The previous UNESCO science reports were published in 1993, 1996, 1998 and 2005.
Instead of fighting off tuberculosis, people with a severe infection produce a protein which attacks viruses, the journal Science reports.
Science Insider reports that Pope Benedict XVI has selected a longtime member of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences to be its new head.
The web's links now encompass computer-science technical reports, folk-song lyrics, economic statistics from America's Department of Commerce, tarot cards, satellite weather photographs, film reviews, legal databases, the Bible, library catalogues, literary magazines and more.
The algae, known as Symbiodinium, is part of a group of creatures known as dinoflagellates, which are responsible for processing one-third of all CO2 in the world's oceans, reports Science Daily.
The science of their Assessment Reports has been thoroughly rebutted by the hundreds of pages of science in Climate Change Reconsidered, and Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report, both written by dozens of scientists with the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change, and published by the Heartland Institute, the international headquarters of the skeptics of the theory of anthropogenic catastrophic global warming.
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The result, which Dr Jensen reports in Science, is that chimps are simply rational maximisers Pan economicus, if you like.
Dr Bastian reports in Psychological Science that those who wrote about immoral behaviour exposed themselves to the ice for an average of 86.7 seconds whereas those who had written about everyday experiences exposed themselves for an average of only 64.4.
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It should be noted that the Summary was published before the WG1 report and the editors of the Summary , incredibly , asked the authors of the Science report to make their reports conform to the Summary rather than the other way around.
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Science fiction lost a giant with reports that legendary author Ray Bradbury passed away in Los Angeles at the age of 91.
To this end, many pharmas are using in-house venture groups to support early-stage companies, and as Atlas VC Bruce Booth reports, life-science financing these days (especially early-stage) increasingly involves at least one corporate VC.
D. in astronomy from the University of Manchester and has penned seven well-regarded science books, disagrees, and he reports that the majority of astrobiologists do, too.
As an added bonus to saving school districts money that can be reinvested in other educational resources, energy efficiency efforts provide a valuable hands-on learning experience for students that can strengthen their math, science and communication skills, the alliance reports.
He has finished his computer science degree in prison, according to press reports.
Power and Consumer Reports ratings are not an exact science--much of their data is based on questionnaires and surveys, an inherently subjective game.
The conclusion, which Dr Ferguson reports in a paper in Psychological Science, was that participants' voting intentions were, indeed, affected by seeing the flag.
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The White House's sceptical stance lost credibility last year when it emerged that Phil Cooney, chief of staff at the Council on Environmental Quality, had been editing scientific reports to emphasise uncertainties in climate science.
As NPR's John Nielsen reports, a new paper in the journal Science may help settle this argument.
Still, reports on population exposure are as much guesswork as science.
In this story, NPR's Christopher Joyce reports on a scientist at the Rochester Institute of Technology who's using science to rescue great art.
Personally I tend to prefer reading the reports that are issued by the IPCC: no not the ones on climate science as I have difficulties working out the difference between a kW and a MWh.
China's science and health authorities plan to develop a vaccine for H7N9 bird flu within seven months, amid reports that the virus has been detected in ducks in Zhejiang province, the newspaper adds.
Yet the science of climate change has seemed to be derailed by climategate and the discovery of some errors in IPCC reports, even the gravest of which come far short of undermining its conclusions.
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