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Image: Courtesy of Maria Vittoria Dozzi Each year hundreds of the best and brightest researchers gather in Lindau, Germany, for the Nobel Laureate Meeting. There, the newest generation of scientists...
View ArticleReport: Humanities, social science education needed for innovation along with …
As China, Singapore and several European nations are boosting the humanities as “a stimulus to innovation and a source of social cohesion — we are instead narrowing our focus and abandoning our sense...
View ArticleNo More Secrets: Medtronic Shows How Open Science Might Work In The Real …
Pigs Fly As Open Science Comes To Big Pharma Harlan Krumholz Contributor Medtronic’s Chief Executive Fights Drug Safety Controversies, Sees Huge Market Opening In India Matthew Herper Forbes Staff...
View Article3D-printing giant bugs out of titanium… for science!
These bugs are larger than life. (Credit: CSIRO) Australia is known for its overly large bugs, like the up-to-20-inch Titan stick insect. But the country also has tiny insects, like the itsy-bitsy...
View ArticleWhy Don’t Cops Believe Rape Victims?
Lisak and Tremblay, also a consultant, teach an open-ended, narrative approach that elicits sensory details and allows a victim to describe the assault in her own words. This means asking questions...
View ArticleBill Nye the Science Guy brings his smarts to your smartphone
Bill Nye the Science Guy and Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, D-Texas, join MSNBC Disrupt’s Karen Finney to discuss the importance of investing in science and research. When “Bill Nye the Science Guy” went...
View ArticleMutant Silkworms Spin Fluorescent Silk in 3 Colors
Wedding gown made from fluorescent silks, designed by Yumi Katsura, shown in white and UV light. (Iizuka et al., Advanced Functional Materials) Silkworms in a Japanese lab are busy spinning silks that...
View ArticleChinese Astronauts Beam 1st Science Lesson from Space (Video)
Life in space is fun, and the three Chinese astronauts currently in orbit have shared their first lesson on space living with students and countrymen on Earth. The Shenzhou 10 astronauts (or...
View ArticleStupid science: 4 dumb experiments done by scientists
An elephant on acid? A rat who can’t understand Japanese backwards? A scientist is meant to be inquisitive and investigative. But there are some experiments that toe the border between common sense and...
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Science World is VOA’s on-air and online magazine covering science, health, technology and the environment. Hosted by Rick Pantaleo, Science World‘s informative, entertaining and easy-to-understand...
View ArticleApp of the Week: Bill Nye The Science Guy
By Mary Godfrey Image credit: Disney Publishing Worldwide App Name: Bill Nye The Science Guy Price: Free Available Platforms: iOS (iPhone and iPad) What does this app do?: Bill Nye The Science Guy, a...
View Article‘Supermoon’ science: Biggest full moon of 2013 explained
Skywatcher Roberto Porto took this photo of the biggest full moon of 2012, a so-called supermoon, in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Spai Skywatcher Roberto Porto took this photo of the biggest full moon of...
View ArticleNASA moon probe celebrates 4th birthday on Supermoon Sunday
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center Artist’s rendering of the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft. A sharp-eyed NASA spacecraft celebrates four years of circling the moon this Sunday (June 23), just...
View ArticleNew to nature No 107: Typhochlaena costae
There is a story, perhaps apocryphal, that Harvard professor and mycologist Roland Thaxter once gave a public lecture on the Laboulbeniales, an enigmatic group of fungi that grow on the integument of...
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There is more to a “supermoon” than meets the eye. Science governs the appearance of the largest full moon of the year, and this weekend you can check out the amazing lunar sight for yourself. On...
View Article‘Supermoon’ Science: Biggest Full Moon of 2013 Explained
Skywatcher Roberto Porto took this photo of the biggest full moon of 2012, a so-called supermoon, in Costa Adeje, Tenerife, Spain, on May 5, 2012.CREDIT: Roberto Porto There is more to a “supermoon”...
View ArticleThe Chinese Academies of Science Incident
The CAS is hugely important to China’s business and political leaders. A curious thing has happened recently with several of the more notorious deny-the-science propaganda think tanks and hired guns...
View ArticleArchimedes: Separating Myth From Science
But more than 2,200 years after his death, his inventions are still driving technological innovations — so much so that experts from around the world gathered recently for a conference at New York...
View ArticleWe Need A Recall System For Bad Science Reporting
Photo credit: Wikipedia Perhaps you read in April about alarmingly high lead levels in imported rice, threatening the health and safety of all who consume it. A team of researchers from Monmouth...
View ArticleDumb Questions Good: Science Journalists, Ask About the Basics
The Hubble Space Telescope as it was deployed from the Space Shuttle Discovery in 1990 (NASA) Science writer Cassandra Willyard has an inspiring piece up at The Last Word on Nothing about the moment,...
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