Science Education & Policy

The Scottish Are Smarter Than The English, Study Says

While young people have been going to college in greater numbers over the past 20 years the Scottish higher education rate versus the English has been 'consistently and substantially' greater in Scotland, according to a unique study funded by the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2007 - 6:55pm

Learning A Sense Of Community Online

Children and their teachers are already benefiting from online learning communities such as the Oracle Education Foundation's Think.com, but there is a real opportunity for richer learning with such systems that is yet to be tapped. Elizabeth Hartnell ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 19 2007 - 8:13am

Black Holes Don't Exist, Say Researchers

"Nothing there," is what Case Western Reserve University physicists concluded about black holes after spending a year working on complex formulas to calculate the formation of new black holes. In nearly 13 printed pages with a host of calculation ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 4:39pm

Our Genomes, ENCODE, And Intelligent Design

What has the ENOCODE project done, and how do their results change our understanding of the human genome? In Time to Rethink the Gene? I put this project into perspective by briefly outlining some past concepts of the gene and highlighting some of the ENCO ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 20 2007 - 5:46pm

Circumcision Overstated As Prevention Tool Against AIDS

New study finds the key to understanding the global spread of AIDS is the size of the infected prostitute community around the world. In new academic research published today in the online, open-access, peer-reviewed scientific journal PLoS ONE, male circu ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 11:36pm

There's Gold In Green Energy

A report from the UN Environment Programme says government subsidies, fears about global warming and high oil prices have led to an investment boom in the green energy and energy efficiency businesses. The report says investment capital flowing into renewa ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 12:55am

Ocean Life Inside Icebergs

Icebergs have long gripped the popular imagination, whether as relatively run-of-the-mill floating hazards that cause "unsinkable' ships to founder or, more recently, as enormous breakaway pieces of ice the size of states or small countries. But, ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 3:33pm

What Is Haptics?

Haptics means “of or relating to the sense of touch”. Haptics Technolofy refers to the technology that connects the user to a computerized system via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and/or motions to the user. Perhaps people do not realiz ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2007 - 12:45am

"Brain Machine" Technology Brings Remote Control To The Next Level

From the viewpoint of biology, learning and education can be defined as the processes of forming neuronal connections in response to external environmental stimuli, and of controlling or adding appropriate stimuli, respectively. Computers can't do tha ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2007 - 12:03pm

How Dads Influence Their Daughters' Interest In Math

It figures: Dads have a major impact on the degree of interest their daughters develop in math. That's one of the findings of a long-term University of Michigan study that has traced the sources of the continuing gender gap in math and science perform ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2007 - 6:35pm