Science & Society

Music And Lyrics- Sexual Songs Linked To Sexual Behavior In Youths

With sexual activity among adolescents in the United States resulting in over 750,000 teenage pregnancies each year and reports of up to 25 percent of all female adolescents in the US having sexually transmitted infections, researchers and public health of ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 24 2009 - 10:57am

Blogosphere Beats Peer Review Finding Stealth Creationist Paper

Academia is notoriously resistant to change, which to some extent is a good thing. It was therefore no surprise that when Wikipedia became a phenomenon most academics scoffed at it as a passing fad, fatally flawed by its very core idea: anybody, and I mea ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Sep 7 2012 - 9:07am

American Institute Of Physics Announces Awards For Best Science Writing

The American Institute of Physics (AIP) announced the winners of its 2008 Science Writing Awards today. The winners-- two scientists, a journalist, a children's book author, and a public television producer-- will receive four prizes of $3,000, engra ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2009 - 11:17am

Journalists, scientists and new media

As a journalist I have seen many misunderstandings not only in the field of science. The relationship between journalists and other kind of professionals, for example medics professionals, is also hard. But you have to consider that it happens also becaus ...

Blog Post - Felipe Pugliesi Jr. - Mar 1 2009 - 5:24pm

Congress advocates for FDA regulation of dietary supplements

Three Representatives and one Senator are calling for additional FDA regulatory authority to ensure better oversight of dietary supplements, after a GAO report released today detailed FDA's lack of ability to identify and properly act on safety concer ...

Blog Post - Becky Jungbauer - Mar 2 2009 - 2:47pm

Geeks Equal Cool, Nerds Not So Much

Despite the increased popularity of geek culture – movies based on comic books, videogames, virtual worlds – and the ubiquity of computers, the geek's close cousin, the nerd, still suffers from a negative stereotype in popular culture. This may help e ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 3 2009 - 1:59pm

The Pain Of Envy And The Pleasure Of Charity

Nature-- presumably through the mechanism of Darwinian selection-- has endowed us with a balanced system of pains and pleasures that correspond respectively to the sort of things we should avoid or seek in order to further our survival and reproduction. I ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Mar 5 2009 - 11:06pm

Slime-Bag Dinosaur: What Science Is, What It Isn’t

Carl Zimmer discusses his piece in Science. It’s about the 2005 discovery of potential blood vessels from none other than T-Rex.  The trouble is that now there are a few scientists who aren’t all that convinced, instead saying that the vessels are in fact ...

Article - Nicholas Horton - Mar 3 2009 - 6:53pm

Consumer Confusion- High Fructose Corn Syrup And Fructose Are Not The Same

As researchers continue to examine the role of sweeteners in the diet, it's important that people understand the differences among various ingredients used in scientific studies, according to the Corn Refiners Association (CRA). Interchanging two dis ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2009 - 12:32pm

To Nap Or Not To Nap?

The latest news on napping would have you believe that it’s a harbinger of doom.  The Research Institute at the California Pacific Medical center studied communities of elderly women and linked napping and excess sleep in general to increased death from an ...

Article - Stephanie Pulford - Mar 4 2009 - 4:29pm