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Theories reducing to Newtonian gravity
- Space science
- Published 8/10/2009
Science in the 21st century: social, political, and economic issues
- More sciences
- Published 14/11/2008
This new perspective report of 16 pages long is ready to be downloaded (in pdf format) from the canonicalscience site.
This report presents a nonidealized vision of 21st century science. It handles some social, political, and economic problems that affect the heart of scientific endeavour and are carrying important consequences for scientists and the rest of society.
The problems analyzed are the current tendency to limit the size of scholarly communications, the funding of research, the rates and page charges of journals, the wars for the intellectual property of the data and results of research, and the replacement of impartial reviewing by anonymous censorship. The scope includes an economic analysis of PLoS' finances, the wars APS versus Wikipedia and ACS versus NIH, and a list of thirty four Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer review.
Several suggestions from Harry Morrow Brown, Lee Smolin, Linda Cooper, and the present author for solving the problems are included in the report. The work finishes with a brief section on the reasons to be optimists about the future of science.
Initially I supposed that the list of thirty four Nobel Laureates whose awarded work was rejected by peer review would be a complete shock for readers. However, it seems other issues received much more attention!
For instance, a collaborator expressed her surprise and indignation because the American Physical Society, withdrew its initial offer to publish two studies in Physical Review Letters because the authors did not want to transfer the copyright of their work to that Society.
LHC switch-on fears are completely unfounded
- Space science
- Published 5/09/2008
Astronomer Discovers Upper Mass Limit for Black Holes
- Space science
- Published 4/09/2008
Intellectual work induces excessive calorie intake
- More sciences
- Published 3/09/2008
Warmer seas linked to strengthening hurricanes
- Earth science
- Published 3/09/2008
How do galaxies grow?
- Space science
- Published 26/08/2008
Large Hadron Collider set to unveil a new world of particle physics
- Space science
- Published 19/08/2008
CERN announces start-up date for LHC
- Space science
- Published 7/08/2008
Red wine ingredient wards off effects of age on heart, bones, eyes and muscle
- Life science
- Published 7/08/2008
Children are naturally prone to be empathic and moral
- More sciences
- Published 6/08/2008
Research using fMRI scans shows tendencies toward kindnessOnce a shy monkey, always a shy monkey?
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- Published 5/08/2008
Half of women have negative feelings about 1-night stands
- More sciences
- Published 5/08/2008
Get smart about what you eat and you might actually improve your intelligence
- More sciences
- Published 21/07/2008
Homosexual behavior due to genetics and environmental factors
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- Published 21/07/2008
Watermelon may have Viagra-effect
- More sciences
- Published 21/07/2008
The sun could be having a 15% or 20% effect on climate change
- Earth science
- Published 21/07/2008
Moon water discovered: Dampens Moon-formation theory
- Space science
- Published 21/07/2008
Using new techniques, scientists have discovered for the first time that tiny beads of volcanic glasses collected from two Apollo missions to the Moon contain water. The researchers found that, contrary to previous thought, water was not entirely vaporized in the violent events that formed the Moon.
Scientists confirm that parts of earliest genetic material may have come from the stars
- Space science
- Published 19/06/2008

