Science Education & Policy

Trophic Mismatch: Plant-Eating Animals In Drastic Seasonal Environments Impacted Most

Plant-eating animals in highly seasonal environments, such as the Arctic, are struggling to locate nutritious food as a result of climate change, according to research in Proceedings of the Royal Society B. The research, which focused on caribou, suggests ...

Article - News Staff - May 21 2008 - 6:47pm

What Is Financial Mathematics?

Some people interested in mathematics have curiosity about how mathematics is used in finance, and perhaps even have an eye toward a career in quantitative finance. Others are already pursuing a career in finance and the capital markets, and have an intere ...

Article - Scot Adams - May 22 2008 - 12:30pm

Lazy People In Bad Moods Get The Most Creative Spark From Video Games

Video games that energize players and induce a positive mood could also enhance creativity, according to media researchers. However, the study also finds that players who were not highly energized and had a negative mood, registered the highest creativity. ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2008 - 1:10am

'Physics Of Star Trek' Author And Cosmologist Lawrence Krauss Moves To ASU To Tackle Origins

Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist whose research is so broad that it covers science from the beginning of the universe to the end of the universe, will join Arizona State University in August to assume a leadership role in an emergin ...

Article - News Staff - May 24 2008 - 1:45pm

Biofuel Crops Are New Invasive Species Threat

Planting biofuel crops on converted forestlands or other ecologically valuable lands has already become a hotly debated practice. Now, a new report co-authored by Nature Conservancy scientists says that biofuel crops could also become invasive species-- an ...

Article - Jonathon C. - May 27 2008 - 10:36am

Printed Biochips Mean Cheap, Mass-Produced Peptide Arrays

Peptide arrays are powerful tools for developing new medical substances as well as for diagnosis and therapy techniques. A new production method based on laser printing will enable the potential of peptide arrays to be better utilized for more applications ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2008 - 12:29pm

An Economic Case For Biodiversity

Pavan Sukhdev of Deutsche Bank has laid out a case for what he called a "comprehensive and compelling economic case for the conservation of biodiversity" today. Nature obviously provides human society with a vast diversity of benefits, like food, ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2008 - 10:02am

Soft Vs. Hard Science, Part II

As I wrote  a few days ago, if we agree that the nature of science is along the lines I have described, next we need to ask why it is so. Platt, in his classic 1964 article on strong inference, briefly mentions a number of answers, which he dismisses witho ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 2 2008 - 4:24pm

Europe Looks To The US Model To Settle The Cormorant Fight Between Fishermen And Conservationists

President Bush is having a tough 2008 but one group in Europe thinks the USA is the model of conservation when it comes to Cormorant management. The Great Cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo) is regarded by fishermen in Europe as the "black plague" th ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2008 - 10:22am

Conversation With A Modern Creationist

Many scientists have expressed the belief that if they only had a chance to explain the facts, they could convince intelligent educated people (at least) of the validity of a neo-Darwinian approach to understanding life. As the following email exchange su ...

Article - Lee Silver - Jun 4 2008 - 1:40pm