Researchers who work with children must take extra care to protect their interests and rights, while still providing enough answers to make the research useful to the children. However, experts at a recent AAAS event said the definition of those rights and ethical research practices continue to develop with the advent of new technologies.
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A distant planet named HR 8799c, located 130 light-years outside of our solar system, has water and carbon monoxide—but not methane—in its atmosphere, researchers say. Their findings suggest that a particular planet-forming mechanism, known as core accretion, brought the young planet into existence.
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Rick Katz and his colleagues from Colorado were a bit apprehensive as they set out on Climate Science Day for an early morning Capitol Hill meeting. Their host, Rep. Doug Lamborn (R-Colorado), "is on the record as being skeptical that climate change is being caused by humans," said Katz, a statistician at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder.
Science Editor-in-Chief Bruce Alberts said that “every scientist should be trained to be highly suspicious about his or her own results,” and he called for uniformly high data-sharing standards during a 5 March Capitol Hill event on scientific integrity and transparency.
A new study confirms that the human sirtuin protein known as SIRT1, which has been shown to combat age-related diseases in many animals, can be directly activated by resveratrol—a natural compound found in the skin of grapes used to make red wine. Resveratrol is one of many so-called sirtuin-activating compounds, or STACs.
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