Graduate students find no match in evening cell phone use spike and crash data August 14, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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It's conventional wisdom that talking on cell phones while driving is risky business, but two University of California, Berkeley, graduate student economists report that a spike in cell phone use in recent years and on weekday ... | |
UK children's exposure to science and arts 'hijacked' November 05, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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A ten year review of primary education has found that children are now taught an 'alarming' amount of maths and English at the expense of science, arts and the humanities compared to ten years ago. | |
More pedestrians killed during a new moon November 14, 2007 | User rating: 5 / 5 after 14 vote(s)
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The next time you decide to go for a moonlight stroll, you may want to check first if the moon is full. | |
 Nature editors start online peer review September 14, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Editors of the prestigious scientific journal Nature have reportedly embarked on an experiment of their own: adding an online peer review process. | |
Economists: Reduce fish catch now for bigger net profits later December 06, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A new and compelling argument for reducing fish harvests – the profit motive – could persuade world fishers to endure the short-term pain of lower catches for the long-term gain of higher returns for their labor, according ... | |
 Native fruits bear sweet antioxidants August 02, 2007 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 10 vote(s)
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Twelve native Australian fruits that are exceptional sources of antioxidants have been identified in research published in the journal Innovative Food Science & Emerging Technologies. | |
Study urges early emphasis on science May 26, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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What do you want to be when you grow up? Eighth-graders asked this question in 1988 were two to three times more likely to earn science and engineering degrees in college if their answer was a science-related career. The ... | |
Learning about brains from computers, and vice versa February 15, 2008 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 9 vote(s)
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For many years, Tomaso Poggio’s lab at MIT ran two parallel lines of research. Some projects were aimed at understanding how the brain works, using complex computational models. Others were aimed at improving the abilities ... | |
Trailer park residents face multiple challenges June 28, 2006 | User rating: 4.9 / 5 after 8 vote(s)
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The denizens of America's rural trailer parks have heard all the snide comments about their homes – and they have been labeled everything from "trailer trash" to "tornado magnets" – but beneath that ridicule lie acute needs ... | |
Online museum graduate course offered February 05, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 6 vote(s)
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Johns Hopkins University is offering a master of arts degree in museum studies in an online program opened to students around the world. | |
Cooperation, punishment and revenge March 06, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 30 vote(s)
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Research from The University of Nottingham has shed new light on the way in which people co-operate for the common good — and what happens when they don’t. | |
 U.S. young people: geographic illiterates May 04, 2006 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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A recent geographic literacy survey suggests young U.S. adults fail to understand the world and their place in it, National Geographic News reports. | |
Negativity is contagious, study finds October 04, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 11 vote(s)
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Though we may not care to admit it, what other people think about something can affect what we think about it. This is how critics become influential and why our parents’ opinions about our life choices continue to matter, ... | |
 MIT prof Edward Lorenz, father of chaos theory, dies at 90 April 16, 2008 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 21 vote(s)
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Edward Lorenz, an MIT meteorologist who tried to explain why it is so hard to make good weather forecasts and wound up unleashing a scientific revolution called chaos theory, died April 16 of cancer at his ... | |
 Follow the 'Green' Brick Road? May 22, 2007 | User rating: 4.8 / 5 after 15 vote(s)
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Researchers have found that bricks made from fly ash--fine ash particles captured as waste by coal-fired power plants--may be even safer than predicted. Instead of leaching minute amounts of mercury as some ... | |
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