[quick news] the largest academic misconduct case in the United States on March 27, 2019: researchers at Duke University made false claims, with compensation of more than $100 million

Duke University has agreed to pay $112.5 million to the U.S government to end a lawsuit over academic fraud, according to science Com In 2014, Duke University biologist Joseph Thomas filed a lawsuit accusing Erin Potts Kant, a former biologist at Duke University, of tampering with experimental data to obtain a large amount of federal funding In 2013, Potts Kant was dismissed from school for corruption research funding and given a suspended sentence Subsequent investigation found that Potts Kant was also suspected of data fraud in more than 60 fund applications, involving up to $200 million in funding In addition, more than 20 of her papers were withdrawn Today, the huge compensation paid by Duke University marks the end of the largest academic misconduct case in the United States Https:// is the college entrance examination result the world famous school pass? Is it not so easy to read Cambridge University with the college entrance examination results? Recently, the news that "Cambridge University recognizes the achievements of China's college entrance examination" has become a hot topic Not only parents can't calm down, many netizens also said, "can we go back to college entrance examination?" Amid the uproar, Cambridge University responded that it had admitted the results of China's college entrance examination several years ago, not a new move this year Does the competition of overseas famous schools for students mean that the college entrance examination results have become the "pass" of world famous schools? According to overseas experts, there are so many overseas colleges and universities that have recognized the results of China's college entrance examination It is not possible to successfully apply for the college entrance examination, but more comprehensive conditions are needed According to the information on the official website of Cambridge, Cambridge University can accept the score of China's college entrance examination, but it is required that the score of candidates should be the top 0.1% of the province where they are located, and at the same time, they should meet the language requirements of the application major, usually requiring 7 points of IELTS In other words, Cambridge University is more open to Chinese international students, and begins to compete with Peking University and Tsinghua University, the top universities in China, for top student resources Http://edu.people.com.cn/n1/2019/0326/c1006-30994756.html the first all female spacewalk was cancelled because the spacesuit "didn't fit" in the early morning of Beijing time on the 26th, NASA announced that it was originally scheduled for 29 Japan's space walk on the international space station was changed from "women's doubles" to "men's and women's mixed doubles" The first all female space walk in the history of space flight failed to take place On March 6, NASA announced that two female astronauts, Anne McLean and Christina Koch, will perform the March 29 spacewalk mission to replace the international space station with more powerful lithium-ion batteries Before, there were also female astronauts working out of the cabin Peggy Whitson even walked in space 10 times, but all of them were accompanied by male astronauts Therefore, the all female spacewalk has a special significance In the early morning of the 26th, NASA released a "mission briefing", announcing that the 29th mission will be completed by Christina Koch and astronaut Nick Hague The reason is that Anne McLean has completed a spacewalk on the 22nd, and she found that her extravehicular spacesuit "underwear" - upper fiberglass hard shell (HUT) does not fit, and the "medium" number is more suitable But by the 29th, only one spacesuit was available, which could only satisfy one female astronaut So NASA ground mission managers decided to change the mission deployment after communicating with McLean and others Http://digitalpaper.stdaily.com/http_ / 27 / content_ HTM? Div = - 1 until the age of 90, new neurons in healthy human brain continue to develop recently A paper published online in nature medicine shows that new neurons in healthy human brain will continue to develop until the age of 90 The study also found a significant decrease in the formation of new neurons in the brain of Alzheimer's patients Maria Llorens Martin of the Spanish Council for advanced scientific research, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain, and colleagues analyzed organizational samples of 58 subjects The results show that although there is a certain degree of age-related decline, adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus of human brain can be observed for life The authors also found that adult neurogenesis decreased significantly in the course of human Alzheimer's disease The authors point out that the differences between their studies and those that have not detected adult neurogenesis in the past may be due to the different methods used or the quality of tissue samples The new study assessed the impact of factors such as tissue fixation techniques and delays between tissue acquisition and processing on the quality of tissue staining, which is essential for detecting new neurons Https:// new trend of NSFC reform: highlighting the "from 0 to 1" original orientation March 26, the second plenary session of the Eighth National Natural Science Foundation Committee (hereinafter referred to as NSFC) was held in Beijing The meeting reviewed and adopted the work report made by Li Jinghai, director of NSFC "As long as they are original scientific ideas, they are all supported by the science foundation." Li Jinghai stressed in the report According to the report, basic research in various disciplines will be comprehensively distributed, and more efforts will be made to support researchers to carry out basic research on their own topics We will continue to strengthen support for basic subjects such as mathematics and physics Focus on the important scientific issues in the scientific frontier and national demand, focus on the possible direction of major breakthroughs in interdisciplinary fields, and increase the support for stability Improve the coordination mechanism of project review and the allocation mode of mobile resources, and fully mobilize the enthusiasm of all departments to support interdisciplinary research Explore and optimize the organizational mechanism to better promote cross integration research Highlight the original orientation of "from 0 to 1" and improve the evaluation and funding mechanism conducive to funding original ideas Explore and implement the recommendation application mechanism, support the experts, institutions or managers with good reputation and other direct recommendation projects, so that scientists with ideas and abilities and courage to innovate can be supported, and enhance the sense of responsibility and achievement of the recommenders and recommendation institutions http://news.sciencenet.cn/htmlnews/2019/3/424527.shtm