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Science News Forum - SciScoop

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Community-led science news forum and blog for everyone interested or active in science. All scientific fields and topics covered. Everyone can post, registered members get to vote and to add links to their articles and postings.

Added on: Aug 13th, 2005
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: David Bradley Science Writer
Listed in: Science Technology Blogging
Tags: science Chemistry geek coupons spectroscopy

Recent Posts

Controversial saturated fat

Posted on Friday November 20th, 2009 at 07:00 in science, diet, health, nutrition, saturated fat

The phrase “artery clogging saturated fats” has been in common usage for many years. In fact the notion that saturated fats cause heart disease had it’s genesis in research conducted by Ancel Keys, a University of Minnesota Physi...
Water vapor and global warming

Posted on Monday November 16th, 2009 at 07:00 in science, environment, climate change, greenhouse gas

With Copenhagen on the horizon, is it time to check over the physics and chemistry behind the climate change debate? SciScoop has spoken to several scientists recently who would say so, some of whom consider the climate change debate nothing more ...
Twitter respect ratio for science

Posted on Friday November 13th, 2009 at 04:40 in science, metrics, twitter, boraz

Okay. I created a table based on a novel metric for Twitter users in which reach for a particular user is given as the percentage of times listed over follower count. This puts a whole new slant on the top-ranked scientwists with 2000+ Twitter follow...
HPV vaccination outcry

Posted on Tuesday November 10th, 2009 at 07:00 in science, hpv, vaccines, vaccination, cervirax

There is an immense anti-vaccine movement against which healthcare workers and others are having to rally to prevent the spread of disinformation. SciScoop asked a cancer expert to comment on the claims that HPV vaccination is a pharma scam. The H...
32 scientwists with 2000+ Twitter followers

Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 12:45 in science, social media, twitter, scientwists

There are some amazing and inspiring science types on Twitter, many of whom have pulled together quite a crowd of followers. With the current craze for twitter lists, I migrated as many as I could from the original scientwists list to the new system,...
Can a Mediterranean diet beat breast cancer?

Posted on Monday November 2nd, 2009 at 12:08 in science, diet, health, breast cancer, nutrition

Valery Fortie is the National Awareness Coordinator of Mediterraneanbook.com, a directory of news source focused on healthy eating habits. The author suggests that the Mediterranean Diet can help ward off many diseases and illnesses. One of those ...