Science & Society

Architect Dr. David Fisher Announces The Launch Of The Dynamic Tower, The World's First Building In Motion

NEW YORK, June 24 /PRNewswire/--- First Rotating Skyscraper to be Self Powered and Completely Prefabricated Visionary Italian architect Dr. David Fisher today announced the launch of the revolutionary Dynamic Tower, the world's first building in moti ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2008 - 11:28am

Religious Behavior And Political Participation Studied

A study recently published in Social Science Quarterly finds that religious beliefs play a more significant role than church attendance or religious traditions in political participation. Religious beliefs affected political participation more than other m ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2008 - 12:25pm

New Antimicrobial Wash Kills Salmonella And E. Coli In Minutes

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that, in the U.S. alone, foodborne pathogens are responsible for 76 million illnesses every year. Of the people affected by those illnesses, 300,000 are hospitalized and more than 5,000 die. These wi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2008 - 4:02pm

Plastic Surgeons Hope For 55 Million Plastic Surgery Customers By 2015

More than 55 million cosmetic surgery procedures will be performed in 2015, predicts a recent study in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS). That's 4 times the number of procedures performe ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2008 - 1:23am

The Feminine Touch- Your Company's Secret Weapon?

There are more men involved in high-profile international business deals than women, and that may be hurting companies, according to the results of a new Tel Aviv University study on the role of gender in management, which found that women may be more skil ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2008 - 10:53pm

Calling all evolutionary biologists- protect the "Tree of Life" from extinction by Hollywood

OK, I am getting worried. As I wrote a few weeks ago, there is a new movie coming out supposedly next year called "The Tree of Life" starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and others. Well, the movie sounds like it could be good. But though this may sound ...

Blog Post - Jonathan Eisen - Feb 21 2009 - 7:40pm

Homosexuality A Result Of Genetics And Random Environmental Factors, Says Twins Study

Homosexual behavior is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins. Researchers from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences and Karolinska Institutet ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2008 - 5:50pm

Better Exercise With A Carbohydrate And Caffeine Post-Workout Meal

Recipe to recover more quickly from exercise: Finish workout, eat pasta, and wash down with five or six cups of strong coffee. Glycogen, the muscle's primary fuel source during exercise, is replenished more rapidly when athletes ingest both carbohydra ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 1:11am

Modern Medical Techniques Tackle Violins, Wood Density And That Stradivarius Sound

Dr. Berend Stoel from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), in collaboration with renowned luthier Terry Borman, has put classical violins in a CT scanner and discovered that the homogeneity in the densities of the wood from which the classical viol ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 9:56pm

Thoughts On The UCSD Conference On New Communication Channels For Biology

I'm back from the UCSD workshop on New Communication Channels for Biology held June 27-28, 2008. The talks were recorded and are now available here. The first day mainly consisted of talks while the second was very heavy on breakout sessions (see agen ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Jul 2 2008 - 2:59pm