Science Education & Policy

Happiness Late With A Price Tag And A Mate

If you're happy and you know it, you're probably a man. Statistics revealed in the next edition of the Journal of Happiness Studies found that, on average, by the time men reach their 48th year of life their happiness exceeds that of women. Centu ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 29 2008 - 10:13pm

Confirmed: Electrical Activity On Titan

Physicists from the University of Granada and University of Valencia, analyzing data sent by the Huygens probe from Titan, say they have “unequivocally” proved that there is natural electrical activity on Titan, the largest of Saturn's moons. Scientis ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 29 2008 - 9:51pm

California Olive Oil Presses On

A bottle of Chateau Neuf De Pape wine from the Rhone region in France may include constituents of up to 13 grape varietals. Time-zones away, olive oil experts at U.C. Davis work with 100 olive varietals to create cutting-edge olive oil. After all, like win ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 31 2008 - 10:03pm

Would Changing The Measurement Mean Fewer Failing Schools Are Failing?

Ohio State University researchers have developed a new method of measuring school quality based on schools’ 'impact on learning' and their results say that summer vacations and parent incomes have more to do with low test scores than the quality ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 3 2008 - 7:49pm

Is Head Start Working For Children?

Growing interest in publicly funded programs for young children has drawn attention to whether and how Head Start and other early childhood programs should be asked to prove their worth. Congress asked the National Research Council for guidance on how to i ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 4 2008 - 11:20am

Stevia The Controversial Sugarleaf Unleashed

It may not be an ever popular artificial sweetener like NutraSweet, or have the crystalline texture of pure sugar, but the herb, which is commonly found at Trader Joes when it isn’t in its natural South American setting is sweeter than its sweetener counte ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Aug 4 2008 - 6:56pm

The choice between simulation and experiment: Biology and Physics have the same problems

Physicist Nobel Laureate Philip Anderson on computers and physics: The prestige attached to computers and their erudite gimmicks impresses almost everyone, but especially the simulators. They often believe they have proved that a system--like the little cr ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 23 2008 - 12:05am

Neuro-Education And Rewiring The Dyslexic Brain

A new Carnegie Mellon University brain imaging study of dyslexic students and other poor readers shows that the brain can permanently rewire itself and overcome reading deficits, if students are given 100 hours of intensive remedial instruction. The study, ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2008 - 11:01pm

Foreign Threats Have Increased American Tolerance, Says Study

Despite concerns that the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 would increase intolerance toward Muslims, the opposite is true, according to new research by University of British Columbia (UBC) and Stanford University researchers published this week in ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 5 2008 - 10:04pm

Continuing Medical Education: A "Quasi-Academic" Activity?

For years, doctors like Arnold Relman and Marcia Angell, both former editors of the New England Journal of Medicine, have been advocating drastic changes to the way the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) deals with pharmaceutica ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Aug 7 2008 - 10:26am