Science & Society

Do Friends Have Too Much Influence When It Comes To Girls And Math?

Over 70 percent of high school teachers are female and girls in high school take as many math courses as boys, yet it's believed female interest in math and science still wanes considerably in high school and college. A new study conducted by research ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2008 - 1:40am

Study: Low Income Equals High Obesity

There was a time when you had to be rich to be fat. Now you have to be rich to stay thin, says a new study. Researchers led by Jennifer L. Black at New York University critically reviewed ninety studies published between 1997 through 2007 on neighborhood d ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2008 - 4:29pm

Open Notebook Science News

Michael Barton has posted a brief essay on Open Notebook Science on his research web site: As you might expect from the name, Open Notebook Science (ONS) has similarities with Open Source Software. The clearest likeness between the two, is the belief that ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Feb 8 2008 - 4:39am

The Problem With Black Box Scientific Collaborations

Collaboration is a requirement for the advancement of modern science. Researchers cannot be expert at everything and must specialize to make a unique contribution. But if coordinating research within a group is challenging, effective collaboration between ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Feb 8 2008 - 4:44am

Iraq And Oil: An Examination Of The Infrastructure

The February issue of Geotimes takes a look at the complicated issues surrounding Iraq’s oil exploration and production. Though oil prices have doubled and Iraq boasts the largest untapped oil reserves in the world, the instability that comes with war, att ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 8 2008 - 10:30am

AIDS Healthcare Foundation Shares World Bank, Global Fund Concerns Over Alleged Corruption At India's NACO

NEW DELHI, India, February 9 /PRNewswire/-- ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Feb 9 2008 - 12:29pm

Speech: Worldwide Hunt To Solve The Mystery Of Gamma-Ray Bursts

UK space scientist Emeritus Professor Alan Wells is to speak at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Boston in February on: International Cooperation in Developing Swift and its Scientific Achievements. Professor Wells' pr ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 17 2008 - 1:33am

'Electronic Tasters' Improvement- New Machine Can 'Taste' Coffee

Can a machine taste coffee? Scientists have been working on it for decades. Researchers in Switzerland published a study on their coffee-tasting machine is scheduled for the March 1 issue of Analytical Chemistry. For the food industry, “electronic tasters” ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2008 - 12:42pm

Diversity Keeps You Warm- How The Stock Market Is Like Youth Hostel Showers

Heterogeneity provides stability, say scientists from the Universities of Fribourg and Bonn, whether this is in a shower, in power grids or even on the stock market. It's a big reason why the electrical grid does not break. When Al Gore had the brilli ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 11 2008 - 11:36pm

If Darwin Had A Web Browser, He Would Never Have Written The Origin

How can today's wired, multitasking scientists ever compete with the great scientists of the past? One feature of Darwin's work as a scientist was that it proceeded slowly, very, very slowly. He wrote massive groundbreaking books, compiled huge ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 12 2008 - 11:36am