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News & Views Index |
Moniz Gets to Work as US Secretary of Energy. 31/05/13
Dr. Ernest Moniz was sworn in as the nation's 13th Secretary of Energy last week. You're able to look on. [More]
The Global Research Council Publishes Its Principles for Research Integrity and Open Access. 30/05/13
Whether or not the GRC will have much impact on either integrity in doing and reporting of research or open-access publishing remains to be seen. [More]
Recording Lectures or Dispensing With Them? 28/05/13
Two of Australia's Group of Eight universities are featured in today's Australian for almost antithetical reasons. [More]
Peter Pockley Recollects the Stoush Between Australasian Science and CSIRO With Regard to its Direction Under Chief Executive, Geoff Garrett. 27/05/13 [More]
CSIRO's Materials Science and Engineering Chief, Cathy Foley, Pleads for More Women in "Hard" Science. 25/05/13 [More]
Australian National Audit Office Reports Overall Education Investment Fund Well-Managed. 24/05/13
Its two recommendations for improvement have been accepted. [More]
President of Australian Academy of Science Defends Policy Regarding Treatment of Women. 23/05/13 [More]
On the South African Side of the SKA. 23/05/13
The array, based in the Northern Cape, observed two strong radio flares from the binary-star system Circinus X-1. [More]
Does the Sword of Damocles Hang Over Australian Education? 23/05/13
Simon Marginson suggests it very well may. [More]
Science Media Centre (NZ) ALERT: Regulator Rejects New GM Food Safety Concerns. 22/05/13
Earlier this year, a scientific review raised concerns that double-stranded RNA molecules produced in new genetically modified crops could pose a risk to human health. [More]
US Sequestration and the Biomedical Labs. 22/05/13
For openers sequestration this year has cut US$1.55 billion from the National Institutes of Health's (NIH's) budget. [More]
MIT Theoretical Nuclear Physicist Takes Over as US Secretary of Energy. 21/05/13
"...he is savvy about how the Department of Energy operates because he has been there before". [More]
Misuse of the Journal Impact Factor 17/05/13
...is highly destructive, inviting a gaming of the metric that can bias journals against publishing important papers in fields that are much less cited than others. [More]
Did the Good Dr. Nelson Really Say That. 17/05/13
From November 26, 2001 to January 27, 2006 he was the Minister for Education, Science and Training in John Howard's government. [More]
NSF Denies Access of Peer Reviews to House of Representatives Science Committee. 16/05/13
That the matter has a fair way to go and may well get ugly. [More]
Science 19 April 2013 Contains a 33-page Special Section on Science Education. 15/05/13
The cover feature: "Grand Challenges in Science Education". [More]
Australia's 2013-14 Budget: A Science-Technology Snapshot. 15/05/13
Science and Technology Australia has released its preliminary assessment of the 2013-14 federal budget. [More]
ScienceInsider: "Corporations, NSF Team Up to Improve STEM Retention Rates." 14/05/13
The "Graduate 10K+" initiative is being funded not by taxpayers but by Intel and GE. [More]
PMSEIC Releases Three Reports to the Public Through Chief Scientist's Website. 13/05/13 [More]
One Plant's Junk DNA is Another's...? 13/05/13
The carnivorous humped bladderwort, Utricularia gibba, contains only 3% junk DNA [More]
So-called High-Quality Research Act "will have a chilling and detrimental impact on the merit-based review process."11/05/13 [More]
Uncertainty Regarding Nation's Science Budget with Budget Day Looming. 11/05/13
The Budget papers are to be released when the Treasurer commences his second reading speech at approximately 7:30pm AEST Tuesday, 14 May 2013. [More]
Professor Sandra Harding, Universities Australia Chair, Addresses the National Press Club. 09/05/13
Today, I want to talk about a revolution – the education revolution – and rather than a tale of two cities it is a tale of two futures. [More]
Stanford's President Views the Future for his Charge. 09/05/13
He outlines his assessment of how to future proof his university. [More]
Following on PCASTS Session on "The Brain" -- Scientists Get a Head Start". 08/05/13 [More]
Green House Gases Increase So Where's the Global Warming? 06/05/13 [More]
MOOCs and the Professor of Economics. 06/05/13
Like it or not Information Technology is impinging increasingly on all aspects of this planet's environment including tertiary education. [More]
Archive of the PCAST May 3, 2013 Webcast. 04/05/13
One of the features is the 75 minute roundtable on brain research with NIH director Francis Collins as one of the participants. [More]
Gene Swap Helps Bird Flu Spread Between Mammals. 03/05/13
A "super piece of work" scientifically, but also "very dangerous". [More]