Articles tagged with science

With women still a minority among tenure-track researchers, the National Science Foundation unveils a raft of policies to keep women in science and engineering research careers.

A pairing of U.S. foreign aid and the National Science Foundation should deliver vital technological and scientific access to the world at no additional cost to U.S. taxpayers.

Being vocally anti-science has become a defining mark of a current style of politics, an intentional ignorance that recalls the Scopes Monkey Trial, argues law professor Robert Benson.

Researchers at the UCSF School of Dentistry work to create synthetic tooth enamel.

New research finds we trust experts who agree with our own opinions, suggesting that subjective feelings override scientific information.

A mile-and-a-half-long ice cube tells a story about Earth’s climate.

New research suggests one reason women are underrepresented in science and math is they see such careers as impeding their desire to help others.

Jacob Zuma says the World Cup can score an economic goal for his country, but a collection of international astronomers meeting in his backyard have a starry-eyed yet down-to-earth suggestion for the developing world.

Researchers fear that a lawsuit aimed at the developer of the “hockey stick” temperature map is actually a political salvo at science.

The rapidly growing field of paleotempestology lays the foundation for reliable hurricane predictions a decade or more into the future.

Newly published research on belief in ESP suggests a public disregard for — and perhaps even hostility toward — the scientific consensus.

Giant rocks or snowballs in space, while more likely to hit in Hollywood than anywhere else on Earth, remain a threat that policymakers are taking seriously.

Overcoming some of the obstacles that have hindered petri-dish-to-gas-pump schemes in the past, scientists are finding ways to produce high-octane fuel and even pure hydrogen from co-opted algae.

While Arunava Majumdar says America urgently needs to come up with clean-energy “game changers,” until now there hasn’t been a systematic approach to develop them.

A mixed picture emerges as science organizations examine the U.S. lead in innovation and where that lead is headed.

Climategate and some other high-profile, if ultimately rare, scientific embarrassments lead academics to study transparency.

To engineers, every problem is just a solution that hasn’t occurred yet, our Michael Haederle learns at the El Paso innovation conference.

Freakish snowstorms warm the hearts of both believers and skeptics of global warm … err … climate change.

Many scientists breathed easier as a new U.S. administration took charge, but not all of their hopes have yet been realized.

The partisanization of just about everything in D.C. leaves a scientific advisory panel on bioethics moored in ideological shoals.

The perception that a veneer of certainty must reign over all levels of climate change has led proponents to come a cropper.

Two books look at science illiteracy in America and report that it can be reversed if scientists emerge from the lab and start communicating.

The Obama administration’s tech czar wants a Silicon Valley value transplanted to the Beltway: customer experience design.

The murky waters of the debate over chemical exposures and health just got murkier. And a bit nastier.

The lure of colonizing space has moved from science fiction to the hard work of figuring out how to do it and what we get out of it.

Engineers at Nissan creating a buzz with their ‘Safety Shield.’

A growing number of scientists, ecologists and entrepreneurs have begun to incorporate ‘biomimicry’ across a vast spectrum of enterprises.

An African skyscraper built in 2007 features a unique climate-control system inspired by the gigantic termite mounds found in the Zimbabwean bush.

MIT students use the concept of phototropism to design a sun-tracking solar panel that requires no motor or electronic control system.

In the capricious world of nuclear waste, a scientist focuses on promising technologies for the capture and storage of the maddeningly elusive iodine-129.

Empathy is more than an item on a prospective Supreme Court nominee’s résumé; it’s a core human trait. But where inside the brain might it arise?

A new Pew survey finds Americans on the whole like science and even scientists, but aren’t willing to give it, or them, the last word on science-related questions.

Although solar energy is often seen as a technology tied either to spacecraft or terra firma, a new generation of engineers and adventurers is crafting solar-powered aircraft.

In the aftermath of modern U.S. disasters, science is tasked with coming up with unbiased data and irrefutable analysis. If only life were that simple, especially when it all goes to court.

George Jetson is (or will be) a liar, says noted historian Michael Bess, who sees redesigning the human platform as the story that both scriptwriters and policymakers are missing.

Tom Price is blogging for Miller-McCune.com from the 3rd annual Conference on Understanding Interventions That Broaden Participation in Research Careers.

Tom Price is blogging for Miller-McCune.com from the 3rd annual Conference on Understanding Interventions That Broaden Participation in Research Careers.

Tom Price is blogging for Miller-McCune.com from the 3rd annual Conference on Understanding Interventions That Broaden Participation in Research Careers.

Tom Price is blogging live from the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s public policy conference for Miller-McCune.com.

Tom Price is blogging live from the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s public policy conference for Miller-McCune.com.

Tom Price is blogging live from the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s public policy conference for Miller-McCune.com.

Review: A useful but incomplete book looks at the compatibility (if any) of Buddhism and science.

Although it’s no surprise that any activity is better than none, hiking has specific medicinal benefits.

As food irradiation remains a sensitive subject in the U.S., the mechanics of killing bacteria on food without irradiating it just got a little easier.

The best of Miller-McCune magazine’s first year of publication, as chosen by Editor-in-Chief John Mecklin.

Miller-McCune’s experts offer solutions to problems that were under-discussed during the presidential campaign.

UPDATED: President-elect reportedly selects physicist John Holdren as his consigliere on science.

Surveillance around the clock is offered to schoolchildren and astrophysicists via Internet-linked telescopes
girding the globe.

Professionals hope the new president can change the culture of science in the White House.

Or how a documentary film makes the attempt to verify the existence of an atomic particle as fascinating as it really is.

Evolutionary theorist suggests humor played a key role in our development as a species.

Planet hunter Geoff Marcy scans the skies for answers to the universal question of other life.

Scientists are getting a better idea of how coffee might extend human life spans. Hint: It might follow the same path to immortality as eating less.

The U.K.’s Freedom of Information Act used to pry the lid off a festering document horde from Britain’s own version of Project Blue Book.

The aphorism seeing is believing’ has it backward, as evidenced by skeptics who don’t believe man went to the moon and contend photos taken by the astronauts prove their point.

Two new MRI studies provide insights into how music is processed in the brain and clues to the underlying structure of the creative process.

The author of a new paper on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980 finds that the legislation has not caused the decline in basic research that many had feared.