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Reproducibility: The risks of the replication drive
A new standard for excellence set up in Hefei
Challenging the mass. This, probably, will be the next big issue in science together with ethics and politics, as millions of scientists all over the world produce tons of scientific researches everyday. In this crowded environment, the question is how to find the excellence. One of the most recent attempt to create a sort of sanctuary in the seething scientific knowledge has been made in October this year by the
European Antibiotic Awareness Day
On 6th European Antibiotic Awareness Day Marc Sprenger, director of ECDC, warns against a new emerging "bad bug" called CRAb (carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii).
Beyond Open Access/ Understanding science’s closures
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The animal-right association "Animal Amnesty" announced a national demonstration in Milan on November 30th, against animal testing, instrumentally called "vivisection".
ERC Grants: 3 milion euros to Italy for studying neutrinos
Covered with a budget of 3 million euros, Holmes, the italian research project coordinated by the National Institute of Nuclear Physics (INFN ) and University of Milano - Bicocca, wins one of the 19 Advanced Grants awarded by the European Research Council (ERC).
Balzan prizes honour research on ‘spooky action at a distance’ and infectious bacteria
Change in attitudes towards vaccination after H1N1 pandemic
As recognized by many experts, the ongoing decline of public confidence in vaccines is one of the main challenges for public health management. A recent paper published on Eurosurveillance shows that unfavorable attitudes towards vaccination dramatically increased from 8.5% in 2000 to 38.2% in 2010 in France.