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February 22
1
U.S. Science Agencies Set for Budget Boost in Deal to Avert Government Shutdown (Nature News)
NASA, the National Science Foundation and the Environmental Protection Agency are among the agencies whose funding would increase.
2
Most Biomedical Studies Fail to Report if Results Differ by Sex (The Guardian)
Analysis of more than 11.5 million medical research papers from 1980 to 2016 found a majority overlooked the role of sex differences in genetics, physiology and the way the body responds to drugs.
3
Thousands of Scientists Run Up Against Elsevier’s Paywall (Nature)
Researchers have been left without access to new papers as libraries and the major publisher fail to agree on subscription deals.
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Recent Events Highlight an Unpleasant Scientific Practice: Ethics Dumping (The Economist)
Gene-edited babies, head transplants and other proposals suggest that rich-world scientists go to other countries to conduct questionable experiments.
