Science & Society

The Feminine Touch- Your Company's Secret Weapon?

There are more men involved in high-profile international business deals than women, and that may be hurting companies, according to the results of a new Tel Aviv University study on the role of gender in management, which found that women may be more skil ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2008 - 10:53pm

Calling all evolutionary biologists- protect the "Tree of Life" from extinction by Hollywood

OK, I am getting worried. As I wrote a few weeks ago, there is a new movie coming out supposedly next year called "The Tree of Life" starring Brad Pitt, Sean Penn and others. Well, the movie sounds like it could be good. But though this may sound ...

Blog Post - Jonathan Eisen - Feb 21 2009 - 7:40pm

Homosexuality A Result Of Genetics And Random Environmental Factors, Says Twins Study

Homosexual behavior is largely shaped by genetics and random environmental factors, according to findings from the world's largest study of twins. Researchers from Queen Mary's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences and Karolinska Institutet ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2008 - 5:50pm

Better Exercise With A Carbohydrate And Caffeine Post-Workout Meal

Recipe to recover more quickly from exercise: Finish workout, eat pasta, and wash down with five or six cups of strong coffee. Glycogen, the muscle's primary fuel source during exercise, is replenished more rapidly when athletes ingest both carbohydra ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 1:11am

Modern Medical Techniques Tackle Violins, Wood Density And That Stradivarius Sound

Dr. Berend Stoel from the Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC), in collaboration with renowned luthier Terry Borman, has put classical violins in a CT scanner and discovered that the homogeneity in the densities of the wood from which the classical viol ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 9:56pm

Thoughts On The UCSD Conference On New Communication Channels For Biology

I'm back from the UCSD workshop on New Communication Channels for Biology held June 27-28, 2008. The talks were recorded and are now available here. The first day mainly consisted of talks while the second was very heavy on breakout sessions (see agen ...

Article - Jean-Claude Bradley - Jul 2 2008 - 2:59pm

Superfluids, BECs And Bosenovas: The Ultimate Experiment

In a familiar world of solids, liquids and gases, we find the fourth state of matter, the plasmas of lightning to the aurora borealis and fluorescent tubes at the office. Further out, minor phenomena becomes the big event in space, our shining stars are p ...

Article - Alan Gillis - Sep 1 2008 - 9:39pm

NATURE Takes On PLoS

Let's be honest; Nature and AAAS, non-profit or not, have employees and those employees would like to remain so. That requires money and a lot of it. Non-profit has never meant 'free', it just means they can't give money to shareholders ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - May 10 2011 - 4:38pm

Alcohol Powder Starts Flowing

Since 1969 a U.S. patent has been registered on the process of turning alcohol into powder. This year, products, such as gelatin shots and margaritas, based from alcohol powder are set to be released by Pulver Spirits and BPNC Distillery. Though alcohol po ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Apr 22 2014 - 4:38pm

Surrogate, Egg Donor Kids Do Just Fine

The emotional well-being of families where children lack a genetic or gestational link to one or both of their parents (where the children have been conceived through surrogacy, egg donation or donor insemination) has long been a subject of debate. In the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 5 2008 - 11:22pm