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Science in Society RSS FeedsThis Week in Science - Vaginal Gel Versus HIV | Antimalarial Drug Candidate | Icy Adsorption | Free Falling Vortices | Join the Club | From Simplicity to Complexity | Sea of Plastic | Skin Reaction | Cosmic Fullerenes | No Guide to the Future | Gee-Up, NEDD8 | Regulation of Energy Homeostasis | Here to Stay...Feed Source: www.sciencemag.org Editors' Choice - Planetary Science: Lunar Exposure | Cell Biology: Turn On and Stay Put | Microbiology: Monsters in the Mangrove | Chemistry: Easing in Fluorine... Random Samples - Dolphin Spray Yields DNA | Outnumbered | Pulse of the City | Chock-Full of Genes... [Editorial] China's Research Culture - Authors: Yigong Shi, Yi Rao... [News of the Week] Embryonic Stem Cells: Controversial Ruling Throws U.S. Research Into a Tailspin - A U.S. judge's surprise decision last week to block government funding of human embryonic stem cell research has left scientists across the country confused, upset, and angry.Authors: Jocelyn Kaiser, Gretchen Vogel... [News of the Week] Climate Change: Panel Faults IPCC Leadership But Praises Its Conclusions - A new independent review of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change says the increased public scrutiny IPCC is facing and the growing importance of its work mean that it must do better than it's been doing.Author: Eli Kintisch... [News of the Week] Antarctica: In Ground-Based Astronomy's Final Frontier, China Aims for New Heights - At a workshop last month, astronomers unveiled plans to build two major telescopes at Dome A on the East Antarctic icecap during the Chinese government's next 5-year plan, to start in 2011.Author: Richard Stone... [News of the Week] ScienceNOW.org: From Science's Online Daily News Site - ScienceNOW reported this week on the first feast, the world's smallest refrigerator, the backfiring of "hunting for conservation," and a pea-sized frog, among other stories.... [News of the Week] Energy Innovation: Novel Grant Promises Greener Buildings, Regional Growth - Last week, a consortium led by Pennsylvania State University won a federal competition for $129 million over 5 years to spur efforts to develop technologies for making buildings more energy efficient.Author: Jeffrey Mervis... [News of the Week] Newsmaker Interview: Frank Gannon: Ireland's Departing Research Chief on Irish and European Science - Frank Gannon probably could have finished out his career comfortably as director of the national funding agency Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). But the biologist will resign his position at the end of the year and head off to Australia to become director of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research.Author: John Travis... [News of the Week] ScienceInsider: From the Science Policy Blog - ScienceInsider reported this week that the editor of the journal Cognition says he believes that fabrication is the most plausible explanation for data in a 2002 paper by Harvard University's Marc Hauser involving cotton-top tamarins, among other stories.... [News Focus] Mammoth-Killer Impact Flunks Out - After a new study failed to find nanodiamonds, impact experts are flatly rejecting outsiders' claims that an impact 12,900 years ago devastated the megafauna.Author: Richard A. Kerr... [News Focus] Profile: François Nosten: The Dour Frenchman on Malaria's Frontier - When he arrived at the dangerous Thai-Burmese border in 1984, François Nosten barely knew what research was. Today, he's one of the world's top malaria scientists.Author: Martin Enserink... [News Focus] Astrophysics: An Unsettled Debate About the Chemistry of the Sun - Researchers thought they knew the sun very well. Now, they are squabbling over the abundance of different elements in it.Author: Yudhijit Bhattacharjee... [Letter] Give Beach Ecosystems Their Day in the Sun - Authors: Jenifer E. Dugan, Omar Defeo, Eduardo Jaramillo, Alan R. Jones, Mariano Lastra, Ronel Nel, Charles H. Peterson, Felicita Scapini, Thomas Schlacher, David S. Schoeman... [Letter] Methane from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf - Authors: Vasilii V. Petrenko, David