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Cellphone logs help estimate radiation exposure of Fukushima evacuees - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun

2013-05-11T13:35:06Z

Cellphone logs help estimate radiation exposure of Fukushima evacuees - AJW by The Asahi Shimbun
http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/analysis/AJ201305100073

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Chaos reigned during the early phase of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, and people who fled the area have no idea how much radiation they were exposed to before the evacuation. But a scientist has come up with a novel approach to better evaluate their radiation doses by utilizing the logs of GPS-equipped cellphones.
Ryugo Hayano, a physics professor at the University of Tokyo, said he got the idea when he learned that Zenrin DataCom Co., a geographical information service firm, had acquired anonymous-format location logs of Global Positioning System-enabled cellphones with the consent of their users.

#cartographie #surveillance #gps #mobile #nucléaire

PM says Hawking needs to study facts about Israel | JPost | Israel News

2013-05-10T13:17:58Z

PM says Hawking needs to study facts about Israel | JPost | Israel News
http://www.jpost.com/Diplomacy-and-Politics/PM-says-Hawking-needs-to-study-facts-about-Israel-312664

Netanyahou donne des leçons de science à Stephen Hawking

Asked by The Jerusalem Post about Hawking's boycott at a press briefing, Netanyahu said, “He should investigate the truth, he is a scientist. He should study the facts and draw the necessary conclusions: Israel is an island of reason, moderation and a desire for peace.”
Netanyahu said that Hawking knows that there are many false théories in science. “There are also false theories in politics, and this [the slandering of Israel] is one of them, maybe the foremost among them,” he said.

Israel may not be a pariah, but it's definitely a headache - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News |…

2013-05-09T21:50:32Z

Israel may not be a pariah, but it's definitely a headache - Diplomacy & Defense - Israel News | Haaretz Daily Newspaper
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-may-not-be-a-pariah-but-it-s-definitely-a-headache.premium-1.520012

Le Ha'aretz tente de relativiser l'acte de Stephen Hawking en accusant les pro-droit international de «bombardement»...

The media's reports Wednesday that Professor Stephen Hawking would not be attending the President's Conference in Israel next month prompted many to accuse the world-renowned scientist of anti-Semitism.
Hawking, however, has already visited Israel four times, including the last time, in 2006, at the invitation of the British Embassy. During that trip, he visited universities in Israel and the Palestinian Authority and said he hoped to meet Israeli and Palestinian scientists.
According to a report in the Guardian, ever since Hawking's participation in the conference was made known some four weeks ago, he has been bombarded with countless emails and letters from Britain and other places in the world, calling on him to revoke his decision.
In view of Hawking's previous visits to Israel, however, it would be difficult to brand him anti-Semitic. Perhaps he just wanted to avoid the headache involved in any visit to Israel by a well-known scientist or performer.
Among those fighting to thwart the repeated attempts, especially in Britain, to boycott universities in Israel is David Newman, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. Newman says that the majority of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement was once limited to mere proclamations by various organizations, but that this has been changing in recent years. Now, he says, boycott efforts are carried out primarily by determined activists who bombard public figures planning to come to Israel with an onslaught of emails and faxes. This is probably what happened to Hawking. If so, it means Israel may not be a pariah yet, but it is certainly no longer a place everyone travels to gladly.
According to Newman, one of the founders of Ben-Gurion University's politics and government department, which has been accused by local McCarthyists of having dangerous leftist tendencies, the answer to these attempts to impose an academic boycott on Israel is to strengthen the cooperation between Israeli and international scientists.
Acts such as upgrading the status of the Ariel University Center, and threats like the one by the Higher Education Council to shut down Ben-Gurion's politics and government department hardly contribute to furthering said cooperation.

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | The Guardian

2013-04-15T08:52:25Z

News is bad for you – and giving up reading it will make you happier | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/apr/12/news-is-bad-rolf-dobelli

I don't know a single truly creative mind who is a news junkie – not a writer, not a composer, mathematician, physician, scientist, musician, designer, architect or painter. On the other hand, I know a bunch of viciously uncreative minds who consume news like drugs. If you want to come up with old solutions, read news. If you are looking for new solutions, don't.
Society needs journalism – but in a different way. Investigative journalism is always relevant. We need reporting that polices our institutions and uncovers truth. But important findings don't have to arrive in the form of news. Long journal articles and in-depth books are good, too.

