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Promoting healthy skepticism in the news: Helping journalists get it right

An editorial published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute discusses the exaggerated fears and hopes that often appear in news coverage of cancer research. The editorial provides guidance for both the media and journals to help alleviate the problem.

Is inhibition a measure of free will?

September 9, 2009 by The Quantum Lob...

Reading Alwyn Scott's "Stairway to the Mind" I came across an interesting tidbit of information pointing out that human's have a greater percentage of inhibitory neurons compared to other animals (human 75% rabbit 31%). For some unknown reason this made me think about the tricky construct of free will and the question of whether free will could be better measured not by what we chose to do, but by what we chose not to do. In other words, could free will be measured by a capacity to inhibit certain thoughts and behaviors.

Research output in developing countries reveals 194 percent increase in five years

London, 2 July 2009 -- The partners of Research4Life announced today at the World Conference of Science Journalists 2009 that a new research impact analysis has demonstrated a dramatic rise in research output by scientists in the developing world since 2002.

Scientists advance safety of nanotechnology

Scientists have identified for the first time a mechanism by which nanoparticles
cause lung damage and have demonstrated that it can be combated by blocking the
process involved, taking a step toward addressing the growing concerns over the
safety of nanotechnology.

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Special issue 'Comparative Cognition in Context' now published

Amsterdam, 02 March 2009 - Coinciding with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12th, 2009, a special issue of Behavioural Processes "Comparative Cognition in Context" was published by Elsevier.