M. Etheridge, Ray F. Weiss, Edward J. Brook, Hinrich Schaefer, Jeffrey P. Severinghaus, Andrew M. Smith, Dave Lowe, Quan Hua, Katja Riedel... [Letter] Methane from the East Siberian Arctic Shelf?Response - Authors: Natalia Shakhova, Igor Semiletov, Örjan Gustafsson... [Letter] Candidate Gene Approach's Missing Link - Author: Janardan P. Pandey... [Book Review] Social Psychology: Mood Swings - Casti applies his background in complexity studies to explore the role of psychology in shaping the mass behavior of humans.Author: Richard Taylor... [Book Review] Astronomy: Findings Brought to Ground - Through discussions of particular observatories around the globe, the contributors explore the practices, technologies, and contexts of 19th-century astronomy.Author: Gustav Holmberg... [Books et al.] Books Received - A listing of books received at Science during the week ended 27 August 2010.... [Education Forum] Science Education: Growing Roles for Science Education in Community Colleges - To help meet economic challenges, 2- and 4-year colleges must collaborate to improve student completion and transfer.Author: George R. Boggs... [Perspective] Microbiology: Is the Tide Turning for New Malaria Medicines? - A return to traditional screening methods has rapidly produced a candidate malaria drug.Author: Timothy N. C. Wells... [Perspective] Immunology: CAR'ing for the Skin - Epidermal T cell responses to injury and infection require stimulation by a protein that maintains cell adhesion and normal dermal integrity.Authors: Andrey S. Shaw, Yina Huang... [Perspective] Paleontology: Marine Biodiversity Dynamics over Deep Time - Analysis of a large fossil database puts a new curve on the history of marine life.Author: Charles R. Marshall... [Perspective] Chemistry: Just Add Water - A graphene overlayer is used to map the structure of water from ice to liquid, one atomic layer at a time.Author: Mikhail I. Katsnelson... [Perspective] Transcription: Targeting the Core of Transcription - An enzyme that senses metabolic stress phosphorylates a chromatin protein to control gene expression and adaptive responses.Author: D. Grahame Hardie... [Perspective] Astronomy: Fullerenes and Cosmic Carbon - Hydrogen-poor conditions in a planetary nebula enable the detection of carbon-cage molecules C60 and C70, confirming the existence of fullerenes in space.Authors: Pascale Ehrenfreund, Bernard H. Foing... [Review] Heavy Fermions and Quantum Phase Transitions - Authors: Qimiao Si, Frank Steglich... [Brevia] Chlorine Isotope Fractionation in the Stratosphere - Isotope fractionation in a common refrigerant may provide insights into the mechanism of stratospheric ozone depletion.Authors: J. C. Laube, J. Kaiser, W. T. Sturges, H. Bönisch, A. Engel... [Research Article] Effectiveness and Safety of Tenofovir Gel, an Antiretroviral Microbicide, for the Prevention of HIV Infection in Women - Tenofovir in a vaginal gel formulation shows significant protection against HIV infection in a randomized control trial.Authors: Quarraisha Abdool Karim, Salim S. Abdool Karim, Janet A. Frohlich, Anneke C. Grobler, Cheryl Baxter, Leila E. Mansoor, Ayesha B. M. Kharsany, Sengeziwe Sibeko, Koleka P. Mlisana, Zaheen Omar, Tanuja N. Gengiah, Silvia Maarschalk, Natasha Arulappan, Mukelisiwe Mlotshwa, Lynn Morris, Douglas Taylor, on behalf of the CAPRISA 004 Trial Group... [Research Article] Spiroindolones, a Potent Compound Class for the Treatment of Malaria - High-throughput screening has offered up an oral antimalarial drug and pointers to its mechanism of action.Authors: Matthias Rottmann, Case McNamara, Bryan K. S. Yeung, Marcus C. S. Lee, Bin Zou, Bruce Russell, Patrick Seitz, David M. Plouffe, Neekesh V. Dharia, Jocelyn Tan, Steven B. Cohen, Kathryn R. Spencer, Gonzalo E. González-Páez, Suresh B. Lakshminarayana, Anne Goh, Rossarin Suwanarusk, Timothy Jegla, Esther K. Schmitt, Hans-Peter Beck, Reto Brun, Francois Nosten, Laurent Renia, Veronique Dartois, Thomas H. Keller, David A. Fidock, Elizabeth A. Winzeler, Thierry T. Diagana... [Report] Detection of C60 and C70 in a Young Planetary Nebula - Hydrogen-poor conditions allow fullerenes to form in space.Authors: Jan Cami, Jeronimo