Articles in the Category: Featured Articles
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Engineering, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Science of..., Video on 02 15th, 2010 | No Comments
The Science of…The Winter Olympics
San Francisco Bay area teachers are using the 2010 Winter Olympics to teach kids about math and science.
The Silicon Valley Education Foundation teamed up with NBC Learn — the educational arm of NBC News — and the National Science Foundation to provide free lesson plans and video clips....
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, The Brain on 02 11th, 2010 | No Comments
The Love Hormone Field Test
It’s a rare occasion when a scientist can test a theory outside the confines of a laboratory. So when Paul Zak got a call from New Scientist reporter Linda Geddes to take her blood at her wedding, he just couldn’t say no.
Dr. Zak is an ocytoxin researcher who studies social indicators of...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciArt, Science & Entertainment, Video on 02 5th, 2010 | No Comments
Science Remixed for the Masses
Music is a powerful medium to convey big messages. But few have successfully spun science-themed songs into big hits.
John Boswell has created a new art form, merging the spoken word from superstar scientists with his own original music. And his Symphony of Science has become a big hit on YouTube.
We...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biology, Computer Science, Energy, Engineering, Featured Articles, Geology, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 02 3rd, 2010 | No Comments
Science on Track for Big Budget Gains in 2011
The federal agencies submitted their budget requests to Congress this week, marking a big moment for all things science. According to preliminary reports about $148 billion of the Presidents full $3.8 trillion budget is heading for scientific research programs.
Photo courtesy of Brookhaven National...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Featured Articles, Marine Science, SciClips, Video on 12 18th, 2009 | No Comments
Sea Turtle Flies to Miami
An injured hawksbill sea turtle flew First Class from the Caribbean island of Curacao to Miami on Tuesday. Little Anita rode in her own seat, next to marine biologist Alina Szmant.
The endangered turtle is now settling into her new home at the Hidden Harbor Marine Environmental Project’s “Turtle...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Biology, Endangered Species, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, SciClips, Video on 12 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Tree Kangaroos Fate Up in the Air
Matschie's Tree Kangaroo courtesy of Woodland Park Zoo
Climate negotiations over how to limit carbon dioxide emissions are heating up in Copenhagen. But one other important area negotiators are addressing — how to sequester existing CO2.
Climate sinks — like oceans, forests and permafrost...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, RawAudio, SciClips, Science & Entertainment on 12 15th, 2009 | No Comments
The Real Grey’s Anatomy
The hit ABC television drama Grey’s Anatomy revolves around the fictional Seattle Grace Hospital and follows the lives of surgical residents. Portland, Oregon medical correspondent and author Andrew Holtz wondered where the line between fact and fiction is being drawn when it comes to training...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, SciClips, SciLebs, Space, Video on 12 11th, 2009 | No Comments
Virgin Galactic Blows Guests Away During Space Ship 2 Unveiling
VSS Enterprise
December 7 is a day that will now live in a new kind of infamy. It was the day that Sir Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic space company unveiled its new Space Ship 2 and almost blew 800 guests away — in hurricane-force winds — in the process.
Video of the destruction...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Environment, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 12 8th, 2009 | No Comments
Gaga for Zhu Zhu
The world has gone nuts for five robotic hamsters, called Zhu Zhu Pets. While the cute and cuddly creatures race around on a surfboard, skateboard or in a car, the “it” toy of 2009 has some heavy metals that are within safety limits but beg the question: Do toys need to have these toxic...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips on 12 3rd, 2009 | No Comments
Deconstructing Carbon Emissions
Over the course of the next few weeks we are going to be hearing a lot about carbon emissions–the gas released into the atmosphere from burning fossil fuels and a whole host of other human activities. While the catch-all is called “carbon emissions” they aren’t confined to carbon...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Consumer Safety, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 19th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Mammogram Recommendations Pit Science Against Policy
A long-standing debate over younger women getting annual breast cancer screening is reigniting this week, after an independent medical panel changed its recommendations.
Confusion, fear and politics are swirling around the new U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommendations. The task force now recommends...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Astronomy, Featured Articles, New Discoveries, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Space on 11 16th, 2009 | 2 Comments
Moon Water Found–Now What?
Moon Water, courtesy of Babaloo.
After a lackluster lunar blast that was barely visible, scientists worried there might not be water on the moon. But after analyzing the mountain of preliminary data, NASA confirmed there is water–in the form of ice–just below the surface of the lunar poles.
This...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Physics and Chemistry, Politics and Science, SciClips on 11 12th, 2009 | 7 Comments
Climate Deniers Turn Up Heat on Science Societies
Scientists within the most venerated science organizations in the United States are mounting rebellions against those organizations and their somewhat unified policy on the science of climate change–that it is real and being driven by human activities.
