Science Education & Policy

Funding Sources Are Okay To Clinical Trial Participants- Up To A Point

Unless a researcher owns stock in a company whose drug is being tested, telling potential research volunteers about an investigator’s financial interests is unlikely to affect their willingness to volunteer, a new study shows. But many research volunteers ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 4 2008 - 11:51am

Are You Normal Weight But Still Obese?

There is a widely held belief that maintaining a normal weight automatically guards against disorders such as high levels of circulating blood fats and a tendency to develop type 2 diabetes. More than half of American adults considered to have normal body ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 6 2008 - 3:16pm

Climatology Upset: Airborne Soot Melting The Arctic & Causing 40% Of Atmospheric Heating

Airborne soot's heating effects have been found to be 60 percent of CO2's, yielding a 40/60 soot/CO2 global atmospheric heating combination. In higher altitudes soot is just as important as CO2 in melting tropical glacial packs like the Himalaya ...

Article - Lee Rodgers - Apr 10 2008 - 11:12am

Vulcan Greenhouse Gas Map Zooms In On CO2 Sources

An interactive map of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels says we still have things to learn about where it's coming from- and where the worst offenders are. The maps and system, called Vulcan, show CO2 emissions at more than 100 times mor ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 7 2008 - 5:29pm

Autism- More Cases Because Of Diagnosis Changes, Study Finds

A new study suggests that many children diagnosed with severe language disorders in the 1980s and 1990s would instead be diagnosed as having autism today and so the rise in the number of cases of autism may be related to changes in how it is diagnosed. Pro ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2008 - 10:42am

Archaeologists Propose A Solution For One Obstacle To Mid-East Peace

Israelis and Palestinians may not be able to agree right now on their present or future, but, if a pair of Los Angeles archaeologists have their way, they soon will see eye to eye on their past. Working tirelessly for the past five years, Ran Boytner, a Un ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 8 2008 - 3:02pm

Ironic Outcome: 'Madonna' Style Inter-Country Adoptions Have Brought Orphanages Into Vogue

Inter-country adoptions are causing a rise in the number of children in orphanages in EU countries, say psychologists at the University of Liverpool. More adoptions are leading to higher numbers of children in institutions, says the study, because in EU co ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 9 2008 - 9:59am

Do People Suffer From 'Weight' Discrimination?

Discrimination against overweight people is as common as racial discrimination, according to a study by the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. The study also says that women are twice as likely as men to report weight discriminat ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 10 2008 - 7:58pm

The Dubai School Of Government Hosts The State Of The Region Forum 2008

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, April 13 /PRNewswire/-- The Dubai School of Government is hosting tomorrow April 14, together with Business Week and in cooperation with DNM Strategies, the third annual "State of the Region" Forum. The theme of this ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 13 2008 - 8:32am

Predator And Prey- But These Bacteria Control Each Other's Suicides

Researchers at Duke, Caltech, Stanford and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute have developed a living system using genetically altered bacteria that they believe can provide new insights into how the population levels of prey influence the levels of preda ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2008 - 10:49am