Human liver tissue transplants in mice raise stem cell treatment hopes
Scientists have made pieces of human liver from stem cells and, by transplanting them into mice, have shown they behave like healthy organs. Tiny clumps of liver tissue were hooked up to the animals’...
View ArticleRadio 4 launches new weekly science show, Inside Science
Science is culture. It always has been, of course, but in the past few years we’ve witnessed fundamental changes in how science is done, and reported, and its place in popular culture. For a long time...
View ArticleOnline gamers invited to vote for favourite science-inspired video game
Image courtesy of The Royal Society. (Summer Science Exhibition Game Jam 2013). Are you a science geek who loves playing online games? If so, then the Royal Society is seeking your help: they are...
View ArticleScience Of Fireworks: How Do The 4th Of July Pyrotechnics Work?
About halfway between the comparatively sedate Memorial Day and Labor Day holidays, you can’t miss the pyrotechnical gloriousness that is Fourth of July. Come nightfall, thousands of fireworks displays...
View ArticleWhat is talent – and can science spot what we will be best at?
My interest in the science of talent has a personal backstory. By the age of three, I’d had 21 ear infections and after an operation to remove fluid from my ears, it took me an extra step to process...
View ArticleSaul Perlmutter: ‘Science is about figuring out your mistakes’
Nobel prize-winning astrophysicist Saul Perlmutter never thought “Eureka!” when, in 1997, his observations of exploding stars called supernovae suggested that the expansion of the universe, begun by...
View ArticleFighting wildfires with science
(CBS News) LOS ANGELES – This is already one of the worst wildfire seasons on record, and it’s only early July. According to one estimate, 740,000 homes in 13 western states with a total value of $136...
View ArticleKen Cuccinelli Attacked By Climate Scientist As ‘Anti-Science Zealot’
Renowned meridian scientist Michael Mann has taken a unusual step of jumping into politics and campaigning with Virginia’s Democratic gubernatorial candidate, disturbed that an “anti-science zealot”...
View ArticleOn Cyanide and a Homicidal Scientist
A University of Pittsburgh researcher was in justice currently in West Virginia (where he was stopped by military during a highway trip). The arise was an extradition hearing that began a routine of...
View ArticleUC Berkeley adds information scholarship to the practical classroom
Most companies are on a hunt for a information scientist, a contention a Harvard Business Review once called “the sexiest pursuit of a 21st century.” But university students are not graduating with a...
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