Jan 7, 2013
Polar Ring Galaxy The stunning ring galaxy NGC 660 is the shimmering aftermath of a galactic collision, located 44 million light-years away in the constellation Pisces. On January 7, astronomers...
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title In late November, three investigative panels issued the final report in the saga of admitted fraudster Diederik Stapel, a social psychologist formerly on faculty at Tilburg University in the...
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title Also in the Boston area, forensic chemist Annie Dookhan was accused of faking drug test results in criminal cases. Thousands of them. Dookhan handled more than 60,000 samples related to 34,000...
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Looking Down at Jupiter These color maps of Jupiter were constructed from images taken by the narrow-angle camera onboard NASA's Cassini spacecraft on Dec. 11 and 12, 2000, as the spacecraft neared...
View ArticleMisbehaving Neurosurgeons
Misbehaving Neurosurgeons Are Banned From Experimental ResearchNeurosurgeons experimenting on terminally ill brain cancer patients made the news in July when The Sacramento Bee revealed that two UC...
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title …an unofficial winner emerged this year: Yoshitaka Fujii, winner of the rather dubious honor of Most Retracted Papers, with 172 falsified reports. Assuming all of those publications are retracted...
View ArticleEmbryonic Bamboo Shark
Scientists studied how embryonic bamboo sharks respond to electrical fields mimicking those produced by predators. (Ryan Kempster)
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Juvenile bamboo sharks have distinctive dark and pale bands. (Ryan Kempster)
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Adult brownbanded bamboo sharks may still have faint bands (ZulRosle/Flickr)
View ArticleJan 10, 2013
Globular Stellar Cluster This bright cluster of stars is 47 Tucanae (NGC 104), shown here in an image taken by ESO’s VISTA (Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy) from the Paranal...
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Enceladus Jets at Sunset As the long winter night deepens at Enceladus' south pole, its jets are also progressively falling into darkness. The shadow of the moon itself is slowly creeping up the jets...
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The Star Factory This is a near-infrared, colour-coded composite image of a sky field in the south-western part of the galactic star-forming region Messier 17. In this image, young and heavily obscured...
View ArticleAllow Myself to Review ... Myself
Allow Myself to Review ... Myself When scientists publish work in peer-reviewed journals, it means that other scientists have reviewed the work. Or does it? Sometimes, the “scientists” who reviewed a...
View ArticleFalse Heart
False Heart Another tale of the too-good-to-be-true involves Japanese researcher Hisashi Moriguchi, who claimed to have conducted the first clinical test using reprogrammed stem cells in humans. In it,...
View ArticleJan 13, 2013
Cracks in Landor Basin ESA’s Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The images, near to where Ladon Valles enters...
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Crashing Mice Galaxies The Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS), the newest camera on NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, has captured a spectacular pair of galaxies engaged in a celestial dance of cat and...
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Honorable Mention: Broodstock Bay Scallop Opening Up Kathryn Markey, Roger Williams University, Bristol, Rhode Island Subject: Broodstock Bay Scallop Argopecten irradians opening up to take a look...
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