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...however, China's leaders have decided to enter the lab and shake the beaker. This week, they are expected to announce a tweak to the Basic Law, the closest thing Hong Kong has to a constitution. Beijing says it's simply conducting an exercise in "interpretation." But the move has ignited a furious debate among Hong Kongers over its necessity, and has even sparked unrest. Last Thursday some 3,000 people held a candlelight vigil to protest what they feel is unwarranted Chinese interference, and the following day police forcibly removed 100 demonstrators besieging the main government office building...
Panel member Charles Vest, president of M.I.T., has been accused by a colleague of being slow to investigate allegations of fraud at a lab that does missile-defense work for the Pentagon. Ted Postol, an M.I.T. professor of technology and national security, says Vest was told in 2001 about allegations that officials at the school's Lincoln Laboratory misled federal investigators about the failure of a key test of the U.S. missile-defense system--a top Bush priority. Postol claims that Vest "did not take action," even though he "knew there were potential criminal violations and scientific fraud." A spokesman...
...order to turn that story around, Hauser is now gathering some of the first empirical data ever collected about the processes of human thought, much of which comes straight from Harvard’s monkey lab. He’s found that morality may be hard-wired into the human brain—and missing from the minds of animals...
Hauser’s research integrates not only psychology and biological science, but philosophy, evolutionary biology and linguistics. “One of the exciting things about the lab is that the empirical work we do has a great deal of importance for domains of the academic world that are very rich in theory,” says Cushman...
...vanguard project has potentially enormous implications. “It’s a very rare circumstance when you can ask the most fundamental and interesting questions in the lab and have them matter to the lay public. It’s a special opportunity,” Dr. Jayaraj Rajagopal who works in Melton’s lab, said in an email. As a scientific tool, the cell lines, which Melton has made available to the scientific community at no charge, can be valuable to researchers in a number of fields. As a political statement...