Science & Society

Last week there was another very public case of a journal article being retracted as a result of academic misconduct. This time it was in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), with the lead author – Dr Anna Ahimastos, working at Melbourn ...

Article - The Conversation - Sep 22 2015 - 6:36pm

Understanding Self-Control: Eating And Spending Are Different Public Policy Issues

You can resist buying a candy bar while you're waiting in the checkout line at the grocery store--but you'll buy any pair of shoes that are on sale. Your best friend, in contrast, wouldn't dream of buying a pair of shoes he thinks he doesn& ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2015 - 11:00am

Gender Quotas In Academia-- Will They Mean Better Research?

Authors of a new report have examined the use of gender quotas to increase the number of women at the highest career levels in academia. 'Exploring quotas in academia', a report of a study conducted by EMBO in collaboration with the Robert Bosch ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2015 - 12:44pm

Almost Half Of US Seafood Supply Is Wasted, Mostly By Consumers

As much as 47 percent of the edible U.S. seafood supply is lost each year, mainly from consumer waste, according to a paper in Global Environmental Change, which takes advantage of a recent spotlight on the sustainability of the world's seafood resou ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2015 - 6:30am

Environmental Activism Puts NYC At Risk Of Future Flooding During Hurricanes

Whether or not a coastal city floods during a hurricane depends on the storm, tide and sea level, and now a team of climate scientists show that the risk of New York City flooding has increased dramatically during the industrial era as a result of human-c ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2015 - 2:19pm

American Council On Science And Health Embraces Transparency: Will Others Follow?

If you get money from a corporation, are you for sale? It’s obviously a silly question, since almost everyone in America signs the backs of checks ratherr than the front of them, yet much of the public tends to think that if a scientist gets funding from ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Sep 30 2015 - 5:42am

Process Labels: Bridging The Informational Gap Or Confusing Consumers?

In the early days of food labeling and regulations, it was just about mandating honesty. If you go to buy mayonnaise, you shouldn't have to wonder if it is mayonnaise (1), and then labels became a marketing distinction. Better ingredients meant a bet ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Dec 4 2018 - 1:54pm

Online Market For Invasive Plants Is Booming

Goldenrod, Himalayan balsam, Chinese windmill palm: three plants, one problem. All are native to continents other than Europe, but were introduced to Switzerland as garden or ornamental plants. At some point they "escaped" into the wild, where t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2015 - 11:30am

Paper Ceiling For Women: Media (Including Social) Prefer Men

"John, Jim, Jake, Josh, Jack...and Jane." Five out of every six names that appear in the media today are those of men, a McGill-led sociology team claims. Indeed, the more mentions a person receives in the media, the higher the chances are that ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2015 - 3:34pm

Houston Is A Lot More Tolerant Of Immigrants Than Copenhagen Is

Residents of Copenhagen, Denmark, are more likely than Houstonians to believe immigration threatens their country's culture. That's one of several findings in a new survey from Rice University's Kinder Institute for Urban Research. ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2015 - 11:23am