Science & Society

Monster.com is the perfect example of a company that spent its entire marketing budget on a Super Bowl ad and launched a success story. Is that the exception? No, it turns out that Super Bowl…

Communist dictatorships don't get credit for much but one thing about them made anti-smoking advocates happy; a lack of cigarettes meant fewer people puffed. Yes, according to a new study in an anti…

From Bora Zivkovic's A Blog around the Clock: Here is a video of SPARC-ACRL Forum '08 on 12 January, 2008 at the Pennyslvania Convention Center in Philadelphia: The SPARC-ACRL Forum at ALA '08…

Dr. Shaohua Xu, Florida Tech associate professor of biological sciences, has an original theory of the origin of Alzheimer’s Disease and has earned a $150,000 grant from Space Florida to test it. The…

It’s not always best to be first, finds a new study from the Journal of Consumer Research. The researchers examined how consumers evaluate new products and found that many products may actually…

A good fight with your spouse may be good for your health, research suggests. Couples in which both the husband and wife suppress their anger when one attacks the other die earlier than members of…

I wouldn't touch celery without a swath of peanut butter layered on top. I probably wouldn't touch it even then. Celery is not a stand-alone food for me. But a study in the Journal of Agricultural…

Environmental hypocrisy is the new Prius, it seems. While people coo about Toyota they label the Tata Nano an environmental disaster. Why? Because it gets 54 MPG? No, because the new middle class in…

In November 2007, Donald Kennedy, then-editor of the prestigious journal Science, announced that for the next five issues, each of the research articles would include a brief "author's summary"…

NASA will debut a new book for blind readers at a media event and reception Jan. 15. The agency will unveil "Touch the Invisible Sky," which gives blind readers the ability to experience cosmic…