Bernard-Salas, Els Peeters, Sarah Elizabeth Malek... [Report] Real-Time Dynamics of Single Vortex Lines and Vortex Dipoles in a Bose-Einstein Condensate - The temporal evolution of vortices in a superfluid is revealed by imaging an ultracold atomic cloud undergoing free fall.Authors: D. V. Freilich, D. M. Bianchi, A. M. Kaufman, T. K. Langin, D. S. Hall... [Report] Plastic Accumulation in the North Atlantic Subtropical Gyre - The amount of plastic debris in the surface waters of the western North Atlantic Ocean has plateaued over the past 22 years.Authors: Kara Lavender Law, Skye Morét-Ferguson, Nikolai A. Maximenko, Giora Proskurowski, Emily E. Peacock, Jan Hafner, Christopher M. Reddy... [Report] Graphene Visualizes the First Water Adlayers on Mica at Ambient Conditions - Water trapped between mica and graphene layers at ambient conditions was imaged with atomic force microscopy.Authors: Ke Xu, Peigen Cao, James R. Heath... [Report] The Shifting Balance of Diversity Among Major Marine Animal Groups - Future assemblies of animals following mass extinction cannot be predicted by analyses of Phanerozoic fossils.Author: J. Alroy... [Report] The Spread of Behavior in an Online Social Network Experiment - An online experiment shows how network structure affects the spread of health behavior.Author: Damon Centola... [Report] Human-Restricted Bacterial Pathogens Block Shedding of Epithelial Cells by Stimulating Integrin Activation - Bacterial colonization of the mucosa is facilitated if the microbes engage a human receptor that counteracts epithelial exfoliation.Authors: Petra Muenzner, Verena Bachmann, Wolfgang Zimmermann, Jochen Hentschel, Christof R. Hauck... [Report] Signaling Kinase AMPK Activates Stress-Promoted Transcription via Histone H2B Phosphorylation - The energy sensor AMPK facilitates gene transcription by localizing to chromatin and phosphorylating histone H2B.Authors: David Bungard, Benjamin J. Fuerth, Ping-Yao Zeng, Brandon Faubert, Nancy L. Maas, Benoit Viollet, David Carling, Craig B. Thompson, Russell G. Jones, Shelley L. Berger... [Report] The Junctional Adhesion Molecule JAML Is a Costimulatory Receptor for Epithelial ?? T Cell Activation - A costimulatory receptor for immune cells in the skin is identified.Authors: Deborah A. Witherden, Petra Verdino, Stephanie E. Rieder, Olivia Garijo, Robyn E. Mills, Luc Teyton, Wolfgang H. Fischer, Ian A. Wilson, Wendy L. Havran... [Report] The Molecular Interaction of CAR and JAML Recruits the Central Cell Signal Transducer PI3K - Ligand engagement and initiation of signaling has been imaged for a costimulatory receptor for immune cells in the skin.Authors: Petra Verdino, Deborah A. Witherden, Wendy L. Havran, Ian A. Wilson... [Report] Glutamine Deamidation and Dysfunction of Ubiquitin/NEDD8 Induced by a Bacterial Effector Family - Pathogenic bacterial proteins interfere with eukaryotic ubiquitination pathways to induce cytopathic effects.Authors: Jixin Cui, Qing Yao, Shan Li, Xiaojun Ding, Qiuhe Lu, Haibin Mao, Liping Liu, Ning Zheng, She Chen, Feng Shao... New Products - A weekly roundup of information on newly offered instrumentation, apparatus, and laboratory materials of potential interest to researchers.... [Podcast] Science Podcast - The show includes how social network structure affects the spread of behavior, challenging the mammoth-killer impact hypothesis, your letters to Science, and more.... 8x8 Virtual Office Pro Review - 8x8 sent me a trial account of 8x8 Virtual Office Pro to review. What is Virtual Office Pro? Think of it as your web-based communications portal handling phone calls (auto-attendant, VoIP), internet fax, hosted conferencing and hosted application sharing. The only missing piece from the equation is email, however it does support direct integration with Exchange Server by leveraging Outlook Anywhere to pull in your Outlook Contacts. You can also... Skype for SIP is Now Skype Connect - Today, Skype announced that Skype for SIP is changing its name to Skype Connect. Guess the techie name "SIP" isn't exactly business-friendly, hence the name change. Today, they are also announcing that hat Skype Connect (formerly Skype for SIP) is officially out of beta.
