Science & Society

Microsoft Statement Regarding Carl Icahn Letter

REDMOND, Washington, July 7 /PRNewswire/-- Microsoft Corp. today issued the following statement: In the past week we have had the opportunity to discuss with Carl Icahn the prospects for a possible agreement between Microsoft and Yahoo!. ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 7 2008 - 12:51pm

Irritable Male Syndrome

Women get PMS and men get IMS. While it may be common knowledge that PMS is the psychological and emotional symptoms related to a woman’s menstrual cycle it is not so clear what IMS, or Irritable Male Syndrome, is. The name for the result of a drop in test ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 7 2008 - 8:43pm

Adolescent Weight Gain- Internet, Alcohol And Lack Of Sleep

Girls moving through adolescence may experience unhealthy levels of weight gain and a new study in The Journal of Pediatrics analyzes the effect of Internet usage, sleep, and alcohol and coffee consumption. Dr. Catherine Berkey and colleagues from Harvard ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2008 - 11:42pm

Women Over 70 Having Better Sex Than Ever

An increasing number of 70 year olds are having good sex and more often, and women in this age group are particularly satisfied with their sex lives, according to a study published today on BMJ.com. Knowledge about sexual behaviour in older people (70 year ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 13 2011 - 12:44pm

Ugly Braces: Good News For Fathers, Bad News For Teenage Girls

While it's true that the attractiveness of orthodontic braces is related to less metal, according to a recent survey, the least attractive ones remain the most effective. It's that old form versus function issue. Study findings published in a rec ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2008 - 4:52pm

Is There Culinary Evolution? Not Really

However much popular television chefs like Jamie Oliver or Gordon Ramsay might want to shake up our diets, culinary evolution dictates that our cultural cuisines remain little changed as generations move on, shows new research in the New Journal of Physics ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 12:34am

George Will: Why Are We kicking Talent Out of the US?

Continuing my science policy blogging streak (we'll get back to real science here soon, I promise!), it's worth noting Washington Post columnist George Will's recent piece about our "perverse national policy of expelling talented people ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Feb 17 2009 - 10:54am

Retraining Fishermen Now Cheaper Than Subsidizing Fuel For Fishing Fleets

Just this once, anti-fishing organizations can fall back on capitalistic economics to make their case- with huge increases in fuel costs, it may be time to have government-run fisheries rather than spend more money on fuel subsidies currently given to fish ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2008 - 5:16pm

Are Couch Potatoes Born Or Made?

The key to good health is to be physically active. The key to being active is... to be born that way? The well-documented importance of exercise in maintaining fitness has created the idea that individuals can manage their health by increasing their activi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2008 - 1:27am

The Downside To Open Access Science

Research shows that as more scholarly and research journals are available online, researchers are citing fewer of them- and they are primarily newer papers. There's no question the Internet gives scientists and researchers instant access to a wealth o ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 18 2008 - 1:43pm