Science & Society

Superfluids, BECs And Bosenovas: The Ultimate Experiment

In a familiar world of solids, liquids and gases, we find the fourth state of matter, the plasmas of lightning to the aurora borealis and fluorescent tubes at the office. Further out, minor phenomena becomes the big event in space, our shining stars are p ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 1 2008 - 9:39pm

NATURE Takes On PLoS

Let's be honest; Nature and AAAS, non-profit or not, have employees and those employees would like to remain so. That requires money and a lot of it. Non-profit has never meant 'free', it just means they can't give money to shareholders ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 10 2011 - 4:38pm

Alcohol Powder Starts Flowing

Since 1969 a U.S. patent has been registered on the process of turning alcohol into powder. This year, products, such as gelatin shots and margaritas, based from alcohol powder are set to be released by Pulver Spirits and BPNC Distillery. Though alcohol po ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Apr 22 2014 - 4:38pm

Surrogate, Egg Donor Kids Do Just Fine

The emotional well-being of families where children lack a genetic or gestational link to one or both of their parents (where the children have been conceived through surrogacy, egg donation or donor insemination) has long been a subject of debate. In the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2008 - 11:22pm

Irritable Male Syndrome

Women get PMS and men get IMS. While it may be common knowledge that PMS is the psychological and emotional symptoms related to a woman’s menstrual cycle it is not so clear what IMS, or Irritable Male Syndrome, is. The name for the result of a drop in test ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 7 2008 - 8:43pm

Adolescent Weight Gain- Internet, Alcohol And Lack Of Sleep

Girls moving through adolescence may experience unhealthy levels of weight gain and a new study in The Journal of Pediatrics analyzes the effect of Internet usage, sleep, and alcohol and coffee consumption. Dr. Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2008 - 11:42pm

Women Over 70 Having Better Sex Than Ever

An increasing number of 70 year olds are having good sex and more often, and women in this age group are particularly satisfied with their sex lives, according to a study published today on BMJ.com. Knowledge about sexual behaviour in older people (70 year ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2011 - 12:44pm

Ugly Braces: Good News For Fathers, Bad News For Teenage Girls

While it's true that the attractiveness of orthodontic braces is related to less metal, according to a recent survey, the least attractive ones remain the most effective. It's that old form versus function issue. Study findings published in a rec ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2008 - 4:52pm

Is There Culinary Evolution? Not Really

However much popular television chefs like Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on, shows new research in the New Journal of Physics ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 12:34am

George Will: Why Are We kicking Talent Out of the US?

Continuing my science policy blogging streak (we'll get back to real science here soon, I promise!), it's worth noting Washington Post columnist George Will's recent piece about our "perverse national policy of expelling talented people ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 17 2009 - 10:54am