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The quest for quality: Telethon as a model

di Francesco Aiello
Pubblicato il 14/08/2013
Scientific research institution
Research evaluation
Medicine
Scientific research policy

Telethon Scientific and Medical Committee assigned few days ago the new grants for 2013. Projects selection is extremely rigorous and articulate: Telethon, in fact, follows the same process of the US National Institute of Health, which only honours merit and is considered the best in the world. Scientific publications from Telethon Research, on average, obtain 60% more citations than the US average (based on Thomson Reuters citation-index calculations). In 22 years of activity, Telethon Foundation sponsored about

Too many researchers for China?

di Pietro Greco
Pubblicato il 12/08/2013
Science economy
Scientific research policy

“Chinese Universities are getting too successful. Tell them to stop. We need workers more than graduates. Workers are not enough, whilst academics cannot find a job”. Qiang Wang - Director of the Western Research Centre for Energy and Eco-Environmental Policy at the Xinjiang Ecology and Geography Institute (Chinese Science Academy of Urumqi) - recently published on Nature his “out of the blue” appeal: China needs workers more

Hubble finds source of Magellanic Stream

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di redazione
Submitted by redazione on 12 August, 2013 - 10:14

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have solved the 40-year-old mystery of the origin of the Magellanic Stream, a long ribbon of gas stretching nearly halfway around the Milky Way. New Hubble observations reveal that most of this stream was stripped from the Small Magellanic Cloud some two billion years ago, with a smaller portion originating more recently from its larger neighbour.

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