#journalisme #information #santé

Créer la sensation de « membre fantôme » chez des non-amputés. Health News - Scientists create…

2013-04-15T07:58:49Z

Créer la sensation de « membre fantôme » chez des non-amputés.

Health News - Scientists create phantom sensations in non-amputees
http://www.healthcanal.com/medical-breakthroughs/37707-scientists-create-phantom-sensations-in-non-amputees.html

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The experiment involves the participant sitting at a table with their right arm hidden from their view behind a screen. To evoke the illusion, the scientist touches the right hand of the participant with a small paintbrush while imitating the exact movements with another paintbrush in mid-air within full view of the participant.
“We discovered that most participants, within less than a minute, transfer the sensation of touch to the region of empty space where they see the paintbrush move, and experience an invisible hand in that position”, says Arvid Guterstam, lead author of the study.

Jerusalem mayor pulls proposal to name street after contentious professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz Yair…

2013-04-07T08:23:32Z

Jerusalem mayor pulls proposal to name street after contentious professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Yair Ettinger and Ofer Aderet

Un refus d'honorer l'un des plus courageux philosophes israéliens

Haaretz Daily Newspaper

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/jerusalem-mayor-pulls-proposal-to-name-street-after-professor-yeshayahu-lei

An initiative to name a Jerusalem street after Professor Yeshayahu Leibowitz has turned into an affair, a saga and then a tragedy, and on Thursday turned into what resembled a comedy.
Moments before the ratification of an initiative aiming to pay tribute to Leibowitz – a philosopher, scientist, observant Jew and resident of Jerusalem who did not hide his adamant opinions against the settlements – Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat announced that he is temporarily pulling the proposal, alongside some 20 other potential street names.

It's Science Time ! ‘Princess Scientists' and Princess Bubblegum | Antenna

2012-12-23T13:42:36Z

It's Science Time! ‘Princess Scientists' and Princess Bubblegum | Antenna
http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2012/11/29/its-science-time-princess-scientists-and-princess-bubblegum

2012 has seen the rise of the ‘princess scientist', thanks in part to a Huffington Post article on Dr. Erika Ebbel Angle, who hosts a children's science show called The Dr. Erika Show. Dr. Erika appears on the show wearing the classic science-style lab coat as well as the tiara she won as Miss Massachusetts, leading young girls who watched the show to tell producers that they, too, want to be ‘princess scientists.'
Following this trend closely comes The Miss Rikei Contest in Japan, which pitted six science students and researchers against each other in a contest of intelligence and- yes- beauty. The contest purports to change the image of sciences to include women- but apparently only if those women are attractive.
Not long after, the European Commission launched a cringe-worthy campaign aimed at recruiting girls to the STEM disciplines. The Science: It's a girl thing! video featured girls in high heels being ogled by a man in lab coats, and prominently featured lipstick, lip gloss, fingernail polish in contexts completely unrelated to science. The video was the subject of so much derision it was quickly taken off the official website.
These examples are generally well-intentioned, aimed at encouraging an interest in STEM disciplines in girls and women. However, the result is just tacked-on femininity and a familiar focus on the physical beauty of female scientists instead of their contributions to the scientific community. If nothing else the controversy surrounding them has drawn attention to the women- and frequent lack thereof- in these disciplines. However, they've left open the question of how to create a space in science where being feminine is acceptable. Is there anything in the ‘princess scientist' idea that's worth embracing?
The answer: Princess Bubblegum.
“It'll be fine. We've got Science!” Says Princess Bubblegum showing off her invention in the episode “Lady & Peebles.”
The popular Adventure Time character predates The Dr. Erika Show by about a year, and embodies both aspects of the ‘princess scientist' idea, in that Princess Bubblegum, is literally a princess and a scientist. Adventure Time goes a long way to establishing her credentials in both roles.

