Science Education & Policy

UCL Scientist Develops A 'distraction Indicator'

A scientific indicator of how easily distracted you are has been designed by a University College London psychologist. It could be used as another assessment tool during the recruitment process and would have particular benefits in fields where employee d ...

Article - News Staff - May 29 2007 - 11:15am

Is Your Pediatrician Actually A Pediatrician?

How well do you know your child's pediatrician? Is he or she board certified in pediatrics, or has he or she ever completed specialty training in the field? Findings from a new study from the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children's Hospital&# ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2007 - 11:39am

Doing Math Without Being Taught Arithmetic

Children are able to solve approximate addition or subtraction problems involving large numbers even before they have been taught arithmetic, according to a study conducted at Harvard University, by researchers from the University of Nottingham and Harvard ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2007 - 12:42pm

Men Worry More About Penis Size Than Women, Says Study

Women are much more interested in a man’s personality and looks than the size of his penis, but men can experience real anxiety even if they are average sized, according to a research review published in the June issue of the urology journal BJU Internati ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 25 2013 - 12:43pm

Pinning Down The Butterfly Effect

Belgian mathematician hopes to use the science of chaos, the butterfly effect and strange attractors to help build a complete model of climate and resources that will lead to a new approach to sustainable development. Jacques Nihoul of the department of Mo ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2007 - 7:39pm

Genomic Signatures May Allow For Easier Targeted Cancer Therapy

Any number of things can go wrong in the cells of the body to cause cancer-- and clinicians can't tell by just looking at a tumor what exactly triggered the once normal cells to turn cancerous. New tests developed by researchers at Duke University can ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2007 - 10:45am

Suriname Rainforest Yields 24 New Species

Scientists exploring the remote highlands of eastern Suriname discovered 24 species believed to be new to science, including an Atelopus frog with brilliant purple markings, four Eleutherodactylus frog species, six species of fish, 12 dung beetles and an a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2007 - 3:46pm

Ethanol- Now It Cures Everything

As if tortillas weren't already expensive enough because of a ridiculous 2005 enviromental law mandating usage and subsidies for ethanol, now the pesky medical community is in on the take. Percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI) is an injection of ethano ...

Article - Cash Simpson - Jun 6 2007 - 12:50pm

Drug Company Funding Of Drug Trials Greatly Influences Outcome

In head-to-head trials of two drugs, the one deemed better appears to depend largely on who is funding the study, according to an analysis of nearly 200 statin-drug comparisons carried out between 1999 and 2005. UCSF researchers examined 192 published resu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2007 - 11:31pm

Study Warns Climate Change Will Lead To Decline In Bird Diversity

Global warming and the destruction of natural habitats will lead to significant declines and extinctions in the world’s 8,750 terrestrial bird species over the next century, according to a study conducted by biologists at the University of California, San ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2007 - 11:35pm