Sept 2011 "... the area is still very poorly funded. The interdisciplinary group of scientists has decided to form a community to try to attract more funding and to create a faster development in the area of cultured meat. During the workshop last week, they also reached consensus about important issues in the research field. For instance, the nutrients for growing the cells for meat must be produced with renewable energy and without animal products. The best source for this is to use a photosynthetic organism, such as blue-green algae." "We want to invite all stakeholders into discussions to tackle these issues and identify in which directions to go," says Julie Gold, associate professor in biological physics at Chalmers,
Debate over the origin of modern humans continues without a clear end in sight. Currently, the genetic and fossil evidence is still used to support two different interpretations of the origin of modern humans. Some researchers claim that the genetic evidence is compatible with either an Out-of-Africa or a Multiregional model, while other scientists argue that the evidence supports only a Multiregional model of evolution. I argue that the fossil record and archeological evidence constrain interpretation of the genetic evidence and imply that very little, if any, admixture with Eurasian archaic hominins such as the Neanderthals occurred during the spread of modern humans out of Africa.
"Academic journals generally get their articles for nothing and maypay little to editors and peer reviewers.They sell to the very universities that provide that cheap labour. Asother media falter, academic publishershave soared. Elsevier, the biggest publ
En fransman och en tysk - ett sådant par har aldrig delat Nobelpriset förr. Men nu har det hänt: oberoende av varandra upptäckte Albert Fert och Peter Grünberg jättemagnetoresistans, ett magnetiskt fenomen på kvantnivå. På kuppen blev de faddrar till en n
An international team of scientists has performed the ultimate miniaturisation of computer memory: storing information inside the nucleus of an atom. This breakthrough is a key step in bringing to life a quantum computer - a device based on the fundamenta
"On the view that morality is God’s word, atheists should judge these cases differently from people with religious background and beliefs, and when asked to justify their responses, should bring forward different explanations." - An example of the shallow
Giddens feels that there is a huge disparity between the reality of climate change and the political and economic response. As well as system-level change, the situation needs action below the level of the nation state, he explained, with activists and civil society taking steps worldwide to obtain change on the ground, as the Transition Towns movement tried, for example. "The United Nations (UN) has lost a lot of influence, so we will need to look to states and groups of states," he said.
Projektet Forskarnas röst och digitalt material utredde under 2011 det digitaliserade materialets betydelse för forskarsamfundet och utvärderade förhållandet mellan såväl digitaliseringsprocesserna, minnesorganisationerna (arkiv, bibliotek och muséer) som forskarsamfundet. Projektets infallsvinkel var i första hand den humanistiska forskningen och framförallt arkivens, men även de övriga minnesorganisationerna och forskarsamfundet togs i beaktande.