Science & Society

14th Annual L'Oréal-Unesco Awards For Women In Science From March 26 To March 29

PARIS, March 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- The L'OREAL-UNESCO For Women in Science program is welcoming the 15 International Fellows in Paris for a week of scientific meetings and debates.   - On Wednesday, March 28, from 4 pm to 5:15 pm, the International ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 26 2012 - 8:20pm

Atheist David Albert destroying Dumb New Book by naïve Atheist Krauss

I do not usually shoot of little posts re-tweeting stuff I found, but the total destruction that is David Albert’s New York Times book review “ On the Origin of Everything ” reviewing “ A Universe From Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing ” ...

Blog Post - Sascha Vongehr - Mar 29 2012 - 12:20am

Biologists May Long For A Life Sciences Higgs Boson- But Shouldn't

Dr. Heidi Ledford at Nature says physicists enjoy more generous funding, more commercial interest and more popular support than biologists.   Thousands of physicists in the United States stopped reading right there. While biology has an entire National Ins ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Sep 8 2012 - 11:14pm

A Scrabble Champ's Words With Friends Secrets

“Here’s the story of the only truly awesome play I’ve ever made,” Jason Katz-Brown told me when I interviewed him for my book, Brain Trust. ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 30 2012 - 4:13pm

New Autism Numbers: Ho-hum or Scary?

Yesterday morning, I wrote that the The Canary Party's Ginger Taylor broke  the embargo (courtesy  LBRB)  and revealed the new 1 in 88 rate that the CDC released later that morning. ...

Blog Post - Kim Wombles - Mar 30 2012 - 1:35pm

Requiem for Humanity — Wars

WARS    Predicting that the human race has wars in its future requires no insight. We humans have never had a community that has built a lasting peace. The beliefs of Buddhism have come closest to achieving a path leading to the cessation of suffering. Th ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Apr 1 2012 - 3:47pm

The Phantom Of The Laboratory

We are fortune here at Science20 to have come across an early work by Gaston Leroux.  This manuscript was dated to 1899, suggesting it was an early, discarded draft of the work that later came to be known as "The Phantom of the Opera".  Current s ...

Article - Alex "Sandy" Antunes - Apr 1 2012 - 10:36pm

Long-Baseline Neutrino Experiment Denied By Department Of Energy

Neutrinos come in three "flavors", electron, muon and tau, but they are able to 'morph' between the different types, a change called neutrino oscillation.   ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Jul 5 2012 - 1:06am

Vote on Student Ideas for Saving the World Through Science

The Kavli Foundation, which gives awards to science writers annually with the American Association for the Advancement of Science, also sponsors a video contest for middle and high school students. It was launched as part of the first USA Science&Engin ...

Blog Post - Aimee Stern - Apr 5 2012 - 5:58pm

Requiem for Humanity — Interplanetary Space

INTERPLANETARY SPACE ...

Blog Post - Alan Hoshor - Apr 5 2012 - 12:50pm