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Nutrition researcher censured over serial misconduct
At first glance, many of the western blots in the data of nutrition researcher Eric J. Smart, censured yesterday by the US government’s Office of Research Integrity over a 10 year career of misconduct,...
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Pharma lab loses valuable gold stash
Here’s a lesson for those who don’t keep careful track of their lab supplies. A medical lab at Pfizer’s Research and Development Center in Chesterfield, Missouri, has allegedly lost up to US$700,000...
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Moon mapping mission ends with controlled crash
NASA/ARC/MIT Twin spacecraft that mapped the gravity field of the Moon with unprecedented precision have succumbed to the very force they were made to measure. Ebb and Flow, the two probes that make...
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Ion collider flagged for closure
Nuclear physicist Robert Tribble (right) looked markedly depressed as he presented his panel’s conclusions ranking three US nuclear science facilities against each other at a meeting in North Bethesda,...
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Dark-matter search from the space station continues to tease
Nobel prize winner Samuel Ting (pictured) likes to keep people guessing. Nowhere was this more true than at his press conference this morning at the American Association for the Advancement of...
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Investigation clears US interior-department staff of misconduct
The Klamath River runs through Oregon and northern California. Pam Rentz on Flickr under Creative Commons In the first of its reports on alleged scientific misconduct to be released since the 2011...
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IceCube neutrinos came from outer space
IceCube collaboration Two ultra-high-energy neutrinos captured by the IceCube experiment probably came from outside the Galaxy, according to an analysis posted by the collaboration today. “We’re pretty...
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US panel calls for ambitious X-ray laser
LBNL The United States should build a powerful new X-ray laser that could make movies of electrons moving in materials and chemical reactions, a US government advisory panel recommended today. In so...
View ArticleSwedes claim confirmation of element 115
Swedish researchers have reported strong evidence for the formation of element 115, some 9 years after Russian researchers first claimed to detect a nucleus with 115 protons. A team led by nuclear...
View ArticleUS experiment to vote on dark matter
A US experiment is poised to resolve confusion over whether dark matter has already been detected. The Large Underground Xenon Experiment (LUX) at Sanford Underground Laboratory in Lead, South Dakota —...
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