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#adventure_time #princesse #science #féminisme

Frank Olsen case : CIA sued over 1950s 'murder' of government scientist plied with LSD

2012-11-29T20:19:11Z

Frank Olsen case: CIA sued over 1950s 'murder' of government scientist plied with LSD
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/29/cia-lawsuit-scientist-1950s-death

The family of a US government scientist who fell to his death from a New York hotel window six decades ago have launched a lawsuit for damages against the CIA, alleging the agency was involved in his murder and a subsequent cover-up.
In one of the most notorious cases in the organisation's history, bioweapons expert Frank Olson died in 1953, nine days after he was given LSD by agency officials without his knowledge.
In the lawsuit, filed in the US district court in Washington on Wednesday, Olson's sons Eric and Nils claim their father was murdered after he witnessed extreme interrogations in which the CIA killed suspects using the biological agents he had developed.
The CIA has long denied any foul play, though it was forced to admit in 1975, more than 20 years after the death, that the scientist had been given LSD in a spiked glass of Cointreau. The agency, which originally told the family the death was a result of job-induced stress, has since maintained that it was a drug-induced suicide.

Haiti cholera epidemic 'most likely' started at UN camp - top scientist | BBC News

2012-10-22T12:59:23Z

#Haiti #cholera epidemic 'most likely' started at #UN camp - top scientist | BBC News
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20024400

The new evidence could have serious implications for the UN, which is facing an unprecedented legal and moral challenge in Haiti - as well as a multi-billion dollar compensation claim from victims' families.
More than 7,500 people have died from the cholera epidemic in Haiti since it started in late 2010. Hundreds of new cases are still being registered every week.
(...)
After studying molecular data known as full genome sequencing on the strain of cholera found in Haiti - and that prevalent in Nepal in 2010 - Dr Lantagne said: “We now know that the strain of cholera in Haiti is an exact match for the strain of cholera in Nepal.”
(...)
The 2011 UN report - co-signed by her - acknowledged that inadequate toilets in the Nepalese UN camp in the mountain town of Mirabalais could have leaked the cholera bacterium into the nearby Meye River which flows into the country's main waterways.
But the report stressed that the outbreak “was not the fault” of any “group or individual”.
(...)
Now, Dr Lantagne says the new genome data (in addition to other evidence) has changed her view since she had co-authored the UN report which effectively said no-one was to blame.

#nations_unies #santé #casques_bleus

Feynman : A New Comic Biography » American Scientist

2012-10-14T10:00:15Z

Feynman : A New Comic Biography » American Scientist
http://www.americanscientist.org/issues/pub/feynman-a-new-comic-biography

http://craphound.com/images/feynman_ottaviani.jpg

vous saviez que, dans un miroir, la lumière ne se reflète pas, mais qu'elle est réémise ?

Much has been written about Richard P. Feynman (1918–1988), but it's fair to say that little has been drawn about him. A new graphic novel renders his life and work in comic-book form. The book, written by Jim Ottaviani with art by Leland Myrick and coloring by Hilary Sycamore, recounts Feynman's career, discoveries, relationships and eccentricities in a generous 262 pages.

#bande_dessinée #bd #livre #biographie #recherche #physique #électrodynamique_quantique #nucléaire

Indian scientist calls for nuclear freeze - FT

2012-09-12T13:01:15Z

Indian scientist calls for nuclear freeze - FT
http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/21669812-fbe4-11e1-af33-00144feabdc0.html

India's ambitious plans for a huge expansion of its nuclear power capacity to help ease the country's crippling power shortages have provoked a bitter backlash.
On Tuesday one of the country's top nuclear scientists called for a temporary moratorium on commissioning any new nuclear power plants in the country until New Delhi can win the support of the local communities that will live in the shadow of the reactors.
(...)
On Monday, a protester was killed when police opened fire on angry villagers who had surrounded a police station. Earlier on Monday, thousands of villagers marched to lay siege to the plant and managed to get within half a kilometre before police dispersed them with tear gas.
The violent clashes at Kudankulam, which is being built by the state-owned Nuclear Power Corporation of India in conjunction with Russia's Rosatom, echo last year's violent protests in Jaitapur, where France's Areva is hoping to build a 3,300MW nuclear power station.

