Science & Society

  1. Science & Society

    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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    Science Future for November 17, 2012

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    Science Past from the issue of November 17, 1962

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    Air: The Restless Shaper of the World

    by William Bryant Logan.

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  10. Science & Society

    Scientists embrace Twitter for spreading the word and hashing through new data

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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.

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