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BREAKING NEWS: Error Undoes Faster-Than-Light Neutrino Results It appears that the faster-than-light neutrino results, announced last September by the OPERA collaboration in Italy, was due to a mistake after all. A bad connection between a GPS unit and a computer may be to blame. Physicists had detected neutrinos travelling from the CERN laboratory in Geneva to the Gran Sasso laboratory near L'Aqu
Thousands of Scientists Vow to Boycott Elsevier to Protest Journal Prices A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the high price of its journals is rapidly gathering steam. Nine days after it started, more than 2600 scientists—including several Fields medalists—have signed a petition at thecostofknowledge.com in which they pledge not to publish papers in Elsevier's jo
An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images by a prominent Japanese scientist. The nearly 6-minute video, complete with background music, presents a series of still shots of over 60 allegedly duplicated and manipulated images in 24 papers, including 19 instances in a single publication, by a group led by molecular signaling specialist Shigeaki
Fat lady singing? The OPERA particle detector may have spotted neutrinos traveling faster than light, which would bring down the curtain on special relativity as an exact theory. If it's true, it will mark the biggest discovery in physics in the past half-century: Elusive, nearly massless subatomic particles called neutrinos appear to travel just faster than light, a team of physicists in Europe r
Three heavyweight, nongovernmental funders of science announced today that they are launching a free online biology journal aimed at publishing the very best papers within a few weeks of submission. But few confirmed details are available about the journal, which doesn't yet have a name, editor, publisher, or business model. Two biomedical research charities, the Wellcome Trust in the United Kingd
The Worst Case: What If the Water Ran Dry in the Japanese Reactors? What if cooling in one or more of the reactors at the Fukushima nuclear plant were lost? Richard Lester, chair of the department of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, emphasizes the "very, very" unlikely possibility of that scenario. But if it were to occur, the inheren
Quake Questions: Science Responds to Reader Queries on the Crisis in Japan Science has asked our readers to chime in with their most pressing questions on the earthquake in Japan and its aftermath, including the nuclear crisis. Below, are some of our top picks, answered by Science's news staff. We'll be updating this page frequently, so be sure to check back for new questions and answers. You can
Lunar innards revealed. Sorting through 40-year-old records of moonquakes (red dots) has apparently revealed a liquid-iron core (yellow) and a solid-iron inner core (orange). Apollo astronauts may be garnering another prize from their exploits of more than 3 decades ago. They left seismometers across the face of the moon to probe its interior, but no one had been able to paint a clear picture from
Who Wins If Fewer Foreign Grad Students Come to U.S.? What will happen to U.S. universities if the flood of foreign graduate students becomes a trickle? And if they stopped coming, would it mean that other nations can now match the quality of U.S. institutions, which provides the basis for U.S. preeminence in science? The new director of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Subra Suresh, took a
Fingers off. Grain-filled sacks can mold around objects of almost any shape, where conventional robotic hands could slip. It turns out that opposable thumbs aren't critical for getting a good grip. Neither are fingers. Scientists have created a robotic arm that can do everything from serve drinks to draw pictures even though it has no digits. Fingers and thumbs work perfectly well for humans, says
Was it the heavyweight reports produced by the likes of the Royal Society and the Research Councils UK that fund much of British science? Was it the roughly 2000 researchers who noisily demonstrated outside the Treasury earlier this month? We may never know, but someone convinced the U.K.'s Business Secretary Vince Cable, who is in charge of government research spending, that science is worth prot
Selection of a DNA aptamer for homocysteine using systematic evolution of ligands by exponential enrichment by Maureen McKeague McKeague's Ph.D. dance, based on her research at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, is about a technique called Systematic Evolution of Ligands by Exponential Enrichment (SELEX). The target is a small molecule called homocysteine. SELEX uses natural selection to find
Hey, guys, want to impress ladies on the dance floor? Keep your head and torso moving, and don't flail your arms and legs. This useful advice comes courtesy of a new study, which finds that women are more attracted to computer avatars that rock these moves. Humans aren't the only animals that move in special ways to lure females. Male fiddler crabs wave an outsized claw to show off, and male hummi
Deformed. As a rubber band rolls faster and faster, the top half collapses and the loop turns into a peanut shape. Modern physics can get complicated. Sure, researchers know exactly what forces act on a ball rolling down an incline—an experiment that helped Galileo develop universal laws for movement and acceleration. But what happens when a deformable shape like a rubber band rolls around? A new
The Royal Society and the British Academy today strongly warned the British government that looming cuts to science funding could be "irreversibly catastrophic for the future of U.K. science and economic growth" if they go too far. The new U.K. government, which has promised by October to provide details of cuts of up to 25% in public funding, recently asked several science bodies for advice. On 8
This item requires the Flash plug-in (version 8 or higher). JavaScript must also be enabled in your browser. Please download the latest version of the free Flash plug-in. Finally, an accessory any Transformer would love. Researchers have created flat sheets of composite material that can fold themselves into toy boats, tents, and even paper airplanes. Based on the ancient art of origami, the sheet
Lung "skeleton." The underlying air passages (left) and blood vessels (right) remain after lungs are decellularized. For the first time, an animal has drawn a breath with lungs cultivated in the lab. Although preliminary, the results might eventually lead to replacement lungs for patients. People whose lungs are failing because of diseases such as emphysema or cystic fibrosis face a grim outlook.
U.K. to Sequence 10,000 Genomes in 3 Years to Shed Light on Diseases Today at the Science Museum in London, as part of a ceremony for the 10th anniversary of the completion of the first draft of the human genome, the Wellcome Trust announced the UK10K project to sequence the genomes of 10,000 people in the United Kingdom over the next 3 years. According to Richard Durbin, the leader of the UK10K p
Science and Nature have ended their historic battle for the world’s best basic science articles, agreeing to cease their respective publications and co-launch an open-access, online-only journal with an innovative democratic peer-review system, sources at both journals revealed this morning. "The difficult economics of scientific publishing today did play a role in this decision, but we also saw
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