Science Education & Policy

Is There Any Value In Federal Dietary Guidelines?

More giving information and less giving direction is the advice of a group at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University mid-way to the drafting of the 2010 nutrition guidelines. For nearly three decades, Americans have become accustomed ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2008 - 4:52pm

Can An EEG See Those "Eureka!" Moments We Have?

Cognitive insight, those flashes of brilliance when a mental breakthrough happens, are widely recognized but very little is known about their constituent cognitive components and underlying neural mechanisms. It is also unclear why trying too hard does mor ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 12:11pm

Study: Abstinence-Plus Programs Work For HIV Prevention

HIV and AIDS are huge threats to human health. Each day in 2005 around 7,600 people died from HIV-related causes and a further 38.6 million people were living with the disease. Two million of these were living in the high-income countries of North America ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2008 - 7:29pm

Mothers With Fewer Kids: Fertility And Evolution

Researchers at the University of Sheffield writing in Proceedings of the Royal Society B have shown that mothers are choosing to have fewer children in order to give their children the best start in life, but by doing so are going against millenia of human ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 22 2008 - 7:40pm

Southeastern European Governments And Leading Technology Companies To Invest In Regional EGovernance Centre

BERLIN, January 23 /PRNewswire/--- Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Slovenian government hail the agreement as a milestone for regional cooperation and development. ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 23 2008 - 6:30am

New Antarctic Ice Core Will Provide Clearest Climate Record Ever

Researchers today closed out the inaugural season on an unprecedented, multi-year effort to retrieve the most detailed record of greenhouse gases in Earth’s atmosphere over the last 100,000 years. The dust, chemicals, and air trapped in the two-mile-long i ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 11:21am

What Role Do Teachers Play In The Education Crisis?

In discussions about the quality and equity of our educational system, one thing lost in political arguments about unions and ideological bias and No Child Left Behind is empirical data of what difference teachers make in actual education. A special issue ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2008 - 4:17pm

Playhouse Disney Gives Preschoolers A Greener Start To The New Year

LONDON, January 24 /PRNewswire/-- Playhouse Disney today announced it is joining forces with the Pre-school Learning Alliance on the biggest ever trial of educational materials to teach preschoolers about the environment through play. The trial will see 7 ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 15 2008 - 3:12pm

Solland Solar: Natural Gas Revenues For Clean Energy

HEERLEN, The Netherlands, January 24 /PRNewswire/--- EUR 170 Billion Available for Balanced Energy Mix The government should use the revenues from the sale of natural gas to speed up the changeover to clean, renewable forms of energy. In doing so it will ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 24 2008 - 3:31am

The Henry R. Kravis Prize In Leadership Awarded To The Forum For African Women Educationalists

CLAREMONT, California, January 24 /PRNewswire/--- FAWE Increases Educational Access, Retention and Performance for Girls in 33 African Nations Claremont McKenna College and the Kravis Leadership Institute announced today the selection of The Forum for Afr ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jan 24 2008 - 9:31am