Science & Society

  1. Science & Society

    Happy Birthday to Boole, with 11001000 binary candles

    George Boole’s 200th birthday is occasion to celebrate the 1s and 0s of computer language.

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  2. Neuroscience

    1960s dog brain transplant was not followed by human studies

    A pioneering study to transplant a dog’s brain led to later work on a monkey, but ethical considerations and technical know-how have prevented further work.

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  3. Science & Society

    Unreliable science impairs its ability to serve society

    Science’s reproducibility problem impairs the ability of basic research to inform the search for better medicinal drugs.

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  4. Psychology

    Views on bias can be biased

    When presented with a study showing bias against women, male scientists are more inclined to nitpick the results. But a little intervention can go a long way toward gender equality in science.

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  5. Science & Society

    Perspiration is important, but inspiration is fun(damental)

    How much of science is inspiration versus perspiration?

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  6. Animals

    How architecture can make ants better workers

    The right nest architecture can make harvester ants better at their job, new research shows.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    Hollywood-made science documentary series comes to TV

    Breakthrough series gives a closer look at scientists at work.

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  8. Humans

    An amusing romp through word histories

    From ak to wid, a new book makes etymology fun.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Cancer drug’s effectiveness overinflated in animal studies

    Claims about the cancer drug sunitinib are overblown because of poorly designed studies and negative results that were never published, a new analysis suggests.

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  10. Health & Medicine

    Cancer drug’s effectiveness overinflated in animal studies

    Claims about the cancer drug sunitinib are overblown because of poorly designed studies and negative results that were never published, a new analysis suggests.

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  11. Science & Society

    Nobels note neutrinos, DNA, drugs

    The Nobel Prizes in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine ran the gamut this year, honoring both fundamental science discoveries and research with real-world impacts.

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  12. Science & Society

    General relativity centennial celebrates Einstein’s genius

    Science News uses the opportunity of the 100th anniversary of the general theory of relativity to take a deep dive into one — perhaps the most important — of Einstein’s scientific contributions.

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