Science Education & Policy

Cholesterol-Metabolism Relationship Challenged By New Research

A team of researchers investigating cholesterol and lipid transport has performed experiments that cast serious doubt on the dominant hypothesis of how the body rids its cells of "bad" cholesterol (LDL) and increases "good" cholesterol ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2007 - 12:38am

Breakthrough: Deciphering How Genetic Code Translates Into Physical Characteristics

Most modern attempts to decipher how portions of genetic code are translated into physical characteristics are akin to a first-grader trying to sound out a word letter by letter — or, in this case, base pair by base pair. But University of Florida research ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2007 - 3:46pm

Sharing Research Leads To Good Citations

Research can often be a thankless job for the researcher- logically even more so if you make your data available to the community at large. Someone in the peer community will challenge it, bloggers will pick it apart, newspapers will misinterpret it and so ...

Article - Hank Campbell - May 15 2010 - 10:12am

HIV 'Deniers' Spread Misinformation Online, Says Paper

The Internet is serving as a fertile medium for "HIV denialists" to spread false ideas about HIV/AIDS, which could have terrible public health consequences, say scientists in a policy paper in PLoS Medicine. "It may seem remarkable that, 23 ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2007 - 11:16pm

First SciFoo Lives On Session

We had our first SciFoo Lives On session today on Nature Island (Second Nature) in Second Life. We had about a dozen people participate. The topic was "Tools for Open Science". I wanted to explore more fully the actual technology that people are ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Aug 20 2007 - 2:53pm

Are Artists Born Or Taught?

In 17th century Rome, the Baroque painter Orazio Gentileschi gave all his children the finest art education available. But only one of them—his daughter Artemisia—developed into an artist. In fact, Artemisia matched and surpassed her father's skills, ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 4 2010 - 11:48am

Non-Medicinal Treatment For Pre-Schoolers With ADHD

Non-medicinal interventions are highly effective in preventing the behavioral and academic problems associated with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), according to a five-year study led by researchers at Lehigh University’s College of Educati ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2007 - 7:55am

Urgency And Global Warming: An Interview With Martin I. Hoffert

In this fifth installment of our on-going series of interviews with some of the leading thinkers and scientists on the subject of energy, we interview Martin Hoffert. ...

Article - David Houle - Aug 23 2007 - 4:35pm

Huntingtin Protein, Kinases And The Search For The Origin Of Huntington Disease

Huntington disease (HD) is a neurological disorder resulting from degeneration of brain cells. The degeneration causes uncontrolled limb movements and loss of intellectual faculties, eventually leading to death. There is no treatment. HD is a familial dise ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2007 - 10:04pm

The Results Are In- Old People Are Having A LOT Of Sex

The first comprehensive, nationally representative survey on the prevalence of sexual activity among older Americans is in- and they are having a lot of sex. Americans ages 57 to 85 are sexually active and view intimacy as an important part of life, despit ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2007 - 10:19pm