Science & Society

Greenpeace was founded on a pretense of humanitarian action - between 1969 and 1971, they gathered together because they wanted to put an end to hydrogen bomb testing. Later they lost their way and…

Food, medicine and energy are three of the most crucial problems we face today - and they are all protested by a common demographic. Science tends to think on the supply side - how to feed more…

Science has come a long way since 1978, when Louise Joy Brown, the world's first successful 'test-tube baby', was born. Despite claims that these children were somehow going to be less natural, in…

Girls in minority groups and low-income families, who are claimed to be most at risk for cervical cancer, are less likely to get the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.  Scholars from the…

When you think about science leadership, you don't often think about United Arab Emirates. Dictatorships don't lend themselves to quality basic research but when they put their minds to applied…

How bad is the funding landscape for scientific research in the US?  Bad enough that a research project can be good enough to win the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, but not good enough…

The regions of the U.S. that have doctors and hospitals consolidated into large networks are more likely to have accountable care organizations - medical practice structures that seek to improve…

James Rothman, Randy Schekman and Thomas Südhof have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize in Medicine for their work on how the cell organizes its transport system. Disturbances in the control system…

Speculation is rampant that the discovery of the Higgs boson will get a Nobel prize. We'll see. The modern Nobel committee is usually pretty astute and they don't seem to give out awards based on…

The Moon landing in 1969 was the culmination of a decade of event-driven technology and it lent momentum to a generation of belief in the promise of a space-faring future. By 1975, the premise of the…