Science & Society

Psychology Of Cooperation- Democracies Put Aside Personal Gain To Work Toward Common Good

In a new international study of 16 countries published in Science, economists studied the extent to which some people will sacrifice personal gain to benefit the wider public, while ‘freeloaders’ try to take advantage of their generosity. Marked national d ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 5:20pm

Australia-China Sign Clean Coal Agreement

In an important step towards a greener global future, Australia and China signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research today in Beijing. The agreement, between CSIRO and China’s Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI), will see TPRI inst ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2008 - 10:47am

Geek Logik: How Many Hours Of Sports Can You Watch Without Her Getting Angry?

Due to a recent whirlwind bout of touring, I was excited to do nothing but plunk on my couch with the dog and watch many, many hours of pro sports. Ski videos would be nice, but really what I was looking for was a good cricket match — completely incomprehe ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 13 2008 - 4:07pm

First-Born Children, Useless Data, and Me

Odd Numbers, an excellent blog by Jubin Zelveh at Portfolio.com, recently listed a few findings from the American Time Use Survey, which is in danger of being ended. They included:- First-born children receive 20 to 30 minutes more quality time each day f ...

Blog Post - Seth Roberts - Mar 12 2008 - 3:05pm

NCAA Basketball 'March Madness' Success Leads To Admissions Boost

"March Madness", the annual tournament in college basketball to determine the national champion, impacts more than just sports fans. College basketball teams that make this year’s cut for the 'Sweet 16' may boost the number of students ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Good news: Richard Dawkins is bigger than Jesus on Scienceblogs.com

Euan Adie, who works for Nature and runs their Postgenomic tool, ran an analysis of Scienceblogs.com common terms in response to the big blow-up a few weeks ago at Bayblab called the state of science blogging. His "Postgenomic" tool holds a prime ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 14 2013 - 11:49am

Sports- Doping Tests Made Difficult By Enzyme UGT2B17

The tests for testosterone doping used in professional and amateur sports may routinely be confounded by a common genetic variation, according to a new study. Unless this variation is accounted for, current testing methods could implicate innocent athletes ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2008 - 8:59am

Lower Pitcher's Mound Will Reduce Baseball Injuries- Study

In baseball's golden age, pitchers had a higher mound and threw more complete games but careers were shorter. As salaries continue to rise there is greater concern about protecting the investments. A new study involving several Major League Baseball p ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 30 2010 - 8:42pm

Nanometer Needles, Your Next Storage Solution And The Math Of Sandboxes

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research has a couple of interesting things in the works, the first being next generation media storage. Dutch researcher Alexander le Fèbre has demonstrated that a field-emission current signal can be used to ar ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2008 - 2:33pm

Spending Will Make You Happier, But Not The Way You Might Think

Common sense says that we are happier when we get more money to spend on ourselves. At least, that’s what passes for commonsense in modern capitalistic societies, from the United States to China.  Indeed, when Elizabeth Dunn and colleagues at the Universi ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Apr 2 2008 - 5:29pm