Science & Society

Queen's University researchers writing in the Journal of Preventative Medicine say there is a strong association between adolescent computer and Internet and multiple-risk behaviors (MRB), including illicit drug use, drunkenness and unprotected sex. T ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 25 2011 - 6:58pm

What Now For ESP? The Princeton PEAR Lab Shuts Down

It's a bad day for ghost research, though you can be sure Discovery or History Channel will fill in the gap when they run out of Shroud of Turin articles. The Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) program at Princeton University, which attem ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2011 - 10:58pm

50 Years Of Manned Space Flight- An Interview With A Lead Engineer For The Mercury Program

Here, I present for you a snippet from the Western Electric document Introduction to Project Mercury and Site Handbook on one of the most important aspects of a space program that barely existed; ground control and monitoring. You know, the part where th ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 16 2019 - 12:11pm

13 Quotes On The Future Of Science Journalism

"A podcaster, an editor, a policy wonk and a NASA engineer walk into a bar..." At the DCSWA workshop, regional media talents attempted to answer the unanswerable: what is the future of science writing and science journalism? Deborah Ager (of Bol ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 29 2011 - 7:09pm

Appeals Court Lifts Restrictions On Federal Embryonic Stem Cell Funding

The U.S. Federal Court of Appeals has overturned an August 2010 limitation on federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research. Since 2001, federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research had been limited to existing lines. Private and state f ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 30 2011 - 1:11am

So You Want To Write A Book?

A few Science 2.0 readers may recall that I tried out some ideas for a book here in 2009, and the immediate feedback was encouraging and helpful. The book is called First Life and is about to be published by UCPress. (One of my colleagues mentioned that ad ...

Article - Dave Deamer - Apr 30 2011 - 2:37pm

Do-It-Yourself Biology And The History Of Risk In Science

John Hunter had a gift for dissection. As a child he was an unexceptional student. At age 20, he journeyed to London in the midst of Britain's rise as a scientific power to assist at his brother's anatomy school. There he displayed a gift for fin ...

Article - Marcus Wohlsen - May 2 2011 - 5:55pm

Osama Bin Laden finally Martyred by US, China Still Unstoppable

All media, bloggers and so on, do take note! Do not disregard the following, only in rather rational societies completely inconsequential bit of news: After being sought for a decade, one religious old bigot that was involved somehow somewhere in the hist ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Sep 6 2014 - 4:18am

Top Ten Health Trends: "Proven" And "Soft" Claims Continue To Dominate EU

DUIVEN, Netherlands, May 3, 2011 /PRNewswire/-- The fourth batch of generic EU health claim opinions delivered by the European Food Safety Authority [EFSA] in April saw the previous trend of negative opinions continue: 20% successful, 80% unsuccessful. Co ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - May 3 2011 - 12:42pm

GM not the devil

In yesterday’s article on Science 2.0, Oh, Health Ranger...You Make Me Ill, said person was taken to task for saying: "The use of GMOs is the closest thing to 'Satanic' that you'll find in modern agriculture. The agenda behind this is p ...

Blog Post - Robert H Olley - Feb 23 2012 - 11:42pm