Atome contre biodiversité à Jaitapur, par Praful Bidwai (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/2011/04/BIDWAI/20396

Le projet d'Areva contesté en Inde
Atome contre biodiversité à Jaitapur
Longtemps privée des technologies occidentales, l'Inde accélère ses investissements dans l'énergie #nucléaire civile. Sans se préoccuper de l'avis des populations.
par Praful Bidwai, avril 2011

#Areva #Inde #France #électricité #énergie #répression #cdp

Found : World's Oldest Message in a Bottle, Part of 1914 Citizen-Science Experiment - Alexis C.…

2012-09-05T19:03:16Z

Found: World's Oldest Message in a Bottle, Part of 1914 Citizen-Science Experiment - Alexis C. Madrigal - The Atlantic
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/found-worlds-oldest-message-in-a-bottle-part-of-1914-citizen-science-experiment/261981

A Scottish fisherman has found the world's oldest message in a bottle, the Guinness Book of World Records confirmed last week. It is 98 years old, and was cast into the ocean by Captain C.H. Hunter, a scientist at the Glasgow School of Navigation, who was studying the currents in the North Sea.
The bottle was one of 1,890 bottles released on June 10, 1914, and the 315th to be entered into Captain Brown's log, which is still kept and updated by Marine Scotland Science in Aberdeen.

“Drift bottles gave oceanographers at the start of the last century important information that allowed them to create pictures of the patterns of water circulation in the seas around Scotland,” explained Bill Turrell, Head of Marine Ecosystems with Marine Scotland Science explained in the official press release on the event. “These images were used to underpin further research — such as determining the drift of herring larvae from spawning grounds, which helped scientists understand the life cycle of this key species.”

Superbe !

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c/2012/09/scottishoceancurrants-thumb-615x929-97917.jpg

#bouteille_à_la_mer #océanographie #cartographie #science #recherche

GM Crops Offer Natural Pest Control | The Scientist

2012-07-25T17:02:21Z

GM Crops Offer Natural Pest Control | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/06/13/gm-crops-offer-natural-pest-control

Furthermore, if the spill-over effects seen in their test plots also applies to crops commonly planted alongside Bt cotton in northern Chinese farms, it could confer wide-reaching benefits. But the strategy will only work if Bt crops are not ubiquitous, Desneux noted, because it's the diversity of crops that alleviates the selection pressure on pests to become resistant to Bt's insecticide. “To prevent the selection of resistant populations in the pest, we just have to ensure that we still have non-Bt crops in the landscape,” Desneux said

#foutagedegueule

DataKind ; Jake Porway - Big data in the service of humanity | TEDxMontreal

2012-07-24T05:58:41Z

DataKind ; Jake Porway - Big #data in the service of humanity | TEDxMontreal
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZ3xXXeVrIQ

Founder of Datakind and former Data Scientist at the New York Times R&D lab, Jake Porway explores how data can be used in the service of humanity.

mettre ensemble des « data wizards », des gouvernements, des ONG…

http://datakind.org

The scandalous sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal :

2012-06-10T09:21:35Z

The scandalous sexual depravity of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal: ►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic

'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal

2012-06-10T07:44:23Z

'Sexual depravity' of penguins that Antarctic scientist dared not reveal
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/09/sex-depravity-penguins-scott-antarctic

It was the sight of a young male Adélie penguin attempting to have sex with a dead female that particularly unnerved George Murray Levick, a scientist with the 1910-13 Scott Antarctic Expedition. No such observation had ever been recorded before, as far as he knew, and Levick, a typical Edwardian Englishman, was horrified. Blizzards and freezing cold were one thing. Penguin perversion was another.
Worse was to come, however. Levick spent the Antarctic summer of 1911-12 observing the colony of Adélies at Cape Adare, making him the only scientist to this day to have studied an entire breeding cycle there. During that time, he witnessed males having sex with other males and also with dead females, including several that had died the previous year. He also saw them sexually coerce females and chicks and occasionally kill them.

Imaginer ici des #hashtags_classieux.

Opinion : Academic Publishing Is Broken | The Scientist

2012-04-24T06:42:56Z

Opinion : Academic Publishing Is Broken | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/03/19/opinion-academic-publishing-is-broken
Pourquoi l'open access ne se développe pas assez et comment à la fin cela pourrait se produire...

