Science & Society

Scientists Tackle The Complexity Of How Females Appear Attractive

A group of scientists say they have conducted a comprehensive study of how different body measurements correspond with ratings of female attractiveness. Even across cultural divides, women who are young, tall and long armed were considered the most attract ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2010 - 4:30pm

Crowdsourcing Tackles Type 1 Diabetes

Can crowdsourcing lead to better medicine?    Crowdsourcing is used in astronomy and protein folding in biology, along with engineering and computer software. But can the 'wisdom of crowds' also help cure disease? It's certainly possible.  A ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2010 - 11:44am

Idealizing Or Settling? Real Life Partners Don't Stack Up To Ideal Mates

Our ideal image of the perfect partner differs greatly from the one we have, according to new research from the University of Sheffield and the University of Montpellier in France. Why would we choose partners with a different height, weight and body mass ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2010 - 1:35pm

Dating advice or disaster in the making?

When you think 'geek', is your first thought 'marry one'?  If so, you may enjoy this 'how to' from blogger Leslie Sobol over at AMD (yeah, the processor manufacturers).  If, on the other hand, you are yourself a geek, at least ...

Blog Post - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Oct 1 2010 - 4:07pm

The Doomsday Lobby: How Hype And Panic Impact Science Funding

It's election season and the biggest schism in American culture come November voting won't be abortion or global warming, it will be the size and role of the U.S. government in the last two years. But increased government involvement is not new i ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2010 - 4:03pm

Survey Says: In Science We Trust

A new poll by Nature and Scientific American, out in SA's October 2010 issue, notes that scientists have had a tough year- the "leaked 'Climategate' e-mails painted researchers as censorious," the H1N1 outbreak "led to charges ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Oct 4 2010 - 2:27pm

The Wacky World Of Andre Geim: From Ig Nobel To Nobel

Is the name Andre Geim familiar to you?  If you are in science, you know him because he just won the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on graphene with Konstantin Novoselov at the University of Manchester. If you instead like to make fun of science, ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 5 2010 - 6:39pm

Once Chinese Equals Three Times Spanish

Since China becomes ever more important also for academia and science, here insights into difficulties that are not widely mentioned. I started with the language barrier, and there were points that need to be explained further. My first point was that if y ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Nov 8 2016 - 1:35am

Elsevier Introduces Article-Based Publishing

Publishing is evolving and, of the big publishers (The Lancet, Cell, etc.), no one is more forward-thinking than Elsevier.    They recently announced Article-Based Publishing, their new way to  publish articles as final (and citable) without needing to wai ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Oct 7 2010 - 7:02am

POP Science: Nefarious Numbers

What is on the mind of all the physicists all over the world right now? Quantum Gravity? Global warming? No. It is the same that is on the mind of all the other scientists in academia, too. Impact factor (IF)! How can I get my name on a paper into a high I ...

Article - Sascha Vongehr - Oct 7 2010 - 10:03am