Science & Society

Is It Time For The Disney Princess Archetype To Go?

Women – and little girls even more so – are desperate to see images and stories that don’t actively oppress them onscreen, says Olivia Murphy. Image: Nadia Mel, CC BY-SA By Olivia Murphy, University of Sydney ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 2 2015 - 5:32pm

Mary Morgan, Alice Ball And Rachel Lloyd- 3 Amazing Scientists You've Never Heard Of

One saved the U.S. space program, another invented a better treatment for leprosy and a third spawned an industry in the American Midwest- but you have probably never heard of these female "legends of chemistry". Their names are Mary Sherman Morg ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 2 2015 - 8:44pm

Austerity In Greece Linked To Suicides

Does only spending what you make lead to suicide? In the world of weak observational studies, it can. Suicides in Greece reached a 30 year all-time high in 2012, with a sustained upward trend starting in June 2011, the month that the government introduced ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 3 2015 - 5:23pm

AirAsia 8501- News, Rumours, Facts And FACs

AirAsia 8501- News, Rumours, Facts And FACs Until such time as an official report is issued it will be difficult for both professionals and ordinary members of the public to determine what most probably happened during the last flight of AirAsia 8501. Th ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 3 2015 - 7:30pm

TransAsia ATR 72 Crashes Into Keelung River

TransAsia ATR 72 Crashes Into Keelung River A twin engined ATR 72-600 turboprop suffered an engine failure shortly after takeoff from Taipei Songshan Airport, destination the Kinmen islands. The plane, which was less than one year old according to Flight ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 4 2015 - 10:43am

2014 European Astronomy Journalism Prize Winner Announced

The 2014 European Astronomy Journalism Prize has been announced. Now in its third year, the prize looks to reward excellence displayed in the field by professional journalists as well as students of both astronomy and journalism. It is awarded by Science ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 7 2015 - 10:00am

AAAS Officially Makes Itself An Arm Of The Democratic Party

The worst kept secret in science media, what one honest liberal blogger called The White Elephant In The Room, is its overwhelming partisanship. It's easy to rationalize that. If Republicans are anti-science then naturally the biggest defenders and ch ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Aug 23 2019 - 11:04am

TransAsia GE235 crash- Plane Missed Power Cables

TransAsia GE235 crash- Plane Missed Power Cables The Transasia ATR 72-600 which crashed into the Keelung river narrowly missed flying into high voltage power cables strung across the Keelung river. Flight into those high voltage power distribution cables ...

Blog Post - Patrick Lockerby - Feb 7 2015 - 11:06pm

Citations: The Intellectual Premier League

Bronks/Wikimedia Commons By Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics at University of Western Australia Of the many things academics obsess about, few rank more highly than citation counts. We all like to think our work is at least read by our pee ...

Article - The Conversation - Feb 8 2015 - 9:00am

Lift The Ban On Oil And Gas Exports And Strengthen The US