By nature.com Communities Team on 29 Aug 2011
Earthquakes in New York? A rare 5.8 magnitude earthquake shook the east coast of the United States this week. Our Boston blogger, Tinker Ready, explains how Boston and the surrounding areas were affected: It was the East Coast’s most powerful earthquake in 67 years. Because of the solidity of the earth’s crust on the eastern seaboard – unlike California, where there are networks of active faults – earthquakes tend to be felt over longer distances here, according to Thomas Herring, a geophysics professor at MIT. Check out her post for a seismogram of the quake. The News Blog has also … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 25 Aug 2011
On Wednesday evening, we hosted the fourth installment of the monthly Science Online NYC (SoNYC) discussion series. The topic for debate this month was “Reaching the niches: connecting underrepresented groups with science” and the panel featured: … Read more
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By Laura Wheeler on 24 Aug 2011
To complement this week’s SoNYC discussion, on Of Schemes and Memes we have been delving into the world of minority scientists. Our first installment from Jeanne Garbarino, a Postdoc at Rockefeller University, considered some of the underrepresented groups within science. In our second installment, Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer discussed her role as the vice-director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, a non-profit, grassroots organization that promotes science, research and scientific literacy in Puerto Rico. Our third post was from Subhra Priyadarshini, editor of Nature Publishing Group’s India portal who talked about life for scientists in India. In our forth post we heard from Satoshi Uchiyama, a Japanese researcher working abroad, as he details his career hurdles and visa issues. In our next post, Amanda Adeleye, a medical student discusses how the glamorous world of cheerleading can mix with science. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 22 Aug 2011
To supplement this month’s SoNYC discussion, on Of Schemes and Memes we have been delving into the world of minority scientists. Our first installment from Jeanne Garbarino, a Postdoc at Rockefeller University, considered some of the underrepresented groups within science. In our second instalment, Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer discussed her role as the vice-director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, a non-profit, grassroots organization that promotes science, research and scientific literacy in Puerto Rico. Our third post was from Subhra Priyadarshini, editor of Nature Publishing Group’s India portal who talked about life for scientists in India. In our latest post we will hear from Satoshi Uchiyama, a Japanese researcher working abroad, as he details his career to date. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 19 Aug 2011
A “high” point for genomics The News Blog revealed this week that the raw sequence of the Cannabis sativa genome was posted on Amazon’s EC2 public cloud computing service by a new company called Medicinal Genomics. And in case you’re wondering: the DNA was extracted and prepped for sequencing in a laboratory in Amsterdam! McKernan says he was turned on to the idea of sequencing cannabis by a 2003 publication in Nature Reviews Cancer about the many potential uses – including fighting cancer – of cannabinoids. C. sativa makes about sixty of the compounds. Although THC has gotten the most … Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 16 Aug 2011
To supplement this month’s SoNYC discussion, on Of Schemes and Memes we have been delving into the world of minority scientists. Our first installment from Jeanne Garbarino, a Postdoc at Rockefeller University, considered some of the underrepresented groups within science. In our second instalment, Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer discussed her role as the vice-director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, a non-profit, grassroots organization that promotes science, research and scientific literacy in Puerto Rico. In our next post we will hear from Subhra Priyadarshini, an award winning science journalist and the editor of Nature Publishing Group’s India portal Nature India and manager of the Nature India blog, Indigenus. She talks about life for scientists in India. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 12 Aug 2011
Paige Brown has been shedding some light on the miniscule world of NanoArt, taking a peek at art on the scale of 1/1,000,000,000 (1 billionth) of a metre. Paige explains that in the nano world, materials can act and look very differently from the way they do in the macroscopic world. Take a look at this piece by Rami R M Louca called ‘Flower’ – a scanning electron microscope image of titanium dioxide nanowires. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 11 Aug 2011
To accompany this month’s SoNYC conversation, on Of Schemes and Memes we have been exploring the world of the minority scientist. Our first installment from Jeanne Garbarino, a Postdoc at Rockefeller University, considered some of the underrepresented groups within science. In our next post, we will be hearing from Mónica I. Feliú-Mójer, the vice-director of Ciencia Puerto Rico, a non-profit, grassroots organization that promotes science, research and scientific literacy in Puerto Rico. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 09 Aug 2011
Science Online NYC (SoNYC) is a monthly discussion series held in New York City where invited panellists talk about a particular topic related to how science is carried out and communicated online. On August 24th the focus will be on niche groups; whether that’s scientists from developing countries, science mums or the ways we reach out to make science interesting to the younger generations. Read more
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By nature.com Communities Team on 05 Aug 2011
Volcanoes are the topic of the day for the Frontier Scientists, looking at different ways of monitoring eruptions. There are some beautiful pictures including this short film of the Martin Luther King Vent of the volcano Pu`u `O`o in February 2005, when the highest fountain reached about 10 meters into the air. Read more
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