A group of several hundred of 47,000 physicists...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Anthropology, Astronomy, Featured Articles, Math, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips on 11 10th, 2009 | No Comments
2012 Hoax Debunked
2012 is becoming the conspiratorial talk of the town. And a new Sony Pictures disaster movie by the same name only seems to be confusing matters. NASA even posted a Q & A page on its Web site.
Here’s the gist of the kitchen sink hoax. It starts with the end of the Mayan calendar, adds a mystery...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Featured Articles, Food and Nutrition, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Video on 11 6th, 2009 | 1 Comment
Beer’s Organileptic Chemistry
Beer has been flavoring human culture for at least 9,000 years. During that time, the rich brew has transformed and evolved to satisfy the complex palates of the time.
Now, science is a driving force in making beer. And, understanding some of the chemistry can refine color, aroma and flavor.
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Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Climate, Diseases, Energy, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Health and Medicine, Marine Science, Oceanography, Politics and Science, SciClips on 10 1st, 2009 | No Comments
U.S. Chamber of Commerce Calls for Global Warming Trial
The biggest business lobby in the U.S. is pushing for the EPA to hold a public hearing to debate the science of global warming.
The move, calling for the Scopes monkey trial of the 21st Century, is proving too much for some chamber members, from big utilities to Nike and Johnson & Johnson.
Yesterday,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, SciLebs, Science & Entertainment on 09 29th, 2009 | 1 Comment
FlashForward’s Timely Physics
Cast of ABC Television's Flash Forward, courtesy of ABC
When the ABC Television series FlashForward pushed the collective consciousness of the world (in the context of the show) forward six months, the book on which the action-adventure series is based flashed up the Amazon book ranking last week.
The...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Adaptation and Extinction, Energy, Environment, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Politics and Science, President Obama Science Policy, SciClips, Solar, Video, Wind on 09 23rd, 2009 | 1 Comment
President Obama Vows to Fight Climate Change
President Obama Addresses UN Climate Summit
In what could be considered his most strongly-worded warning about the threat of climate change, U.S. President Barack Obama told the United Nations that there is little time to act before permanent environmental damage is irreversible.
In a stirring speech,...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Biochemistry, Bioethics, Biofuels, Biology, Diseases, Energy, Featured Articles, Genomics, Health and Medicine, New Species, SciClips on 09 22nd, 2009 | No Comments
Synthetic Biology Takes on a Life of Its Own
A Yeast Cell with Synthetic Genes, courtesy of Dr. Pamela Silver, Harvard Medical School
Life is often stranger than fiction. But the direction that biology is heading, synthetic life could be stranger than science fiction.
The emerging field of synthetic biology is moving closer and closer to creating...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Books, Featured Articles, Physics and Chemistry, Psychology, SciClips, The Brain on 09 17th, 2009 | No Comments
Dan Brown’s Quantum Entanglement
Entangled Photons and The Lost Symbol
Avid fiction aficionados have anxiously awaited author Dan Brown’s latest rip-snorting adventure through the mysterious. The Lost Symbol is Brown’s new book, which features the largely unknown field of noetic sciences as a means to move his plot along.
Loosely...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Animals, Featured Articles, Podcast, SciClips on 09 2nd, 2009 | No Comments
Monkey Music
Cotton-top Tamarin, courtesy of University of Wisconsin, photo by Bryce Richter
Music is an important part and key ingredient of our culture. But it might also extend to the animal kingdom.
New research by University of Wisconsin-Madison psychology professor Charles Snowdon has found that while monkeys...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Computer Science, Diseases, Featured Articles, Health and Medicine, Podcast, Politics and Science, SciClips on 08 28th, 2009 | No Comments
Confounded by Conficker
Just as we have to monitor our own health, now we have to be more aware of our computer’s health. While high cholesterol and blood pressure aren’t issues for our machines, keeping them free of viruses and worms are.
A new piece of malware, known as the Conficker worm, that has been worming...
Posted by Michael Bradbury in Around the Americas, Climate, Featured Articles, Global Warming, Marine Science, Physics and Chemistry, SciClips, Uncategorized on 08 21st, 2009 | No Comments
Sailing Through the Thick of the Northwest Passage
Route of Ocean Watch Through the Northwest Passage
Ocean Watch, the 64-foot sailboat that also doubles as a voyage of scientific discovery is traveling over the top of North America, in an effort to traverse the rapidly melting yet still dangerous Northwest Passage.
The fabled shipping route has been...
