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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.

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.
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There are an ever increasing number of formats dedicated to demonstrating the entertaining aspects of science, and these are becoming increasingly more high profile.
The loss of lab animals at New York University’s Langone Medical Center to Hurricane Sandy has the potential to be devastating to medical research there. However, a scientist from Houston who has been through something similar says there’s a silver lining to this cloud.
During Halloween, people temporarily surrender their bodies to well-known occult figures. For the rest of the year however, there's always the option of donating your body to science, and there are several ways to do this
Specially bred mice and rats perished in the flooding from Superstorm Sandy. Now cell lines and DNA stored in refrigerators and freezers might be dying as the temperature rises. The loss could set researchers back years.
Why do so many people get turned off the most exciting thing they can do with their clothes on? Form a hypothesis!
Since Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, the popular imagination has been alive with stories of mad scientists and the chilling experiments they conduct. But sometimes, real life is even more frightening than fiction.
Big data could change the way we see the world. This week experts have gathered in Washington DC to discuss it, these are some of the examples that came up• More data
Americans who care about science and its wider benefits should back Obama for a second term, says geneticist and Democratic campaign adviser Andy Feinberg
It's time that scientists learned to talk amicably to faith groups about research on the origins of the universe, argues Michael Brooks
Answers reveal partisan divides, but broad support for basic research
The manslaughter verdicts passed on Italian seismologists in L'Aquila have serious ramifications for all scientists, living or dead. Many more criminal convictions could follow
Spiders, weevils, wasps, lice, mites and mosquitoes are among the creepiest subjects of the winners of Nikon's Small World microscope photography competition this year. Super-close-ups of eyes, tongues and silk spinnerets are amazingly beautiful, but also gross enough to induce shivers.
Writer Shawn Lawrence Otto traces the history of anti-science beliefs in the United States and says that too many political candidates today pander to this point of view on such hot-button issues as climate change, stem cell research and evolution.
Sixty-eight laureates support reelection, criticize Romney on climate change
Craig Venter imagines a future where you can download software, print a vaccine, inject it, and presto! Contagion averted. “It’s a 3-D printer for DNA, a 3-D printer for life,” Venter said here today at the inaugural Wired Health Conference in New York City.
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