By using Skype Connect with an existing PBX, your business can do the following:
Make outbound calls from desktop phones to landlines and mobiles worldwide billed at Skype'... Netflix App Arrives for iPhone and iPod Touch! - Netflix for the iPhone and iPod Touch has arrived! You can ditch the Netflix for iPhone & iPod Touch hack I wrote about. You can be legit. It is here my friends! Download it now here. Then sign-in, pick a video, and start watching over Wi-Fi or 3G. One cool feature is Resume. It's a button at the top of the screen that lets you go back to the last video you were watching.Here's the release of the news:Netflix App Now Available f... Trend Micro and Symantec Exhibiting at MSPWorld / ITEXPO - Both Trend Micro and Symantec have announced they are exhibiting at MSPWorld co-located with TMC's ITEXPO in Los Angeles. I'm a huge fan of both Symantec and Trend Micro. They both make very good antivirus, anti-Spam and Internet security software.... Google Testing VoIP Calling in Gmail - Gmail is already many user's centralized communications portal - an always-open browser window. It offers access to our email, chat, contacts, calendar, documents, and soon it might add browser-based VoIP. According to CNET, Google has started testing Gmail-integrated VoIP, which would enable users to make phone calls directly from your browser. Google already offers several voice offerings, including Google Voice, Google Talk, and the ... Interactive Intelligence Interaction SIP Station Review - Interactive Intelligence sent me their new Interaction SIP Station to check out and review. It's an interesting little product that aims to replace big bulky desktop SIP phones with a simple little SIP-based Power over Ethernet (PoE) box that has a headset jack for connecting any standard headset. The obvious market is call centers where agents often take calls using a headset and a softphone application and have no need for a desktop phone wit... Microsoft to Exhibit at MSPWorld - Microsoft just announced they are exhibiting at MSPWorld co-located with TMC's ITEXPO in Los Angeles. ITEXPO is already beating estimates and MSPWorld is doing quite nicely as well.So why should you attend MSPWorld?Here's an overview:MSPWorld Conference and Expo is a high level multi day networking and educational event, formulated to address the issues facing the service provider community as a whole, in the US market and abr... Philadelphia Demands $300 Business License From Bloggers - Philadelphia, the home of the Liberty Bell wants bloggers to pay up or shut up. The crack in the Liberty Bell just grew wider. That's right, forget your free speech rights, because according to Philadelphia it isn't free. It'll cost you $300 if you run a blog with any ads that creates even 1 cent of income. According to a Philadelphia newspaper: For the past three years, Marilyn Bess has operated MS Philly Organic, a small, low-traffic blog that... Teevox + iPhone = Remote Control for Netflix & Hulu - Teevox, founded by former MIT students is an iPhone app that allows you to remotely control watching Hulu and Netflix on your computer. According to Techcrunch, Hulu and Netflix are just the beginning. I use Orb and PlayOn for remote media access, which are similar - especially PlayOn which supports Hulu and Netflix. Speaking of PlayOn, I just noticed last night that when I went to http://m.mobile.tv within Safari on my iPhone it forced me to ad... Gmail Voice and Video Chat Now on Linux - Google has finally announced the long-awaited voice and video chat for Linux. Head on over to gmail.com/videochat to download the plug-in and start chatting with your buds. No install via RPM is available yet. Though RPM installs are for wusses. Real Linux gurus compile from source, baby!
Tags: chat, ... Kung Fu Hustle meets 2010 Space Odyssey Video - Make a Custom iPhone Case - In a cool video titled 2010: A "Case" Odyssey, you can see how Case-mate lets you customize your iPhone. Available now for iPhone 3GS and soon for iPhone 4, www.imakemycase.com lets you bring your cellular accessory dreams to life.
Tags: case, case-mate, iphon... Scitable - Social Network Changes Face of Scientific Learning - Scitable is an offshoot of Nature Publishing Group, which is the publisher of Nature, Scientific American and about 70 other magazines. I interviewed Vikram Savkar, Scitable's SVP of publishing to learn more about Scitable and how this online social network is changing the face of learning in the scientific community. Vikram, "We're one of the leading publishers in science research in the world. What we've never done until recently is publish ... Pre-Registration for ITEXPO Trending 70 Percent Ahead of 2009 - Some great news from TMC that I thought I'd share. Internet Telephony Conference and Expo (ITEXPO) pre-registration is trending ahead of last year by 70%! I'm obviously going to be there to check out and write about the latest happenings in VoIP, 4G, smart grid, cloud communications, and more. I get some of my best news scoops there and obviously get to do some social networking with some leading industry insiders. Check out TMC's news:TMC Announ... Skype mobile now available on Verizon Wireless BREW phones - Skype is now available on Verizon Wireless multimedia phones on the BREW platform. What's interesting about this partnership is that it is NOT VoIP - the call is actually routed over Verizon Wireless's network. It requires a cellular connection and won't work over WiFi. Additionally, you actually use your Verizon minutes when you make a Skype to mobile or landline number. I suppose that's better than having to pay to charge up your SkypeOut minut... Alleged Bomber of Christian Boy in Israel to Stand Trial - ISTANBUL, September 3 (Compass Direct News) ? An Israeli man accused of planting a homemade bomb that almost killed the son of a Messianic Jewish pastor in Ariel, Israel has been declared competent to stand trial.
