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Chasing money for science

Stagnant funding for the National Institutes of Health is forcing scientists to downsize their labs and abandon some of their most promising work, according to the authors of a new report to Congress.

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1. Money illusion and the market
   08-23-2007 · EurekAlert!
   People often pay more attention to price tags than to real value. Professor Jean-Robert Tyran, University of Copenhagen, discusses when money illusion can affect markets (eg. the housing market) in the current issue of Science.
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2. Misery is not miserly: New study finds why even momentary sadness increases spending
   02-08-2008 · EurekAlert!
   How you are feeling has an impact on your routine economic transactions, whether you're aware of this effect or not. In a new study that links contemporary science with the classic philosophy of William James, a research team finds that people feeling sad and self-focused spend more money to acquire the same commodities than those in a neutral emotional state.
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3. Money: It's more than an incentive according to University of Minnesota researcher
   11-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Why are some people more self-sufficient than others? Why are some people more willing to volunteer or help out than others? What makes some people seem stand-offish, while others move right in and help? Research conducted by Kathleen Vohs, assistant professor of marketing at the Carlson School of Management, University of Minnesota, demonstrates that money -- more specifically, people's exposure to the concept of money -- can start to answer these questions. The research is published in the November 17 issue of Science.
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4. Two sides of the same coin: Money spurs changes for better and worse
   11-16-2006 · EurekAlert!
   Money changes everything, and that includes changing people's motivations for the better and their behavior toward others for the worse, according to a new study published in the international journal Science.
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5. ESF's 1st Science Policy Conference ponders questions on era, global research area
   11-29-2007 · EurekAlert!
   Never mind the politics of a superstate, just consider the scientific challenge that faces Europe. Should researchers co-operate or compete? Should there be a master plan, prepared by the ministers, funding agencies and chiefs of European science, or should Europe's commissioners encourage imagination and invention at the laboratory bench? Should Europe's science managers favor basic or blue skies research, or worry about backing science that will make money?
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6. Keys to clean energy development
   05-08-2007 · Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
   Genzyme founder and Harvard professor George Whitesides says spending a lot of money on energy problems 'just doesn't work when the science isn't there.' Whitesides, a former MIT faculty member, spoke at an MIT energy colloquium on May 1.
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7. IBM and Imago find a crucial difficulty in semiconductor device scaling
   09-06-2007 · EurekAlert!
   As reported in the Sept. 7, 2007 issue of Science, IBM and Imago used atom probe tomography to observe, for the first time, distributions of individual dopant atoms at defects in semiconductor devices. The researchers found that clusters of dopant atoms form around defects after ion implantation and annealing. These clusters persist even after considerable thermal treatment, creating dopant fluctuations that may ultimately limit the scalability of semiconductor devices.
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8. Oldest stars may shed light on dark matter, researchers report in Science
   09-13-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The universe's earliest stars may hold clues to the nature of dark matter, the mysterious stuff that makes up most of the universe's matter but doesn’t interact with light, cosmologists report.
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9. Program provides blueprint for recruiting minorities to science and engineering
   09-26-2007 · EurekAlert!
   The Model Institutions for Excellence Program funded by the National Science Foundation and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration has developed a body of work over the past 11 years demonstrating successful strategies for recruiting under-represented minority students to science and engineering fields and supporting their successful completion of science degrees.
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10. Science Café: Fifty years since Sputnik
    10-02-2007 · University of Bath
    The world's first artificial satellite and the adventures of the Space Age will be discussed at the next Bath Science Café, which takes place in The Raven pub in Queen's Street next week (7.30pm, Monday 8 October 2007).
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