Science Education & Policy

Yesterday & Today: The Top Women Scientists

It's no news that women were historically excluded from the "boys club" of science but women scientists date as far back as Ancient Greece, and perhaps further. In more recent years, they have become essential to the scientific community. S ...

Article - Jen Palmares Meadows - Feb 7 2011 - 11:12am

Lost In America: Top Math Talent (But We're Getting More Females)

Do females intrinsically have less ability than males to excel in mathematics at the very highest level? That used to be the conventional wisdom. But that has changed in the last few years and more gender equality in math has been the result- but we are st ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2008 - 1:25am

No Evidence Pregnancy Impairs Cognitive Function In Women- Study

Pregnancy and motherhood may make us all go a little gooey, but it's not turning mums' brains into mush, according to mental health researchers at The Australian National University. The study – conducted by the Centre for Mental Health Research ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 10 2008 - 9:10am

Sunday Science Book Club

Only A Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul by Kenneth R. Miller Viking, 2008 Ken Miller is not preaching to the choir. Although he has a day job as an active research biologist at Brown University, Miller has spent more than two decad ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 20 2009 - 3:10pm

Is there an economist in the House or in the Senate?

No. A banker? No, but there are two former bank tellers in the 110th Congress. What are the occupations of the people who got elected to the House or the Senate? Why ask a question like that? Because a "tornado of economic discontent is buffeting the ...

Blog Post - Hatice Cullingford - Oct 19 2008 - 2:21pm

More Booze, Smaller Brain, Says Study

The more alcohol an individual drinks, the smaller his or her total brain volume, according to a report in the October issue of Archives of Neurology. Brain volume decreases with age at an estimated rate of 1.9 percent per decade, accompanied by an increas ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 13 2008 - 11:24pm

If You Bail Out One, You Bail Out Them All- Government Pension Insurer Could Fall Next

Another multi-billion-dollar taxpayer bailout could lie ahead, this time to rescue a cash-strapped government program that insures pensions of 44 million American workers and retirees, a University of Illinois finance professor warns. Jeffrey R. Brown says ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 15 2008 - 10:45am

Create Light Pollution Awareness And See Some Stars- The Great World Wide Star Count

The awe of staring into the never-ending black sky is what brings thousands to the hilltops every year; myself included. I have always been interested in astronomy and the vastness of space. Even as a thirteen year old I was wishing upon stars, plotting c ...

Article - Ashley Cox - Oct 17 2008 - 12:23am

The Great World Wide Star Count- Astronomy Goes Global

Schoolchildren, families and citizen scientists around the world will gaze skyward after dark from Oct. 20 to Nov.3, 2008, looking for specific constellations and then sharing their observations through the Internet. The Great World Wide Star Count, now in ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 16 2008 - 12:48am

44 years of academic life

Not me! I've only clocked up 36 years, with two to go. But I thought that this article is worth reading: 44 Years of Academic Life: So what changed?. It's not even from a science department, but it does sum up the mood of academia in Britain toda ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Oct 22 2008 - 9:56pm