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Science is the academic journal of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and is considered one of the world's most prestigious scientific journals. The journal is peer-reviewed, is published weekly, and has a print subscriber base of around 130,000. Because institutional subscriptions and online access serve a larger audience, its estimated readership is one million people.[1] The major focus of the journal is publishing important original scientific research and research reviews, but Science also publishes science-related news, opinions on science policy and other ... More » (Source: Wikipedia)
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When Ironies Make Perfect Sense
Traveling to California to find yourself is a '60s cliché. But for Gina Wingood, a professor at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia, the ...Posted by Tamika Thompson -
The Bigger Questions - Science Careers
Prather says that as one of two minority female faculty members in her department, she is sought out by students from underrepresented groups. She frequently participates in ...Posted by Tamika Thompson -
All in the Stroma: Cancer's Cosa Nostra
Cancer biologists have recently been coming to grips with the fact that tumor cells get a lot of help from the cells around them. Such collusion is not the source of disease: ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
Building a Better Tumor Killer
In a first for gene therapy, researchers have successfully treated cancer patients by genetically modifying their immune cells to attack tumors. Although the treatment worked ...Posted by David Fox -
Gay or Straight? The Nose Knows
When it comes to responding to pheromonelike chemical signals, lesbian women are much more like heterosexual men than their straight counterparts, according to a new study. ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
The Scientific Consensus on Climate Change
[Some] suggest that there might be substantive disagreement in the scientific community about the reality of anthropogenic climate change. This is not the case... Human ...Posted by Gary Stock
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Bad Decisions May Be Contagious
Like the flu, a person's emotional state can be contagious. Watch someone cry, and you'll likely feel sad; think about the elderly, and you'll tend to walk slower. Now a study ...Posted by Derek Hawkins -
Forest a Desert, Cool the World
For more than a century, a few scientists have occasionally daydreamed of transforming much of the Sahara desert green, with a lush inland sea or vast tracts of farmland. Now ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
India's Groundwater Disappearing at Alarming Rate
For the first time, satellite remote sensing of a 2000-kilometer swath running from eastern Pakistan across northern India and into Bangladesh has put a solid number on how ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Warming Spells Trouble for Fish
Global warming of the oceans will likely cause the extinction by 2050 of dozens of fish species that cannot migrate to colder waters, according to a study presented here ...Posted by Dwight Rousu -
Philip Morris Pulls the Plug on Controversial Research Program
Philip Morris has ended a controversial 8-year-old program that supported research at dozens of U.S. universities.... "It's a big shift," says K. Michael Cummings, head of the ...Posted by Beth Wellington -
How the Elderly Stay Positive
uch of the media exploits what psychologists call the "negativity bias": our tendency to pay more attention to the bad than to the good. This bias plays a role in a wide range ...Posted by Kaizar Campwala -
Could Bioterror Warnings Make You Sick?
In the wake of the 9/11 attacks and the 2001 anthrax letters, the U.S. public has been bombarded with information about the dangers of bioterrorism. But some say that the ...Posted by Marius Chitosca -
Science Podcast: Breakthroughs of the Year 2006
Science Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy overviews the big stories from 2006 covered in this year's Breakthrough issue.Posted by Leo Romero -
Underestimating the Benefits of Clean Air
When officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced last week that they were not tightening an air quality standard for soot, they cited scientific ...Posted by Fabrice Florin -
Life from Arrested Development?
Scientists have been working feverishly in recent years on methods to create lines of human embryonic stem (ES) cells that do not involve the destruction of human embryos. ...Posted by Fabrice Florin
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