It's certainly not due to cost. To publish in the reputable open-access journal PLoS ONE costs a publication fee of $1,350. Other open-access journals average a bit less, around $906. To publish in an Elsevier journal, on the other hand, appears to cost some $10,500. In 2011, 78 percent of Elsevier's total revenue, or £1,605 million, was contributed by journal subscriptions. In the same year, Elsevier published 240,000 articles, making the average cost per article some £6,689, or about $10,500 US. So to publish behind a paywall with Elsevier—and make your work available to only some other researchers and no members of the public—costs nearly eight times more than publishing openly with PLoS. It's apparent that we are not getting value for money from the traditional academic publishers.

#open-access
#edition

The Latest on the Doomsday Virus - NYTimes

2012-04-23T13:58:39Z

The Latest on the Doomsday Virus - NYTimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/opinion/sunday/the-latest-on-the-doomsday-virus.html

finalement Fouchier peut publier son article sur les mutations de la grippe aviaire ; il suffisait de changer un peu les arguments (de trrrrrès dangereux on passe à dangereux, et d'utile à trrrrrrès utile).

Now that board has changed its mind. In late March, after reviewing a revised version of the paper and grilling the Dutch scientist, it voted 12 to 6 to recommend publication with none of the details excised.
Board members told us that the new virus appeared less lethal than they first thought; the benefits of letting scientists around the world keep an eye out for the specific mutations in nature appeared greater than they first thought; and the risk that a terrorist would use the information seemed minimal, judging from a briefing they got from intelligence officials. Many members also felt boxed in when federal officials said that redacting the details would harm America's relations with nations that wanted full access.

#science #recherche #bio-armements #censure #santé

Brain Controls Paralyzed Muscles | The Scientist

2012-04-20T04:14:36Z

Brain Controls Paralyzed Muscles | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/04/18/brain-controls-paralyzed-muscles

Scientists at Northwestern University have developed a device that allows monkeys to reach out and grab a ball, even though they cannot feel some of their arm muscles. A panel of electrodes implanted in the monkeys' brains decodes commands from the motor cortex (the region that controls movements), while electrodes in their arms directly stimulate the appropriate muscles.

Will we ever be able to buy a fair-trade smartphone ? - New Scientist

2012-04-17T20:30:07Z

Will we ever be able to buy a fair-trade smartphone? - New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21428605.700-will-we-ever-be-able-to-buy-a-fairtrade-smartphone.html

“In the DRC, there have been 4 million deaths in the last 10 years: there's a relationship between phones and that problem,” says Bas van Abel, founder of FairPhone, a Dutch initiative. By working with communities in the DRC and online, Fairphone hopes to design what it believes will be the world's first cellphone that will be both open-source and responsibly manufactured.

#téléphone #libre #open-source #congo #foxconn

Amateur Biologists Are New Fear in Making a Mutant Flu Virus - NYTimes.com

2012-03-07T09:54:37Z

Amateur Biologists Are New Fear in Making a Mutant Flu Virus - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/06/health/amateur-biologists-are-new-fear-in-making-a-mutant-flu-virus.html

Over the past decade, more amateur biologists have started to do genetic experiments of their own. One hub of this so-called D.I.Y. biology movement, the Web site DIYbio.org, now has more than 2,000 members.
“I worry about the garage scientist, about the do-your-own scientist, about the person who just wants to try and see if they can do it,” Michael T. Osterholm of the University of Minnesota said last week at a meeting of #biosecurity experts in Washington.

#h5n1 #biohacking #biosécurité

H5N1 controversy : Ron Fouchier says his mutant virus not so dangerous

2012-03-01T07:57:33Z

#H5N1 controversy : Ron Fouchier says his mutant virus not so dangerous
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2012/02/h5n1-controversy-fouchier-says-his-mutant-virus-not-so-dangerous

The scientist who made a deadly bird flu virus transmissible in mammals, touching off public fears of a pandemic, said Wednesday that the virus he created was neither as contagious nor as dangerous as people had been led to believe.

