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Will NASA Feel The Love Tonight?
Around the pink- and red-hued madness of overpriced flowers and heart-shaped everything that is Valentine's Day, even a rocket man1 needs a little love.2 Unfortunately for NASA, the Stardust spacecraft...
WikiLeaks founder's extradition case continues
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange returns to a British court for the second day of a hearing to decide whether he should be extradited to Sweden to face sexual assault allegations.
Video: The Internet and Our Right to Privacy
24-year-old Ashley Payne was forced to resign from her position as a public high school teacher when a student allegedly complained over a Facebook photo of Payne holding alcoholic beverages...
Watching others smoke makes smokers plan to light up
Seeing actors smoke in a movie activated the brain areas of smokers that are known to interpret and plan hand movements, as though they too were about to light a...
Zuckerberg Pere: Mark Got Computer Exposure Young
Mark Zuckerberg's Father: Support Children's Strengths With Balance Of 'Work And Play'
Review of Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe
Once Before Time: A Whole Story of the Universe by Martin Bojowald (Knopf, 2010, $27.95, 320 pages) Reviewed by Dr. Fred Bortz See other reviews from the Science Shelf Book...
A Struggle to Disarm People Without Gun Rights
There is serious vulnerability when it comes to keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally unstable and others.
Who Is Today's Einstein? An Exercise In Ranking Scientists
Who cites who? Science funding, tenure track appointments, all that is important to young scientists gets more and more dominated by citation analysis. This is certainly true in physics. Physics...
Isabella Rossellini's guide to the sex life of the anchovy | Interview
In a series of short films, Isabella Rossellini acts as a range of animals having sex. She just wants to amuse us, she says – and teach us some hard science about...
Lies We Tell Our Children
Beginning in elementary school and continuing all the way through high school graduation, our children are subjected to a systematic program of deliberate, intentional falsehood and misinformation*. This odious ritual...
The Medium: A Prescription for Fear
Despite the Mayo Clinic site’s credibility, symptom addicts still use WebMD.
Yoga’s Stress Relief: An Aid for Infertility?
In recent years, so-called “yoga for fertility” classes have become increasingly popular.
Evidence supporting your NHS reforms? What evidence, Mr Lansley? | Ben Goldacre
The NHS has had 15 reorganisations in 30 years. Crucial data on whether any have worked is woefully lackingI have never heard one politician use the word "evidence" so persistently, and so misleadingly,...
Uncertainty's promise | Mark Vernon
Whether with science or religion, only by embracing doubt can we learn and growWe live in an age intolerant of doubt. Communicating uncertainty is well nigh impossible across fields as diverse as politics,...
It May Be a Sputnik Moment, but Science Fairs Are Lagging
Participation in high school science fairs appears to be declining, and many teachers blame the administration’s own policy.
Bad Year Ahead For Med Chem?
The Year of the Rabbit is off to an inauspicious start -- if you work in pharmaceuticals, anyway. As you've probably heard already, just this last week, Pfizer announced their...
This column will change your life: There's one born every minute | Oliver Burkeman
The pros and cons of uni- and multitaskingBuying a gift for the person who has everything? I can heartily recommend the Butter Cutter, a complex mechanism into which you insert a stick...
Soul Dust by Nicholas Humphrey - review
Consciousness is not just an illusion conjured in the theatre of the brain, says Mary MidgleyNicholas Humphrey is more human and more entertaining than many psychologists. He also deserves thanks because, in the 1970s,...
This Week in the Future, January 28-February 4, 2011
TWITF: Jan 28-Feb 4 Baarbarian This week, we're doing things a little differently. Resident artist Baarbarian has captured five of our most eye-catching stories of the week in this picture, but to win...
ParentCorps helps children do better in school
Researchers at the NYU Child Study Center demonstrated that a brief program for families of Pre-Kindergarten students attending schools in disadvantaged urban communities improved children's behavior at school. The...
Galileo And Relativity - But More About Inclined Planes And Fun Simulations.
Talking about relativity one should not forget Galileo's great contributions to - or perhaps in fact foundations of - physics. But more fun are Galileos researches on falling bodies and motion of...
Neuroimaging Chinese Social Cognition
Neuroscientist Sook-Lei Liew examines the role of experiences on neural networks.
Indian Report, at Odds With Mainstream, Raises Mobile Phone Concerns
NEW DELHI—In a report that departs from the scientific mainstream, an Indian government panel...
The New Old Age: Nurses Without Borders
Not all nurses work in medical settings. Supported by religious groups of all kinds, faith community nurses offer free support to the elderly.
85 percent of US adults own cellphone: survey
Mobile phones are the most popular gadget among adult Americans followed by computers, digital music players, game consoles and electronic book readers, according to a new survey.
The Stopwatch Test & Productivity
How much actual on-task work do you do on a typically work day? The myth is everyone produces 8 hours of useful, targetted work in an 8.5 hour work day...
No organ donations from Pope Benedict
The Pope supports organ transplants but as Pope, his body will belong to the Catholic Church.
Threat to employers and workforce productivity
(PhysOrg.com) -- A survey by King's College London and law firm Speechly Bircham reveals that employers are facing a sustained increase in workplace unrest as austerity measures, longer working hours,...