Science Education & Policy

Do You Understand Evolutionary Trees? (Part Two)

In the first installment of this series, we encountered the common misconception that the order of the terminal nodes ("tips") on an evolutionary tree reflects the actual relatedness among the species represented. Simply rotating some internal n ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - Mar 11 2008 - 5:16pm

Study: Red Light Cameras Don't Work And Increase Crashes

Rather than improving motorist safety, red-light cameras significantly increase crashes and are a ticket to higher auto insurance premiums, researchers at the University of South Florida College of Public Health conclude. “The rigorous studies clearly show ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 11 2008 - 11:36pm

How The Brain Adjusts In Language-Impaired Kids

Grammar is a complex human ability yet by the age of three most children can make grammatically correct sentences. Kids with a specific language impairment(SLI), however, continue to make grammatical errors, sometimes even into adulthood. As teenagers they ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 12 2008 - 9:01pm

Mother Nature And The Evolutionary Mandate

It's taken weeks to get here but we've covered 13.7 billion years of cosmic quirks. We've gone from The Big Bang and the Birth of Culture through Supersynchrony And The Evolution Of Mass Culture to The Big Burp And The Evolution of Elements. ...

Article - Howard Bloom - Mar 14 2008 - 11:34am

Incentivize Green Construction To Cut CO2: CEC Report

North American buildings release more than 2,200 megatons of CO2 into the atmosphere- 35 percent of the continent’s total- according to a new report issued by the trinational Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The report says rapid market upta ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Evolution, Florida And The Grand Canyon

If one didn’t wish to do something productive with one’s life, creationists would be a perennial source of amusement. Florida creationists, in this particular case. A new set of science standards has just been approved by the Board of Education of the ora ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 17 2008 - 4:50pm

"Virtual Water" Creator Awarded 2008 Stockholm Water Prize

STOCKHOLM, Sweden, March 19-- Professor John Anthony Allan from King's College London and the School of Oriental and African Studies, a pioneer of concepts key to the understanding and communication of water issues and how they are linked to agricult ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2011 - 10:25pm

Illegal Subsidies Drive China Trade Surplus- UK Economists

China’s growing participation in international trade has been one of the most prominent features of its economic reform. It is the world’s third-largest exporter, and the fastest growing exporter among members of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), which i ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2008 - 11:14am

53 Million-Year-Old Rabbit's Foot Feels Pretty Lucky

When did rabbits and hares diverge in evolution? The answer just got a little clearer. Last spring, Johns Hopkins anatomy professor Kenneth Rose was displaying the bones of a jackrabbit’s foot as part of a seminar when he noticed something familiar about t ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2008 - 5:17pm

Politics And U.S. Health Care- Republicans Like It, Democrats Not So Much

A recent survey by the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) and Harris Interactive, as part of their ongoing series, Debating Health: Election 2008, finds that Americans are generally split on the issue of whether the United States has the best health ca ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 19 2008 - 11:52pm