Science & Society

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

A Fake Smithsonian Exhibit

A Fake Smithsonian Exhibit The integrity of the Smithsonian Institution hinges on disseminating knowledge in an objective, thorough and fair manner. Like the freedoms that our forefathers included in the First Amendment, the freedom to present information ...

Article - Patrick Lockerby - Oct 9 2010 - 8:34pm

Maurice Allais is no longer with us.

Maurice Allais won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1988. So why is he of interest here? His Telegraph Obituary is headed: Maurice Allais, who died on October 9 aged 99, was a Nobel Prize winner who warned against "casino" stockmarket practices ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 12 2010 - 11:33am

Population growth is inversely proportional to prosperity

Population growth has been uneven in a country in a society and in the world. Global earth has to support 8 billion people in coming years starting from 1 billion only not so long ago. The world population is growing in geometric proportion. As far as I kn ...

Blog Post - Ashwani Kumar - Oct 13 2010 - 12:52pm

National Academies Announce 2010 Communication Awards Winners

The National Academies (the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering, and the Institute of Medicine) announced the recipients of their 2010 Communication Awards today. Part of the Keck Futures Initiative, these awards recognize exc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2010 - 10:56am

What Incest And Folk-Dancing Have In Common

Lunch Hour Lectures have been running at University College London since 1942. It's terrific to know that even at the height of World War II, British citizens wanted to learn about the latest science in an informal setting. Scheduled for today, the f ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2010 - 2:55pm