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No New Meds
With drug firms in retreat, the pipeline for new psychiatric medications dries up.
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Guesstimation 2.0
Solving Today's Problems on the Back of a Napkin 2.0 by Lawrence Weinstein.
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Cell biologists hone elevator pitches
Competition challenges scientists to summarize their work for a captive lay audience.
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Scientists take on Twitter
Social media comes into its own as a tool and a subject for study.
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Descending to the Challenger Deep
Director James Cameron reveals the science of his deep-sea exploration.
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Insect illustrator
Taina Litwak is an “art department of one” in D.C. for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Systematic Entomology Laboratory.
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Banks err by confusing risk, uncertainty
Too much information prompted bad currency projections by international money firms, a psychologist contends, and may have blinded them to the global financial crisis.
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Misconduct prompts most retractions
Two-thirds of scientific papers pulled from journals are for fraud, suspected fraud and plagiarism.
