Science & Society

Instant Cholesterol Analysis At Your Doctor Gets A Step Closer

Coronary heart disease, of which a major contributing factor is high cholesterol, is set to become the biggest killer disease worldwide by 2010. There are several types of cholesterol, some of which are good for you and some of which are bad. Existing over ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2008 - 10:48am

Psychology Of Cooperation- Democracies Put Aside Personal Gain To Work Toward Common Good

In a new international study of 16 countries published in Science, economists studied the extent to which some people will sacrifice personal gain to benefit the wider public, while ‘freeloaders’ try to take advantage of their generosity. Marked national d ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 5:20pm

Australia-China Sign Clean Coal Agreement

In an important step towards a greener global future, Australia and China signed a formal international agreement for clean coal research today in Beijing. The agreement, between CSIRO and China’s Thermal Power Research Institute (TPRI), will see TPRI inst ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 7 2008 - 10:47am

Geek Logik: How Many Hours Of Sports Can You Watch Without Her Getting Angry?

Due to a recent whirlwind bout of touring, I was excited to do nothing but plunk on my couch with the dog and watch many, many hours of pro sports. Ski videos would be nice, but really what I was looking for was a good cricket match — completely incomprehe ...

Article - Garth Sundem - Mar 13 2008 - 4:07pm

First-Born Children, Useless Data, and Me

Odd Numbers, an excellent blog by Jubin Zelveh at Portfolio.com, recently listed a few findings from the American Time Use Survey, which is in danger of being ended. They included:- First-born children receive 20 to 30 minutes more quality time each day f ...

Blog Post - Seth Roberts - Mar 12 2008 - 3:05pm

NHS Choices Launches New Autism Package

LONDON, March 18 /PRNewswire/-- NHS Choices (http://www.nhs.uk), the digital 'front door' to the NHS, launches a new Autism package aimed to help people learn more about the condition and to get help. Based on NHS accredited information, the fea ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Mar 18 2008 - 12:14pm

NCAA Basketball 'March Madness' Success Leads To Admissions Boost

"March Madness", the annual tournament in college basketball to determine the national champion, impacts more than just sports fans. College basketball teams that make this year’s cut for the 'Sweet 16' may boost the number of students ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 4 2009 - 12:29pm

Good news: Richard Dawkins is bigger than Jesus on Scienceblogs.com

Euan Adie, who works for Nature and runs their Postgenomic tool, ran an analysis of Scienceblogs.com common terms in response to the big blow-up a few weeks ago at Bayblab called the state of science blogging. His "Postgenomic" tool holds a prime ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Nov 14 2013 - 11:49am

Sports- Doping Tests Made Difficult By Enzyme UGT2B17

The tests for testosterone doping used in professional and amateur sports may routinely be confounded by a common genetic variation, according to a new study. Unless this variation is accounted for, current testing methods could implicate innocent athletes ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 21 2008 - 8:59am

Remember That '140 Liters Of Water In My Cup Of Coffee' Theory? Here's Why Virtual Water Is Bogus

A few days ago the internet was abuzz with shocking headlines because the gentleman behind 'virtual water', professor John Anthony Allan of King’s College London, got an award from a water conservation group, the Stockholm International Water Ins ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Apr 5 2008 - 1:22am