Science & Society

Back To The '80s: Why Nostalgia Is All The Rage In Cinema

The pressure's on JJ Abrams and the new Star Wars films.Credit: wiredphotostream, CC BY-NC By Sorcha Ní Fhlainn, Manchester Metropolitan University ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 30 2014 - 9:28am

Abortions Don’t Cause Cancer Any More Than Parties Do

Research that found links between abortion and breast cancer also found men who had 'much opportunity to participate in parties' were more likely to have stomach cancer. Credit: burningmax/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA By Louise Keogh, University of Melbo ...

Article - The Conversation - Aug 31 2014 - 3:00pm

Dehumanization Of Women? Jack The Ripper's Forgotten Victims

Jack The Ripper is famous- everyone in the Western world has heard of the unsolved case of the Whitechapel serial killer who preyed on prostitutes for a few months in 1888. There were only five (or six) of those murders almost 130 years ago yet today there ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 31 2014 - 12:09pm

Neil Tyson On The Politics Of Science Denial

Spend any time in American science media and you may find some of them are pretty far out of the political mainstream; so far out, they may not even be friends with anyone who has not always voted the same way as them. So it's unsurprising that much o ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 1 2014 - 7:43pm

21st Century Toasters- Why Utilities Want You To Buy That Electric Car

Why would anyone bake bread and then turn around and toast it? I lived in a Pennsylvania house heated by wood. The idea of using our manual labor, in the form of wood, to toast bread was silly- but we owned an electric toaster. Somehow, being removed from ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Nov 20 2018 - 2:58pm

Weak Core Linked To More Missed Days For Baseball Pitchers

It's the home stretch of the professional baseball season and that means players are more likely to be tired or sustain an injury. New research suggests that a stronger core might help. In the study, 347 pitchers were assessed for lumbopelvic control ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 2 2014 - 2:29pm

Retracted Papers Stigmatize, Jeopardize Solid Research In Related Fields

Should scientists handle retractions differently? Peer review cannot catch everything. In many papers, there is no peer review at all, it is editorial review that checks off a few boxes and relies on post-publication peer review to find flaws. That makes ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2014 - 11:02am

4 Weird Ideas People Used To Have About Women’s Periods

By Helen King, The Open University It wasn’t that long ago that it was believed that regular periods were essential for women's health and in their absence, a loss of blood through another orifice was a fair substitute. In a classical Greek text link ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 4 2014 - 11:31am

Muslim Feminists Reclaim The Hijab To Fight The Patriarchy

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Article - The Conversation - Sep 5 2014 - 9:54pm

We Need To Talk About The Sexual Abuse Of Scientists

Scientists can be victims of sexual abuse from their peers just as in any institution. Credit: Minerva Studio By Margaret C. Hardy, The University of Queensland The life sciences have come under fire recently with a study published in PLOS ONE that invest ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 7 2014 - 6:39pm