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For students to accept the theory of evolution, an intuitive "gut feeling" may be just as important as understanding the facts, according to a new study.
New research demonstrates that previous models used to examine cancer may not be complex enough to accurately mimic the true cancer environment. Using oral cancer cells in a three-dimensional model of lab-made tissue that mimics the lining of the oral cavity, the researchers found that the tissue surrounding cancer cells can epigenetically mediate, or temporarily trigge
A new study by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy illustrates a disconnect between government funding of biomedical research by young investigators and a novel standard by which to judge it: the Nobel Prize.
Despite years of trying to improve the number of women undergraduates in science and engineering, a new study shows most universities are failing. Not only are women lagging behind their male classmates, efforts to close the gap too often focus on students instead of faculty and institutional structures.
Throughout history, science and religion have appeared as being in perpetual conflict, but a new study by Rice University suggests that only a minority of scientists at major research universities see religion and science as requiring distinct boundaries.
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Throughout history, science and religion have appeared as being in perpetual conflict, but a new study by Rice University suggests that only a minority of scientists at major research universities see religion and science as requiring distinct boundaries.
Haiti and the global community should work together to build a robust science sector that can help the nation recover from last year's deadly earthquake, support future development, and improve the lives of Haiti's people, says a new AAAS report by Haitian and international scientists and educators.
Heart specialists at Johns Hopkins have figured out how a widely used pacemaker for heart failure, which makes both sides of the heart beat together to pump effectively, works at the biological level. Their findings may open the door to drugs or genetic therapies that mimic the effect of the pacemaker and to new ways to to use pacemakers for a wider range of heart failure patients.
Since the first television screens lit up our living rooms scientists have been studying its affect on young children. Now scientists in Ohio have compared mother-child communication while watching TV to reading books or playing with Toys to reveal the impact on children's development.
The use of stronger graduated driver licensing programs for 16- to 19-year old drivers in the U.S. that included restrictions on nighttime driving and allowed passengers were associated with a lower incidence of fatal crashes among 16-year old drivers, but a higher incidence among 18-year olds, according to a study in the September 14 issue of JAMA.
Scientific research may be in decline across the globe because of growing pressures to report only positive results, new analysis suggests.
Although Americans are increasingly tolerant of the open expression of a variety of views, the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 have made most Americans reluctant to extend those freedoms to Muslim extremists, research released Aug. 25 by NORC at the University of Chicago shows.
Black applicants from 2000-2006 were 10 percentage points less likely than white applicants to be awarded research project grants from the National Institutes of Health after controlling for factors that influence the likelihood of a grant award, according to an NIH-commissioned study in the journal Science.
Nearly half of all women scientists and one-quarter of male scientists at the nation's top research universities said their career has kept them from having as many children as they had wanted, according to a new study by Rice University and Southern Methodist University (SMU).
The path of success for Nobel Prize laureates in the sciences isn't a straight shot from obscurity to never-ending scientific superstardom, a new study reveals.
Unusually high clustering of last names within Italian academic institutions and disciplines indicates widespread nepotism in the country's schools, according to a new computational analysis.
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A spiny cucumber and a nanotube ''city'' feature among the winners of the 2011 International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge.
Some might argue that Newt Gingrich's emphasis on scientific pursuits hurt his political chances — but what's really needed is more science, not less.
A movement to boycott scientific publishing giant Elsevier because of the high price of its journals is rapidly gathering steam. Nine days after it started, more than 2600 scientists—including several Field Medalists—have signed a petition at thecostofknowledge.com in which they pledge not to publish papers in Elsevier's journals, nor referee other researchers' studies, or do other types of editorial work for the company.
Soon-to-be-graduate Rebecca Campbell gives her take on the latest results from those taking the temperature of the graduate job market
The best way to get teens interested in science is to wash its dirty laundry in public, says Michael Brooks
Newt Gingrich promised Wednesday on Florida’s Space Coast to create a moon colony by 2020 if elected president.
