Research Archives - The Westside Story

Technologies to tackle bootleg booze

Jan 10, 2019

After a Chinese millionaire paid $10,000 for a single glass of whisky which turned out to be fake, research by the Scottish Universities Environmental Research Centre (SUERC) discovered that counterfeit goods a...

US researchers are once again hindered by the government shutdown

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Jan 7, 2019

Opinion, Policy, Science

Yet again, the partial government shutdown is threatening the continuity of federally funded science and research in the US. On Monday, the shutdown became the third longest ever, on its seventeenth day, with n...

UK, EU scientists call for safeguards for research in Brexit deal

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Oct 22, 2018

Policy, Science, World

Scientists are calling for Brexit negotiations to preserve "the flow of people and ideas across borders" that is vital to scientific research in Britain and the European Union. The letter was addressed to UK Pr...

MPs warn Britain risks its science leadership role by not committing to EU research program

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Mar 24, 2018

Science, World

According to the UK’s House of Commons science and technology select committee, Britain is risking its role as a global science and research leader by failing to commit to the EU’s next wave of science funding....

The government shutdown, and lingering budget uncertainty, obstruct science and research

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Jan 23, 2018

Opinion, Policy, Science

On Monday, both houses of Congress voted to pass a short-term spending bill to end a government shutdown that had already lasted three days. While this means the shutdown is now over, the short-term spending bi...

Budget freeze blocks 2018 research plans at science agencies

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Jan 2, 2018

Policy, Science

Shortly before Christmas, the US Congress extended a continuing resolution that freezes spending at 2017 levels until the 19th of January. The move bought Congress time to decide on final numbers for the 2018 f...

Science advocates avert many of the worst GOP proposals in final tax bill

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Dec 19, 2017

Policy, Science

The final version of the Republican tax bill was released Friday, offering compromises across a range of issues important to scientists and researchers in the US, according to David Malakoff, writing for Scien...

House tax plan would strain graduate students, with a ripple effect on US science and higher education

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Dec 3, 2017

Environment, Opinion, Policy, Science

The US Senate passed its version of the GOP tax bill early Saturday morning, with a 51 to 49 vote almost directly along party lines. Senate leaders had spent the day making last minute concessions to Republican...

Computer scientists design method to root out gender and racial biases in machine learning algorithms

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Dec 19, 2016

Innovation, Science

Researchers have created a test to assess gender and racial biases in machine learning algorithms. The paper was presented at the Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference in Barcelona, Spain, alo...

Study suggests eventual stem-cell based treatment for reversing aging

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Dec 15, 2016

Health, Innovation, Science

Scientists at the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, have used gene therapy to reverse aspects of the aging process in mice. Though the researchers caution that a clinical application for humans is at best...

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