Science Education & Policy

Study: Correlation Between Low Testosterone And Depression In Men

Older men with lower free testosterone levels in their blood appear to have higher prevalence of depression, according to a new report. Depression affects between 2 percent and 5 percent of the population at any given time, according to background informat ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2008 - 4:57pm

Herbal Medicine: Science Takes A New Look At Nature's Pharmacy

Curing cancer with 'natural' products used to be dismissed as shaman quackery but many chemotherapies that fight cancer in modern medicine are natural products or were developed on the basis of natural substances. Thus, taxanes used in prostate a ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2008 - 12:12pm

Does Arts Education Make People Smarter?

Are smart people drawn to the arts or does arts training make people smarter? Or neither? According to research led by Dr. Michael S. Gazzaniga of the University of California at Santa Barbara, children motivated in the arts develop attention skills and st ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2008 - 3:36pm

Study: Blood Stem Cells Originate In Mother's Placenta

Solving a long-standing biological mystery, UCLA stem cell researchers have discovered that blood stem cells, the cells that later differentiate into all the cells in the blood supply, originate and are nurtured in the placenta. The discovery may allow res ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2008 - 12:43pm

Defending The Accuracy And Credibility Of Public Opinion Polling

Nancy Mathiowetz is “drowning in data” but so is almost everyone else. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sociology professor and president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research says the results of public opinion polls measure nearly e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 12:29pm

Science Magazine Discovers Science 2.0, Sort Of

Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland, one of the world’s leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it’s time for the laboratory research that has defined science for the last 400 years to make room for a revolutionary ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2010 - 10:08am

Bad Science Journalism And The Myth Of The Oppressed Underdog

There is a particular narrative about science that science journalists love to write about, and Americans love to hear. I call it the 'oppressed underdog' narrative, and it would be great except for the fact that it's usually wrong. The narr ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 25 2010 - 3:59pm

Science & Math Education- Is Caring And Cash Enough To Make A Difference?

I feel like I am going to be preaching-to-the-choir with this blog. The fact that you are reading it puts you in the "choir." I would encourage all of you to read the first two columns of the article "A New Bottom Line For School Science&quo ...

Article - Jim Myres - Mar 9 2008 - 9:50pm

Second Life To First: Researchers Create Virtual Character With Reasoning Of A Child

Video games such as Second Life give users the freedom to create characters in the digital domain that look and seem more human than ever before but while they can have your hair or your hazel eyes, it's still just a pretty face. A group of researcher ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2008 - 10:56am

Claim: Biofuel Invention Turns Today's Trash Into Tomorrow's Ethanol

At the end of "Back To The Future", Doc shows up wearing futuristic clothes and possessing a swanky new addition to his DeLorean- a "Mr. Fusion" device so that he no longer required the Plutonium that caused all of the problems with the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 10 2008 - 4:26pm