Science Education & Policy

ScienceDebate2008 And 14 Questions On Science Policy For US Presidential Candidates

ScienceDebate2008 has come up with 14 questions they would like to see answered by the US presidential candidates. This group has been pushing for a science policy-focused debate among presidential candidates. That debate is looking more and more unlikely, ...

Article - Michael White - Jul 4 2008 - 10:23am

Fertility Clinics And Parents: What If No Genetically Unaffected Embryos Are Available?

The numbers of cycles of preimplantation genetic diagnosis or screening are rising steadily in Europe with over 2,700 reported in 2004 (the most recent year for which data are available). Fertility centres are able to screen for a growing number of genetic ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2008 - 11:28am

Mom's 'Natural High'- Brain Reward Centers Lit Up By Baby Smiles

Unless you are Scrooge McDuck or have a life-size poster of Dr. Eric R. Pianka on your wall, you probably like to see babies smile. It isn't just you. In a mother, her baby's smile also lights up the reward centers of her brain, just like free mo ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2008 - 6:52pm

The Choice: Conservation Of Species Or Carbon Sequestration

Paying rural landowners in Oregon's Willamette Basin to protect at-risk animals won't necessarily mean that their newly conserved trees and plants will absorb more carbon from the atmosphere and vice versa, a new study has found. The study, to be ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2008 - 6:26pm

How Common Is Relationship Violence Among College Students?

Violence between partners, friends and acquaintances appears prevalent both before and during college, according to results of a survey of students at three urban college campuses published in the July issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medic ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2008 - 6:44pm

A Ground Cover Solution To Erosion From Biofuel Farming

Ground cover may be one workable method to reduce the effects of erosion that future biomass harvests are predicted to bring. Iowa State University researchers are looking at ways to use ground cover, a living grass planted between the rows of corn, in pro ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2008 - 4:36pm

Research Without Controversy: Human Embryonic Stem Cells Developed From 4-Cell Embryo

For the first time, scientists have succeeded in developing human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) from a single cell, or blastomere, of a 4-cell stage embryo, the 24th annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology heard today. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2008 - 7:08pm

Scientists: You're Generally Happy With Your Media Interaction

Scientists and journalists get along much better than the anecdotal 'horror stories' would lead us to believe, according to new research published today in the journal Science, which has found that 57% of researchers were 'mostly pleased ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 1:40pm

One Third Of Coral Reefs Face Extinction- Study

A third of reef-building corals around the world are threatened with extinction, according to the first-ever comprehensive global assessment to determine their conservation status. The study findings were published today by Science Express. Leading coral e ...

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

Raising Special Needs Children: Ranking US States In Cost

Therapies, rehabilitation and specialty medical care are just a few of the extra costs that parents face when raising children with special needs. In a new study that will be published in current issue of Pediatrics, Paul T. Shattuck, Ph.D., professor of s ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 9:17pm