Science & Society

The 'Gimme More' Generation Resolve To Take On More In 2008

LONDON, December 31 /PRNewswire/-- A new survey from Red Kooga shows a trend towards doing more rather than giving things up for the New Year. Typical resolutions like giving up smoking and junk food are being replaced by resolutions to learn new skills, ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 31 2007 - 10:50pm

SETI @Home Wants You To Help Find E.T.

The longest-running search for radio signals from alien civilizations is getting a burst of new data from an upgraded Arecibo telescope, which means the SETI@home project needs more desktop computers to help crunch the data. Since SETI@home launched eight ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 2 2008 - 11:30pm

Should We Care What Drug Companies Spend On Marketing?

Is marketing a bad thing? How much money does Coca-Cola spend on Research & Development of its premier soft drink? Nothing. When something works, you go with it. New Coke taught them that. But they market it like crazy. Yet whether pharmaceutical compa ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jan 5 2008 - 1:25pm

8-Year Old Becomes Youngest To Experience Zero Gravity Flight

Eight-year-old boys dream of being superheroes- flying high above the clouds with nothing to limit themselves but their imaginations- and Danner Cronise got his dream, courtesy of his dad, Ray, co-founder of Zero Gravity Corporation. In the process he set ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 6 2008 - 12:30pm

Autonomously Powered Water Treatment Plants For The World's Poorest Regions

Poor water supply remains a key problem in large parts of Africa and Asia. ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 4 2008 - 11:34am

NASA To Unveil Braille Version Of Cosmic Images

NASA will debut a new book for blind readers at a media event and reception Jan. 15. The agency will unveil "Touch the Invisible Sky," which gives blind readers the ability to experience cosmic images from the agency's space-based observator ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 9 2008 - 3:22pm

Popularize Or Perish

In November 2007, Donald Kennedy, then-editor of the prestigious journal Science, announced that for the next five issues, each of the research articles would include a brief "author's summary" written in plain language. ...

Article - T. Ryan Gregory - May 15 2010 - 10:11am

Environmental hypocrisy is the new Prius, it seems.

Environmental hypocrisy is the new Prius, it seems. While people coo about Toyota they label the Tata Nano an environmental disaster. Why? Because it gets 54 MPG? No, because the new middle class in India can afford it, which means more cars and more emis ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Apr 1 2009 - 5:39pm

Study: Phthalides Are The Magic In Celery That Makes Soups Taste Better

I wouldn't touch celery without a swath of peanut butter layered on top. I probably wouldn't touch it even then. Celery is not a stand-alone food for me. But a study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry reports identification of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 21 2008 - 12:23pm

New Product Marketing: Sometimes Pioneers Just Get Arrows In Their Backs

It’s not always best to be first, finds a new study from the Journal of Consumer Research. The researchers examined how consumers evaluate new products and found that many products may actually benefit from having competition, entering the market as follow ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 12:38pm