New U.N. Report Warns of a Warming World
Time
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March 2014
The “right to silence” in modern science
The world of research today is a highly competitive environment, similar to a liberist market. Researchers are under pressure for several aspects: the scarcity of economical funds, the rising number of scientists and the political pressure that national asset have put on them in a wild competition to emerge from anonymity. In this race, one of the best key of success for a researcher is networking. Since the beginning, scientists have been called to share, discuss and link their professional life. But now networking seems to have become the main task for a scientists, rather
German University tells Elsevier 'No deal'
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Dwarf planet discovery hints at a hidden Super Earth in solar system
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Animal experimentation: Italy’s fine mess
di Luca Carra
The legislative decree recently approved by the Council of Ministers for the implementation of EU 2010/63 directive is full of holes. The European dictate that it has been quite “mistreated” by the Italian Parliament Commissions – which he had the misfortune to encounter – in particular for two “memorable” cheap shots. Poor figure apart, many are asking now if the Italian law is ready to be thrown away yet, perhaps by appealing to the European Court of Justice. Whatever the ending, however, the new law makes the practice of animal experimentation in
Big Climate Danger Could Arrive as Soon as 2036
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Western Balkans get ready for Horizon 2020
Although the scientific performance of the Western Balkan countries (WBC) has improved in recent years, the lack of human resources, research funding and facilities, as well as a weak regulatory regime, are the main obstacles to an improvement of the situation. At the same time, in 2012 the Western Balkans have required 38 patents in the United States, compared to an average of 25 patents for universities and leading research institutes in the U.S.
The Big Bang gravitational echo
A real earthquake has been shacking the international scientific
community over the last few days.
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics of Boston announced last week,
with a very laconic press release, that a “major discovery” would have been presented during a press
conference on Monday, March 17th. No clues, however, were given on the nature of it. This media strategy, similar to that one used by CERN for announcing the
Back the renewables boom
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Giant in Global Water Management Wins Stockholm Water Prize
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Professor John Briscoe, a native of South Africa, is named the 2014 Stockholm Water Prize Laureate for his unparalleled contributions to global and local water management, inspired by an unwavering commitment to improving the lives of people on the ground.