Science & Society

It's Not An Olympic Sport But Team USA Still Brings Home A Linguistics Gold Medal

The summer games in Beijing are not the only place where the United States can claim gold medal bragging rights. The sixth International Linguistics Olympiad ended Friday in Slanchev Bryag, Bulgaria, and U.S. high school students captured 11 out of 33 awar ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 18 2008 - 4:12pm

Sugar-Frosted Proteins Help The Medicine Go Down In Places Without Refrigeration

Sugar-frosting isn’t just for livening up corn flakes; it can also preserve important therapeutic proteins. Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a fast, inexpensive and effective method for evaluating the ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2008 - 4:27pm

The Science Sold In Auctions

On the 17th of June 2008, The Richard Green Library, a collection of rare scientific books was put up for bid by Christi’s Auction House. Of the 289 lots sold totaling $11,019,688 the most notable was De revolutionibus orbium coelestium libri V, 1543 (On t ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Aug 20 2008 - 9:42am

Alcohol Use In Teens Can Cause Sudden Pregnancies- And Sometimes None At All

Alcohol use during the teen years can not only lead to alcoholism, risky sexual behavior and early childbearing, alcohol dependence (AD) has now also been linked to delayed reproduction. "Reproductive dysfunctions include a range of menstrual disorder ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2008 - 11:34pm

How People Vote: Can The Implicit Association Test Out-Predict Political Pollsters?

As the American Presidential election approaches, pollsters are scrambling to predict who will win. A team of researchers at The University of Western Ontario, Canada, and the University of Padova, Italy say they can give pollsters a new way to determine h ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2008 - 2:27pm

Why It’s OK Even For An Astrophysicist To Have Self-doubt. NASA Dr. Kathy Flanagan's Interview For Women In Science

ScientificBlogger Matthew Brown had the chance to sit down with Dr. Kathryn Flanagan, the head of the Mission Office for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope to talk about her NASA missions, her public service, and why it’s normal even for an astrophysicist t ...

Article - Matthew Brown - Aug 29 2008 - 2:27pm

FBI Details How They Eventually Implicated Bruce Ivins In Anthrax Investigation

They have worked for almost seven years in secret. Most people did not know that the work in Ray Goehner's materials characterization department at Sandia National Laboratories was contributing important information to the FBI's investigation of ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 21 2008 - 11:46pm

Local Stores Not A Friend Of The Poor

Households located in poor neighborhoods pay more for the same items than people living in wealthy ones, according to a new study in the Journal of Consumer Research. Author Debabrata Talukdar of Columbia University found that the critical factor in how mu ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 22 2008 - 5:00pm

Actress Vanessa Redgrave Says Responsibilities Of Actors And Journalists Are The Same

Students from the University of Maryland attending the Salzburg Academy on Media and Global Change got a special session with academy-award winning actress Vanessa Redgrave August 13. "One of the problems for us all is that we are not, and cannot ofte ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 23 2008 - 10:34am

Mega-Corporations Like United Way, Not Obama's Faith-Based Initiative, Are The Way To Help People, Says Researcher

Religious groups can help deliver cost-effective social services, says Bob Wineburg, a social work professor at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro (UNCG), but Obama’s proposal, which would build on Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative, would create mo ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 24 2008 - 10:58am