Jack Teitel, 37, who in November was indicted on two charges of pre-meditated murder, three charges of attempted murder and numerous weapons charges, is expected to enter a plea on Sunday (Sept. 5).... Federal judge suspends state judgment against lawyer in dispute with Scientology - U.S. District Court Judge Steven Merryday warned Scientology's attorney that he wouldn't allow what he called "shenanigans" to interfere any further with the progress of a wrongful death case against the church now pending in his court.
In the process, one of the cult's most vocal critics may be spared the hate group's designs on him.... Oregon City couple plead not guilty in faith-healing death of their infant son - Two members of a church that preaches faith-healing pleaded not guilty Monday to manslaughter charges for failing to provide medical care to their infant son, who died shortly after his premature birth. Dale and Shannon Hickman are the third couple identified as members of the Followers of Christ Church to face criminal charges in the death of a child during the past two years.... Utah Supreme Court: FLDS challenge too late - The Utah Supreme Court on Friday said a polygamous sect waited too long to object to a state takeover of its historic property trust, rejecting its bid to undo changes made to the United Effort Plan Trust. The court sided with the Utah Attorney General?s Office, which argued that members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ignored numerous opportunities to participate in the changes to and management of the trust.... Religious Sect, Government Settle Lawsuit regarding hallucinogenic tea - A Santa Fe congregation that uses a hallucinogenic brew of South American plants as a sacrament thought its battle with the government was over in early 2006.
It had won a unanimous ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court that year that said federal drug regulators hadn't met their burden under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act in trying to restrict importation and use of the tea.
But it wasn't until last week that the case actually ended.... Children abused, killed as witches in Nigeria - Pastors in southeast Nigeria claim illness and poverty are caused by witches who bring terrible misfortune to those around them. And those denounced as witches must be cleansed through deliverance or cast out.
As daylight breaks, and we travel out to the rural villages it becomes apparent the most vulnerable to this stigmatization of witchcraft are children.... Court: California preacher Frederick Price can sue ABC for defamation - A federal appeals court on Tuesday reinstated televangelist Frederick Price's defamation lawsuit claiming ABC's "20/20" news program used a fictionalized sermon portraying himself as a wealthy braggart out of context. The clip ABC aired of the prosperity preacher it aired was actually a sermon on greed in which the preacher slips into the role of a fictional character who is wealthy but unhappy.... Survey: Public Remains Conflicted Over Islam - The American public continues to express conflicted views of Islam. Favorable opinions of Islam have declined since 2005, but there has been virtually no change over the past year in the proportion of Americans saying that Islam is more likely than other religions to encourage violence.... Girls treated like ?poison snakes? in B.C. polygamous community, ex-member says - Girls in the polygamous community of Bountiful ?were to be treated like poison snakes? and taught that their role was to ?have lots of children and obey the men,? says an affidavit filed in the B.C. Supreme Court in connection to a landmark polygamy case.
?The boys were taught not to interact with the girls and that the girls were to be treated like ?poison snakes,? ? says the affidavit, filed earlier this month by Truman Oler, 28, who grew up ... Far from Ground Zero, other plans for mosques run into vehement opposition - A Time magazine poll released Thursday found that 43 percent of Americans hold unfavorable views of Muslims, far outpacing the numbers for Mormons (29 percent), Catholics (17 percent), Jews (13 percent) and Protestants (13 percent). Twenty-five percent of those polled said most Muslims in the United States are not patriotic Americans.
Although the overall level of anti-Muslim sentiment hasn't shifted much since the uproar over the mosque near G... Copyright © 2010, Typojoe.com. All Rights Reserved. |