Science Education & Policy

Identity Services Deployment Hurdles Lowered By Liberty Alliance Identity Assurance Framework Release

LOS ANGELES, November 14 /PRNewswire/--- Released Today, Liberty Alliance's Identity Assurance Framework Sets Global Process and Policy Standard for Identity Federation Assurance Levels ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Nov 14 2007 - 1:03pm

Europe: Gender Roles Hold Back Female Scientists

Traditional roles of women in the home and a negative bias in workplace support result in less career success for women versus men at the same stage of their research careers, determined researchers at the European Molecular Biology Organization (EMBO) in ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2007 - 10:59am

White Facebook: Study Says Race, Education Can Predict Use Of Social Networking Sites

New research from Northwestern University finds that college students’ choice of social networking sites-- including Facebook, MySpace and Xanga-- is related to their race, ethnicity and parents’ education. The findings challenge discourse about the democr ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 20 2007 - 9:10pm

Baffling Science: Economist Says Greenhouse Gases Could Accelerate And Better Technology Makes It Worse

At MIT economist says U.S. greenhouse gas emissions could grow more quickly in the next 50 years than in the previous half-century and technological advances could hurt rather than help. The paper by Professor Emeritus Richard Eckaus of the MIT Department ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 19 2007 - 6:52pm

Bioethicist: Latest Stem Cell Research Removes Ethical Issues

To derive embryonic stem cells, it is necessary to remove critical cells from an embryo, resulting in its destruction. That triggers opposition from right-to-life critics of the research, who cite moral and ethical concerns. The research has also generated ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2007 - 6:29pm

A Global Prescription For The World's Most Fatal Diseases

Several of the world’s most eminent health scientists and organizations today publish a landmark global consensus on the 20 foremost measures needed to curb humanity’s most fatal diseases, their study featured in Nature magazine. Known as chronic, non-comm ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 26 2007 - 6:30am

Media Diplomacy: The Role Of Transnational News

There has recently been a huge growth in transnational English language television channels, with the launch in the UK of Al Jazeera English, Press TV (Iran), CCTV9 (China), France 24 and Russia Today. These join existing channels such as CNN International ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 22 2007 - 1:30am

Human Safety, Prosperity Depend On Better Ocean Observing System

Call for adequate initial system to produce insights, forecasts useful to public, policy makers Speedy diagnosis of the temper and vital signs of the oceans matters increasingly to the well being of humanity, says a distinguished partnership of internatio ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 25 2007 - 11:34am

Hotspots Found For Chromosome Gene Swapping

Meiosis is a type of cell division that produces cells with only one copy of each chromosome—spores in yeast, and eggs and sperm in higher organisms. During meiosis, chromosome pairs line up in the middle of the cell. The chromosome pairs are then pulled a ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2007 - 1:14pm

Iron In Oceans Not A Solution For Global Warming, Says Research

Fertilizing the ocean with iron or other nutrients to cause large algal blooms, has been proposed as a possible solution to global warming because the growing algae absorb carbon dioxide but research performed at Stanford and Oregon State Universities and ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 29 2007 - 3:04pm