Science Education & Policy

News Media (Except Us) Rarely Report Funding Sources In Medical Research

An analysis of news media coverage of medical studies indicates that news articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, according to a study in the Oc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2008 - 10:43pm

Television Viewing And Aggression Impacted By Both Gender And Ethnicity, Say Psychologists

The effect of media violence on behavior is not as straightforward as you might think. Although many studies have been conducted examining the link between violence on TV and aggressive behavior, most of these studies have overlooked several other potenti ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2008 - 2:27pm

Science vs. Nonscience: Teaching Creation and Evolution is not the Compromise Position, it's the Fundamentalist One

The argument that we should teach both creationism and evolution in public schools has been the fundamentalist argument since 1968, when the Supreme Court ruled that states can't ban the teaching of evolution. If you can't ban evolution, maybe yo ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 10:10pm

Does Music Really Increase Exercise Endurance? Yes, By 15 Percent

Dr. Costas Karageorghis of Brunel University’s School of Sport and Education today revealed a study stating that carefully selected music can significantly increase a person’s physical endurance and make the experience of cardiovascular exercise far more p ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2008 - 10:44pm

Do Musicians Have Higher IQs Than Non-Musicians? Yes, Says Study

A new study has concluded that musicians have IQ scores than non-musicians, supporting other recent research that intensive musical training is associated with an elevated IQ score. Vanderbilt University psychologists Crystal Gibson, Bradley Folley and Soh ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2008 - 3:53pm

The Sarah Palin-Joe Biden Debate: Linguistics And Movement Analyses

Sarah Palin lost the room immediately after Joe Biden choked up, say Karen Kohn Bradley and Karen Studd, certified movement analysts who study the nonverbal and movement behaviors of political leaders. They don't say (though it's easy to guess) t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2008 - 2:12am

Indiana Jones Feared Snakes And Some Obese People Fear The Gym, Says Study

Afraid to fly? It may not be rational, since airplanes are quite safe, but to people who have that phobia, it defies rationality. Researchers from the Center for Obesity Research and Education and the department of kinesiology at Temple University say the ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 5 2008 - 9:31pm

Are There Not Enough Places For Science To Be Published?

There's no love lost between open access PLoS (Public Library of Science) and print journals. Nature doesn't think much of PLoS, for example, and PLoS says they created the company to make science less insular so it isn't any surprise that t ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Oct 7 2008 - 10:07am

Red Wine Lowers Lung Cancer Risk, Especially In Smokers

Moderate consumption of red wine may decrease the risk of lung cancer in men, according to a report in the October issue of Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. Chun Chao, Ph.D., a research scientist at Kaiser Permanente Department of Researc ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2008 - 1:35am

Tropical Wetlands Store More Carbon Than Temperate Marshes- Study

Researchers from Ohio State say that wetlands in tropical areas are able to absorb and hold onto about 80 percent more carbon than wetlands in temperate zones. The scientists extracted soil cores from wetlands in Costa Rica and in Ohio and analyzed the con ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 8 2008 - 9:36am