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The New War on Science: 4 Reasons Why People Reject Good Data

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August 5, 2022 – Thanks to science, we know that the world is not flat, that the Earth revolves around the Sun (not the other way around), and that microbes cause infectious diseases. So why is scientific skepticism a global phenomenon—and it seems to be getting worse, if the crazy stuff you saw your friend posting on social media this morning is any indication? In a recently published paper, social psychology researchers tried to answer exactly these questions. What makes some people reject science? And how can trust in science be restored? Dr Aviva Philipp-Muller, one of the paper’s co-authors,Read News

Science 101

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Science is complicated and sometimes difficult for non-scientists to understand. But science is important for solving problems and making life better for everyone on the planet. Argonne’s Science 101 series is aimed at helping break down the complex concepts behind our work. Our videos and infographics will help you understand the language and concepts important to Argonne science and technology, from quantum science to clean energy batteries.

The scientific part of CHIPS and the Science Act

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President Joe Biden virtually attends a meeting on the creation of useful incentives for semiconductor manufacturing (CHIPS) for America Act, at the South Court Auditorium of the White House on July 25, 2022 in Washington, DC. The meeting was held to allow President Biden to hear from CEOs and union leaders about how funding for computer chip manufacturing would impact them. Photo by Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images The $ 280 billion CHIPS and Science Act sets aside a lot of money, you guessed it, those high-demand semiconductor chips. But a good part of that fund is devoted to theRead News

Billions more for American science: How a major spending plan will boost research

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Speaker of the US House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, signs the Chips and Science Act at a ceremony last week. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty The US National Science Foundation and other research firms could see major infusions of cash, thanks to the $280 billion CHIPS and Science Act of 2022, passed by Congress last week. Two years in the making, this groundbreaking legislation promises one of the largest funding increases in years for science. But it remains unclear whether Congress will eventually deliver the money pledged. The legislation aims to boost domestic production of semiconductors – or chips – that areRead News

How would Socrates teach science?

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“The soul, because it is immortal and has been born many times and has seen everything … it has learned everything that is … so that when a man calls up a single piece of knowledge – he has learned it, in ordinary language – he is not the more reason why he should not learn all the rest… for seeking and learning are really nothing else than remembering.” — “Meno,” Collected Dialogues of Plato, Bollingen Series The Socratic method is personal and usually involves small group discussion. Because it is interactive, it takes time: time spent listening to ideasRead News

Science College Events

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We respectfully acknowledge that the University of Arizona is located on the lands and territories of indigenous peoples. Today, Arizona is home to 22 federally recognized tribes, with Tucson home to the O’odham and Yaqui. Committed to diversity and inclusion, the University strives to build sustainable relationships with sovereign Indigenous Nations and Indigenous communities through educational offerings, partnerships and community service. Security and privacy of university information © 2022 Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona.

Magnolia species lost to science for 97 years rediscovered in Haiti

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A conservation team has rediscovered a native magnolia in a forest in Haiti for the first time since it was lost to science in 1925. Boasting pure white flowers and uniquely shaped leaves, the Northern Haiti magnolia (Magnolia emarginata) was originally found in the Morne Colombo forest, which has since been destroyed by deforestation. It was considered endangered and on the International Union for Conservation of Nature’s Red List of Threatened Species, and its discovery sparked new hope for the rewilding potential of Haiti’s forests. Due to the rapid decline of forest area – only 1% of the country’s originalRead News

Northeastern waives the postdoctoral requirement for science employees

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Northeastern University’s College of Science is forgoing postdoctoral fellowship experience for many faculty applicants through a new hiring model called Invest. Invest’s premise is that too many strong scientists leave academia after their PhDs because they will spend years in unstable, low-paying post-doc jobs before landing a faculty position. So by eliminating the postdoc requirement (real or perceived), Northeastern’s Invest program aims to attract a larger and more promising pool of faculty candidates. Other program features: Scientists from all disciplines are invited to apply, and a university (not departmental) committee reviews applications for possible interdisciplinary fellowships and joint appointments betweenRead News

Signed Beam ‘Tops Out’ Future Home of Data Science

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The School of Data Science building faces Emmet Street, with an amphitheater and retention pond between the facade and the street. The four-story, 61,000-square-foot facility will include four “custom classrooms” with technology to enhance the learning process and faculty offices, as well as meeting and research areas. The plans call for a single building footprint with a double-height interior space for hosting lectures and other events, as well as a glass facade. In line with the university’s sustainability goals for 2030, a green roof is planned to reduce heat gain from a south-facing roof, and offices will have windows thatRead News

