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Measuring Up: New NIST Director, Plus Big Budget Put Measurement Science in Public Eye
Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Commerce confirmed Patrick Gallagher as the 14th director of its National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) . Although the title may be new to Gallagher, NIST's mission of developing measurement science, standards and technology isn't.
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War Is Peace: Can Science Fight Media Disinformation?
In the 24/7 Internet world, people make lots of claims. Science provides a guide for testing them
MIND Reviews: Asylum: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals
Cracked Corn: Scientists Solve Maize's Genetic Maze
Measuring the Daily Destruction of the World's Rainforests
Foreign Afflictions: Mental Disorders across Country Borders
Skate punk'd: Taxonomic "oops" put rare fish species in danger of extinction
Sinking Global Warming: Is There a Reliable Way to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels?
Embarrassing security leaks prompt bill to clamp down on government P2P use
Curbing population growth crucial to reducing carbon emissions
Researchers Try to Solve the Mystery of HIV Carriers Who Don't Contract AIDS
Ability to Guess Others' Thoughts Tied to Language Proficiency
More important than Copenhagen? U.S.-China deal on energy and climate
Researchers Try to Solve the Mystery of HIV Carriers Who Don't Contract AIDS
Skate punk'd: Taxonomic "oops" put rare fish species in danger of extinction
Embarrassing security leaks prompt bill to clamp down on government P2P use
More important than Copenhagen? U.S.-China deal on energy and climate
Putting Madness in Its Place: Can the Environment Explain Schizophrenia's Hereditary Patterns?
Ability to Guess Others' Thoughts Tied to Language Proficiency
Foreign Afflictions: Mental Disorders across Country Borders
Sinking Global Warming: Is There a Reliable Way to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels?
Renewed Hope for an AIDS Vaccine
15 Answers to Creationist Nonsense
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Does Inflammation Trigger Insulin Resistance and Diabetes?
Conditional Consciousness: Predicting Recovery from the Vegetative State
Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking.
The Double Life of ATP in Humans
Piercing the Plasma: Ideas to Beat the Communications Blackout of Reentry
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