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College students crave media
Nearly 1,000 college students from 10 countries wrote blog posts describing how they handled a day disconnected from media.
April 8, 2011
Steven Fries: Emerging countries as drivers for global growth
Emerging markets such as India and China will want their fair share of all forms of energy, including the traditional fossil fuels and renewables.
April 8, 2011
In the category of Best Lab Song, the award goes to …
BioTechniques, The International Journal of Life Science Methods, does more than publish scholarly articles. It also hands out awards for "Best Lab Song".
April 7, 2011
UK study suggests mother’s happiness more important to children than father’s
An early result from a long-term study of 40,000 households in the UK suggests that a mother's happiness is key to the happiness of children.
April 3, 2011
Video of Christopher Flavin with a global perspective on nuclear power
Worldwatch Institute President Christopher Flavin spoke yesterday in Washington D.C. on the future of the nuclear energy industry.
March 31, 2011
Memories emerge from corners of the mind to do battle
A Stanford research study on "memory competition" might mean that - when you try to remember things - memories of similar experiences step in and interfere.
March 31, 2011
Texas site yields 15,000-year-old evidence of earliest Americans
An archaeological site in Texas has yielded almost 16,000 pieces of evidence that people were present in the Americas about 2,500 years earlier than thought.
March 29, 2011
Gene technologists: Today’s ingenious, controversial designers
Synthetic biology has arrived. At a stroke, gene technologists have become the world's most significant and controversial designers.
March 29, 2011
Engineered bacteria secrete diesel fuel
Researchers patented a process involving a genetically-modified form of blue-green bacteria that converts sunlight and carbon dioxide directly into diesel fuel.
March 28, 2011
Ancient Nubians might have brewed beer for antibiotics
Tetracycline wasn't discovered officially until 1948, but ancient Nubians might have brewed up its powerful bacteria-killing properties in their beer.
March 27, 2011