Foundation of Material Science

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Engineers Week – an event first celebrated in 1951 by the National Society of Professional Engineers – ran from February 20-26, 2022. The theme for this year’s event was “Reimagining the Possible”, which highlights how engineers make a difference in the world. The goal was to engage children in engineering and STEM topics and activities. To mark the occasion, this article discusses the significant impact of materials science engineers and describes some of the most recent advances in the field. Materials Science Underlies Pretty Much Everything The universe does not simply divide into clearly defined silos. Thus, the field ofRead News

Small amoebas move faster with cargo than without

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Microbes enlisted to carry tiny loads travel faster with attached cargo than on their own. This is the surprising finding of a study on the carrying capacity of single-celled amoebae. The microbes serve as prototype microscopic “trucks” to deliver drugs to precisely target disease inside the human body or move equipment for tiny construction projects (SN: 09/30/20). The researchers tested the charging capacity of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum with styrene beads ranging in size from 10 microns, about as big as a red blood cell, up to 90 microns. The balls spontaneously stuck to the backs of the microbes, whichRead News

Dinosaur World’s Fair Returns to Kentucky Science Center, Name Contest

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Lottie (or LOT – Louisville Triceratops). | Photo provided. If you’ve been around Louisville for a while, you may know the 26-foot, 4,800-pound-long triceratops roaming the grounds of the Kentucky Science Center. The triceratops, affectionately named Lottie (or LOT – Louisville’s Own Triceratops) is a fiberglass model from the 1964 New York World’s Fair, created by Sinclair Oil. The installation originally appeared in Louisville around 1979, but was moved to the Science Center warehouse for repairs in 2008. Now, newly refurbished, the Triceratops will be installed on top of the parking lift that connects to the pedestrian walkway on WestRead News

The legacy of science, the engineering genius lives on

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NORTH DAKOTA – One of the first things Morgen Burke did as manager of the UND Geographic Information Systems/Remote Sensing Laboratory was ask if he could hang a Canadian flag in his new office. “Yes, absolutely,” replied Dean Brad Rundquist from the Faculty of Arts & Sciences. “It’s your office. You can do whatever you want. Of course, I was thinking of something small, and he came up with this flag – a giant maple leaf – that almost covered the entire wall in front of his desk. “From then on, we always joked about his office being Canadian territory.Read News

Xinhua Commentary: The politically motivated report betrays scientific principles

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The photo taken on June 22, 2022 shows the White House in Washington, DC, United States. (Xinhua / Liu Jie) – Since the outbreak of the pandemic, the US government, angered by the seething popular grievances over its failed response, has maneuvered to play the victim, and to vilify China as a scapegoat, claiming that the COVID virus -19 originated from a Wuhan laboratory. – While the United States is the “prime suspect” of the early spread of the virus, it has also been the de facto “super diffuser” of the global pandemic. BEIJING, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) – A COVID-19Read News

“Sustainable Sensory Science” method provides panelists with safe and realistic conditions

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Han-Seok Seo, Associate Professor of Sensory Science, prepares and serves taste-testing samples to the participant on the way up. The director of the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station’s Sensory Science Center presented the new sensory testing method at the Institute of Food Technologists’ FIRST (Food Advanced by Research, Science and Technology) annual meeting in Chicago on July 12. When the COVID-19 pandemic halted necessary sensory testing, Han-Seok Seo, director of the Sensory Science Center, developed an alternative to indoor sensory testing using the walk-in booth method. Seo is an Associate Professor of Sensory and Consumer Science at the Experiment Station, UniversityRead News

Life science courses in Oxford and Cambridge are experiencing a shortage of laboratory space

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Make informed decisions with the FT Keep up to date with important business, financial and political developments around the world. Choose your subscription Trial Stay informed and identify emerging risks and opportunities with independent, expert global reports Digital comments and analytics you can trust. Print Experience full digital access and find out why over 1 million readers subscribe to the FT Team or Enterprise Be informed with essential news and opinions Premium Digital access, plus: Or, if you are already a subscriber Are you a student or a professor? FT paper edition delivered Monday to Saturday along with ePaper accessRead News

Fast science can be good science, even more so when lives are at stake

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For so long, drug development has been moving at the same slow and increasing pace that some fear that speeding it up would mean taking shortcuts and sacrificing patient safety or the accuracy of the data collected. Then came the Covid-19 pandemic. He upped the stakes and challenged global health and research communities to transform the traditional timeframe of development. The results saved lives, exceeded expectations and, importantly, provided guidance that can be applied not only to future pandemics, but also to the devastating diseases that affect people on a daily basis. Life-threatening and debilitating diseases like cancer and neurodegenerativeRead News

Coronapod: the open science plan to unseat big Pharma and tackle vaccine inequity

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Noah Baker and Amy Maxmen discuss a radical plan for vaccine equity Your browser does not support the audio element. Inequity has been a central feature of the COVID19 pandemic. From health outcomes to access to vaccines, COVID has pushed long-standing disparities out of the shadows and into the public eye, and many of these problems are global. In this episode of Coronapod we delve into a radical new collaboration of 15 countries – led by the United Nations and modeled on open science. The project, called mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub, aims to create independent vaccine hubs that couldRead News

