http://www.retiredscientists.org Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:08:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/scientists-regenerate-a-plant-30000-years-on/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/scientists-regenerate-a-plant-30000-years-on/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:08:50 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/scientists-regenerate-a-plant-30000-years-on/ Fruit seeds stored away by squirrels more than 30,000 years ago and found in Siberian permafrost have been regenerated into full flowering plants by scientists in Russia, a new study has revealed.

]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/scientists-regenerate-a-plant-30000-years-on/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-7/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-7/#comments Tue, 21 Feb 2012 02:10:14 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/21/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-7/ The Canadian government is accused of "muzzling" its scientists, but the government says it views science communication as a priority.

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]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/20/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-5/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-4/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-4/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 12:26:04 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-4/ The Canadian government is accused of "muzzling" its scientists, but the government says it views science communication as a priority.

]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-4/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-3/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-3/#comments Sun, 19 Feb 2012 02:03:07 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-3/ The Canadian government is accused of "muzzling" its scientists, but the government says it views science communication as a priority.

]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/19/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-3/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-2/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-2/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 12:02:38 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-2/ The Canadian government is accused of "muzzling" its scientists, but the government says it views science communication as a priority.

]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists-2/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists/#comments Sat, 18 Feb 2012 02:08:01 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists/ The Canadian government is accused of "muzzling" its scientists, but the government says it views science communication as a priority.

]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/18/canada-muzzling-its-scientists/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/16/scientists-debate-mutant-bird-flu-risk-at-who/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/16/scientists-debate-mutant-bird-flu-risk-at-who/#comments Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:01:06 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/16/scientists-debate-mutant-bird-flu-risk-at-who/ Scientists met behind closed doors in Geneva Thursday to discuss whether controversial research on a mutant form of bird flu capable of being spread among humans can be made public.

]]> http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/16/scientists-debate-mutant-bird-flu-risk-at-who/feed/ 0 http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/14/rapunzel-number-helps-scientists-quantify-ponytails/ http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/14/rapunzel-number-helps-scientists-quantify-ponytails/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 02:29:02 +0000 admin http://www.retiredscientists.org/2012/02/14/rapunzel-number-helps-scientists-quantify-ponytails/ LONDON (Reuters) – Scientists said on Friday that a "Rapunzel Number" may have helped them to crack a problem that has perplexed humanity since Leonardo da Vinci pondered it 500 years ago. Scientists from the University of Cambridge and the University of Warwick said they had devised a "Ponytail Shape Equation", which when calculated using the Rapunzel Number and a measure of the curliness of …

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