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Short, simple abstracts… aren’t cited as much as those with abstracts tending to maximize the high-verbosity quotient.

5 May 2015 grant 0

Laboratory Equipment has sad news for those of us who like straight, simple, elegant communication. It appears that scientific articles with abstracts packed with (unnecessary […]

Make science beautiful, researchers.

27 January 2015 grant 0

That, according to Nature, is the call issued by ecologist Stephen Heard, who wants researchers to keep their prose whimsical, funny, elegant and moving: In […]

Post-Script: The House just passed a bill barring scientists from advising the EPA on their own research.

20 November 2014 grant 0

This is from Salon, so not exactly science reportage here, but still: In what might be the most ridiculous aspect of the whole thing, the […]

“There are some real frustrations.” – Rocket scientist & Representative Rush Holt, on how science works in Congress.

20 November 2014 grant 0

Scientific American (via Nature) has more about Rush Holt’s eight-term Congressional career, and his new gig as CEO of the American Association for the Advancement […]

Fish researchers: “Our mirrors have become USELESS!”

10 October 2014 grant 0

Nature breaks the news to behaviorists – and this is more important than it might seem – that fish don’t really think mirrors are uninvited […]

Is a hard rain gonna fall… on scientists who’re slipping Dylan lyrics into their articles?

30 September 2014 grant 0

Washington Post reveals a secret scientific conspiracy to sneak as many Bob Dylan lyrics into publications as possible: While writing an article about intestinal gasses […]

Science Art: Water Features and Relief Features, from The preparation of illustrations for reports of the United States Geological survey, with brief descriptions of processes of reproduction, 1920

2 February 2014 grant 0

Click to embiggen An illustration illustrating illustration. This is how standardized maps are made. These are the standards. From The preparation of illustrations for reports […]

A positron and an electron walk into a bar…

6 January 2014 grant 0

The Guardian polls scientists to get their favorite (and corniest) science jokes: ? A weed scientist goes into a shop. He asks: “Hey, you got […]

India’s super-efficient Mars mission.

5 November 2013 grant 0

You might have seen on BBC and elsewhere that India launched a rocket to Mars. But have you seen the Quartz article on just how […]

Brain-tech DIYers! Grinders! Wire-heads! Uncle Sam wants YOU!

25 October 2013 grant 0

PhysOrg is sending out the call, as the Pentagon prepares to team up with brain-tech DIYers: […A]t the Maker Faire in New York, a new […]

Science Art: “How to Get Ahead in Science? Simple.” Jim Kelly, Houston Press, August 19, 1991.

3 September 2013 grant 0

Ever since the Buckyball story broke big last year, Rice University chemist Rick Smalley has been getting the phone calls. Rick, they say, this is […]

Meet the woman who found “the God particle”.

29 July 2013 grant 0

FT.com introduces us to the genteel, cultured Fabiola Gianotti – accomplished pianist, paleontologist’s daughter, coffee enthusiast, trained classicist… and the kind of person who hunts […]

Frederick Kaufman wants to open-source genetically modified crops. And maybe save the planet.

10 July 2013 grant 0

Slate has printed his controversial plan to live up to the promise of gene science without the industrial agriculture downside: The GMO story has become […]

A scientific mission to seek out new life and maybe some more duct tape. And baling wire.

26 June 2013 grant 0

Nature bemoans the fact that America’s technological prowess is on the wane – and it’s getting really obvious that our science fleet has seen better […]

SciAm’s 30 under 30 – and a pack of Nobel laureates they can mingle with.

6 June 2013 grant 0

Scientific American looks forward to an experimental party. We’re going to watch what happens when you put 30 young chemists in a room with some […]

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  • Squeaky, fact-based rock about fusion containment & rocket science.
  • Cosmos II, a.k.a. Boston University astronomer Alan Marscher.
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  • Giant Squid, doom metal about the sublime horrors of marine biology.
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