(une porte de sortie pour le NSABB)

The Breast Implant Risk | The Scientist

2012-02-28T22:15:51Z

The Breast Implant Risk | The Scientist
http://the-scientist.com/2012/01/26/dont-beat-your-breast-implant

il n'y a pas que le scandale #pip : toutes les prothèses mammaires posent des problèmes, pas toujours graves mais…

all breast implants come with risks: within 10 years, up to 30 percent of patients have their implants removed or replaced, according to the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) 2011 silicone breast implant report. Part of the reason is just standard wear and tear, said Malcolm Roth, American Society of Plastic Surgeons president and chief of plastic surgery at Albany Medical Center. “Patients shouldn't think of these as lifelong devices.”

via @hervelc
#femmes #santé #cancer

H5N1 controversy : Studies must go on, says scientist

2012-01-27T09:09:09Z

#H5N1 controversy: Studies must go on, says scientist
http://crofsblogs.typepad.com/h5n1/2012/01/h5n1-controversy-studies-must-go-on-says-scientist.html

Despite declaring last week a 60-day moratorium on the studies to allay security fears, Yoshihiro Kawaoka argued in a commentary in the journal Nature it was urgent and vital that his work continue. (...)
Last week, the two teams - Kawaoka's and a second team led by Ron Fouchier at Erasmus Medical College in the Netherlands - said they would temporarily suspend their research because of the concerns.
But writing in Nature on Wednesday, Kawaoka argued it would be “irresponsible” and dangerous not to continue researching highly pathogenic bird flu viruses.

#recherche

Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries - NYTimes.com

2011-12-17T13:32:24Z

Warming Arctic Permafrost Fuels Climate Change Worries - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/science/earth/warming-arctic-permafrost-fuels-climate-change-worries.html?hp

“It's like broccoli in your freezer,” said Kevin Schaefer, a scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colo. “As long as the broccoli stays in the freezer, it's going to be O.K. But once you take it out of the freezer and put it in the fridge, it will thaw out and eventually decay.”

The ocean gets something like osteoporosis | James Bruggers - Watchdog Earth

2011-10-23T14:08:23Z

The ocean gets something like osteoporosis | James Bruggers - Watchdog Earth
http://blogs.courier-journal.com/watchdogearth/2011/10/22/the-ocean-gets-something-like-osteoporosis

NOAA administrator Jane Lubchenco said coral reefs and ocean acidification is the most underreported scientific story today.
(...)
But warming waters are causing a bleaching of coral that can turn fatal
(...)
“It's not like dropping an Alka Seltzer in a glass of water and they start fizzing away,” said Mark Eakin, a NOAA scientist. “What we are seeing is something more like osteoporosis.”

#océans #environnement

Third Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead - Times LIVE

2011-10-14T22:18:30Z

Third Iranian nuclear scientist shot dead - Times LIVE
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2011/07/27/third-iranian-nuclear-scientist-shot-dead

on sait pas d'où ça vient mais ça fait le troisième scientifique iranien qui se fait buter…

Western security agencies are most likely behind the killing of an Iranian scientist in an operation that underlines the complexities of the conflict over Iran's nuclear programme, analysts say.

#nucléaire #iran #assassinats

Pour son vingt-cinquième anniversaire, le magazine « The Scientist »… ferme ses portes

2011-10-11T12:42:35Z

Pour son vingt-cinquième anniversaire, le magazine « The Scientist »… ferme ses portes

http://news.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2011/10/rip-the-scientist-economics-kill.html?ref=ra
R.I.P. The Scientist. Economics Kills Another Magazine - ScienceInsider

The only reason is economic - we simply could not find a way to make it pay. There is no other reason. It has wonderful and talented staff, an audience that likes it, and it succeeded in keeping high editorial and production standards for many years. The world is turning away from traditional magazines, and our dependence on page advertising brought us to this point. There is alas nothing much more to say, except to acknowledge the original vision of Eugene Garfield, and the work of the many wonderful people over the last 25 years.

#presse #internet

Chinese scientist wins US award for malaria drug

2011-09-15T15:46:34Z

Chinese scientist wins US award for #malaria drug
http://news.bioscholar.com/2011/09/chinese-scientist-wins-us-award-for-malaria-drug.html

Pharmacologist Tu Youyou, 81, will be presented the Lasker Award (...)
In 1969, Tu was appointed head of a government project that aimed to eradicate malaria.
She detected 380 extracts from 2,000 recipes, and obtained a pure substance called “Qinghaosu”, which became known as artemisinin in 1972.
An artemisinin-based drug combination is now the standard for malaria treatment.

