According to its own web site, Maryland’s Johns Hopkins University is the leading U.S. academic institution in total research and development spending. In fiscal year 2013, the university performed $2.2 billion in medical, science, and engineering research. It has ranked No. 1 in spending for the 35th year in a row, according to the National Science Foundation. …
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The University of New England and Southern Research of Birmingham, Alabama have won a $4.5 million, five-year grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) of the National Institutes of Health to develop opioid drugs for the treatment of chronic pain. Specifically, the grant is for developing opioid drugs that have fewer adverse effects than…
How Art Reveals Truth in Science.
In the coming weeks we will be hearing a lot about the tenth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. The storm was a Category 3 hurricane when it came ashore at New Orleans on August 29, 2005, causing the levees that were supposed to protect the city to fail catastrophically. Much has been made of the government’s response –…
The Research Project entries for the states of California and Georgia both dealt with climate change. This week we add a third state to that list. Kelly Spratte-Lennington, a researcher at Transylvania University in Lexington Kentucky, is studying migration patterns of plants and animals caused by warming of the earth’s atmosphere. Her paper explaining the research is…
Mirror Neurons 