That same day, I huddled on the phone with NPR Science Editor Anne Gudenkauf and Correspondent Daniel Zwerdling.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A video that shows a bright orb exploding in the sky sparked a UFO mystery in Sacramento, Calif.
You can see more on The Aspirin Debate - with Newsnight's science editor, Susan Watts, on BBC Two at 22:30 BST on Monday.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA's top expert on near-Earth objects says that new telescope systems are gradually getting a handle on potentially threatening asteroids.
Mr Morton, a former science editor of The Economist, introduces the scientists who argue about how the oceans vanished, and whether Mars once had living creatures.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Researcher Jared Diamond, the author of "The World Until Yesterday, " says Congress could learn a lesson from tribal societies: Listen to your elders.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: In its official response to a popular online petition, the White House says building a Death Star would be an out-of-this-galaxy waste of money.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Radar observations made during this week's close encounter with the asteroid Apophis have ruled out the risk of a collision with Earth in 2036, NASA says.
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Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: "The Blob" from the sun has come and gone, sparking nothing more than beautiful views of the northern lights and there could be more blobs to come.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: Russian researchers say they have brought up fresh samples of clear ice from Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a huge reservoir of freshwater more than 2 miles beneath the surface.
MSN: Undersea eruption gives clues to effects of climate change
One solution, proposed by Matt Ridley, a British commentator on the social consequences of genetic knowledge (and former science editor of The Economist), might be the creation of medical-treatment funds, similar to pension funds.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A fossil skeleton found in central Nevada's desert years ago has been identified as belonging to a 30-foot-long sea monster that ruled beneath the waves 244 million years ago.
MSN: Expedition finds 40 unknown gas seeps off US East Coast
But BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse says that if contact with Mir is lost for an extended period, it will start to spin, and it would become impossible for a rescue team to dock.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A laser attack on a lymph node provides the drama behind the top-rated video in Nikon's 2012 Small World in Motion competition, which celebrates time-lapse movies made on a microscopic scale.
However, BBC News Online science editor David Whitehouse said a report due next week on the loss of the spacecraft would be one of the most damning in Nasa's history, and was likely to catalogue many failures.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: NASA and the European Space Agency have signed an agreement calling for the Europeans to provide the service module for the Orion space capsule, the U.S. space agency's crew vehicle for exploration beyond Earth orbit.
MSN: Mars rover survives 'brain transplant' with flying colors
Even later when family obligations led me to my longest job, as a science editor at the MIT Press, my main enthusiasm, done after hours and gratis, was in using my skills to help out projects having a chance of bringing about social change.
Science editor Alan Boyle's blog: A simulation based on data from NASA's planet-hunting Kepler mission has determined that about one out of every six stars has an Earth-sized planet, which would translate to at least 17 billion such worlds in our Milky Way galaxy.
In the May 26 letter to Dr. Mikovits and her co-authors, also reviewed by the Journal, Science editor-in-chief Bruce Alberts and executive editor Monica Bradford cited concerns about the validity of the findings, saying other scientists hadn't been able to replicate them, among other reasons.
The Daily Mail science editor, Michael Hanlon, has already boldly claimed that "what has happened in Japan should in fact be seen as a massive endorsement of nuclear power", given the success of most Japanese plants at withstanding a disaster they were never designed for, but others will use exactly the same information to reach the directly opposite conclusion.
BBC: Japan nuclear threat: The tsunami is the bigger tragedy
Both Dr Andrew Sugden, international managing editor of Science, and Philip Campbell, editor-in-chief of Nature, were present at the meeting and are members of the group.
BBC: NEWS | Science/Nature | Science moves on from dog clone
Joining us from our headquarters in Washington, DC, is NPR science correspondent and editor Brenda Wilson.
In the Feb. 17 issue of Science Magazine, editor-in-chief Dr. Donald Kennedy wrote an editorial critical of the White House.
The editor of Science, Donald Kennedy, pragmatically defends his decision to cut a deal in order to secure disclosure.
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He is a consulting professor of Computer Science at Stanford University and editor-in-chief of the Journal of the Association of Computing Machinery.
Gorski, an associate professor of surgery at the Wayne State University School of Medicine, is the managing editor of the influential blog Science-Based Medicine.
He worked at The Economist for seven years in various positions and served as an editor at the two premier science journals, Science and Nature.
Hartwell, Senior Editor at Tor Books, one of the leading science fiction and fantasy publishers, to get his take on the growth of eBooks.
The Dictionary of American Regional English project is part of the College of Letters and Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where Joan Houston Hall is chief editor.
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Named after Hugo Gernsback, the editor of groundbreaking sci-fi magazine Amazing Stories, the Hugos (originally the Science Fiction Achievement Awards) have been awarded annually for science fiction and fantasy writing since 1953.
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