Science Education & Policy

LONDON, March 5 /PRNewswire/-- Unite, Britain's biggest trade union, is using World Book Day tomorrow (Thursday 6th March) to build on the successful work initiated by Union Learning Reps in hundreds of workplaces. Unite wants it's 2600 Union Le ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 5 2008 - 11:31am

Study: Blood Stem Cells Originate In Mother's Placenta

Solving a long-standing biological mystery, UCLA stem cell researchers have discovered that blood stem cells, the cells that later differentiate into all the cells in the blood supply, originate and are nurtured in the placenta. The discovery may allow res ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 5 2008 - 12:43pm

SunGard Acquires Advanced Portfolio Technologies

NEW YORK, March 5 /PRNewswire/-- SunGard (http://www.sungard.com) today announced that it has acquired Advanced Portfolio Technologies, Inc. (APT), a leading global provider of risk management systems and portfolio optimization software for asset managers ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 5 2008 - 1:31pm

Defending The Accuracy And Credibility Of Public Opinion Polling

Nancy Mathiowetz is “drowning in data” but so is almost everyone else. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee sociology professor and president of the American Association for Public Opinion Research says the results of public opinion polls measure nearly e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 12:29pm

Platts Survey: US Reactors Produce Record Power Generation In 2007 As World Nuclear Generation Slumps

WASHINGTON, March 6 /PRNewswire/-- Global power generated by nuclear reactors fell about 3.6% in calendar 2007 from the 2.8 billion megawatt-hours (MWh) recorded in 2006, according to data released by Nucleonics Week, a publication of Platts, a leading gl ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 6 2008 - 2:30pm

Science Magazine Discovers Science 2.0, Sort Of

Ben Shneiderman of the University of Maryland, one of the world’s leading researchers and innovators in human-computer interaction, says it’s time for the laboratory research that has defined science for the last 400 years to make room for a revolutionary ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2010 - 10:08am

Stop Smoking Start Saving

MANCHESTER, England, March 7 /PRNewswire/--- A Staggering GBP120,000 Spent on Smoking Cigarettes Recent research from leading financial services provider, Co-operative Insurance (CIS) has found that the average British smoker spends just over GBP2,000 a y ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 7 2008 - 7:31am

Bad Science Journalism And The Myth Of The Oppressed Underdog

There is a particular narrative about science that science journalists love to write about, and Americans love to hear. I call it the 'oppressed underdog' narrative, and it would be great except for the fact that it's usually wrong. The narr ...

Article - Michael White - Feb 25 2010 - 3:59pm

Science & Math Education- Is Caring And Cash Enough To Make A Difference?

I feel like I am going to be preaching-to-the-choir with this blog. The fact that you are reading it puts you in the "choir." I would encourage all of you to read the first two columns of the article "A New Bottom Line For School Science&quo ...

Article - Jim Myres - Mar 9 2008 - 9:50pm

Public Bored By Green Talk

LONDON, March 10 /PRNewswire/-- Green groups tackling climate change and carbon emissions are facing yet another challenge- public apathy. Thirty percent of people feel there is too much coverage in the media about CO2 emissions, and over half of these ar ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 14 2008 - 7:07pm