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December 2004
December 7
Scientists
get their own Google
New search engine ranks papers by importance, and finds the free versions.
See http://scholar.google.com.
Quirkiest
News of 2004
See National Geographic's top ten picks of the oddest discoveries of the
year, from cat cloning to flatulent fish.
November 2004
No science articles in November.
October 2004
No science articles in October.
September 2004
No science articles in September.
August 2004
August 23
Free Courses this Fall
The Wagner Free Institute
of Science is offering free courses this fall in:
- Applied Forensic Anthropology: Tuesdays, !0/5-11/9/2004 at 7 PM at University of Penn Museum (33rd & Spruce)
- Philadelphia Trees: Mondays, 9/27/-10/25/2004 at 6:30 PM at the Independence Branch Library (7th & Market)
- Collections of the Wagner Free Institute of Science and Academy of Natural Sciences: Thursdays, 9/23-11/18/2004 at 6:30 PM at the Institute and Academy.
July
No Science articles in July.
June 2004
June 13
Tool allows open-access
search
New directory lets users search and retrieve articles from about 270 open-access
journals.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Double check casts
doubt on science statistics
Errors found in Nature and BMJ papers.
May 2004
No Science articles in May.
April 2004
April 11
Internet2 May
Change The Way Scientists Conduct Research. Narragansett - Apr 07, 2004
When Dr. Robert Ballard went on a scientific expedition to Black Sea this
past summer, he was able to take with him virtually any scientist or student
who wanted to go. With the capability of Internet2 and a high bandwidth
satellite link, scientists, for the first time, were able to work on the
ocean floor from the comfort of their university laboratories.
March 2004
March 28
American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) spring 2004 meeting is at Eastern University on April 17th. Prof. David Unander will be speaking on the genetics of race and our Christian responsibility to bring peace and reconciliation to our world. RSVP by April 16th to admeam@aol.com.
Web debate: Access to the scientific literature
The Internet is profoundly changing how scientists work and publish. Click
here
for our free focus on the issues that are shaping the publishing horizon,
updated weekly. This weeks debate includes articles by co-founder of the
Public Library of Science, and Sciences Editor-in-Chief Donald Kennedy.
March 14
Scientists behaving
badly
Journal editors reveal researchers' wicked ways. 4 March 2004.
March 7
Should Publicly
Funded Research Be Free And Available To The Public? Stanford - Mar
04, 2004
Last October, a small, San Francisco-based organization known as the Public
Library of Science (PloS) shook up the scientific publishing world when
it launched a free, online journal called PloS Biology.
February 2004
February 22
AAAS 2004
All the latest news from the annual meeting of the American Association
for the Advancement of Science in Seattle, one of the largest gatherings
of international scientists and reporters of the year. 12-16 February 2004.
February 1
Free Courses offered by Wagner Free Institute of Science:
- Expeditions in Paleontology: January 31 to April 3, 2004 Saturdays from 10 to 11:30 A.M. at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia. Use 19th Street entrance. Taught by William Gallagher.
- Other courses, Genetic Aspects of Infectious Diseases, Plant Anatomy, Changing Flora of the Philadelphia Area, and Natural History since Aristotle.
January 2004
January 4
The
Top Science Stories of 2003
For some, this year in science may be remembered more for its disasters
than its successes. On January 16 the space shuttle Columbia launched to
great fanfare, only to fail tragically on reentry 16 days later. Then came
news of the mysterious and lethal disease known as SARS, which sparked worldwide
panic. And a midsummer blackout stretching from Ontario to New York served
as a vivid reminder of how dependent we are on a fragile power grid. Amid
these calamities, however, a number of noteworthy achievements unfolded.
China became the third nation to send people into space; paleontologists
working in Ethiopia unearthed the oldest known members of our species; researchers
applied virtual reality to colonoscopies and autopsies with stunning results.
In addition, the 50th anniversary of the discovery of the structure of DNA
and the centennial of powered flight served as springboards for reflection
on the bigger picture of scientific progress.
National
Geographic: Our Top Ten News Stories of 2003
"Flying" sharks and Bigfoot lead our year-end roundup of the top
National Geographic News stories.