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: Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS Walk Away My Interview on On the Media” Ben Goldacre on more bad data : this time from drug companies This morning I was accused of writing corporate sponsored blogs whoring themselves out to all and sundry . 8221 Actually , I was arguing that science writers have a duty to call out weak science and press manipulation rather than cave into it . That applies to any kind of research . I happened to be talking about research on genetically modified foods and their health risks . But it applies just as well to pharmaceutical corporations that deep-six drug trials that don’t
Image Caption: Curiosity at work on Mars inside Gale Crater. Panoramic mosaic showing Curiosity in action with her wheel tracks and the surrounding terrain snapped from the location the rover drove to on Sol 29 (Sept 4). The time lapse imagery highlights post drive wheel tracks at left, movement of the robotic arm from the [...]
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Why is everyone so excited about these dusty Mars rocks? This week’s big news was the announcement of evidence for flowing water on Mars, based on images of what appear to be smooth river rock-type pebbles found by Curiosity. Of course that’s a big statement to make, and for good reason — identifying water, whether [...]
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NASA’s Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named “Hottah” after Hottah Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech The Curiosity rover has come across a place in Gale Crater where ankle-to-hip-deep water once vigorously flowed: [...]
Subscribe Today Renew Give a Gift Archives Customer Service Facebook Twitter Newsletter SEARCH Health Medicine Mind Brain Technology Space Human Origins Living World Environment Physics Math Video Photos Podcast RSS When Food Webs Flip : My New Story in Scientific American Walk Away My Interview on On the Media” A Paddleboat for Lakes of Gasoline Saturn’s moon Titan is speckled with lakes of liquid hydrocarbons that might just the sort of places you’d want to visit in order to look for weird forms of life A Spanish engineering firm has designed a probe that could explore the lakes of Titan : a paddleboat All it needs now is a seat , and I’ll be ready to take a spin on it Source : Europlanet Share September 27th , 2012 10:15 AM by Carl Zimmer in Life Elsewhere 0 comments RSS feed Trackback
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The Mars Curiosity Rover is currently undergoing final tests on its robotic arm in preparation for “touching” its first Martian rock. The primary mission for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is to discover whether life has ever existed on the Red Planet. If signs of past life are found, the implications are going to be huge. The universe is impossibly vast, and ...
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Citizen scientists can test local bodies of water, soil and household products for contaminants with a new breed of spectrometers. Spectrometers are widely used by astronomers and chemists to identify unknown materials. By making the tool more accessible, an open-research community called Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science (PLOTS) is hoping to build a “Wikipedia-style library” of environmental data. Public ...