whether or not they will grind fine or with purpose remains to be seen. [More]
UK Government to Mandate Open Access of Publicly Funded Research Within Two Years. 16/07/12
David Willetts: "If the taxpayer has paid for this research to happen, that work shouldn't be put behind a paywall..." [More]
NSF Early Career Researchers to Spend Time at European Research Council Labs. 14/07/12
About 100 recipients of NSF's CAREER awards per year will be offered the opportunity. [More]
Where Are All the Science Jobs? 12/07/12 [More]
Research Funding Cuts in Canada and Italy Provoke Protests. 11/07/12
"News about these cuts came out of the blue, and it's outrageous," National Institute of Nuclear Physics President Fernando Ferroni. [More]
Arsenous Highly-Tolerant Bacteria Do Require Phosphorous. 10/07/12
It's taken 1½ years, but two papers in last week's Science Express have demonstrated no phosphorous = no growth. [More]
The Challenge of Science Teaching in Middle School. 07/07/12
Why good science teaching requires not only dedication but also a comprehensive-multidisciplinary understanding. [More]
National Union of Students Conference Hosts Stoush Between Senators Rhiannon and Cameron. 06/07/12 [More]
Cambridge University Press Launches Open Access Maths Journals. 06/07/12
They are to be alternatives to the leading generalist and specialist mathematics journals. [More]
U.S. Federal Appeals Court Sides with Environmental Protection Agency. 06/07/12
The court ruled: EPA is not required to re-prove the existence of the atom every time it approaches a scientific question. [More]
University Funding - 1996 - 2010 a Group of Eight Snapshot. 05/07/12
The Group of Eight gives an overview of university funding through the Howard and Rudd years. [More]
Solid Evidence for a Newly Discovered Boson -- Is it the Higgs? 05/07/12
Read the carefully worded press release from CERN and view the graphs using the data obtained by the CMS and ATLAS detectors. [More]
Mark Walport, Director of Wellcome Trust, to be Next UK's Chief Scientific Advisor. 01/07/12
will the straight talk Mark Walport move forward "evidence-based policy-making in the way it was designed to rather than its advice fall on deaf ears". [More]