#chine #recherche

Assassination of Iranian scientist sparks rumours, but few answers

2011-07-25T19:11:37Z

Assassination of Iranian scientist sparks rumours, but few answers
http://blogs.nature.com/news/2011/07/confusion_over_identity_of_sci.html

#iran #science #nucléaire

Iran blamed U.S., Israel for killing of scientist - The Daily Star

2011-07-24T12:18:59Z

Iran blamed U.S., Israel for killing of scientist - The Daily Star
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2011/Jul-24/Iran-blamed-US-Israel-for-killing-of-scientist.ashx#axzz1T1VXy5SS

TEHRAN: A senior Iranian official on Sunday blamed the United States and Israel for the killing of an Iranian scientist, who the deputy interior minister said was not linked to Iran's nuclear programme as reported by media.
Darioush Rezaie, 35, a university lecturer, was shot dead by gunmen in eastern Tehran on Saturday. Some media reports said Rezaie was a nuclear scientist but Deputy Interior Minister Safarali Baratlou said this was not true.

Pendant ce temps-là, ailleurs...

Software Progress Beats Moore's Law - NYTimes.com

2011-03-08T15:08:29Z

#Software Progress Beats Moore's Law - NYTimes.com
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/07/software-progress-beats-moores-law

performance gains in doing computing tasks that result from improvements in software algorithms often far outpace the gains attributable to faster processors.
(...) study of progress over a 15-year span on a benchmark production-planning task. Over that time, the #speed of completing the calculations improved by a factor of 43 million. Of the total, a factor of roughly 1,000 was attributable to faster #processor speeds, according to the research by Martin Grotschel, a German scientist and mathematician. Yet a factor of 43,000 was due to improvements in the efficiency of software #algorithms.

Nasa scientist claims evidence of extraterrestrial life | Science | The Guardian

2011-03-06T14:34:39Z

Nasa scientist claims evidence of extraterrestrial life | Science | The Guardian
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/06/nasa-scientist-evidence-extraterrestrial-life

Richard Hoover, an astrobiologist at the US space agency's Marshall space flight centre in Alabama, said filaments and other structures in rare meteorites appear to be microscopic fossils of extraterrestrial beings that resemble algae known as cyanobacteria.

#extra_terrestres

Scientist warns on safety of Monsanto's Roundup | Reuters

2011-02-27T22:54:31Z

Scientist warns on safety of #Monsanto's Roundup | Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/24/us-monsanto-roundup-idUSTRE71N4XN20110224

warning from a U.S. scientist that claims top-selling Roundup may contribute to plant disease and health problems for farm #animals.

#santé

Ex-CIA officer faces up to 120 years for leaking secrets | intelNews.org

2011-01-12T19:15:41Z

Ex-CIA officer faces up to 120 years for leaking secrets | intelNews.org
http://intelligencenews.wordpress.com/2011/01/10/01-633

A former CIA officer, who sued the Agency after he was fired, was arrested last Thursday in St. Louis, Missouri n charges of leaking classified information about a botched CIA covert operation in Iran.

En dehors du fait que le type risque 120 années de prison, l'affaire qu'il a révélée est assez marrante.

In chapter 9 of the book, he details a botched operation by the Iran Task Force to pass to the Iranians a series of faulty nuclear bomb design documents. To do this, the CIA apparently recruited a Russian former nuclear scientist, who had defected to the United States. The unnamed scientist was told to travel to Vienna, Austria, in early 2000, and offer to sell the documents to the Iranians. But the documents contained a deliberate technical flaw, which, Risen alleges, the Russian CIA operative thought was so obvious that it could endanger the entire mission, by making him look untrustworthy in the eyes of the Iranians. The Russian scientist ended up letting the Iranians know about the flaw, reveals Risen. He further alleges that the CIA operation may have actually helped the Iranian nuclear weapons program, as Iranian scientists would have been able to “extract valuable information from the blueprints while ignoring the flaws”.

#Iran #nucléaire #CIA