European Science Foundation cuts support for Spanish researchers
Science: The European Science Foundation (ESF) has temporarily suspended support for Spanish researchers and events because two Spanish member organizations have not paid their membership fees. Until...
View ArticleFrancis Crick’s letter describing DNA discovery has sold for $5.3 million
BBC: In March 1953, Francis Crick wrote a letter to his 12-year-old son Michael describing the research that he had been working on with James Watson and the nature of their discovery. The seven-page...
View ArticleLarge earthquakes may trigger more earthquakes
New Scientist: Several recent large earthquakes have prompted scientists to ask whether a large quake can provoke another one elsewhere in the world. Tom Parsons of the US Geological Survey in Menlo...
View ArticleShould the Higgs boson be renamed?
BBC: Speculation surrounding this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has rekindled the debate concerning the naming of the Higgs boson. Because key contributions were made by at least six people—Robert...
View ArticleMartin Stratmann selected as new Max Planck Society president
Nature: The Max Planck Society, which runs 80 research institutes in Germany and 13 international partner institutes, has selected Martin Stratmann as its new president. The society, founded in 1948,...
View ArticleRussian Academy of Sciences gets reorganization reprieve
Science: Russian scientists’ complaints about President Vladimir Putin’s plan to merge the 289-year-old Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) with two smaller academies has resulted in a change in proposed...
View ArticleNew XPRIZE announced for ocean acidification detection
Ars Technica: The first XPRIZE was announced in 1996, when Peter Diamandis offered $10 million for the first privately built, manned suborbital reusable spacecraft. Since then, other prizes have been...
View ArticleNobel medicine prize awarded for cellular transporters
New York Times: Three US-based researchers have been chosen to receive this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work on the membrane-wrapped packages, known as vesicles, that...
View ArticleFrançois Englert and Peter Higgs share Physics Nobel
BBC: The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced today that the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to François Englert and Peter Higgs for—to quote the official prize citation—”the...
View ArticleChemistry Nobel honors multiscale computation
BBC: Three pioneers in the use of computers to figure out how big molecules behave are to be awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The winners, who collaborate with each other, are Martin...
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