An anonymous whistleblower has created a YouTube video that details alleged duplication of images...
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill has claimed another casualty. The White House yesterday formally withdrew its nomination of geochemist Scott Doney to be chief scientist of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
It still being January means we are (just about) still allowed to make predictions for the coming year - Charlie Ball peers into his crystal ball
U.S. companies are adding research jobs overseas at a record pace while their domestic research workforce is growing very slowly. The new data come from the 2012 edition of Science and Engineering Indicators, a massive, biennial compendium of global science trends from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
More than one in 10 British-based scientists or doctors have witnessed colleagues intentionally altering or fabricating data during their research, according to a survey by the British Medical Journal (BMJ) on Thursday.
Samantha Garvey is one teenage girl who would rather read something called The Journal of Shellfish Research than Glamour magazine. “What I’m doing is the American dream,” she says.
A little-noticed proposal in Congress to block a federal policy requiring free access to biomedical research papers went big time today, adding fuel to a long-running debate in the blogosphere.
Gastroenterologist Andrew Wakefield has been defeated at nearly every round in a legal battle over his claims about autism, but he's coming back for another. An article Wakefield published in 1998 linking the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine to autism and bowel disease was immediately challenged and discredited.
The 2012 Weird Science Awards pay tribute to the strangest and silliest scientific happenings of the past year, from A (for Aflockalypse) to Z (for zombie ants).
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School closures slow spread of pH1N1
Domestic cats, and wild bobcats and pumas, living in same area have same diseases
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Survey of elementary school student access to food in vending machines, snack bars, other venues
Odds of living a very long life lower than formerly predicted
Entire genome of extinct human decoded from fossil
Why the middle finger has such a slow connection
Smoking associated with more rapid cognitive decline in men
Whole-genome sequencing of 2011 E. coli outbreaks in Europe provides new insight
Tasting fructose with the pancreas
Researchers uncover a mechanism to explain dune field patterns
Copper + love chemical = big sulfur stink
The right recipe: Engineering research improves laser detectors, batteries
Nanorod-assembled order affects diffusion rate and direction
Engineers weld nanowires with light
Invasive alien predator causes rapid declines of European ladybirds
Discovery predicts patient sensitivity to important drug target in deadly brain cancer
What drives public opinion on climate change?
Steroids control gas exchange in plants
Compromises between quantity and quality common in animals, do tradeoffs hold true for plants?
Classic portrait of a barred spiral galaxy
Hubble zooms in on a magnified galaxy
The discovery of deceleration
New super-Earth detected within the habitable zone of a nearby cool star
Sun delivered curveball of powerful radiation at Earth
Video: Studying butterfly flight to help build bug-size flying robots
A new system of stereo cameras detects pedestrians from within the car
Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor
Cooling semiconductor by laser light
Physicists use ion beams to detect art forgery
Redder ladybirds more deadly, say scientists
A bug's (sex) life: Diving beetles offer unexpected clues about sexual selection
Video: Fossil cricket reveals Jurassic love song
Hurricane gave researchers a rare opportunity to study evolution
Extended synaptic development may explain our cognitive edge over other primates
Lab-made tissue picks up the slack of Petri dishes in cancer research
Nobel history illustrates gap in grants to young scientists
Women in science? Universities don't make the grade
Science and religion do mix
Science and science education critical for Haiti's future, says international team convened by AAAS
PS3s Help Astrophysicists Solve Black Hole Mystery
Texting costs are 'out of this world'
Dark matter of the genome revealed through analysis of 29 mammals
Algae that live inside the cells of salamanders are the first known vertebrate endosymbionts
Accidental discovery produces durable new blue pigment for multiple applications
Robot scientist becomes first machine to discover new scientific knowledge
Physicists produce quantum-entangled images
Expensive new blood pressure meds no better than generics
Graphane yields new potential
A new way to weigh giant black holes
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