Germany joins the biotech race; after years of yielding to fierce public opposition, the German government has picked three regions of the country to spearhead its attempt to make up lost ground in biotech

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Areas around Heidelberg, Munich and Cologne will each receive $30 million in funds and loans over several years to lead the country's effort to become the top biotech player in Europe. The effort required a major public relations campaign to counter pervasive public distrust of genetic research.

Germany, Biotechnology industry, Biotechnology industries, Science and technology policy, Science and state, Science policy, Federal aid to research, Government aid to research

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Economics meets artificial life

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Economist W. Brian Arthur has developed a computer simulation of stock trading that more closely represents how real stock markets work than do traditional free-market models. The stock traders in Arthur's model learn from their own errors and from the successful strategies of other traders.

Models, Stock-exchange, Stock exchanges, Arthur, W. Brian

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Could Coulomb's experiment result in Coulomb's law?

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Science historians have discovered that Coulomb may have manipulated data in deriving his law of electrostatic forces between charged particles. Experiments using replicas of his scientific instruments did not give the results he reported.

History, Electrostatic interactions, Coulomb potential, Coulomb, Charles, Riess, Falk, Heering, Peter

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