Science, Nature and Fun at the Ecology Camp of the Estuary Center

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OLD LYME — With tweezers, toothpicks, tweezers, chopsticks, sieves and tongue depressors, a group of campers called Eleduls worked Wednesday morning, testing which tool was most effective at picking up grains of rice the size of ants, small sponges representing fish, and leaves from plants floating in water Insects, fish and plants are three types of food that birds eat and the tools represented bird beaks in different shapes and sizes. Which beak has the advantage over others for each food source? What types of beaks belong to birds that eat each type of food? These were questions the Nesters,Read News

Footprints bring science closer to understanding southern African dinosaurs

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Dinosaurs have captured people’s imaginations more than any other ancient creature. These reptiles – some large, some small; some carnivores and other herbivores—rose and dominated the world’s landscape for more than 135 million years during a period known as the Mesozoic. Today, dinosaur fossils can be found in many parts of the world, embedded in rocks. This is a series of layers or rock units in chronological order. South Africa and Lesotho’s main Karoo Basin, for example, contain abundant dinosaur fossils in rocks that formed between 220 million and 183 million years ago during the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic period. TheseRead News

The weekend reads: 50 years after Tuskegee; ‘Is psychology self-correcting?’; ‘The peer review system is broken’

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Would you consider a donation to support Weekend Reads, and our daily work? Thanks in advance. The week in Retraction Watch featured: Our list of retracted or retracted COVID-19 papers is up to 253. There are over 35,000 retractions in our database – which feeds retraction alerts in EndNote, LibKey, Papers, and Zotero. And have you seen our ranking of authors with the most recent withdrawals – or our list of the 10 most cited papers? Here’s what’s going on elsewhere (some of these articles may be paid for, metered access, or require free registration to read): How is RetractionRead News

Here’s What Happens To Men Who Grow Beards, According To Science

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Maybe you’re like me. (Sorry, it’s not always easy. Well, sometimes it is. But I digress.) My point is that you might be a man who has basically been clean shaven his whole life. And maybe in the early stages of the pandemic, when you were isolated from most of the world anyway, you decided: Hell, let’s see what happens if I just stop shaving. Now that the world is back in the office (at least part-time), you’re trying to figure out what science says about the impressions your new look inspires. This happened to me around March 2020. ByRead News

The science behind inspiring our future

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PANAMA CITY, Fla. (WJHG/WECP) – Inspire a new generation of scientists. Florida State University Panama City introduced STEM Careers to Bay County students last week. STEM – which stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics – is a key focus for organizers at the university. The learning began on Monday when FSU PC hosted the Gulf Coast Camp of Nu… “Currently, we have a group on campus from the heart of the New Gulf Coast, and they are doing a STEM or STEAM type camp and we have added some of our STEM activities on the move that they canRead News

Breaking barriers through science and summer enrichment | UNC-Chapel Hill

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Carolina’s Morehead Planetarium and Science Center is extending its mission outside of its Chapel Hill facility this summer, bringing free science education and interactive STEM learning to children across North Carolina. GSK Science in the Summer – a partnership between Morehead and the healthcare company GlaxoSmithKline – offers science programs to elementary and middle school students in 11 counties across our state, including Alamance, Chatham, Durham, Franklin, Gates, Granville, Harnett, Johnston. , Orange, Vance and Wake. The program aims to spark a lifelong passion for science and inspire the next generation of scientists. “Morehead understands that there are barriers surroundingRead News

National Science Foundation Awards $20 Million To Universities For Advanced Data Science

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The National Science Foundation is investing $20 million to fund two multi-university institutes that will study advanced data science. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced $20 million in awards that will fund two multi-university teams of scientists and engineers who will conduct advanced research and training in the field of data science. The awards are Transdisciplinary Research in Principles of Data Science, or TRIPODS, Phase II grants, part of NSF’s Harnessing the Data Revolution Big Idea, which aims to accelerate discovery and innovation in data science algorithms, infrastructure and education, and workforce development. “The NSF TRIPODS Institutes will leadRead News

Reading List: Summer 2022 reads to stimulate your imagination

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Whether you’ve already finished your summer reading list, need inspiration to start one, or just want to add a few more books to the list, we’ve got several thought-provoking reads to consider. Here are a few books written by alumni of the Society for Science research competition and some recommendations from alumni to help you think of worthwhile additions throughout the summer. The Alignment Problem By Brian Christian, W.W. Norton & Company Factual | Maggie Graseck, STS 2022 alumna recommends “The Alignment Problem” by Brian Christian. “If you’re interested in artificial intelligence,” Maggie says this book “is a beginner-friendly explorationRead News